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Jan 23, 2007
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Newsletter Partner Events: Paik, McLuhan, TESLA, Zero
Newsletter 23.01.2007
transmediale.07
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January 31 - February 4, 2007
Akademie der Kuenste
Berlin, Hanseatenweg 10
Partner Events
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1. Partner Events
2. Nam June Paik: There is no rewind button for life
3. Marshall McLuhan - enter the medium
4. Tesla: Chris Salter & Seiko Mikami
5. Galerie Zero: Living in a Box
6. videobar im babylon
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1. Partner Events
The transmediale.07 programme includes a series of external events which are the result of cooperation between various partner institutions and which are being presented outside the main festival venue of the Akademie der Kuenste on Hanseatenweg. A day before the official festival opening a tribute is paid to Nam June Paik who died exactly one year ago. Tesla exhibits a new version of Seiko Mikami’s installation ‘Desire of Codes’, and presents the world premiere of ‘Schwelle - Part II’, a performance by Chris Salter. An exhibition of Polish and Slovenian artists at Galerie Zero forms part of this year's festival, as well as an exhibition of multimedia documents about the great media theorist of the 20th century, Marshall McLuhan, at the Canadian Embassy.
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2. Nam June Paik: There is no rewind button for life
Monday, January 29
Akademie der Kuenste, Pariser Platz
Nam June Paik, the pioneer of Video Art, died on January 29th, 2006. Born in Korea he came to study music in Germany in the late fifties, before he engaged in the Fluxus movement as a visual artist. Although he left for New York in 1964 Germany remained to be his 'artistic homeland'. The Akademie der Kuenste commemorates its prominent member.
18 hrs Traditional Korean music in the Foyer and other spaces
19 hrs Opening Klaus Staeck, followed by ‘Paiks Kosmos’. Introduction Wulf Herzogenrath. Performances by Kunsu Shim, Gerhard Staebler und Mario Bertoncini
21 hrs Panel discussion with Mary Bauermeister, Pash Buzari, Anne-Marie Duguet, Wulf Herzogenrath, Ira Schneider, Emmett Williams (invited). Moderation Manfred Eichel
23 hrs Music performance by John Cage, played by Mario Bertoncini. Followed by falling piano.
18 - 24 hrs Video works by Nam June Paik: ‘A tribute to John Cage’ (1973), ‘Global Groove’ (1973), ‘Allan 'n' Allen's Complaint’ (1982), ‘Documenta 6 Satellite Telecast’ (1977), ‘Good Morning Mr. Orwell’ (1984), ‘Merce by Merce by Paik’ (1978), ‘Stockhausen's Originale: Doubletakes’ (1964-94), ‘A Tribute to Nam June Paik’ (1982).
Installations by Nam June Paik (‘Mercury’, 1991) and Toni Serra, winner of the NJP Award for 2006
Admission 10 Euro, reduced 7 Euro
Ticket Hotline: +49-(0)30-20057-2000
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3. Marshall McLuhan - enter the medium
Opening: February 1, 18 hrs
Marshall McLuhan Salon, Embassy of Canada, Ebertstr. 14
Special opening hours during transmediale.07 Wednesday - Friday 10 - 18 hrs / Saturday, Sunday 14 - 18 hrs
On the occasion of the transmediale.07 the Marshall McLuhan Salon - multimedia information centre of the Canadian Embassy - features a unique collection of film and audio material focusing on the Canadian media philosopher Marshall McLuhan and his widely discussed theories. The interactive exhibition presents about 30 different video clips, 15 radio recordings, interactive CD-ROMs und illustrated publications by McLuhan on state-of-the-art technical devices. Visitors are invited to deal intensively with the McLuhan phenomenon and the re-evaluation of his assumptions.
Arthur Kroker, Research Chair in Technology, Culture and Theory at the University of Victoria, and transmediale’s key note speaker, will inaugurate the exhibition.
