transmediale/conversationpiece opens network program on 15 January 2016
transmediale/conversationpiece opens network program on 15 January 2016
Vorspiel and Marshall McLuhan Lecture with Sara Diamond
Berlin, 6 January 2016
Before transmediale/conversationpiece, again supported by Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation), starts on 3 February 2016 at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, partner programs in numerous Berlin-based project spaces, organizations, and galleries will take place from January 15th.
Vorspiel
On 15 January 2016 at 18:30, the Vorspiel pre-festival program will be launched by Berlin Secretary of State for Culture Tim Renner at ACUD MACHT NEU. Coordinated by the all-year initiative transmediale/reSource, more than 30 Berlin-based organizations, galleries, independent project spaces, and other venues from the fields of digital art and culture as well as experimental music and sound art will be presented in tandem with transmediale and CTM Festival until 7 February.
Partners & Venues: ACUD MACHT NEU, American Whirlpools, Apartment Project Berlin, Art Laboratory Berlin, Ashley Berlin, Berlin Museum of Medical History at the Charité, Cashmere Radio, .CHB—Collegium Hungaricum, designtransfer / UdK, EAV at Urban Spree, Echo Bücher, Ehemaliges Stummfilmkino Delphi, Freies Museum Berlin, Galerie Wedding, General Public, Green Hill Gallery, Greenhouse Berlin, HYPERNATURAL SOUNDS: UNHEARD at SomoS, Institut für Alles Mögliche, Kulturpessimismus pur—An Independent Platform for Realistic Future Research, L40-Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Labor Neunzehn, Loophole, Madame CLAUDE, NOME, global.ports / THF, Panke e.V., Peninsula, Public Art Lab e.V., Sad Mornings, Schering Stiftung, School of Machines, Making & Make-Believe, SPEKTRUM | art science community, uqbar, Vesselroom Project, Wander Atelier, ZK/U – Center for Art and Urbanistics, ZÖNOTÉKA
The complete Vorspiel program is available online.
Vorspiel Opening
After the opening of Vorspiel by Tim Renner, Lieke Poeger (SPEKTRUM | art science community), Ela Kagel (former Supermarkt), Tatiana Bazzichelli (Disruption Network Lab), Daniela Seitz (3hd), Jan Rohlf (CTM) and Kristoffer Gansing (transmediale) will discuss in the panel The New Hybridity. A Conversation on Digital Culture, Art and Cultural Politics.
The participating Vorspiel venues will contribute to the subsequent program, coordinated by ACUD MACHT NEU in cooperation with transmediale/reSource.
Among them are installations by Jürgen Ostarhild, Maximilian Schmoetzer, and Valentina Besegher, and performances by Julia Holzberger, Doron Sadja, and autoscopie.
An interview marathon moderated by Oliver Baurhenn will introduce each of the spaces.
Also part of the program is an artist talk with the CTM artists in residence Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand, a performance lecture by Fluctuating Images, and DJ sets by Remco Packbiers, Mobiletti Girardischi, Cobeia, and Mareike Bautz.
The complete opening program is available online.
ACUD MACHT NEU, Veteranenstraße 21, 10119 Berlin
Vorspiel Opening: 15 January 2016, 18:30
Selected events from the Vorspiel program
Among the Vorspiel 2016 partners is the gallery NOME, which will open a solo show with works by Quayola on 14 January. His Iconographies are part of an ongoing project that analyzes Renaissance and Baroque paintings through computational methods. Quayola transforms religious and mythological scenes into complex abstract formations, creating alternative versions of old masterpieces by removing the paintings from their historical narratives. For the exhibition, Quayola will present his newest anodised aluminum engravings and Ditone prints, which reimagine paintings by masters such as Botticelli, Rubens, and Caravaggio. Considered in comparison with the originals from which they are derived, these new abstractions offer fresh insights into both.
NOME, Dolziger Straße 31, 10247 Berlin, Tue-Sat, 15:00-19:00
Quayola—Iconographies: 15 January-5 March 2016, Opening: 14 January, 18:00
From 16 January to 7 February SPEKTRUM | art science community presents a multifaceted program of performances, screenings, and exhibitions. Among them is the panel Verifying Art And Science with the CTM/ ENCAC Network artists in residence Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand on 17 January, moderated by Theresa Schubert.
On 20 January the Smell Lab showcase Collected Smells takes place. Collected Smells is the first installation produced by the Smell Lab, a group researching the sensation and science of smell that has gathered the smells of Berlin-Neukölln during their meetings.
On 23 and 24 January SPEKTRUM together with FIBER, LIMA, and Retune present a program of audiovisual performances, an artistic meetup, and a screening program focusing on cultural exchange with the goal to set up an artistic production network for emerging artists between European festivals.
SPEKTRUM | art science community, Bürknerstraße 12, 12047 Berlin
Vorspiel program: 16 January-7 February 2016
The Green Hill Gallery of Kulturschöpfer e.V. will present a solo show by video artist Ivar Veermäe from 22 January to 4 February. Gravity’s Infinite Range deals with trade flows of material and information and reflects on structural questions such as “Why are the most merchant ships registered in Panama and Liberia?” Veermäe collects and compares information of various types in order to capture the boundaries of fluid geography. In addition to the exhibition the performance artists Marcello Lussana and Marco Donnarumma will play at the Green Hill Gallery and address elements of the body, music, and interactivity as well as the motives of sound art, body art, and biotechnology. Moreover the artists will be present in artist talks.
Green Hill Gallery / Kulturschöpfer e.V., Grünberger Straße 13, 10243 Berlin
Vorspiel program: 22 January – 4 February 2016
Galerie Wedding will present the opening of Jan-Peter Sonntag’s solo show NYMPHAE_M RAUSCH ECK, curated by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung and Solvej Helweg Ovesen, on 28 January 2016. For the exhibition, the artist, composer, and theorist will set the municipal art space in a seemingly endless motion. While noise is often associated with technology today, Sonntag also refers to romanticism with his references to the rushing of the trees and singing of the sea. It is no coincidence that “Rauschen” and “Rausch,” meaning “rustling noise” and “intoxication” have the same origin in the German language.
Galerie Wedding—Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Müllerstraße 146/147, 13353 Berlin,
Tue-Sat, 12:00-19:00
Jan-Peter Sonntag—NYMPHAE_M RAUSCH ECK: 29 January-19 March 2016,
Opening: 28 January, 19:00
transmediale Marshall McLuhan Lecture
Canadian artist, critic, curator, and researcher Sara Diamond will deliver the transmediale Marshall McLuhan Lecture, moderated by artist and researcher Jamie Allen, at the Embassy of Canada on 2 February 2016. Diamond is president of The Ontario College of Art and Design University and is known for her work as a feminist video and multimedia artist, as well as her previous role as the creator and director of the influential Banff New Media Institute from 1995 to 2005.
More information here.
The event is in English; entry is free after registration.
The transmediale Marshall McLuhan Lecture is a cooperation between transmediale and the Embassy of Canada in Berlin.
Embassy of Canada
Leipziger Platz 17, 10117 Berlin
2 February 2016, 18:30
(please present a valid photo-ID at the door and allow sufficient time for Embassy security),
doors open 18:00
In English; free admission, please register here by February 1st.
transmediale is a project by Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH in collaboration with Haus der Kulturen der Welt. It is funded as a cultural institution of excellence by Kulturstiftung des Bundes [German Federal Cultural Foundation].
Image Credits: Artwork by The Laboratory of Manuel Bürger feat. Krazy Kat by George Herriman
Tabea Hamperl
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