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Newsletter 06.02.2005

transmediale.05
BASICS
Berlin, February 4-8, 2005
Haus der Kulturen der Welt

Award Ceremony and more...

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1. Award Ceremony
2. Conferences on Monday and Tuesday
3. CTM - club transmediale
4. Press Reviews transmediale.05

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1. Award Ceremony

The laureates of the transmediale.05 Award will be announced in the prize ceremony on February 7th, starting at 20 hrs. The ceremony will be presented by Stephen Kovats from Rotterdam.

Out of more than 900 applications from 51 countries the international jury, composed of Masaki Fujihata (Japan), Amanda McDonald-Crowley (Australia), Gunalan Nadarajan (Singapore), Christiane Paul (USA) and Michael Bielicky (Czech Republic), has shortlisted nine works:
Shockbot Corejulio, 5voltcore (at) | Desparate Attempts at Beauty, Joe Colley (us) | The Living Room, Victoria Fang (us) | Sky Ear, Usman Haque (uk) | Life: A User’s Manual, Michelle Teran (nl/ca) | Suburbs of the Void, Thomas Koener (de) | 88 from 14.000, Alice Miceli (br) | Pongmechanik, Niklas Roy (de) | Untitled 5, Camille Utterback (us)

The transmediale.05 Award is sponsored by AVM, the makers of FRITZ!

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2. Conferences on Monday and Tuesday

Re-Thinking Media History
Monday, 7.2. 14-18 hrs, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Auditorium

The history of media art is 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 software), 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 realise the reverberating effects these have had on contemporary practices.
The panel will especially focus on the reciprocal relationship between media practice and media theory.
Participants:
Ute Holl, film maker and scientist, Bauhaus-Universitaet Weimar | David Tomas, artist and media scientist, Universite du Quebec, Montreal | Siegfried Zielinski, media art scientist, KHM Koeln | Julien Maire, artist, Berlin | Woody Vasulka, artist, ZKM, Santa Fe/Karlsruhe
Moderator: Timothy Druckrey, media scientist and curator, New York


Cool Interaction
Tuesday, 8.2. 14-19 hrs, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 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 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.
Participants:
Hiroshi Yoshioka, philosopher and curator, Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS), Ogaki | Gunalan Nadarajan, art historian and critic, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore | Boseul Shin, media art scientist, Seoul | Henk Oosterling, philosopher, Rotterdam
Moderator: Axel Roch, media scientist and artist, Goldsmith College, London

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3. CTM - club transmediale

Don't miss @ club transmediale (Maria am Ostbahnhof):

Monday 19.30 hrs
LIVE CINEMA IX: LIVECODING
TOPLAP: Livecoding presentation and livecoding jam

Tuesday 22.00 hrs
NOISE:VOICE
Maja Ratkje & HC Gilje and others

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4. Press Reviews transmediale.05

You can check here, how transmediale.05 is reviewed in the press (sorry, most of it is in German):
http://www.transmediale.de/page/listings/listing.0.press.reviews.2.html

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