Berlin, Febuary 4, 2017, http://transmediale.de This session was dedicated to the “others” that help to mediate between humans and the “real” whatever that is: Non-human agents that could emerge in the form of algorithms, but also technological layers, and, actually, anything. Even a stone could be an actor, if we go by the new materialism…
Berlin, February 03, 2017, http://transmediale.de/ A busy panel with lots of people: Jessie McLean, media artist, presenting eternal Photoshop climbing video. Grada Kilomba, writer and artist, focusing on colonial and postcolonial topics, emancipation of marginalized groups. Susan Schuppli, media artist, utilizing found footage of massacres to question mediated evidence. Ryan Bishop, media/political theorist talking about…
Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Feb 3, 2017, https://transmediale.de Felix Stalder (moderator): Tracing Information Society Timeline exhibited at NGBK. If we feel that a new paradigm is “here”, isn’t it already too late to think about it? Doesn’t it mean we are already right in the middle of it? Jutta Weber: Technosecurity, globalization of…
Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, January 29 – February 3, 2013 Transmediale (TM) is an very ‘old’ new media art festival in Berlin, which is running more than 25 years. Originally conceived as a warm-up week for the Berlinale film festival (which takes place the following week), it developed into a separate event touching…
Quiet Cue, Flughafenstrasse 38, Berlin, January 25 – 27, 2013 http://quietcue.blogspot.de Quiet Cue is a small independent art and work space in Berlin’s Neuköln district where art shows or concerts take place from time to time. If it were not by chance and personal connections, I would not have stumbled across this space, but as…
Kassel, Germany, June – September 2012 Documenta is one of the largest art shows in the world, and takes place every five years. I ventured to Kassel to get an impression myself. It was a crowded place, which impacted the possibility to enjoy some of the artworks, but at this size of an event, one…
View Post 8 June – 15 September 2002 in Kassel, head curator Okwui Enwezor The Documenta seems to be considered as one of the most important art exhibitions in Germany, maybe even Europe. Documenta 11 was the first Documenta I’ve even seen. I’m writing about my personal impressions from the Documenta 11. If you want…
