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Friday
February 4
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16:00
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BASIC technologies - Xeno_Tech
Moderation: Herst, Deanna [nl], Muller, Nat [nl]
K1
Technology and media - whether used for medical, military or informational purposes - have become the symbols of our present and future, as well as an indicator of prowess, progress, and civilisation. In other words, control over technology and media (their production, dissemination and usage) function as an index of power.
What happens when Eastern Europe, the Middle East and South East Asia develop their own understanding of these technologies? Does this produce a cultural break and an identity crisis within a supposedly dominant Western techno culture?
The panel presents an interim report of 'Xeno_Tech', a curatorial research project conducted by Deanna Herst and Nat Muller. The aim of 'Xeno_Tech' is to examine how cultural differences, media and technology affect artistic practices and representation. The featured guests will question, from their own context and practice, paradigms of locality, urban space, identity, and technology.
Xeno_Tech is supported by The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture
Panel Members:
Incirlioglu, Güven [tr] Mauas, Lea [il] Wei, Woon Tien [sg]
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18:00
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Art and Social Responsibility
Moderation: Le Sourd, Marie [sg], Nadarajan, Gunalan [sg]
Auditorium
Artists have an important role in the articulation of local conflicts and global change. The aim of this panel is to draw attention to the differences and similarities in artistic and activist strategies emerging from South East Asia and Europe. Asian curators and artists will present their work and discuss their experiences with the public role of the artist in social and political development, whilst focusing on the implications of these issues in the field of media art with their European counterparts. The artists will talk about their work within the context of creative media practices, both within the hugely varied East Asia region, and beyond. An important side-effect of the panel will be the intensification of cooperation and networking among the different groups and individuals.
Panel Members:
Chen, Dominick [jp] Christ, Venzha [id] Sei, Keiko [jp/in] Shikata, Yukiko [jp] Wei, Woon Tien [sg]
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20:00
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Sound Art Visual
Moderation: Schulze, Holger [de]
K1
The dominance of the visual in media art has broken down. Finally, technical and creative requirements are given for an equal presentation of both sound and image, in spatial installations as well as live-performances. Conceptually, it remains difficult to pinpoint the respective meaning of the aesthetic means in terms like audio-visual art, optophonetics or live cinema, one or the other tends to always stand in the foreground.
The panel ‘Sound Art Visual’ questions the latitude and boundaries of various means of artistic expression such as video images, sound, architecture or performance. It is concerned with the convergence and divergence of a digital aesthetic and with the interfaces of current media art.
The event is part of the Live Cinema programme series in which the transmediale and the club transmediale 2005 jointly organise performances, workshops and discussions.
Panel Members:
Moore, Anthony [de/uk] Ungeheuer, Elena [de] Van der Heide, Edwin [nl]
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Saturday
February 5
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BASICS of Media Art
Moderation: Bunz, Mercedes [de]
Auditorium
Media art was, for a long time, defined by its use of new electronic and digital technology, which appeared in rapid succession in the 1990s and offered new communication and interactive possibilities. Today these technologies are, for the most part, well-developed and mainstream. Media art can therefore focus more on its societal and cultural meanings. The once tense relationship between art and media art is currently propelled more by dialogue and bridge-building.
The discussion regarding the fundamentals of a media art, which no longer can solely define itself by its use of digital technology, has resulted in the abolishment of the competition categories (image, interaction, software) of the transmediale award competition. The first result is a fundamentally broader perspective of the potential of media art, and of the aesthetic possibilities of interdisciplinary approaches.
Panel Members:
Nadarajan, Gunalan [sg] Norman, Sally Jane [uk/nz] Paul, Christiane [us/de]
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Sunday
February 6
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15:00
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BASIC Life
Moderation: Heilinger, Jan-Christoph [de]
Auditorium
The handling of genetic information is determined by economic interest - long before the ethics-committee could decide as to how to go about the issue responsibly. Great Britain and Estonia have already begun to create national gene pools because they claim to recognize them as the business of the future.
The starting point for this panel is the development of bio and gene technology and a questioning of the ethical basics of our socitey. Which boundaries are transgressed by the new bio-political regime? How, with the present circumstances, should we newly define ‘man’, nature, agriculture and nourishment? Without claiming to provide an appropriate response, artists are creatively trying to negotiate their way through this moral quagmire. Questions regarding societal awareness of bio-technology and the protection of bio-political self-determination will be raised.
Panel Members:
Kurtz, Steve [us] Oosterling, Henk [nl] Pentecost, Claire [us]
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19:00
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BASIC Security
Moderation: Cramer, Florian [de]
Auditorium
Security has become a central issue in political negotiations. In the interest of ‘security’, every type of intrusion, whether in the private sphere or to overall civil liberties, becomes justifiable. Where social security systems are compromised in aid of increasingly private personal-risk takeovers, all areas of military, infrastructural and police power are the primacy of abstract, mass-media created fear-tactics to fuel further security requirements.
The fear of insecurity and terror paves the way for new control technology. Beside the broad surveillance of net-based data traffic (Echelon) and the complete surveillance of city centres, come bio-metric security systems (fingerprinting, iris-scans) and the localisation of persons by GPS transmitters, as well as of goods and objects via RFID-Chips. Comprehensive security systems seem to replace ideals of a free society. This panel explores the relationship between technical, political and cultural aspects of the security issue and questions its ethical boundaries.
Panel Members:
Becker, Konrad [at] Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong [us] Wark, McKenzie [us/au]
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Monday
February 7
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18:00
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Re-Thinking Media History
Moderation: Druckrey, Timothy [us]
Auditorium
The histories of the media arts are rooted in numerous disciplines. Often these histories are understood as coinciding with the technical, social, or artistic spheres. Yet it is clear that the development of media (broadly speaking) is joined with communication, representation, invention, science, and with speculative worlds, imaginary communities, and experiences that demand broader approaches to historiography.
Though it is convenient to trace the development of 'media art' in relation to particular technologies (and more and more to specific softwares), a more reasoned approach is evolving as a 'media archaeology' that attempts to understand the historical stages in which technologies have corresponded with social and artistic transformations and to realize the reverberating effects these have had on contemporary practices.
Re-thinking Media History will focus on the reciprocal relationship between media practice and media theory.
Panel Members:
Holl, Ute [de] Maire, Julien [fr] Tomas, David [ca] Vasulka, Woody [cz] Zielinski, Siegfried [de]
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Tuesday
February 8
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14:00
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BASIC Media Education
Moderation: Adriaansens, Alex [nl]
K1
A large number of colleges, fine arts institutions and universities are currently offering courses in media art, media design and in media theory. For this reason, there is a growing demand for international dialogue and cooperation. In November 2004, the Dutch Electronic Art Festival organized a colloquium with the title ‘Open Alliances’ attended by representatives from various Dutch institutions to discuss their experiences with interdisciplinary projects and their cooperation with higher-education, industry and research institutes. This forum will also be taking place during transmediale.05 with a focus on the conceptual and technical fundamentals of media education. What role does technical material play for the development of curriculum and to what extent is our understanding of media culture dependent upon the continually growing demands of software and hardware? Is media education ‘doomed to upgrade’?
Panel Members:
Engell, Lorenz [de] Lovink, Geert [nk/au] Sei, Keiko [jp/in]
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Cool Interaction
Moderation: Roch, Axel [uk/de]
Auditorium
In continuation of the critical interaction debates hosted by transmediale, this panel discusses new critical methodologies of interactivity in transcultural media art. It investigates classical and ancient, esp. Asian aesthetics as ‘cool aesthetics’. The notion of ‘cool’ is borrowed from the cultural media theorist McLuhan who described ‘cool’ or ‘cold’ media as stimulating participants to complete auditive or visual media content, in sharp contrast to ‘hot’ media that degrades the viewer to a merely passive or non-interactive receiver. Asian countries, for example Japan, have developed a tradition on their own to explore types of ‘cool’ or ‘ambiguous’ aesthetics. For instance, the concept of ‘ma’ in Japan is interactive, insofar as interaction takes place between viewer and image by means of a projective imagination. We would like to remediate these classical strategies of mental interactivity in various cultures and explore them in the context of technical, physical, electronic, and interactive media.
Hiroshi Yoshioka: "Slowness and Speed of Light: Aesthetics of Play and Interval"
Gunalan Nadarajan: "Islamic Control: Ludic Machines of al-Jazari as Visual Play"
Boseul Shin: "In-between Analogue and Digital in Contemporary Korean Media Art"
Henk Oosterling: "Japanese Inter-Esse: 'MA' as In-Between"
Axel Roch: "Cool Up. Virtual Surfaces and Projective Media"
Panel Members:
Nadarajan, Gunalan [sg] Oosterling, Henk [nl] Shin, Boseul [kr] Yoshioka, Hiroshi [jp]
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