Programme Overview
Programme Overview
Start browsing through the transmediale 2014 programme. Soon, details of the last wave of events and participants will be published (available also in German). For an overview of our highlights as well as outlines of our exhibition, performance, conference and screening programmes, read our programme overview.
Before the Festival
Vorspiel
Presented by transmediale and CTM Festival, Vorspiel takes place from January 22nd to 28th, 2014 in a variety of Berlin-based organisations, institutional partners, galleries, independent project spaces and other venues.
Our partner exhibitions
Marshall McLuhan Lecture and Exhibition with Douglas Coupland
Exhibition: Or Gallery, Oranienstraße 37, 10999 Berlin
Lecture: 28 Jan 2014, 18:30 Embassy of Canada, Marshall McLuhan Salon, Leipziger Platz 17, 10117 Berlin
An Ecosystem of Excess
at Project Space of Ernst Schering Foundation
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Schizophrenia Taiwan 2.0
at .CHB – Collegium Hungaricum Berlin
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future past - past future
at SUPERMARKT
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transmediale 2014 Opening Night
On the 29 January, for the opening of transmediale 2014 afterglow, we will have a festive opening ceremony in the Auditorium. Key participants from various parts of the programme will be involved with presentations. Moreover, during the opening evening, there will be the exhibition opening, screenings, installations and performances in the house - all available for free, without any ticket or pass.
Exhibitions
Art Hack Day Berlin : Afterglow
This year’s exhibition programme comes together through a hackathon inspired methodology where the works are developed on site during the festival: In collaboration with Berlin-based LEAP and Art Hack Day/ Olof Mathé, transmediale presents the second part of Art Hack Day Berlin. Following the first edition at Lab for Electronic Arts and Performance (LEAP), Going Dark roughly 70 artists and hackers will create an instant exhibition within 48 hours according to the afterglow theme.
Among the participants: Brenna Murphy, Birch Cooper, Kim Asendorf, Phillip Ronnenberg, Julian Oliver, Rachel de Joode, Dani Ploeger, Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Exonemo, Geraldine Juárez, Niko Princen, Nancy Mauro-Flude, Katerina Undo
CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE
Working within a new artist in residence programme by transmediale, supported by the Media Arts Section of the Canada Council for the Arts, Jamie Allen and David Gauthier are developing the installation CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE in workshops and public events. A technological sculpture has been created that will occupy the main foyer space of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW)
Performance programme
The performance programme focuses on audiovisual and inter-media pieces in which technology is not the main focus, but rather the often intangible space between humans, objects, and systems. Apart from our three performances in cooperation with CTM Festival, there will be daily performances in and around the Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
Among the participant highlights: Robert Henke aka Monolake (in cooperation with CTM – Festival), Dinos Chapman (in cooperation with CTM – Festival), MSHR, Lucky Dragons (in cooperation with CTM – Festival), Jelili Atiku, Nancy Mauro-Flude, Dani Ploeger
Conference programme
The conference of this year’s transmediale, curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli and Kristoffer Gansing in collaboration with Ryan Bishop, Jussi Parikka, Francesco Warbear Macarone Palmieri und Katrien Jacobs, takes afterglow as a metaphor for the present condition of digital culture, examining the geopolitical, infrastructural and bodily consequences of the excessive digitalisation that has taken place over the course of the last three decades.
In our programme we have three keynotes, each for one particular thematic stream of the conference, as well as three to four panels per day, in addition to smaller presentations and talks.
Among the participant highlights are: Sputniko!, Laura Poitras, Trevor Paglen, Jacob Appelbaum, Jeremy Scahill, Benjamin H. Bratton, Metahaven, James Bridle, Sean Cubitt, Olia Lialina, William Binney, Fabiane Borges, Salvatore Iaconesi, Geraldine Juarez, Denisa Kera, Khan, Annie Machon, Shaka McGlotten, Sufeng Song, recorded interventions by Ai Weiwei and Ai Xiaoming
Screening programme
The films and videos featured in transmediale 2014 focus on subjects such as the internet, surveillance, and Big Data as well as electronic, digital and analogue trash. The afterglow theme is seen as gloomy visions of the afterlife of images and technologies in which naïve dreams of a digital revolution, free exchange and equal participation no longer have a place. A total of 53 films, videos and slide shows from 1931 to 2013 are to be shown in eight programmes and seven installations, each programme with its own sub-theme.
Present artists are Adriana Ferrarese, Martha Colburn, Karin Fisslthaler, Louis Henderson, Maha Maamoun, Bjørn Melhus, Luther Price, Jack Stevenson, Cordelia Swann, Elizabeth Vander Zaag, Ivar Veermäe, Andy Weir