Transmediale.10 – FUTURITY NOW!

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directly from Stephen Kovats we like to spread:

“The programme for transmediale.10 – FUTURITY NOW! taking place Feb. 02 – 07, 2010 in Berlin is almost complete!

The festival kicks off Tuesday evening, February 2 at Berlin’s landmark House of World Cultures with a welcome address by Computer Art pioneer Herbert W. Franke and a special live concert featuring Charlemagne Palestine playing Berlin’s unique bell tower – the Tiergarten Carillon.

The festival’s exhibition ‚Future Obscura’, by transmediale guest curator Honor Harger presents artworks that use the materials, mechanisms and machines of image-making to illuminate and define our relationship with atemporality – the collision of past, present and future. Over a dozen international artists, including Zilvinas Kempinas, Julius von Bismarck, Ken Rinaldo, Alice Miceli and Julien Maire, have created create interdisciplinary explorations of light and chronology – some of which are new works premiering at transmediale.10 – which will unfold across the House of World Cultures, and several urban spaces within Berlin.

http://www.transmediale.de/en/transmediale10-exhibition-future-obscura

The daily programme begins on Wednesday February 3rd with the ‚Free Culture Incubator’ Salons curated by Public Art Lab curator Ela Kagel, the Phuturama sub-conference hosted by c-base ‘conceptioneer’ Gregor Sedlak and this year’s Marshall McLuhan Lecture by telepresence artist Graham Smith. Daily screenings curated by Marcel Schwerin highlight works from the Award competition and explore atemporal junctures between technology and image production.

Spectacular performances by Ryoji Ikeda and Jürgen Reble with Thomas Köner initiate tm.10’s extensive live programme including six events in collaboration with CTM which also reflect their theme ‘Overlap’, and feature some of the most important figures working within music and sound today.

http://www.transmediale.de/en/festival/performances

The tm.10 ‘Future Observatory’ conference, with keynotes by Bruce Sterling, Conrad Wolfram and Richard Barbrook, kicks off on Friday February 5, with a special ‚Futurity Long Conversation’ bringing 23 leading artists, designers, theorists, journalists and media interventionists, including people such as Jem Finer (Longplayer), Susan Neiman (Einstein Forum), Andy Cameron (fabrica), Denisa Kera (transgenesis), Gustaff Harimann Iskandar (common room network), Trebor Scholz (digitallabour), Régine Debatty (wemakemoneynotart), and Warren Neidich (Flusser Award 2010 nominee) among distinguished others. From their own positions and experience, they will discuss, contextualize and explore the abstract and qualitative elements defining our take on what the concept of future – and with that, the tm.10 festival theme FUTURITY NOW! – must be today. Accompanying the ‚Futurity Long Conversation’ transmediale.10 Award nominees Sosolimited will unveil an entirely new work ‘The Long Conversion’, using ground-breaking text and visual analysis tools, as a tandem live coding performance of the The Long Conversation.

The format of the Long Conversation was developed in conjunction with the Long Now Foundation, an international organisation crafting ways with which to perceive time and durational process in radically different and perhaps media technologically appropriate ways. In their approach, we are in a period which redefines the ‘now’ within a timespan of a 1000 years, altering our notions of future and the acceleration of progress and development.
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