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Mobile Device Forensics for Artists

Fri 01.02.2013 - 16:00
Festival format Workshop

by Johannes P Osterhoff

This workshop is a tool for artists who wish to go beyond common usage of these mobile-controlled consumption interfaces on the Kindle and iPhone—and for anyone interested in what is happening underneath these surfaces.

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BWPWAP Program Overview

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.

E-Waste Workshop

Thu 31.01.2013 - 11:00
Festival format Workshop

Using e-waste as raw material, the workshop offers participants to become familiar with basic circuit bending, hardware and software hacking/recycling while gaining hands-on experience making an interactive art project at the same time.

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Pluto Y U No Planet? - Opening Ceremony for transmediale 2013 BWPWAP

Tue 29.01.2013 - 19:00
Festival format Special event

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.

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alva noto . uni acronym (feat. anne-james chaton)

Tue 29.01.2013 - 17:30
Festival format Screening

alva noto . uni acronym is presented as an installation in the theater on transmediale’s opening evening.

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BWPWAP Curatiorial Statement

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.

 

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The Miseducation of Anya Major

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

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BWPWAP Users: Coded Narratives

Fri 01.02.2013 - 21:30
Festival format Performance

Coded Narratives (CN) is a retro-futuristic, campfire type of experience for the audience as active participants, articulated by the proto-programming language of Morse Code, declared dead in 1999. 

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de/Rastra

Thu 31.01.2013 - 17:00
Festival format Performance

Kyle Evans' de/Rastra is an oscillographic synthesizer, a real-time audio/video instrument and computer-interfacing device that generates visualizations intrinsic to cathode ray tube technology while simultaneously creating the acoustic analog of the displayed imagery.

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Let There Be Light and Sound

Thu 31.01.2013 - 19:00
Festival format Performance

In WMSWF (We Make Sound With Fire), fire and light are produced through various methods. Fluorescene is an improvised light and sound performance.

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Thematic Threads

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.