
HOUSE DER KULTUREN DER WELT - BERLIN
02 - 07 FEBRUARY 2010

17 – 23 January 2010 – Book Sprint
The Book Sprint, an intensive and innovative methodology for the rapid
development of books, is being hosted by transmediale, together with
FLOSS Manuals in the run-up to the festival. Six people will be locked
in a room in Berlin for 5 days to produce a book with the sole guiding
meme being the title – Collaborative Futures. They will create the
concept, write the book, and output it to print in 5 days.
With Michael Mandiberg (New York), Mushon Zer-Aviv (New York), Mike
Linksvayer (San Francisco), Marta Peirano (Berlin), Alan Toner (Berlin),
and Adam Hyde (Berlin).
ÏMA Design Village, Ritterstrasse 12-14, 10969 Berlin
Public Präsentation 23 January
http://www.booksprint.info/about/
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30 January 2010 - Long Night of the Museums
Two of this year's transmediale partners and satellite locations will
present exhibitions that will open just before the begin of the festival
on the occasion of the Long Night of the Museums.
Coincidence Engines I and II – [The User] (ca)
The .CHB will host and co-produce an exhibition of the installations,
Coincidence Engines I and II by Canadian artist duo [The User], who are
nominated for the transmediale Award. The exhibition will open at the
Long Night of the Museums on 30 January 2010. A special opening preview
will take place at 17:00 that day. The Collegium Hungaricum Berlin was
established in 1924 and re-opened its doors on historical grounds in
Berlin-Mitte, Dorotheenstraße 12, in November 2007.
Over the course of the past two years the .CHB has emerged as an
excellent centre for art and media within the cultural landscape of
Berlin-Mitte. Since 2008 Collegium Hungaricum Berlin has been hosting
projects on the intersection of art, science and research in close
conjunction with transmediale. Corpora in si(gh)te, Transitland and the
János Neumann Salon have been successful collaborations of both
institutions.
.CHB, Dorotheenstraße 12, 10117 Berlin, hungaricum.de
Opening times: daily 10:00 – 19:00
Artist Talk by [The User]: Thursday 4 February, 12:45 – 13:30
Chapter I: The Discovery – Félix Luque Sánchez (es)
During transmediale.10, the Instituto Cervantes in Berlin will host the
exhibition of Award nominee Félix Luque Sánchez. His installation
Chapter I: The Discovery will open as part of the Long Night of the
Museums on Saturday 30 January, and run for the duration of the
festival. A special opening preview will take place at 16:00 that day.
The Instituto Cervantes is a cultural organisation concerned with
spreading and promoting the Spanish language and culture around the
world. The main purpose of the institution is bringing the excellence of
the Spanish-speaking scene in terms of language, culture, arts, science
and society to every corner of the world.
Instituto Cervantes Berlin, Rosenstr. 18-19, 10178 Berlin, cervantes.de
Opening times : 31 Jan – 7 Feb 12:00 – 18:00 & weekends 12:00 – 17:00
Artist Talk by Félix Luque Sánchez: Wednesday 3 February, 12:45 – 13:30

Conference Reminder
Future Observatory / International conference of transmediale.10
The international conference of transmediale.10 will take place from 5 –
7 February 2010 in the iconic House of World Cultures in Berlin.
Session 1: Ideologies and Futures of the Internet
Keynote: Conrad Wolfram (UK) – Wolfram Alpha: Information, Computation
and the New Era of
Participants: Juliana Rotich (KE), Joy Ayo Tang (TW), Florian Rötzer (DE)
Moderator: Mercedes Bunz (DE)
Session 2: Atemporality – A cultural speed control
Keynote: Bruce Sterling (US) – Atemporality
Participants: Alexander Rose (UK), Siegfried Zielinski (DE), Mike
Sandbothe (DE)
Moderator: José Luis de Vicente (ES)
Session 3: Liquid Democracies
Participants: Matteo Pasquinelli (IT), Steve Lambert (US), Sascha Lobo
(DE), Max Senges (DE) / tbc
Moderator: Tiziana Terranova (IT)
The conference will open on 5 February 2010 with a nonstop 9-hour
Futurity Long Conversation. The Futurity Long Conversation, a relay of
one-to-one conversations, brings together 22 leading artists, designers,
theorists, journalists and media interventionists to discuss,
contextualise and explore the abstract and qualitative elements defining
what we conceive of the future today.
Order of Appearance:
Drew Hemment & David Link
David Link & Jem Finer
Jem Finer & Alan N. Shapiro
Alan N. Shapiro & Ken Rinaldo
Ken Rinaldo & Jan Edler
Jan Edler & Maja Kuzmanovic
Maja Kuzmanovic & Joy Tang
Joy Tang & Jaromil
Jaromil & Gustaff Harriman Iskandar
Gustaff Harriman Iskandar & Gabriella Giannachi
Gabriella Giannachi & Steve Benford
Steve Benford & Warren Neidich
Warren Neidich & Denisa Kera
Denisa Kera & Jimmy Loizeau
Jimmy Loizeau & Regine Debatty
Regine Debatty & Nicola Triscott
Nicola Triscott & Andy Cameron
Andy Cameron & Julian Oliver
Julian Oliver & Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev & Susan Neiman
Susan Neiman & Drew Hemment
http://www.transmediale.de/de/future-observatory
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Performance Reminder
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 Ryoji
Ikeda, artificiel, Jürgen Reble & Thomas Köner, Atom TM 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. Transmediale.10
Award nominees Sosolimited will unveil an entirely new work, a live
coding performance of the Futurity Long Conversation. transmediale is
also proud to present performances on the Café Stage at HKW. A world
première of La Chambre Des Machines by Nicholas Bernier & Martin
Messier, plus some of Berlin’s finest talents, such as Pe Lang und
Benjamin Laurent Aman, will enrich each evening with sonic
interpretations of our conditional future.
http://www.transmediale.de/en/festival/performances
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