Newsletter transmediale @ Pariser Platz

Newsletter 2.1.2007

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January 31 - February 4, 2007
Akademie der Künste
Berlin, Hanseatenweg 10

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1. transmediale @ Pariser Platz
2. Nam June Paik: There is no rewind button for life
3. Kempelen – Zwei Maschinen
4. Media Art in the GDR?
5. Edition Edison

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1. transmediale @ Pariser Platz

The transmediale.07 programme includes a series of events are being presented outside the main festival venue of the Akademie der Künste on Hanseatenweg. The new building of the Akademie der Künste on Pariser Platz is an important second venue, where the festival week already begins a day before the official opening, with an hommage to Nam June Paik who died exactly one year ago.

Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz 4, 10117 Berlin-Mitte

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2. Nam June Paik: There is no rewind button for life
Monday, January 29

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 Künste commemorates its prominent member.

18 h Traditional Korean music in the Foyer and other spaces
19 h Opening Klaus Stäck, followed by ‘Paiks Kosmos’. Introduction Wulf Herzogenrath. Performances by Kunsu Shim, Gerhard Stäbler und Mario Bertoncini
21 h Panel discussion with Mary Bauermeister, Pash Buzari, Anne-Marie Duguet, Wulf Herzogenrath, Ira Schneider, Emmett Williams (invited). Moderation Manfred Eichel
23 h Music performance by John Cage, played by Mario Bertoncini. Followed by falling piano.
18 h - 24 h 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. Kempelen – Zwei Maschinen / Two Machines
Saturday, February 3, 15 h

Wolfgang von Kempelen, scholar and administrator in the court of Maria Theresia, left many humble traces in history, the most memorable of which are his Talking Machine and his chess-playing android. In 1769, Kempelen presented a mechanical chess-player, dressed in an oriental costume. The 'Chess Turk' became one of the great technical sensations of the 18th century. However, only ostensibly had an automaton taken control of rationality, for on the inside, a man was hidden. In contrast, Kempelen's Talking Machine was based on the ideas of enlightenment and was supposed to give an audible voice to deaf people. The construction resembled the human apparatus of articulation, and Kempelen's 1791 publication about the mechanism of human speech marked the beginnings of experimental acoustics.
The event mainly revolves around the presentation of the 'Kempelen Box' with reconstructions of both machines, which were developed and built at the University of Applied Art Vienna between 1999 and 2001
Participants: Brigitte Felderer, Jakob Scheid, Ernst Strouhal
Presented by: Siegfried Zielinski

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4. Media Art in the GDR?
Independent Film and Media Art in the GDR between 1976-1989
Sunday, February 4

In the last years of the GDR there was a lively film subculture that existed beside the official image factories in Babelsberg (DEFA movies) and Adlershof (TV). Multiple cine-films were produced and shown in private spaces, churches, galleries, concert halls and improvised festivals. The medium of 'Super-8 film' was first discovered in the late 70s by painters who adopted the Soviet ‘Quarz’ camera. Multimedia activities by A.R. Penck in Dresden or Lutz Dammbeck in Leipzig triggered a veritable wave of films by painters, which later also reached East Berlin.

16 h Film programme ‘Revision DDR’ (with works by Lutz Dammbeck, Jörg Herold, Else Gabriel, Via Lewandowsky, Yana Milev, Ulrich Polster)
18 h Discussion 'Media Art in the GDR? (in German) with Lutz Dammbeck, Else Gabriel, Claus Löser, Helke Misselwitz, Klaus Stäck, Christoph Tannert, Dieter Daniels
20 h Film programme 'Films by Painters in the GDR' with works by Lutz Dammbeck, Helge Leiberg, Cornelia Schleime, Andreas Dress, Christine Schlegel, Jürgen Böttcher, A. R. Penck. Film programme curated by Claus Löser, Archiv ex.oriente.lux

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5. Edition Edison
Workshop Installation: February 1 - 3
Finissage Performance: Saturday, February 3, 18 h

For more than a century physical sound-storage media, from the cylinder of the Edison phonograph to the CD, have made music something that can be owned - an unusual liaison between music and object. The LP managed to become a fetish; the days of the CD are already numbered. With the emergence of the standardised compression format MP3 and the Internet, sounds are once again roaming freely. ’Edition Edison’ brings together twelve objects in a limited edition - twelve positions between music and object at the end of the age of sound-storage media.
In the entrance hall of the Akademie der Künste at Pariser Platz, Nicolas Collins, Aleks Kolkowski and FM3 will run a workshop-installation. For three days the artists will manufacture objects. The number of multiples they produce for the edition will be equivalent to their labour or non-labour. Edition Edison is a project by Nicholas Bussmann and published by Diaphanes.
http://studiobeige.de
http://diaphanes.de

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