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transmediale.09 DEEP NORTH

Looking beyond the alarmist scenarios of environmental, social and economic catastrophes to be expected in the wake of global warming, the essential question isn't that of how to avoid these processes, but to examine the need for a fundamental shift in cultural perception with respect to nature, culture and technology. With DEEP NORTH, transmediale.09 focused on the impact and unavoidable consequences of this pending global transformation - the crossing of a point of no return akin to the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago.

de
conference participant
ch
conference participant
jp, ch, hu
exhibition artist

doubleNegatives Architecture, dNA launched in 1998 as the brainchild of architect Sota Ichikawa, views the processes and devices used to measure space as "architecture", assembling a team for each project and engaging in a unique spectrum of activities including installations, software and architectural design.

us
exhibition artist transmediale award nominee

Perry Bard is an artist who works with electronic media and lives in New York. Her public video installations are site specific and address cultural history and memory, often involving local community members in the production process.

AU / DE
partner event participant
Freelance writer &curator/spoken word performer/ text-artist/poetry workshops coordinator/ events organiser/dj/visual artist.
hu
salon participant
performance artist
de
conference participant
ca
salon participant

Kyd Campbell works as an independent programmer, exhibition designer and curator specialized in circulation, media and audio art and also as a digital creator of video and public interactive situations.

fr
transmediale award nominee

The Paris-based artists Léonore Bonaccini and Xavier Fourt form the artist-duo Bureau d´études. For the last several years, the French Group has been producing cartographies of contemporary political, social and economic systems.

bg
exhibition artist transmediale award nominee salon participant

Petko Dourmana, is a media artist and organiser of interdisciplinary projects between art and information technology. He is co-founder of the InterSpace Media Art Centre, Sofia, which is a non-commercial combination of artists, computer scientists and media activists.

Andreas Broeckmann
us
conference participant salon participant

Timothy Druckrey is a researcher, curator and writer and Director of the Graduate Photographic and Electronic Media programme at the Maryland Institute.

de
conference participant
de
conference participant
no
salon participant
uk
performance artist

Gabriella Giannachi is Professor in Performance and New Media, Director of the Centre for Intermedia at the University of Exeter, and an investigator in the RCUK funded Horizon Digital Economy Research Hub.

si
salon participant

Marina Grzinic is doctor of philosophy and works as researcher at the Institute of Philosophy at the ZRC SAZU in Ljubljana. She is a freelance media theorist and curator, and has been involved in video art since 1982.

gb
conference participant

Usman Haque, director Haque Design + Research Ltd, founder of Pachube.com and CEO of Connected Environments Ltd has created responsive environments, interactive installations, digital interface devices and mass-participation performances.

uk
exhibition artist transmediale award nominee

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.

 

uk
conference participant

Drew Hemment is an artist, curator and researcher. He is director and founder of the FutureEverything Festival in Manchester, and Assistant Director of Imagination Lancaster at Lancaster University.

pk
conference participant
fi
jury salon participant
JP
partner event participant

Architect.

Since 1995 he has started a project "smooth compound-eyes -> super-eye". In 1997, he collaborated with Knowbotic Research for "IO_DENCIES - Tokyo"( co-produced with Canon ARTLAB ) as an architect and an urban researcher. In 1998, he worked for "Hinaya Project in Nishijin, Kyoto", a "sukiya" construction of Shusaku ARAKAWA and Madelaine GINS.

us
conference participant
de
conference participant

The artist Hermann Josef Hack (1956), student of Joseph Beuys, was representative for art at the German Federal Ministry of Research and Technology. He is also founding member of the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany.

de
conference participant
hu
conference participant
Nicholas Knouf
us

Nicholas Knouf (born 1980) is a researcher and PhD candidate at Cornell University in Ithaca, US.

JP
partner event participant

Designer

She leads unICoRn, attemds to many advertising designs. London International Advertising Awards Finalist.

de
performance artist

Thomas Köner's is a media artist and musician who focuses on combining visual and auditory experiences. His sound works, released on labels such as Mille Plateaux and Barooni, are densely layered, and subtle, encouraging intensive and physical listening.

de
exhibition artist partner event participant
de
performance artist
si
salon participant

Sebastjan Leban is an artist and theoretician from Ljubljana. His artistic practice involves the collaboration with Stas Kleindienst, the group Trie and the group Reartikulacija.

gb
performance artist
AU
partner event participant

Australian New Media and Electronic Artist. Graduated 2007 with a Masters of Digital Media from the College of Fine Arts, Sydney, specialising in Video Production and Sound Engineering.

us
salon participant

known for selling all of his possessions online on Shop Mandiberg, making perfect copies of copies on AfterSherrieLevine.com, and creating Firefox plugins that highlight the real environmental costs of a global economy on TheRealCosts.com.

AU
partner event participant

Nick Mariette is a spatial audio researcher and sound artist, based in Paris.  Presently he is working on the locative spatial audio project "Sound Delta", with the Sound and Space group at LIMSI-CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) in Orsay, France.

HU
partner event participant

Software Artist

He is the lead developer and director of Nextlab, the center of activity as open lab for new media, in Budapest.

jp
performance artist transmediale award nominee

Hiroshi Matoba (1983*) was born in Japan. He is studying sound art and programming at the Faculty of Design / ADCDU of Kyushu university in Fukuoka.

ar
salon participant

Thoughts on Modernity/Coloniality, Geopolitics of Knowledge, Border Thinking, Pluriversality, and the Decolonial Option.

Walter is the William H. Wannamaker Professor of Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University

DE / AU
partner event participant

Miriam Mlecek is an architect, artist and curator.She completed her master at the University of the Arts in Berlin with the project “in Transit” in the art class of Rebecca Horn in 2003.

de
conference participant
de
partner event participant
ru
conference participant
uk
exhibition artist transmediale award nominee

Born and raised in Japan, Michiko Nitta studied Product Design at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, worked as a graphic designer before receiving an MA in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art in London.

jp
performance artist
ch
conference participant
si
conference participant
de
conference participant
nl
exhibition artist salon participant

Esther Polak (1962) studied graphic art and mixed media and is interested in how technology determines (visual) perception. In this context she explores the visual and documentary possibilities of GPS.

pt
performance artist transmediale award nominee

Rudolfo Quintas is a visual artist and performer specialising in the design of interactive audiovisual systems. In the past eight years he has been experimenting and developing artistic projects that intersect distinct artistic disciplines with technological ones.

salon participant
si
salon participant

Reartikulacija

de
salon participant

Joanna Render is a gallerist and academic in the field of Aesthetics. Her pioneering activities in placing media art in the art market includes numerous curated exhibitions and art fair presentations. She also participated in Art Brussels, Art Cologne and ARCO in Madrid. In 2005 her gallery was awarded the Premio ARCO.

us
exhibition artist film/video artist transmediale award nominee

Influenced by philosophy and science, American-born artist and filmmaker Reynold Reynolds works primarily with 16mm and Super 8mm film as an art medium. He has developed a common film grammar based on transformation, consumption and decay. Reynolds' depictions frequent disturbed psychological and physical themes, increasingly provoking the viewer's participation and dismay. He was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 2003 and in 2004 he was invited to The American Academy in Berlin. He has received numerous awards, including the Distinction Award at transmediale.09.

CH
partner event participant

Artist / Soft-Hardware Developer

Max Rheiner's artwork focuses on interactive installation, software and sculpture.

de
salon participant
de
performance artist
de
conference participant
fi
conference participant
de
partner event participant
de
partner event participant
de
partner event participant
AU
partner event participant

Writer and performance artist based in Melbourne.
Steve Smart is the cartoon character poet of the apocalypse,
embracing beauty and the madness of living a dead art-form. Of course it's not dead, though sometimes it does writhe in agony.

de
partner event participant
ba, hr
salon participant

Sefik Seki Tatlic, BA at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Enrolled at the doctoral program for humanities at the University of Zagreb, Croatia.

DE
partner event participant

Anna Tautfest lives and works as an artist in Berlin.

ru
salon participant

Madina Tlostanova, Dr. of literature and postcolonial studies, professor at the People's Friendship University of Russia, Moscow.

nl
conference participant
nl
conference participant
ke
conference participant
de
conference participant
de
salon participant

Reto Wettach is a Professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Potsdam, where he teaches "Physical Interaction Design" and researches innovative, bodily-focused approaches to Human-computer interaction.

AU
partner event participant

New Media artist based in Melbourne, graduated 2006 at RMT with  BA (Hons) (Fine Art) (first class honours), Solo and group exhibitions Australia-wide.

de
conference participant
de
partner event participant
uk
exhibition artist transmediale award nominee

Richard Wright (1963), Graham Harwood (1960) and Matsuko Yokokoji (1960) are an English-Japanese artist collective that has worked together for the first time in 2004 under the name Mongrel.

uk
exhibition artist transmediale award nominee

Matsuko Yokokoji co-founded the Mongrel group in 1995 with Graham Harwood. She graduated from Kuwazawa Design College in Tokyo in 1983.