Feb 2 / Preview of Day 2!

Feb 2 / Preview of Day 2!

Last night’s opening was just a taste of the praxis-packed day of art and action to come during the next five days! As Stephen Kovats mentioned in his opening speech last night, this year’s transmediale is participatory and interactive, taking visitors and participants through a process that breaks down the barriers between the digital and physiological realms and asks – what happens when we move outside social medias? That question correlates exactly to the festival’s theme of RESPONSE:ABILITY, as our digital actions and Internet presence continues to reach into the political sphere, leaving footprints in the real world. This online livenessworks to define our sociality.

Today’s program offers an accelerated start on that liveliness with highlights such as Lost in the Open? Navigating the Open Web and Free Culture (11:00 in the Open Zone), that deals with the open and free cultures of knowledge and information…and offers guidelines for the subsequent confusion of ‘too much freedom!’

All workstations in the Open Zone welcome visitors throughout the afternoon for participation and shared ideas. The workshop Sharism: The More You Share the More You Get (14:00 – 16:00) runs through the roadblocks in the rough terrain of copyright control

The transmediale Award 2011 nominee Spatial Sound Sculpture, by Christopher Warnow and Daniel Franke, will be presented at 16:30 in the Archivraum.

This evening at 18:30 at the Canadian Embassy, the man who started it all – media oracle Marshall McLuhan – will be celebrated during Mark Surman’s lecture, Media, Freedom and the Web, which takes a tour of the web-based global village that McLuhan predicted so many decades ago. The lecture is an installment of the broader cultural project, McLuhan in Europe 2011, and be will followed by the group exhibition OPEN Signs curated by Heather Kelley.

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by Melanie Sevcenko