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.
-logy is a "science fiction" performance representing the border between controlled and uncontrolled technology, exploring the exchanged energy between humans and technology.
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.
This event brings together participants of the Researching BWPWAP workshop that preceded transmediale and was focused on the question of how BWPWAP can be interpreted in the context of research culture. This process culminated in the production of a peer-reviewed research newspaper—itself an experiment in new forms of scholarly publishing.
Instrumentarium is a performance series for musicians in separate rooms orchestrated by Berlin sound artist Boris Hegenbart in collaboration with various guest musicians. For the Special Edition BWPWAP and The Golden Age, he invited avant-garde cosmonaut Felix Kubin. Together they lift Instrumentarium to a new level and present the performance from a far away place: Pluto.
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.
This panel adopts the concept of “Disrupting Bureaucracy” as a comparative standpoint to analyze grassroots artistic interventions in the digital and analog framework of contemporary social networking.