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transmediale.02 - international media art festival berlin 5 - 10 February 2002 go public! Conference & Panels Thursday, 7.2., 16.00 Conference 1: Public Space Invaders Public space is not a control-free gathering place for enlightened citizens; rather it is a technically and highly media equipped system combining visibility, vigilance and control. Publicity today is rather something which takes place in the pseudo- private spaces of the television than in urban spaces. In digital space, the border between private and public data, between communication and information is disappearing. And yet, we are not only the slaves of mobile communications services, of biometric systems and public displays. Resourceful artists and media activists are appropriating the necessary technologies, and creating creative and critical media for digital publicity. With: Konrad Becker (at), director of Public Netbase Vienna, on the research and information project World-Information.Org; Matthew Fuller (uk), media theorist from London, on tactical media and 'TextFM', a project developed together with G. Harwood which combines private SMS with radio; Tim Pritlove (de) of Berlin's Chaos Computer Club on the spectacular Blinkenlights installation at the Haus des Lehrers on Alexanderplatz; Andy Bichlbaum of TheYesMen (int), a group of activists who say an irritatingly loud yes! to globalisation. Additionally we show a video by the Surveillance Camera Players (us), who play theatre in front of surveillance cameras, and a commercial break by ubermorgen.com. Thursday, 7.2., 20.30 Conference 2: Global Public Global Public: The New World Order of Broadcasting Globalisation is not merely an economic and political phenomenon, it is also taking place to a substantial degree in the media, which increasingly enables a connected audience worldwide to take part live in global events. The conditions for global media reportage have changed fundamentally over the past years. The co-existence of satellite, internet, and terrestrial broadcasting channels has led to the disappearance of the boundaries between global concerns such as CNN, regional stations such as the Arabic Al Jazeera, or the media activist network Indymedia. Representatives of such networks discuss the 'new world order' of broadcasting. (Participants to be confirmed) Friday, 8.2., 16.00 Conference 3: Images in Process Images in Process Media images in the digital era are no longer static representations of reality; rather they are temporary constructions based on software and codes. Images are mixed, sampled, and interpreted technically. The significance of these images is dependent on the technical and cultural conditions under which they can be received, reproduced, and manipulated. The truth and the authenticity of images, which with photography had still been tied to the immediacy of the moment, can, in the digital flood of images, only be depicted as a tendency, as a pattern, as a possibility, which can be eradicated again at any moment by a more recent overwriting. Those who wish to report and publicise events have to learn to move with the image process. History is an interactive account of events; every image within it is a passing approximation. With: Edmond Couchot (fr), Prof. emeritus at University of Paris 8, on generative image processes and the 'second interactivity'; Michael Punt (uk) of University of Wales College Newport, on the aesthetics of the 'post-digital analogue'; Peter Lynch (ca), film maker, on digital film production and the totally media-driven perception of 'Cyberman' Steve Mann. Moderation: Thomas Y. Levin (us) Professor in Film Studies at Princeton University Friday, 8.2., 20.30 Conference 4: Software Speculations Software Speculations The growing social significance of computer software is indisputable. Countless processes within the Information Society are being shaped by software, and from Apple Macintosh, to Napster, free software and 'open source', it is clear that software is not a value-free instrument, but represents in each case a wilful cultural artefact. Artists and cultural scientists are therefore increasingly reflecting upon the political, ideological, ethical and aesthetic dimensions of software and software design. The transmediale competition for 'software art' pays tribute to this development. At the beginning of the programme, the projects nominated for the transmediale 'software award' will be presented by the artists: Daniel Hahn/Dietmar Schifferbauer (de), Joan Leandre (es), Local Area Network (ch), Alex McLean (uk) With: Manfred Fassler (de), cultural and media anthropologist at the University of Frankfurt, about the constitution of social spaces through software; Matthew Fuller (uk), media theorist, about speculative software and the research project 'Software=Culture'; Margarete Jahrmann (at), artist and media theorist who teaches at art academies in Linz, Wien and Zuerich, about software as a generative art-machine. Moderation: Florian Cramer (de), lecturer in Comparative Literature, FU Berlin Wednesday, 6.2., 20.30 Panel: Concepts of Interactive Art Concepts of Interactive Art The artists in the exhibition present their different concepts and areas of expertise: the works shown are based on artificial intelligence, biofeedback, voice recognition or deliberate, physical navigation. Under discussion are the artistic chances and risks of interactive projects, as well as the rules under which interface design functions. Particular attention has been paid to the unusual conditions and demands placed on the visitor's reception of the work, in order to develop a clearer definition of the term "interaction". Presentations by: Peter Frucht (hu/de), robotlab (de), Jonah Brucker-Cohen (us) Panel: Luc Courchesne (ca), Seiko Mikami (jp) Masaki Fujihata (jp), Kenneth Rinaldo (us) Thursday, 7.2., 14.00 Panel: SMS Encounters (in German) "SMS Encounters: The intensification of the public sphere?" SMS-fever - not only means E-speed lyrics between two people. Novels and sports news are also obtainable with an SMS subscription. The Afghanistan war has also meant that troops are dealt with via SMS. Culture and media producers are experimenting with the private medium in order to make use of the mobile telephone as enter key for new forms of public broadcasts. For some time now, a semipublic communications network is taking on vague contours. TV and radio are also being short-circuited through the private remote control. Do infringements between the private and the public sphere take place when a private mobile medium is shortcircuited with immobile public media? The panel SMS encounters intends to shed light on the production environment of (intermedial) SMS-applications, and clarify their definition of the public. With: Olaf Arndt, Kuenstler, www.bbm-ww.de; Alexandra Bohn, Autorin, u.a. www.spex.de; Klaas Glenewinkel, Medienproduzent, www.okb.de; Christoph Maire, CEO, www.gate5.de; Nils Roeller, Medientheoretiker, www.khm.de; Matze Schmidt, Medienaktivist www.n0name.de. A cooperation between Berliner Gazette + Media Arts Lab/ Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien www.berlinergazette.de www.bethanien.de/mal Saturday, 9.2., 12.00 Panel: Young Russian Media Art Young Russian Media Art In spite of all the changes and new orientations in Russia's intellectual landscape they do not forget their post-soviet "rituals of understanding" and are developing ways of describing new spiritual processes with euphoric composure and ironic self-exaggeration. Young media artists from Moscow and St.Petersburg present their work. With: Eldar Karhalev, developed the Wap-Portal WAPICONA; Sergei Teterin, describes a heavenly Nirvana in 'All Media Artists Go To Heaven', where media artists enter after their death, to work with the internet, pagers, and mobile phones; Ivan Khimin, studied art history and media art at Pro Arte Institute in St. Petersburg; Anna Kolossava, plays with virtual and physical spaces; Yuri Popov, works with the artistic possibilities of the Flash format. Moderation: Alexei Shulgin Samstag/Saturday, 9.2., 12.00 Panel: Digital Cultural Heritage (in German) Digital Cultural Heritage Art and culture live by their confrontation with tradition. The digitalisation of large areas of our cultural production means that our society faces the challenge of preserving this most recent inheritance for us, and for posterity. What will happen when in a few decades the necessary combinations of hardware, operating systems and software no longer function? The answers to these questions are not only of great importance to art historians, but are of interest to the whole of society. From the annual balance sheet to the computer game; is there any information left that is non-digital in nature - and are we facing the great post-digital age of forgetting? With: Konrad Becker, Public Netbase Wien, www.world-information.org Rudolf Frieling, ZKM Karlsruhe, www.zkm.de Oliver Grau, Humboldt Universitaet Berlin, www.arthist.hu-berlin.de/arthistd/mitarbli/og/og.html Hans Dieter Huber, Akademie der Bildenden Kuenste Stuttgart, www.art.net.dortmund.de/ger/ per/hu_4fr.html Andreas Lange, DiGA - The Digital Game Archive Berlin, www.computerspielemuseum.de Sunday, 10.2., 14.00 Panel: Paper.Hype Paper.Hype Under the title 'Paper Hype' the transmediale.02 is for the first time organising a meeting of editors of a number of different European magazines dealing with digital culture. Representatives from England, France, Austria, Germany and Italy will introduce their print media and will discuss the conditions for publishing in the internet era. What does it mean to produce a magazine, a paper publication about digital culture in an era of apparently total digitalisation? Mute calls it: Proud to be Flesh! With: Jan Rigos Hillmann, DE:BUG, Berlin, zeitung fuer elektronische lebensaspekte, www.de-bug.de Christian Hoeller, springerin - Hefte fuer Gegenwartskunst, www.springerin.at Fran Ilich, undo, Mexiko, www.cmca.gob.mx/undo Armelle Leturque, CRASH, Paris, www.crash.fr Alessandro Ludovico, NEURAL, Bari, www.neural.it Pauline van Mourik Broekman, MUTE, London, www.metamute.com Sunday, 10.2., 12.00 Panel: Public Vote/Public Bet > K 1 Stuart Rosenberg: Public Vote/Public Bet The project Public Vote/Public Bet was developed by Stuart Rosenberg specially for transmediale. 02. Instead of leaving the decision about the award winners to the expert jury, festival visitors can vote on the best projects and choose their own Public Vote Award in the three award categories. A second 'go public!' is added to this first one: in the 'Public Bet' betting booth the festival visitors can place bets on the winners of the Public Vote Award. If you guess correctly, you win the jackpot! On the day after the prize ceremony, Rosenberg presents the project and discusses the implications of different types of open, public and democratic decision making processes. info: www.transmediale.de [full programme online 15 january] _______________________________________ andreas broeckmann - artistic director - transmediale - international media art festival berlin klosterstr. 68-70 - d-10179 berlin tel. +49-30-24721907 - fax +49-30-24721909 ab@transmediale.de - www.transmediale.de --------------------------------------- transmediale.02 - [go public!] - 5-10 feb 2002 _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://amsterdam.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold