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.
Videodrones is a swarm of selected examples and vibrating gems illustrating videoculture’s current horizons and lines-of-sight, putting on some "structural candy eyeglasses." It is loosely connected to Video Vortex # 9 and its Re:assemblies of Video theme, which proposes that it is "time to re-engage with a structural and contextual analysis of online video culture." This online-collection looks at the re-assemblages with the eyes (and videos) of those re-assembling video in different ways, with different visions. Curated by Oliver Lerone Schultz and Vera Tollmann.