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transmediale 2k+12 in/compatible

Incompatibility is the condition arising when things are not working together. Given the current worldwide proclamations of crisis, be they political, financial, technological or environmental, it may seem as if incompatible elements and situations are everywhere, that everything is failing. Ironically, it is the supposedly ever-more compatible media-scape, where everything connects, that render such crises instantly visible. With the theme in/compatible, the festival probes the productive and destructive sides of incompatibility as a fundamental condition of cultural production.

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.

Victoria Estok, credits: Steve Lambert
us

Victoria Estok (born 1978) is an artist, living and working in the US.

Nicholas Knouf
us

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

by "GirlRay" - CC-BY-NC license
us
conference participant

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.

nz/de
exhibition artist

Julian Oliver is a New Zealander and Critical Engineer based in Berlin.

se
conference participant exhibition artist

Bengt Sjölén is an independent software and hardware designer/hacker/artist based in Stockholm.

Telekommunisten
de
open web award nominee

Telekommunisten is a Berlin-based collective whose work investigates the political economy of communications technology.

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exhibition artist

Author unknown...

credits: MONO KROM
de
conference participant

Siegfried Zielinski holds the chair for media theory / archaeology and Variantology of the media at Berlin University of the Arts.