Kristoffer Gansing on Tue, 14 Jan 2014 15:42:02 +0100 (CET)


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<nettime> transmediale 2014 afterglow 

Dear nettimers,
It is that time of year again, transmediale festival is coming up at the end of the month, this month heading into and hopefully beyond the "afterglow" of digital culture. Accreditations for professionals and press ends on Jan 15. Read the programme announcement below and full details at www.transmediale.de 
Hope to see you there.
/Kristoffer Gansing, artistic director, transmediale festival for art and digital culture, Berlin. 

transmediale 2014 afterglow, 29 Jan - 2 Feb 2014
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///The revolution is over. Welcome to the afterglow.///
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The digital revolution was a dinner party but its afterglow is not. The once utopian promises of high-definition audiovisuals, real-time electronic communication and infinite storage possibilities are just some of the digital culture perspectives that are now widely disseminated. At the same time as these phenomena are still shrouded in the glossy aesthetics of the digital, their tarnished appeal cannot be denied in a world where 'big data' is also the 'big brother' of mass surveillance and where the 'cloud' is made of the metals and minerals of the 'earth' on which data centers are built. Far from immaterial and neutral, our post-digital culture is one where tech is deeply embedded in the geophysical and geopolitical. This is evident at the significant 'other sites' of digital culture such as e-waste dumps, mines, mass-digitisation companies and security agencies.
transmediale 2014 proposes the post-digital moment of 'afterglow' as a diagnosis of the current status of the digital hovering between 'trash and treasure'. afterglow conjures up the ambivalent state of digital culture, where what seems to remain from the digital revolution is a paradoxical nostalgia for the futuristic high-tech it once promised us but that is now crumbling in our hands. The challenge that this moment poses is how to use that state of post-digital culture between trash and treasure as a still not overdetermined space from which to invent new speculative thought and practice. Are there means of renewal in the excess, overflow and waste products of the digital afterglow? 
http://www.transmediale.de/content/afterglow

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Conference programme
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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. Central motifs are mass surveillance, excessive big data schemes, whistleblowing, the corrupt ecology of technological resources and the effects of digitalisation on identity and sexuality.
Japanese artist Sputniko! will thematise technology’s impact on everyday life in a performative keynote, the panel The Chinese Dream: The Doctrine and the Sexy will feature a discussion about attitudes towards patriotism, surveillance culture and body politics in the Chinese sphere with Sufeng Song and recorded interventions by Ai Weiwei and Ai Xiaoming.
Independent security analyst Jacob Appelbaum and documentary film director Laura Poitras reflect with artist and geograph Trevor Paglen on upcoming frontiers of action and awareness for hackers, activists and artists in the present context of geopolitical surveillance and control.
Sean Cubitt and Denisa Kera will talk about the effects of electronic and synthetic waste on geological and biological bodies, Bill Binney and Annie Machon deal with the question how the ethics of cypherpunk, whistle-blowing and investigative journalism are evolving into a hybrid form of civic resistance.
The conference programme is supported by the Federal Agency for Civic Education and one of its streams is presented in collaboration with the Winchester School of Art. 

Among the participant highlights are:
Sputniko!, Laura Poitras, Trevor Paglen, Jacob Appelbaum, Jeremy Scahill, Douglas Coupland, 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 

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**KEYNOTES**
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Art as Evidence
Participants: Trevor Paglen, Jacob Appelbaum, Laura Poitras,Tatiana Bazzichelli (moderator) 
Location: Auditorium
Thu, 30.1. 20:30h - 22:30h
http://www.transmediale.de/content/keynote-art-as-evidence

The Black Stack
Participants: Ryan Bishop, Benjamin H. Bratton, Metahaven
Location: Auditorium
Fri, 31.1. 17:00h - 18:30h
http://www.transmediale.de/content/keynote-the-black-stack

DoRadical Futures
Participants: Sputniko!, Katrien Jacobs,Tatiana Bazzichelli
Location: Auditorium
Sun, 2.2. 18:00h - 19:30h
http://www.transmediale.de/content/keynote-doradical-futures

