transmediale will present the works of Martin Howse and Miles Chalcraft at Popkomm open music market as part of Berlin Music Week 2010. Both explore the topography and geophysics of the Tempelhof Airport complex through various narratives and multimedia presentations.

In his work Psychogeophysics (2010), Martin Howse borrows techniques from geophysical archaeology, narrative displacements, and coded psychogeographics to measure and map the Tempelhof Airport topography. Psychogeophysics as a novel discipline presents an interdisciplinary and highly speculative methodology investigating and mapping wider, complex signal ecologies through walks, discussions, working groups, measurement and quasi-scientific practice. His work triggers countless questions related to the exploration and mapping of topography, while at the same time offering a highly intriguing approach for expanding the concept of topography itself. Martin Howse's work Topography of a Future City (2009) was exhibited as part of transmediale.10.

In his performance At the End of the Road (2008), Miles Chalcraft explores the Tempelhof Airfield, 'handicapped' by a recording and visualisation structure. The camera and his gaze 'construct' the topography surrounding him as he moves along. Miles Chalcraft leads us on a journey of the unknown lasting until his videotape runs out. Guided only by his instinct, he lays a bread crumb trail for those to follow after him. His mission - to get in, get out, take no prisoners, come home safely. The work questions notions of perception, real and constructed environments, the use and usefulness of contemporary media, the human condition, orientation in an unknown environment and the human willpower to carry on.

The works of both artists were exhibited in Beijing in August 2010 at the Stadt am Rande exhibition, a commission of Goethe Institut Beijing and transmediale in co-operation with Berlin gallery Art Claims Impulse.

transmediale will be exhibiting from 8-10 September in Tempelhof Airport. Popkomm is open to the public as well as an audience of delegates and representatives from all areas of the entertainment industry. Other events of Berlin Music Week include the all2gethernow conference (6-7 September) which will feature more than 100 industry speakers in panels, workshops, sessions and presentations, and Berlin Music Festival (10-11 September).

Please find further information at
> www.berlin-music-week.de