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Marcel René Marburger

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jury

Marcel René Marburger studied Art History, German Literature and Philosophy at the University of Cologne with a PhD on theoretical art relevance in Vilém Flusser’s writings.

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Open Web Award nominees

Nominated for the Open Web Award are three projects that critically consider and make use of the potential of the Open Web. They have an online component, implement open and free technology and facilitate participation and collaboration. Drumbeat Project Producer Henrik Moltke represented award partner Mozilla at the jury session.

From 15 October 2010 the nominated works will be made available on the Mozilla Drumbeat Platform for a public vote that will determine the winner of this award.

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transmediale Award 2011

As leading international festivals for art and digital culture as well as adventurous music and related visual arts, respectively, transmediale and CTM (club transmediale) are now inviting submissions to the transmediale Award 2011. Invited are art works and projects that respond to the challenges of our rapidly changing digital, technological and network oriented cultures. The transmediale Award seeks [more...]

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David Link

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vilèm flusser award nominee

David Link is an artist, theorist and programmer. He holds the new Chair for “Experimental Technologies in the Art Context” at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig. His current research focuses on the development of an archaeology of algorithmic artefacts.

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Open Web Award 2011

transmediale in collaboration with Mozilla have announced the creation of the new Open Web Award 2011 a special third platform for radical, creative and innovative art works and projects that:
> are on the web and about the web
> use open and free technology
> incite participation and/or collaboration

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Mina Lunzer

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vilèm flusser award nominee

Mina Lunzer is an artist and freelance writer for art and film-journals such as Senses of Cinema. Between 2004 and 2009 she studied Film and Video Installation and Cultural Studies at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, the University of Sydney and University of the Arts, Berlin.

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Vilém Flusser Theory Award 2011

Deadline: 31st July 2010
Festival Dates: 01 - 06 February 2011


The Vilém Flusser Theory Award (VFTA) promotes innovative media theory and practice-oriented research exploring current and pending positions in digital art, media culture and networked society. Echoing media philosopher and cultural nomad Vilém Flusser [more...]

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transmediale and Vilém Flusser Theory Awards

Entries will accepted shortly to the 2011 editions of the transmediale and Vilém Flusser Theory Awards!

Within the coming days transmediale and CTM (club transmediale) will be inviting submissions to the transmediale and Vilém Flusser Theory Award competitions 2011. We will be seeking... [read more]

Award Winners 2010

The winners of the transmediale Award 2010 and the Vilém Flusser Theory Award 2010 have been announced! Congratulations and Hurray to Michelle Teran and Warren Neidich!   ...more

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transmediale.10 Award Ceremony

Sat 06.02.2010 - 21:00
Special event

The Award Ceremony on 6 February will reveal the winners of this year's transmediale and Vilém Flusser Theory Award. Barbara Kisseler will  moderate the evening together with the members of both juries.

The the programme highlight raster.noton.unun will subsequently take place on the occasion of the Award After Party at WMF.       ...more

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Warren Neidich

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vilèm flusser award nominee

Warren Neidich is an artist, theorist and trained biologist. The exploration of the creative processes that underpin the production of subjectivity and knowledge is central to his interdisciplinary work.

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The Exception and the Rule

Karen Mirza
Brad Butler
film/video

A film by British artist duo Mirza/Butler following a series of visits to Karachi, Pakistan: subjective impressions and experiences regarding the collaboration with many different local professionals as well as a critique of the complex role of international and local media as crucial ideological mediators.

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Coincidence Engines

[The User]
installation

A technological composition project by Canadian artist duo [The User] (Emmanuel Madan / Thomas McIntosh) in which the mundane ticking of a clock is transformed into the source of complex acoustic structures in homage to Hungarian composer György Ligeti's Poème Symphonique.

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Carnivorous Domestic Entertainment Robots

Auger-Loizeau & Zivanovic
installation

A new kind of domestic robots invented by the british art collective Auger-Loizeau & Zivanovic Material Beliefs (Jimmy Loizeau / James Auger / Alexandar Zivanovic): bizzare carnivorous hybrids between machine and living organism feeding on small flies.

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transmediale Award 2010 Jury

Once again, the jury of the transmediale Award 2010 consists of five curators, writers and artists. The jury members of the upcoming festival edition are the Belgian media activist and programmer Yves Bernard; Michelle Kasprzak, artist, curator and online/artblogging communities developer from Edinburgh; José Luis de Vicente, a Spanish researcher, curator and writer working around the edges of new media arts as well as the multi-media artist, curator and producer Li Zhenhua from China, and the curator and writer Doreen Mende from Berlin.

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Artificial Moon

Wang Yuyang
installation

A glowing 4m sphere of hundreds of energy saving light bulbs created by artist Wang Yuyang (cn): A poetic allusion to the changing roles of technology and environment, nature and artificiality as well as the, since 1969, still unresolved claiming of the moon between East and West.

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Bicycle Built For Two Thousand

Aaron Koblin
Daniel Massey
net

An online work by Aaron Koblin and Daniel Massey (us) whose title refers to the song line 'bicycle built for two' from the well-known Daisy Bell: Based on a distributed system of 2000 human voices Bicycle Built For Two Thousand is a reconstruction and cover version of the very first song in history ever synthetically sung by a computer (in 1962).

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ReConstitution

Sosolimited
net

The American art and design collective Sosolimited (Justin Manor / Eric Gunther / John Rothenberg) has been nominated with their performance project ReConstitution, a live remix of broadcast television, and a format originally configured for the 2008 presidential elections.

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Buscando al Sr. Goodbar

Michelle Teran
net performance process

Michelle Teran's (ca) tour through the Spanish town Murcia on three levels at once: by bus, on Google Earth and YouTube. The search for places and authors of various YouTube videos shot in town - an intimate encounter between videomakers and audience, the overlapping of the real and the virtual, of past and present.

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Chapter I - The Discovery

Felix Luque Sánchez, Othersounds
installation

An audiovisual installation by the artist Félix Luque Sánchez (es). A peculiar, geometric object releasing a code of light and sound: synthetically generated images destabilise the viewers' faith in their own perception.

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Free Art and Technology Lab (F.A.T. Lab)

F.A.T. Lab
action community hacktivism net process workshop project

Founded in 2007 by Evan Roth and James Powderly, and grown by 17 new members since, the F.A.T. network is as a loose online collective working across several continents, and with a great amount of humour, on free software and other exciting projects supporting open values through the use of open licenses.

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Daniela Alina Plewe

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vilèm flusser award nominee

Daniela Alina Plewe develops media projects, and works as a researcher and independent consultant. In her current research she explores transactional uses of media in art and business. Since 2005 she is a lecturer at the National University of Singapore where she lives.

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Sabeth Buchmann

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jury

Sabeth Buchmann is an art historian and art critic. She is a professor for modern and postmodern art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and director of the Institute of Art Theory and Cultural Studies. Edits books on art and has been published in numerous books and magazines herself.

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Oliver Grau

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jury

Oliver Grau is an art historian and media theorist. He is professor of image science (Visual Studies) and head of department at the Danube University Krems. Grau initiated the first international Database of Virtual Art in 1998.

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