transmediale/resource

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.

ReFunct Media #5 is a multimedia installation that (re)uses numerous "obsolete" electronic devices (digital and analog media players and receivers). The devices are hacked, misused and combined into a large and complex chain of elements. They "interact" in different symbiotic relationships like mutualism, parasitism and commensalism.

The project An Ecosystem of Excess by Pinar Yoldas approaches the problem of “man-made extreme environments” like landfills, junkyards etc. caused by an excessive consumerism.

Composting the City | Composting the Net examines the parallel process of fermentation and degeneration of our daily food scrapes and our shared digital commons. While Composting the City checks in on discarded food scrapes and leftovers, Composting the Net sources the immaterial wealth/junk of net data.

Saturday January 12th was the birthday of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. On this day, transmediale participant Johannes P Osterhoff started his next online performance work, called "Dear Jeff Bezos". For this performance Osterhoff has modified his Kindle to, whenever he saves a bookmark, it is also emailed directly to CEO Jeff Bezos, and published publicly at http://bezos.cc as a comment on Amazon's logging of user data via their “Whispersync” technology. 

LEAP Berlin and reSource transmedial culture berlin invite all project spaces/curators focusing on technology based art for the 5th meeting. | 16 Jan, 18:00,  LEAP Berlin. (Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 13, U Alexanderplatz).