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transmediale.10 Futurity Now! highlights + early bird tickets …

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

Early bird discounts of 10 % on all transmediale.10 Festival Passes, as well as Kombi Passes for transmediale and club transmediale (CTM) are available until December 18, 2009 only!

The discounts apply to all Passes – including reduced student Passes, and are done via reservation and invoiced pre-payment.
To reserve your Passes, please use the form here:
http://www.facebook.com/l/0dbfb;www.transmediale.de/en/node/10490

Here’s a brief overview of some major program elements with a preview of some of the artists and speakers participating. Salons, special events, award works, workshops and satellite programmes will be announced shortly …

1] Conference
“The fact that you have no interest in the future, does not mean that the future has lost interest in you.”[Bruce Sterling]
Have we caught up with our notions of the future? This is the principle question posed at Future Observatory, the transmediale.10 conference, taking place from 5 – 7 February 2010 in the iconic House of World Cultures in Berlin.

Thinkers from various fields will discuss the epistemologies, limitations, ruptures and malfunctions of the future as an object of cultural projection. It brings together designers, media artists, net citizens, critical thinkers and researchers in order to create a network to lens the future.
It will be anchored by keynotes from
– renowned writer and futurologist, Bruce Sterling
– technology pioneer Conrad Wolfram (co-founder of Wolfram Alpha)
– writer and critic Richard Barbrook (author of “Imaginary Futures”).
Future Observatory examines the, ways of perception and patterns of behaviour that are inscribed into our contemporary media cultural society. What is the code that performs the operation future?

The conference will open on 5 February 2010 with the unique Futurity Long Conversation. 21 guests will discuss projects, ideas, technologies and utopias that are already determining our future. In The Long Conversation the dialogue as an aesthetic, analytical and collaborative process expands into a special timezone in which the participants and the audience oscillate between the disciplines of art, science and industry. The Long Conversation was developed in conjunction with the UK arts organisation Artangel and the Longplayer Trust as a discursive element of Longplayer, an algorithmic piece of music designed to play 1000 years without ever repeating itself, composed by sound artist and former Pogues member Jem Finer.

Conference and Long Conversation participants include: Susan Neiman (US), Jem Finer (UK), Drew Hemment (UK), Andy Cameron (UK/IT), Joy Tang (TW), Tim Edler (DE), Trebor Scholz (US), jaromil (IT), Julian Oliver (NZ), Maja Kuzmanovic (HR), Gustaff Harriman Iskandar (ID), Denisa Kera (CZ), Juliana Rotich (KE), Florian Rötzer (DE), Mercedes Bunz (DE), Alexander Rose (US), Sascha Lobo (DE), Tiziana Terranova (IT), Steve Lambert (US), Siegfried Zielisnki (DE) among distinguished others.
Further information on the conference can be found on
http://www.facebook.com/l/0dbfb;www.transmediale.de/en/future-observatory-en

2] Exhibition
Future Obscura brings together a group of diverse artworks which explore the complex condition of futurity through the lens of image-making. Clear boundaries of the time continuum are broken down by artists whose work allows us to peer into the ‘low light of the future‘.

As her curatorial departure point, guest curator Honor Harger explores the camera obscura, the historical apparatus in whose interior the image of an exterior scene can be projected. It features a large-scale audiovisual installation by pioneering Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda, and the German premières of White Noise, a major installation by rising star Zilvinas Kempinas, who represented Lithuania at the 2009 Venice Biennale and A Parallel Image, an electronic camera obscura by Gebhard Sengmüller, previously known for his striking work Vinyl Video.

transmediale.10 will also stage the world premières of important new site-specific pieces by Julius von Bismarck, Julien Maire, Yvette Mattern and Julian Oliver.

Together the works in the exhibition meditate on how futurity is an obscured notion of what we used to think of as the future.
Exhibition artists:Julius von Bismarck (de), Ryoji Ikeda (jp/fr), Zilvinas Kempinas (lt/us), Julien Maire (de/fr), Yvette Mattern (de/us), Alice Miceli (br), Julian Oliver, Clara Boj, Diego Diaz and Damian Stewart (nz/es), Ken Rinaldo (us), Gebhard Sengmüller (au), Bengt Sjölén, Adam Somlai-Fischer & Usman Haque (se/hu/uk), TeZ (it/nl)

Further information on the exhibition can be found http://www.facebook.com/l/0dbfb;onhttp://www.transmediale.de/en/transmediale10-exhibition-future-obscura

3] Performance
The transmediale.10 Performance programme presents a range of concerts and events acting as auditory and performative interrogations of FUTURITY NOW!.The highlight: six concert evenings in collaboration with CTM featuring some of the most important figures working within music and sound today. Each night new, and often rare, performances by leading sound artists including Ryoji Ikeda, artificiel, Jurgen Reble & Thomas Köner, AtomTM and Feng Mengbo will represent the most experimental intersections of audiovisual culture and digital art.
Charlemagne Palestine will open the festival with a special performance in the Tiergarten Carillon. In addition, transmediale.10 Award nominees Sosolimited will unveil an entirely new work, a tandem live coding performance of the The Long Conversation.
More details about the Highlights of the performance programme can be found on
http://www.facebook.com/l/0dbfb;www.transmediale.de/en/performance-highlight-transmediale-ctm-collaborati

4] Film & Video
The film & video programme of transmediale.10 consists of eleven programmes with a total of 54 films of all genres. Feature, documentary, animation, experimental films and video art from 20 countries will be shown, with a special focus on the selections from the 600 submissions from 30 countries. The films look at FUTURITY NOW! in terms of failed utopias and illuminate various sub-topics such as the role of the media, the future human body or the post-socialist era.
More information about the film&video programme can be found on
http://www.facebook.com/l/0dbfb;www.transmediale.de/en/transmediale10-film-video-programme

transmediale.10 is funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation and many other generous supporters!
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