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transmediale 2013 BWPWAP

The net jargon acronym BWPWAP – Back When Pluto Was a Planet is an expression used whenever one wants to talk about things in our recent past that have changed quickly. On August 24th, 2006, at the closing ceremony of their general assembly, the International Astronomical Union infamously voted in favor of “demoting” Pluto from its planetary status. transmediale 2013 suggested that this classification crisis, spurred on by new technologies and shifting knowledge paradigms, opens up a rich space of cultural negotiation and artistic intervention.

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Imaging with Machine Processes. The Generative Art of Sonia Landy Sheridan—Sheridan's first solo exhibition in Europe—presents a wide variety of material relating to this manifold, extensive and truly unique line of work.  >> Read more.

Through a selection of 13 artists, Tools of Distorted Creativity questions the notion of creativity that has been instrumental to the development of the personal computer, from its first stationary instantiations in the 1980s to today’s mobile devices. >> Read more.

The Miseducation of Anya Major openly investigates questions of knowledge, learning and education in relation to contemporary media.  >> Read more.