Archive

Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand together with Maurizio Martinucci (aka TeZ) perform their work 'Sonolevitation'.

Hortensia Völckers focuses on consciousness regarding the present global situation and our responsibility to actively transform culture by considering creative technical solutions. (Video in German)

Stephen Kovats introduces the second session from transmediale.09's Digital Greenhouse, which is called Sensible Software and is hosted by Andrea Goetzke of newthinking.

With the worldwide largest mobile growth rates and promises of being connected to the global fibreoptic network soon, new possibilities are dawning on Africa's horizon. Digital cultures in African countries are developing now. How do today's digital developments impact on everyday life?

Jonathan Gosier is an American-born software developer, writer and social entrepreneur. He currently lives in Kampala, Uganda where he is working on two fronts: to encourage western businesses and investors to engage African entrepreneurs and to encourage the adoption of computers, programming and use of the internet in the developing regions of Africa. He is a huge advocate for promoting the ways in which a semantic web will benefit emerging economies in the world.

Rob van Kranenburg introduces the transmediale.09 conference with a video about Martin Heidegger, providing context for the larger conference themes of environmental shift, cultural diaspora and technological progress.

The Climate change in its cause and physical impact is a matter of the natural sciences. But the complexity and vast squareness of its consequences turn the debate into a matter of social and cultural studies.

Dr Martin Burckhardt reflects on climate change during the first day of The Making and the Thinking, transmediale.09's conference.

‘ESCALATION’ is part of a larger research project titled ‘North’ which was initiated by Territorial Agency in 2007. It fathoms the changes in the relations between geography, inhabitation and knowledge production in the 21st century.

John Palmesino discusses war, intervention and direct action through examples drawn from the Cold War and theoretical discourses on power and influence.

Experts tell us that in seven years we must change the world. The Shift Break Control panel looks at the arguments behind this type of conclusion and the feasibility of rebuilding our planet.

Claudia Kemfert, Lorenz Petersen and Harald Welzer discuss worldwide attitudes to climate change and look at the economic restraints on technlogical progress.