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transmediale is a festival for art and digital culture. It is a forum of communication for artists, media workers and a broad public interested in arts. transmediale includes exhibitions, conferences, live performances, artist presentations and a variety of fringe events throughout Berlin.
transmediale was founded in 1988 as a video art festival and has taken place annually, in Berlin, ever since. First conceived in close relation to the Berlinale film festival, the festival changed its name from 'VideoFest' to 'transmediale' in 1997/98, thus reflecting the fact that its programmatic scope had broadened to encompass a wide range of multimedia-related art forms. Since then, digital technologies have become firmly integrated into our everyday lives. 'Digital culture' is no avantgarde terrain any more. transmediale has responded to this development by focusing its programmes not on the latest technical novelties and scientific speculations, but on the actual usage that people are making of such technologies. One way of emphasising the cultural approach to media technologies has been to formulate themes for the annual festivals that are not technologically focused, but refer to the engagement with technologies as a social paractice. Thus, we went from 'Do It Yourself!' (2001) and 'Go Public!' (2002), through 'Play Global!' (2003) and 'Fly Utopia!' (2004), to 'Basics' (2005), 'Reality Addicts' (2006), and 'Unfinish!' (2007). The programme of transmediale focuses on art that reflects about social and cultural meaning of technologies and media. At the same time, the festival places these artistic practices in the wider context of digital culture by offering a series of related conferences, workshops and discussions. TRANSMEDIALE 2007 from January 31 to February 4 at Akademie der Künste (Academy of Arts), Berlin. |
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Live Recordings of the transmediale.06 Conference (requires Real-player):
Humour Politics Dominique Noguez Media Addicts I Transgressions Gerburg Treusch-Dieter Media Addicts II Mistakology Simon Critchley Jean Jacques Perrey Great Thanks to Klubradio! www.klubradio-service.de |
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23rd Chaos Communication Congress
The annual four-day conference of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) on technology, society and utopia offers lectures and workshops on a multitude of topics and encourages a critical-creative attitude towards technology. Since 1984, the Congress has established itself as the "European Hacker Conference" bringing together the brightest heads from Europe and all over the world. December 27th to 30th, 2006 Berlin, Germany |
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Wizards of OS 4
Information Freedom Rules The Wizards of OS with three conferences and several workshops has firmly established itself as a place where the foundations of cultural creativity in the digital age are being debated internationally, interdisciplinarily and at high level. The fourth Wizards of OS under the title „Information Freedom Rules" again wants to infect its participants with the radical spirit of freedom and creativity. International Conference 14-16 September 2006 at the Columbiahalle Columbiadamm 13-21, Berlin |
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Blogspiel
"blogspiel – blogs mit radioanschluss" is an interactive website in combination with a radio show. Everybody has the chance to post acustic experiments, the best contributions are broadcasted every week on Deutschlandradio Kultur. Give it a try at blogspiel.de! |
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