The Marshall McLuhan Salon and the exhibition about Marshall McLuhan can still be visited after transmediale.07. Opening hours: Monday to Friday 12 - 17 hrs.
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4. Tesla: Chris Salter & Seiko Mikami
Chris Salter (us/de) - Schwelle I & II
Performance
Tesla, Podewil’sches Palais, Klosterstr. 68
February 1 - 3, 20.30 hrs
Chris Salter’s ‘Schwelle’ is a new media and performance project using cutting edge acoustic and interactive technologies to explore the extreme threshold states of consciousness that constitute human experience. The multi-part project uses High Definition image and multi-channel sound, interactive installation and live performance to create states of consciousness in the spectator akin to the thresholds states that one experiences at the edge of trance, sleep and death. For transmediale.07, Tesla presents parts I and II. Part I is a turbulent exploration told by way of image and sound of the experience undergone at the time of the dissolution of the body and of consciousness. Part II is a live performance in which the audience confronts a lone single performer Michael Schumacher, master improviser and long time dancer at Forsythe’s Frankfurt Ballet, experiencing the traumatic transition period between death and rebirth. Utilising wireless sensor networks in the room and on the dancer’s body, Part II creates a stage environment where light, sound and objects take on their own choreography. Part II was partially developed during a project residency at Tesla in summer 2006 and will receive its world premiere at transmediale.07.
Seiko Mikami (jp) - Desire of Codes
Installation
Tesla, Podewil’sches Palais, Klosterstr. 68
January 18 - February 3, 18 - 22 hrs
In an information-oriented society, the encoding of individual information occurs immediately, almost as fast as the satisfaction of a desire. Our consumption habits, our criminal history, our chronic diseases, even our photographs taken by a security camera - all are stored in barcodes, assimilating them to the physical ID of the DNA. In this interactive installation, the barcode following individual desire is made visible by a group of moving sculptures fixed on the wall. The sculptures, made of human skin-like silicone on which a barcode is carved, react to the audience following its own movement, thus showing the strict connections between human and computerised body. Developed at Tesla, Seiko Mikami presents a new version of her interactive installation ‘Desire of Codes’.
http://www.tesla-berlin.de
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5. Galerie Zero: Living in a Box
January 26 - February 7
Koepenicker Str. 4
Opening hours during transmediale.07 daily 12 - 18 hrs
Vernissage: Friday, January 26, 20 hrs
Since they have been invented, computers and electronic devices occupy an important place in our imagination. Young artists deal with the computerisation of the world in this exhibition at Galerie Zero, organised in cooperation with transmediale.07.
Nika Oblak & Primoz Novak (si) - The Box
Video installation, 2005
Being caught in a closed system leads to desperation. Nika Oblak and Primoz Novak bring this to expression in a particularly ironic way.
Dorota Walentynowicz (pl) - Dobrze - Well done / The Dance
Interactive video installation, 2006
Three girls dance at the border between enforcement and voluntary submission. Their ambiguous experience is mirrored in that of their ‘trainer’.
Anna Krenz (pl/de) - Medi@cus
Drawings, 2006
The possibility of physical pain does not stop human beings from tying their happiness to the existence of machines. In her drawings, the artist reflects upon the unequal relationships between computers and humans.
Supported by the Polish Institute of Berlin and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia
http://www.zero-projects.org
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6. videobar im babylon
babylon:mitte
Rosa-Luxemburg-Str. 30
On schedule with transmediale, cinema babylon:mitte opens its ‘videobar im babylon’. A series of film-samplings, VJ meditations and other activities will be on show under the concept of an ‘Open Cinema’, an interface between experimental film, video art, installation and VJ performance.
For the first time the complete film and video programme of transmediale.07 will be screened at the cinema babylon:mitte. This cinema is one of the oldest still operating cinemas in Berlin. Opened in 1929 as a premiere movie theatre for silent films, the venue - embedded in a living and trade complex built by the architect Hans Poelzig in the style of New Objectivity - developed into a centre of the culture and film scene.
http://www.babylonberlin.de
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