Three Ongoing Networking Projects

Last August 2012, during the reSource 002: Out of Place, Out of Time event, three installation projects were launched. Their ongoing production lasted six months, leading to transmediale 2013 BWPWAP, where the final results are shown and performed.

OCTO-P7C-1 Intertubular Pneumatic Packet Distribution System is transmediale 2013’s Official Miscommunication Platform and is the result of a joint collaboration between the reSource transmedial culture berlin/transmediale, the Berlin-based collective Telekommunisten and the raumlabor berlin group of architects. OCTO-P7C-1 is not only a living metaphor of a social network, but also a tribute to the local Berlin Rohrpost (a public service of Pneumatic Tube Transport created in 1865, operative until 1963 in West Berlin and 1976 in the East). The OCTO-P7C-1 system, used for on-site communications by transmediale staff and festival guests, features the PNEUMAtic circUS international mail-art project coordinated by Vittore Baroni.

ReFunct Media #5 is a circuit-bending installation made of obsolete technologies, exhibited in the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, an ongoing collective project whose Berlin version began development in August 2012, generated from a Minitel hacking workshop: 3615 Circuit Bending, directed by Benjamin Gaulon and Karl Klomp.

Composting the City | Composting the Net is an art installation project by Shu Lea Cheang, processing discarded food scraps and the immaterial junk of net data, involving a local network of people that—after maintaining a collective composter for six months—join together for a live performance at transmediale 2013.

reSource transmedial culture berlin is transmediale festival’s year-round initiative: a networking project based on the inter-connection of genres & practices, curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli and developed in cooperation with the reSource partners: CTM/Disk, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien and the Post-Media Lab/Leuphana University of Lüneburg. reSource transmedial culture berlin creates occasions to share and reflect by bringing together communities and individuals who work critically with art, technology, politics and identity. The initiative was launched at transmediale 2K+12 and has been developed through organizing events and open discussions, involving local and translocal artists, activists and cultural producers active in the city of Berlin and beyond.

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