transmediale 2019: Opening
On 31 January, transmediale 2019 opens its four-day festival program at Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
This year, transmediale creates an environment for learning and emerging cultural forms to address the affective dimension of digital culture today. With its focus on discursive and performative formats, this time the festival foregoes an exhibition and clearly defined sections: Screenings, performances, workshops, and talks are continuously integrated and relate to one another in a hybrid program structure.
The 32nd edition starts with the opening event Structures of Feeling featuring Hannah Davis, Bernd Scherer, Anna Tuschling, Stefan Wellgraf, and Kristoffer Gansing. They examine the present turn to affect, emotion, and feeling in the context of society, technology, and politics through different approaches such as a tech tutorial on emotions in machine learning and an ethnography of feelings of inferiority.
Emanuel Almborg’s film The Nth Degree is shown all night and is based on a theater project that brings together young people from London and Wales to draw connections between two historical riots and attendant issues of race, class, and property. The screening is accompanied by a talk between the artist and Julienne Lorz, moderated by curator Florian Wüst.
The new global phenomenon #purplenoise brings its explosive mix of ruthless action, true love, and social (dis-)information to HKW, while Exhibition Hall 1 opens up a performative space in which Marija Bozinovska Jones presents the latest instalment of her ongoing performance project Fascia, which sets out to explore formative and exploitative processes of affect as they manifest in quantification, datafication, self-optimization, and artificial intelligence.
COOL FOR YOU creates ambiguous atmospheres of seemingly contradicting emotions in her performance FEELING DIFFICULTIES.
In addition, DJ ShluchT, Panasiagirl, ¥€$Si, !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Omsk Social Club, and special guests present the CryptoRave #8.
You can find detailed information about the opening evening here.
transmediale is a project by Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH at Haus der Kulturen der Welt. The festival has been funded as a cultural institution of excellence by Kulturstiftung des Bundes since 2004. With additional funding by The Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung/bpb), by Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, and by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe.
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