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The Climate change in its cause and physical impact is a matter of the natural sciences. But the complexity and vast squareness of its consequences turn the debate into a matter of social and cultural studies.

Dr Martin Burckhardt reflects on climate change during the first day of The Making and the Thinking, transmediale.09's conference.

‘ESCALATION’ is part of a larger research project titled ‘North’ which was initiated by Territorial Agency in 2007. It fathoms the changes in the relations between geography, inhabitation and knowledge production in the 21st century.

John Palmesino discusses war, intervention and direct action through examples drawn from the Cold War and theoretical discourses on power and influence.

Experts tell us that in seven years we must change the world. The Shift Break Control panel looks at the arguments behind this type of conclusion and the feasibility of rebuilding our planet.

Claudia Kemfert, Lorenz Petersen and Harald Welzer discuss worldwide attitudes to climate change and look at the economic restraints on technlogical progress.

Has our new political framework for agency become fatal accidents? Rob van Kraneburg opens the discussion at transmediale.09.

Audience discussion with Atteqa Malik, Binyawanga Wainaina and Yasir Husain

Andrea Polli, currently working at the University Of New Mexico, speaks on international projects and long-term vision in relation to climate change and shifting perspectives on the world in which we live.

Environment 2.0 session presents the conclusions of Andrea Polli and her latest project 'Hello Weather' which uses realtime weather station data.

Helen evans from hehe.org explains their pulic art project which makes a public spectacle of pollutant emitting factories.

Ewan Chadronnet talks about Laboratory Planet, an internet and print project which is part mapping, part journal and covers the disciplines of science, technology and art.

A lo-res preview of the new DEEP NORTH trailer for transmediale.09 by Rotterdam based artists telcosystems. The full immersive sound trailer will of course be seen and heard at transmediale! Telcosystems performs "Mortals Electric" at the House of World Cultures during transmediale.09 on Friday January 30, 20.30 ... 

Mortals Electric is a performance for single-screen projection and 5.1 surround sound. Mortals Electric presents slow-moving cloud clusters, layers of strobing organic structures, deep machinic drones and waves of digital noise. With Mortals Electric, Telcosystems present a new audiovisual journey.