Space Junk - transmediale Marshall McLuhan Lecture 2014
by Douglas Coupland
Location: Embassy of Canada
Tue 28.8, 18:30 - 20.00
http://www.transmediale.de/festival/programme/network/mcluhan
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Exhibition Programme
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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 Lab For Electronic Arts And Performance (LEAP) and Art Hack Day/Olof Mathé, transmediale presents the second part of Art Hack Day Berlin. Following the first edition at LEAP, Going Dark, roughly 70 artists and hackers will create an instant exhibition within 48 hours according to the afterglow theme. In addition, artist talks, workshops and performances will take place in the framework of the resulting exhibition. 
http://www.transmediale.de/content/art-hack-day-berlin-afterglow

Among the participants:
Brenna Murphy, Birch Cooper, Justin Blinder, Kim Asendorf, Phillip Ronnenberg, Julien Oliver, Rachel de Joode, Dani Ploeger, Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Exonemo, Geraldine Juárez, Niko Princen, Nancy Mauro-Flude, Katerina Undo.
Connected to Art Hack Day is Yami-Ichi an Internet Black Market organised by the century-old Japanese secret society of the Internet, IDPW. After several successful editions in its home country, this market which trades in banned curiosities from the backstreets of the Internet is making its European premiere with 50 vendors from Japan and Berlin.
In addition, we present several installations, among them Critical Infrastructure, a a media-technical landscape survey by Jamie Allen and David Gauthier. 
http://www.transmediale.de/content/critical-infrastructure

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Further transmediale exhibitions produced in cooperation with partners:
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***** AN ECOSYSTEM OF EXCESS / PINAR YOLDAS (in cooperation with Ernst Schering Foundation in Berlin) 
***** http://www.transmediale.de/content/an-ecosystem-of-excess-installation
***** SCHIZOPHRENIA TAIWAN 2.0 (curated by I-Wei Li, Pierre Bongiovanni, Chin-Wen Chang, Chien-Hung Huang in cooperation with .CHB) ***** http://www.transmediale.de/content/partner-exhibition-schizophrenia-taiwan-20
***** FUTURE PAST - PAST FUTURE (curated by Sandra Naumann, in cooperation with ArtUP! and Supermarkt) ***** http://www.transmediale.de/content/partner-exhibition-future-past-past-future 
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Performance Programme
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transmediale 2014 afterglow’s performance programme focuses on audiovisual and inter-media pieces where technology is not the main focus, but rather the often intangible space between humans, objects, and systems.
Nurturing a longstanding partnership with CTM – Festival for Adventurous Music and Art, together the two festivals constitute the world’s largest annual platform for reflection on the cultural significance of new technologies and digital culture.
Among the participant highlights are: Robert Henke aka Monolake (in cooperation with CTM- Festival for Adventurous Music and Art), Dinos Chapman (in cooperation with CTM - Festival for Adventurous Music and Art), MSHR, Lucky Dragons (in Zusammenarbeit mit CTM - Festival for Adventurous Music and Art), Jelili Atiku, Nancy Mauro-Flude, Dani Ploeger, Geraldine Juárez 


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** PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS **
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DINOS CHAPMAN: LUFTBOBLER
Location: Auditorium
Fri, 31.1. 21:00h - 22:30h
http://www.transmediale.de/content/luftbobler

LUCKY DRAGONS: ACTUAL REALITY
Location: Auditorium
Sat, 1.2. 21:00h - 22:00h
http://www.transmediale.de/content/actual-reality

ROBERT HENKE: LUMIÈRE
Location: Auditorium
Sun, 2.2. 21:30h - 22:30h
http://www.transmediale.de/content/lumi-re
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Screening programme
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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 na ve 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. The programme is curated by Marcel Schwierin. 
http://www.transmediale.de/festival/programme/screenings

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 

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** SCREENING HIGHLIGHTS
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*** Utopia
*** Participant: Luther Price
*** Location: Auditorium
*** Wed, 29.1. 21:30h - 23:59h
*** http://www.transmediale.de/content/utopia

*** Wasteland Poetries
*** Participants:  Cordelia Swann, Louis Henderson
*** Location: Theatersaal
*** Fri, 31.1. 18:00h - 20:00h
*** http://www.transmediale.de/content/wasteland-poetries

*** Luther Price Lost and Found
*** Participants: Luther Price
*** Location: Theatersaal
*** Sun, 2.2. 18:00h - 20:00h
*** http://www.transmediale.de/content/luther-price-lost-and-found
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