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and the winner of the Vilém Flusser Theory Award is…

 Jaromil AND Brian Holmes

Conratulations!!

 

Denis Jaromil Rojo is a developer and media artist inspired by the GNU free
software movement: he follows the ideal of creating free software for
freedom of expression, to let people communicate, freed from
consumerist speculations and the need for expensive hardware. He is
author of the GNU/Linux Live CD dyne:bolic, of various free software
audiovisual  tools and  net-art  productions as  HasciiCam, the shell
:(){ :|:& };: forkbomb and Time Based Text. Featured as an artist in CODeDOC II
(Whitney Museum Artport), Read_Me 2.3 (runme.org software art),
negotiations 2003  (Toronto CA), I  LOVE YOU (MAK Frankfurt), Netarts
(Machida Tokyo),  Rhizome,  Data Browser 02 (engineering culture),
Crosstalks (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) and in several other
publications.

The blog, Continental Drift at http://brianholmes.wordpress.com, is an essay-writing worksite, updated continuously with Brian Holmes entire output as a public intellectual, whether occasional talks, spur-of-the-moment rants or polished full-length texts dealing with the analysis and subversion of cognitive capitalism and liberal empire.The blog was launched in early 2007 in parallel to the work of the autonomous seminar Continental Drift, developed since 2005 in collaboration with Claire Pentecost and the 16 Beaver Group (www.16beavergroup.org/drift). The seminar, gathering artists, theorists and activists, was conceived as a response to the deterioration of democratic discourse and public space under the influence of the outgoing American imperial administration. The essays on the blog are therefore Holmes personal work, but can also be considered as individual contributions to a collective practice.

Materials from the blog have recently been gathered into a book, _Escape the Overcode: Creative Art in the Control Society_, which will be published in early 2009 by WHW and the Van Abbemuseum. The book is freely accessible: http://brianholmes.wordpress.com/2008/02/02/book-materials

Performance by Rudolfo Quintas

We’re sorry for the f*c’d up sound quality – the mircophone gave up in the 1st second, we hope to get to properly recorded material soon!

UPDATE: Now with proper sound!

Jury Interview

we had a chat with bronac ferran and juha huuskonen, two members of the jury, about their difficult job of choosing the artworks for this years transmediale. they had to choose from about 100 preselected works out of more than 900 entries. but listen to their methodology and experience yourself…

isuma.tv – Igloolik Isuma Productions

isuma.tv is an independent platform for indigenous film-makers, exchanging traditional knowledge, as well as news and footage documenting an aboriginal way of life. Paul Quassa, sitting in the futuristic McLuhan Salon, tells us why new technologies were quickly absorbed by aboriginal tribes, how traditional knowledge about nature and the environment can help us to deal with an impending climate change and how isuma.tv exactly works.

Tantalum Memorial

Everybody uses mobile devices and computers. Less people know you need a very rare mineral called “tantal” to fabricate microchips this size, soon making it more precious than gold. This very moment, cruel wars are fought over this metal in Congo, resulting in more than 3.6 million deaths to date. The tantalum memorial was created in rememberence of this wars´ victims. In a very unique way, ancient telephone technology, the congolese community in london and storytelling are combined, resulting in the extrordinary piece “tantalon memorial”. a living memorial in a way, through which stories can be told and peolpe are connected, reminging us of the blood dripping from our stylish new devices.

Specialità di Silicio

Performance: Urs Dubacher  (video in german)

specialità di silicio is a hardware cooking performance, in which Urs Dubacher creates a special menu, comprised of silicon. Damaged hardware and other ingredients are fused to a culinary hybrid of absurdity, debris and detritus. Enjoy your meal!

Die Preformance “specialltà di silicio” ist eine Hardware Cooking Performance, in welcher  Urs Dubacher ein spezielles Menü kreiert, welches zum Großteil aus Silizium besteht. Kaputte Hardware und andere Zutaten werden vereint zu einer kulinarischen Einheit der Absurdität. Guten Appetit!

a shotgun is visible and intimidating

Jetzt mal zur Abwechslung ein subjektiver Beitrag. Ein Beitrag, der
nicht versucht den Anschein von Objektivität zu erwecken. Gonzo heißt
das oder so, aber vielleicht passt das so nicht. Egal. In Berlin ist es
eiskalt. Ich habe meine lange Unterhose in Wien gelassen, weil ich fest
darauf hoffte, dass spontan der Frühling einbricht. So bin ich. Jetzt
habe ich Halsweh, brauche aber ein Bier, weil das Leben so freundlich zu
mir ist und mich heftig durchbeutelt. Wo trinke ich das? In diesem Café
im Haus der Kulturen der Welt, wo ich bis jetzt noch nie ein Trinkgeld
gegeben hab. Wo die Steckdosen an der Decke sind. Wo mir der Urs (unser
lieber Austauschbekannter aus der Schweiz, der draußen die
Hardware-Kochperformance macht und den es auch nicht mehr freut, für 200
Euro gesamt jeden Abend in der Kälte zu stehen, wo nach der dritten
Performance doch eh keiner mehr zusieht) hat mir heute gesagt, dass man
nicht an diesen Feuerlöschteilen an der Decke ankommen darf, weil sonst
das ganze Haus der Kulturen geflutet wird. Mit Löschwasser oder so.
Continue reading ‘a shotgun is visible and intimidating’

