In the Award Ceremony on Saturday, 6 February, Barbara Kisseler (Permanent Secretary of the State of Berlin) and the members of both juries announced the winners of both the transmediale Award 2010 and the Vilém Flusser Theory Award 2010!
Canadian artist Michelle Teran is the winner of the transmediale Award 2010. Her work Buscando al Sr. Goodbar was awarded with a prize of 6,000 Euros.
A Distinction worth 2,000 Euros was given to the Americans Aaron Koblin and Daniel Massey for their work Bicycle Built For Two Thousand.
The Vilém Flusser Theory Award 2010, also worth 2,000 Euros, was given to biologist and artist Warren Neidich (us/de) for his research project Neuropower.
OH SNAP!! Google had one of their Streeview camera cars parked in front of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt right here in Berlin. We put a GPS tracking device it and are following it right now!!!! Check this awesome large map we threw together (updates every 2 min) and follow what we see at @fffffat (twitter) (this will be EPIC!!!!)
The transmediale 2010 opened it’s doors yesterday, with a Yvette Matterns laser performance “From One to Many” and Charlemagne Palestine’s sound performance. The program looks promising and we already met a lot of great people - so we’re looking forward to a lot of interesting stuff! Here’s a little impression of the opening performance (the snow storm worked great with the laser show, but it made the microphone give up…):
During the Olympic Games in 2008 James Powderly traveled to Beijing in order to support the group “Students for a free Tibet”. The Idea was to go there and do a L.A.S.E.R. Tag performance. Before he was able to do so he was arrested and sentenced to 10 days of prison. When the games were over he was set free and sent home, where he decided to publish the story as a comic book together with Jihoi Lee. In the interview he tells us about the time in prison and the comic book that was exhibited at the Blackriver Festival in Vienna.
The Japan Media Arts Festival chooses every year another country to show their currently awarded and nominated pieces in an exhibition abroad.
This years the exhibition takes place in Vienna. It shows very well that the Japanese art definition differs from the European approach quite a lot, the border between art and design is floating as you can see by the selection of pieces in the exhibition.
Atsushi Wakimoto, the curator of the Japan Media Arts Festival walks us trough the viennese exhibition of the Festival which is running until 20th of September.
“Any heavy-handed block can be transformed to a magical zone with an illuminated façade”, wrote Gerlinde Lang on the FM4 Website. Now, for sure, the new Ars Electronica Center (AEC) at its location on the banks of the Danube in Linz, does not qualify as a “heavy-handed block”, a magical zone it became nonetheless. This happened courtesy of artist duo freyluft, who, last weekend in cooperation with FM4, made 40.000 LEDs dance on the façade of the AEC, in their performance “Signs and Signals”.
The sounds involved were provided by DJs and live-musicians, but, notably, also by media artist Ulla Rauter, who utilized her own body as an instrument. With an electric violin bow she stroked her right forearm, while her hand was fitted with electric contacts. “The skin serves as a conductor. When the violin bow touches the skin, the circuit is closed”, says Rauter: “It is a sort of biofeedback.”
Text: Patrick Dax, ORF Futurezone Translation: Oliver Stummer
The guys of Pikselfest in Norway are now accepting proposals in the categories installation, a/v performance, presentations and workshops. As ever - ” Projects realised using Max/Msp/Jitter, Flash/Shockwave, Final Cut or any other proprietary software does NOT qualify, and should not be submitted!”
I couldn’t find something like a theme or a subject - the next step after getting rid of the categories a few years ago? Would make sense imho, artistic production usually doesn’t care too much about festival themes anyway..
Das Wesen des Kapitalismus ist die kreative Zerstörung, sagte der österreichische Ökonom Joseph Schumpeter schon in den dreißiger Jahren. Seine Theorie vom kreativen Unternehmertum feierte in den neunziger Jahren kreative Urständ: die New Economy, man erinnere sich. Junge Burschen und Mädchen mit feschen Frisuren, modischen Turnschuhen und krausen Ideen wurden plötzlich zum Ideal des neuen Unternehmertyps.
Stichwort: Sie hätten ja auch Künstler werden können, aber sie wollten was verdienen. Alte Wahrheiten des Wirtschaftslebens galten auf den Kopf gestellt, Unternehmen begannen ihre besten Produkte zu verschenken, um fiktive Marktanteile an “Eyeballs” in der Ökonomie der Aufmerksamkeit zu gewinnen. Auf der Achse zwischen Silicon Valley und Market Street, San Francisco, im Herzen der ehemaligen Gegenkultur der 1960er Jahre entwickelte sich der “coole Arbeitsplatz”. Ehemalige Fertigungs- und Lagerhallen wurden in Großraumbüros umgewandelt, deren architektonische Anlage bereits flache Hierarchien symbolisierte. Hier arbeiteten Menschen, die an der Garderobe ihr Skateboard deponierten, unter Kopfhörern Grunge oder Hip Hop hörten und Cappuccino Frappe Latte mit Limettengeschmack und Soyamilch, koffeinfrei, tranken, vor allem aber eines taten: sie identifizierten sich mit ihren Jobs. Die Arbeit war nicht mehr eine entfremdete Tätigkeit, die man sozusagen neben sich stehend ausführte. Jeder, ob Chef, Angestellte, Freelancer oder Praktikanten wollte ihr bestes geben, neue, glänzende Dinge machen, einfallsreich, geschickt, ja sogar genial sein. Und dafür arbeitete man dann, sozusagen frei und selbstbestimmt, bis zum Umfallen1. more
De:Bug is a German magazine for electronic music, with computers and there abilities… lets call this mag an electronic-live-style-survival-package (pff…out of breath) Couldn’t fit better, they just published the audio records of all “Club Transmediale” panels. And now you can find everything here.
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