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Much of 20th century society strove to depict 2010 as a shining example of a future framed by technological progress and social harmony. But as 2010 arrived it was clear that global society was neither the utopia nor the dystopia traditionally presented. FUTURITY NOW! invited for the creation of new templates for the future and asked not what the future has in store for us, but what it is that we have in store for the future.

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Award Winners 2010

The winners of the transmediale Award 2010 and the Vilém Flusser Theory Award 2010 have been announced! Congratulations and Hurray to Michelle Teran and Warren Neidich!   ...more

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Vilém Flusser Theory Award

In order to reflect the increasing significance of theoretical and critical practice works submitted for the transmediale Award competition, the festival has introduced the Vilém Flusser Theory Award in 2008. This year's freshly announced nominees are David Link, Mina Lunzer, Warren Neidich and Daniela Alina Plewe!

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transmediale Award 2010 Jury

Once again, the jury of the transmediale Award 2010 consists of five curators, writers and artists. The jury members of the upcoming festival edition are the Belgian media activist and programmer Yves Bernard; Michelle Kasprzak, artist, curator and online/artblogging communities developer from Edinburgh; José Luis de Vicente, a Spanish researcher, curator and writer working around the edges of new media arts as well as the multi-media artist, curator and producer Li Zhenhua from China, and the curator and writer Doreen Mende from Berlin.

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transmediale Award 2010 Nominees

Out of more than 1,500 submissions nine art projects have made their way onto the list of transmediale Award 2010 nominees. In a session of several days the members of the international jury have nominated the following artists and art collectives.

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transmediale Award 2010

Together transmediale and CTM annually invite submissions to the transmediale Award. The transmediale award seeks to honor outstanding experimental artworks that embrace, question and enrich our understanding and relationship to our immersed media and technologically driven society. Once again an international jury has met in Berlin at the end of September to issue the list of Award Nominees for 2010.

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Artificial Moon

Wang Yuyang
installation

A glowing 4m sphere of hundreds of energy saving light bulbs created by artist Wang Yuyang (cn): A poetic allusion to the changing roles of technology and environment, nature and artificiality as well as the, since 1969, still unresolved claiming of the moon between East and West.

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Coincidence Engines

[The User]
installation

A technological composition project by Canadian artist duo [The User] (Emmanuel Madan / Thomas McIntosh) in which the mundane ticking of a clock is transformed into the source of complex acoustic structures in homage to Hungarian composer György Ligeti's Poème Symphonique.

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Buscando al Sr. Goodbar

Michelle Teran
net performance process

Michelle Teran's (ca) tour through the Spanish town Murcia on three levels at once: by bus, on Google Earth and YouTube. The search for places and authors of various YouTube videos shot in town - an intimate encounter between videomakers and audience, the overlapping of the real and the virtual, of past and present.

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ReConstitution

Sosolimited
net

The American art and design collective Sosolimited (Justin Manor / Eric Gunther / John Rothenberg) has been nominated with their performance project ReConstitution, a live remix of broadcast television, and a format originally configured for the 2008 presidential elections.

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The Exception and the Rule

Karen Mirza
Brad Butler
film/video

A film by British artist duo Mirza/Butler following a series of visits to Karachi, Pakistan: subjective impressions and experiences regarding the collaboration with many different local professionals as well as a critique of the complex role of international and local media as crucial ideological mediators.

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Carnivorous Domestic Entertainment Robots

Auger-Loizeau & Zivanovic
installation

A new kind of domestic robots invented by the british art collective Auger-Loizeau & Zivanovic Material Beliefs (Jimmy Loizeau / James Auger / Alexandar Zivanovic): bizzare carnivorous hybrids between machine and living organism feeding on small flies.

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Chapter I - The Discovery

Felix Luque Sánchez, Othersounds
installation

An audiovisual installation by the artist Félix Luque Sánchez (es). A peculiar, geometric object releasing a code of light and sound: synthetically generated images destabilise the viewers' faith in their own perception.

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Bicycle Built For Two Thousand

Aaron Koblin
Daniel Massey
net

An online work by Aaron Koblin and Daniel Massey (us) whose title refers to the song line 'bicycle built for two' from the well-known Daisy Bell: Based on a distributed system of 2000 human voices Bicycle Built For Two Thousand is a reconstruction and cover version of the very first song in history ever synthetically sung by a computer (in 1962).

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Free Art and Technology Lab (F.A.T. Lab)

F.A.T. Lab
action community hacktivism net process workshop project

Founded in 2007 by Evan Roth and James Powderly, and grown by 17 new members since, the F.A.T. network is as a loose online collective working across several continents, and with a great amount of humour, on free software and other exciting projects supporting open values through the use of open licenses.

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