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Sat 31 Jan, Digital Greenhouse
We're meeting here both as artists and as consumers. Our diverse methodologies link us in explorations that critically reflect upon us, exposing the ecological consequences of our own actions. Individual consumer freedom is a myth, just as much as the seemingly pragmatic but not at all sustainable prescriptions for crawling out of the global financial crisis. We will look at the concepts behind our practice and propose tools for sustainability.
Fri 30 Jan, Digital Greenhouse
The increase in speed with which we explore the limited resources that fuel both economy and lifestyle, shows not only the dimension of our dependency but also reveals one consistency – a new global race for the remaining resources. Developing nations and regions, until recently 'zones of silence' in our collective memory, will now become the stage for our dependency. What will the cultural impact of climate change look like in developing nations? How could a critical artistic practice broach this issue? And how could it create new contexts and possibilities for a sustainable development?
Thur 29 Jan, Digital Greenhouse
Re-hacking your World examines issues of crisis and possibility by intervening in the relationships between environment, industry and culture. Has our cultural hardware and software become useless and unserviceable faced with the complex challenges that confront us? In order to prevent a complete takeover of commercial interests in the development of digital cultures in Africa, Asia and Latin America, it becomes essential to promote and strengthen the vocabulary of open source systems and develop fair use mechanisms.
Wed 28 Jan, Digital Greenhouse
Increasing social inequality, aggravation of living standards, short-sighted environmental policy and the violation of human rights are all facts pointing to the increasing extremes of the conditions of life. These conditions are not cultural dysfunctions, but are fundamentally connected to the processes of global capital to systematically exploit the environment. Re-Articulacija project members Marina Grzinic and Sebastjan Leban invite the festival audience to join political philosophers Sefik Seki Tatlic and Madina Tlostanova, along with transmediale 2009 Award nominee Petko Dourmana to engage in a session of collective research to counter contemporary global forms of exploitation, control, censorship and expropriation.
Zacharias Kunuk, one of the world's most widely respected aboriginal filmmakers (Golden Camera at Cannes, 2001), and his colleague, Norman Cohn, will talk about the importance of access to, and use of, new media for contemporary Inuit culture.
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transmediale.06 was devoted to the ongoing process of technologised reality: REALITY ADDICTS presented those artistic strategies that subvertively reflect the impact of reality on technology.
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