By addressing specific examples related to online sex and porn, porn-sourcing, love for sex machines and fictional characters, the objective is to investigate the current state of mediated desire and reimagine critical body politics.
The narrative arc of Allucquére Rosanne "Sandy" Stone’s work has followed, more or less closely, the course of her life: refuse closure, insist on situation, foreground multiplicity and fungibility.
transmediale would like to announce our 2013 program and rich roster of participants. Traversing thematic threads, professions, panels, exhibitions, film screenings, performances, and workshops; the one Pluto long day and Earth week will present visitors with diverse events re-enacting not-so-distant pasts and half-forgotten places. We will explore unrealistic and poetic modes of cultural critique—as if BWPWAP. >> Read more.
Local Autonomy Networks (Autonets) is an artivist project focused on creating networks of communication to increase community autonomy and reduce violence against women, LGBTQI people, people of color and other groups who continue to survive violence on a daily basis.
Back when openings were just openings, a few self-congratulatory statements and an introductory speech or two sufficed. At this year’s transmediale we are aiming somewhat higher: to the stars! >> Read more.
Back When
Mobile phones were dumb. Letters traveled by pneumatic air. Tweeting was for birds. Users were chatting on the Minitel. ICQ beat IRC. Xerox challenged the Thermofax. YouTube was just another Web 2 start-up. Fax was the new Telex. You were calling up Bulletin Board Systems. Only university students were using facebooks. History had ended. We had nine planets. Pluto Was A Planet.
This panel focuses on mediation and coordination of space and Space by the military. Since the advent of the Cold War, celestial bodies have featured in strategic military planning and often in controversial ways. >> Read more.
The programme follows four threads: Users, Networks, Paper, Desire. The festival will look at what these threads meant BWPWAP, what they are today and how they will develop in the future. >> Read more.