Marcel René Marburger studied Art History, German Literature and Philosophy at the University of Cologne with a PhD on theoretical art relevance in Vilém Flusser’s writings.
Looking beyond the evolving alarmist scenarios of environmental catastrophe prevalent in the global warming debate, transmediale.09 shifts the focus of this challenge to the broader cultural, societal and philosophical consequences that the collapse of the northern ice barrier reveals.
Graham Harwood has lived and worked with Matsuko Yokokoji (YoHa English translation 'aftermath') since 1994. YoHa's graphic vision, technical tinkering, has powered several celebrated collaborations establishing an international reputation for pioneering arts projects, including the first on-line commission from the Tate Gallery London and work in the permanent collections of the Pompidou Centre, ZKM and Manifesta07.
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Adam Hyde was for many years a digital artist exploring digital-analog hybrid broadcast systems. He founded FLOSS Manuals, the Book Sprint method, Booki/Booktype book production platforms and is now mostly engaged with exploring new methodologies for collaborative book production.
The Inverted Cone is a new installation, premiering at transmediale.10, which uses a constellation of projection devices to create a condition of atemporality, where our memories of the past, and our experience of the present, collide. When participating in the heuristic process of engaging with this work, the viewer automatically becomes a media-archeologist, experiencing distinct chronologies simultaneously.
Timothy Druckrey is a researcher, curator and writer and Director of the Graduate Photographic and Electronic Media programme at the Maryland Institute.
Steve Lambert is founder of the Anti-Advertising Agency and a Senior Fellow at the Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology in New York. He recently made international news with the The New York Times ‘Special Edition’, announcing the end of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and other spectacular good news.
Siegfried Zielinski is a media theorist focusing on art theory, history, media archeology and variantology. Since 2007 he is professor of Media Theory at the Institute for Time Based Media at UdK Berlin, and founder of the _Vilém_Flusser_Archive.
On three evenings of transmediale.10 a rainbow will span the night sky of Berlin. From One to Many by Yvette Mattern is a vast seven-colour laser projection reaching from the House of World Cultures to the TV Tower in Alexanderplatz, connecting two emblematic architectural sites in the city's former West and former East. ...read more
19:00 - Artist Talk: Media-Architecture. Models of novel coactions?
Max Rheiner und Àkos Maróy (doubleNegatives Architecture), Alexander Stublic (Mader|Stublic|Wiermann), Christian Schneegass (Akademie der Künste - Moderation)
What better place to begin a festival examining futurity than a bell tower, that traditional demarcator of time. Before the invention of the mechanic clock, it was bell towers that manifested a concept of shared, public time. Pioneering musician Charlemagne Palestine will therefore launch transmediale.10 by ringing the bells of one of the world’s largest and most distinctive instruments – the Tiergarten Carillon, next to the HKW.
The Artvertiser considers Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, Puerta del Sol in Madrid, Times Square in New York, and other sites dense with advertisements, as potential exhibition space. The Artvertiser allows artists to create a new visual layer onto the topology of the city, which can only be seen when viewed through a device which cogently blends the aesthetics of the past, with a futuristic functionality.
The Spanish artist Clara Boj has collaborated with Diego Diaz as Lalalab since the year 2000. Their artworks combine art and technology to create interactive experiences that reformulate the idea of public space.
The Spanish artist Diego Diaz has collaborated with Clara Boj as Lalalab since the year 2000. Their artworks combine art and technology to create interactive experiences that reformulate the idea of public space.
Damian Stewart is an artist working with sound, code, light, and electronics. In his work he is interested in creating senses of space that transcend the immediate physical environment of the viewer.