Man With A Movie Camera: The Global Remake

The video artist Perry Bard invites people to a collaborative web-based, database-generated montage experiment. Using Dziga Vertovs masterpiece from 1929 as direct inspiration, participants from all over the world can upload footage on the website next to the corresponding scenes from the original film. Uploaded digital media from photo cameras, video recorders and screen-grabs form part of the new interpretation. The lengths and images of submitted videos are synchronised with the original scenes through software, which then rotates the added material every day, ensuring the film may never be the same twice. Bard’s project transports Vertov’s impressions about the Soviet cities in his experimental silent film into the 21st century and becomes, in Vertov’s terms, the “decoding of life as it is.”.

dziga.perrybard.net

McLuhan Salon- isuma.tv

Das Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin surrt wie ein warmer Bienenstock. Diese Metapher passt zum Thema, irgendwie. Künstler, Medienmenschen, Journalisten und Teilnehmer aus aller Welt haben sich hier getroffen, um zu sehen was die Transmediale 09 zum heurigen Motto “Deep North” zu sagen hat. Offensichtlich geht es um Grenzbereiche. Kunst, Technologie, Ökologie und Aktivismus sollen sich zuarbeiten und so das Thema Klimawandel in neuem Licht erscheinen lassen. Zu einem Großteil aber soll es um den Gedankenaustausch gehen. Leute in Verbindung bringen, gemeinsam Ideen für eine Zukunft voller Hochwasser und Tornados
schmieden. Auch wenn es anders wirken mag, der Schwerpunkt liegt doch beim Networking. Nicht nur hier im Realraum, wie wir bald feststellen.

Wir stehen vor dem Haupteingang und rauchen. Drinnen Verordnung, eh klar. Es ist eiskalt aber sonnig. Gleich wird uns der künstlerische Leiter der
Transmediale, Stephen Kovats, abholen und mit seinem Wagen in die kanadische Botschaft, genauer in den Marshall McLuhan Salon bringen. Dort werden wir mit dem renommierten Inuit-Politiker Paul Quassa bekannt gemacht. Das Projekt, das wir mit ihm besprechen nennt sich isuma.tv, eine Videoplattform im Internet, die primär für den Austausch indigener Filmemacher ins Leben gerufen wurde. Das klingt abwegiger als es eigentlich ist. Bald wird uns Paul Quassar erzählen, dass besonders Nomadenvölker sehr schnell neue Technologien für sich beansprucht haben. Weniger schriftlich als visuell orientiert, bietet ihnen das Netz die optimale Form des Austausches für traditionelles Wissen, aber auch Nachrichten und Alltägliches. Nicht von ungefähr treffen wir Quassar im McLuhan Salon.

Das einst von McLuhan prophezeite “Global Village” wurde bei isuma.tv nicht bloß zur Praxis. Es ist beinahe dessen Überaffirmation: Über modernste Technologien können so wissenschaftliche Diskurse über Klimawandel mit idigener Naturweisheit abgeglichen werden. Näheres erzählten uns die Beteiligten selbst, von Angesicht zu Angesicht – und über den Bildschirm erzählen sie es so der ganzen Welt.

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We are standing outside the “Haus der Kulturen der Welt” in Berlin, smoking. Forbidden indoors, all over Germany by now. We are waiting for Steven Kovats, the artistic director of the transmediale 09. He personally is going to drive us to the Canadian embassy, where the Marshall McLuhan Salon is located and we are about to meet the famous Inuit spokesman Paul Quassar to hear more about isuma.tv, a project director Kovats is very proud to present at this years transmediale. isuma.tv, as we are about to learn, is an independent platform for indigenous film-makers, exchanging traditional knowledge, as well as news and footage documenting an aboriginal way of life. Paul Quassar, sitting in the futuristic McLuhan Salon, tells us why new technologies were quickly absorbed by aboriginal tribes, how traditional
knowledge about nature and the environment can help us to deal with an impending climate change and how isuma.tv exactly works.

Petko Dourmana – Post Global Warming Survival Kit

Petko Dourmana is a media artist and organiser of interdisciplinary projects between art and information technology. He is co-founder of the InterSpace Media Art Centre, Sofia, which is a non-commercial combination of artists, computer scientists and media activists.

Post Global Warming Survival Kit consists of a two-channel projection and shows infrared images of the North Sea as a post-apocalyptic landscape that the observer can only see by using a night-vision device. Dourmana portrays a dystopian scenario: a “nuclear winter” initiated by political groups or governments in order to solve the problem of global warming and the melting of the polar icecaps.

The installation aims to be a believable, technological fiction of a future in which human sensory experience has adapted. Without the technology posited within the Post Global Warming Survival Kit, we would be blind. With this in mind, the project asks us to consider our approach to environmental pollution and ecological destruction.

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