Special Events @ tm salon

Newsletter 24.01.2006

Special Events @ transmediale salon
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1. transmediale salon
2. Alte Arte
3. Art and Copyright
4. Readme 100
5. Monochrom Gala
6. Urban Media
7. Novikova/Multklub
8. Sue Ballard
9. China Connection

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1. transmediale salon

The Salon programme of transmediale.06 presents artistic projects and panel discussions about current issues in art and digital culture. German and international work in progress projects and initiatives present their work and invite the audience for an exchange of ideas. Curators and critics discuss the art scenes in countries like Italy, Belarus, Moldova, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Brazil, and China. Artists participating in the Smile Machines exhibition talk about their work. Throughout the festival, the transmediale Salon features in-depth conversations about contemporary art practices. In the evenings, the programme concludes with performances.

The following are only a few examples of the extensive Salon programme. Check http://www.transmediale.de for the full Salon schedule.

transmediale is funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation.

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2. Alte Arte
Friday, February 3, 16 hrs

Alte Arte is a TV art and culture magazine on Moldovan television. It is both TV about Art and Art on TV, and works against the lack of qualified coverage of contemporary art issues.
http://www.altearte.md/

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3. Art and Copyright
Saturday, February 4, 12 hrs

Art and economy each have their own rules. We now see the two models of proprietarian and of free knowledge pitted against each other. While copyright law is the central stage for setting framework rules, art practice and discourse continue to challenge them.
http://iRights.info

with:
Matthias Spielkamp, editor iRights.info
Cornelia Sollfrank, artist
Eberhard Ortland, philosopher
Volker Grassmuck, project leader iRights.info, Wizards of OS, privatkopie.net,

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4. Readme 100 - Temporary Software Art
Saturday, February 4, 17 hrs

This experimental art festival dealt with the notion of production as it relates to software, software art and software cultures. This presentation discusses projects and research commissioned specially for Readme 100 in Dortmund and features the first presentation of the Readme 100 publication, produced in cooperation with transmediale.
http://readme.runme.org/

with:
Alexei Shulgin, Olga Goriounova
Presented by Inke Arns and Francis Hunger

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5. Monochrom Gala
Saturday, February 4, 20.30 hrs

monochroms transmediale medley is a tour-de-farce diversion: A joyful bucket full of good clean fanaticism, language, culture, self-contentment, utopia, mania and despair, condensed into the well known cultural technique of a gala show.
http://www.monochrom.at/

with:
Guenther Friesinger, Johannes Grenzfurthner, Evelyn Fuerlinger, Daniel Fabry, Anika Kronberger

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6. Urban Media
Sunday, February 5, 14 hrs

Architecture and public space are increasingly permeated by media. Facades like the Spots light and media facade on Berlins Potsdamer Platz, developed by realities:united architects, not only bring media art into public space, but they turn architecture itself into an audio-visual, often interactive medium.
http://www.realu.de/index.html
http://www.spots-berlin.de/

with:
Tim Edler, Thom Sokoloski, Christian Moeller
Presented by Geoff Cox

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7. Tatiana Novikova: Transit_06 - Media Art in Russia and Belarus
Sunday, February 5, 19.30 hrs

Curator Tatiana Novikova from Minsk presents recent works made by Russian and Belarussian artists who share a similar sense of their time and place. What Russian poet A. Blok called the electrical dream is no longer a science fiction movie, but comes closer and closer to real life.

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8. Su Ballard: Considering Digital Arts in New Zealand
Monday, February 6, 19 hrs

Aotearoa Digital Arts (ADA) is New Zealands only digital artist network. The 70 artists associated with ADA are engaged in discussions of the nature of digital practice; the ways that these histories are being recorded and constructed; and the kinds of relationships that might be emerging across public and gallery spaces. The presentation considers the manner in which ADA and its artists are constructing digital histories in New Zealand Aotearoa.
http://www.aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/

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9. Panel: The China Connection
Monday, February 6, 16 hrs

This panel discusses the role that European media arts and technology organisations have been playing in the recent developments of a Chinese media-cultural agenda. It asks how Chinas new electronic media artists deal with the social potentials of globally connected media technologies - from CCTV through cryptography to open source software, with all their attached cultural dimensions.

with:
Alex Adriaansens, director V2_
Lu Jie, artist and media activist, 25000 Cultural Transmission Centre, Beijing
Martijn de Waal, journalist and independent media researcher
Presented by: Stephen Kovats, media researcher and program developer, V2_

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