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.
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
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.
Being Human looks at man's relationship with Technology, and seeks to redefine it. Making our Human needs the focus of how technology is designed, used and implemented.
Adam Somlai-Fischer and Bengt Sjölén have been building wifi cameras for many years and have found many ways to create really simple ones. In this workshop they share the know-how and process of making them, and the joy of revealing the hidden phenomena of wifi data files.
Borrowing techniques from geophysical archaeology (revealing and mapping), narrative displacements (filmic manipulations of temporality), and coded psychogeographics, the workshop will sketch a novel model and working practice for the future city flaneur.