[spectre] transmediale.03: newsletter - partner events

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Newsletter 20.01.2003

transmediale.03
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Artistic Strategies for the Global Game
More program information:
http://www.transmediale.de

Partner Events
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1. transmediale.03 - Partner Events
2. Podewil Sound Service
3. Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien - Conf: Software Art & Workshop: Heath Bunting
4. Akademie der Kuenste: Zielinski/Pannke & VALIE EXPORT
5. Landesvertretung Niedersachsen The Politics of Visibility - The Scene of =
TV
6. BueroFriedrich: Jodi 'Install.exe'
7. ifa-Galerie Berlin: Nueva/Vista - Video Art from Latin America
8. NBK: Urban Collissions
9. Further Partner Events

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1. transmediale.03 - Partner Events

This year's transmediale will be accompanied by several events 
throughout Berlin being connected thematically or in cooperation with 
the media art festival. transmediale is striving for a more close 
cooperation with Berlin's art institutions in order to - hopefully - 
turn every February in this city into a month of media art.

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2. Podewil Sound Service

Sound Service, Podewil's sound-art gallery, presents selected sound 
installation. A sound-art programme for transmediale.03, that 
combines aesthetical and political strategies. (Curator: Elke 
Moltrecht)
with works from: steinbruechel (ch) - circa, Ultra-Red (us) - N30, 
Kim Cascone (us) - Anti-Correlation v.2, Jan Jacob Hofmann (de) - 
Sonic Architecture, Random_Inc (de) - Walking in Jerusalem: Pirate 
Radio Stations featuring Ran Slavin & Eran Sachs

Podewil Sound Service
1.- 8. February 2003, daily 15 - 21 hrs
Opening: Saturday 1. February, 18 hrs
Opening concert: Saturday 1. February, 19 hrs
Listening Room & Concert: Monday 3 February
Podewil: Klosterstr. 68-70, Berlin-Mitte

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3. Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien - Conference: Software Art
& Workshop: Heath Bunting: Tour de Fence

Since its inception in 2001, the transmediale software award has 
sparked an ongoing debate about 'software art' and its legitimacy. 
The idea that artists may not just use prefabricated software to 
produce something else, but engage with programming and software 
itself in playful, inventive and critical ways, has caught on and 
spread over to other festivals, exhibitions and artistic projects. 
However, there is no common language, identity and network of 
software artists. Software art juries struggle with relatively small 
numbers of submissions and mixed-quality input, while much 
artistically interesting software - hacker code, conceptual art, 
algorithmic musical composition for example - is written either 
outside the art system or is not being thought of as software art by 
its creators. The panel discusses whether the history of net art (and 
other process-oriented and conceptual art forms) repeats itself with 
software art, in the sense that it gets incorporated into the art 
system before it can establish itself as an artistic practice in its 
own right.

Also British artist Heath Bunting ('BorderXing Guide') will hold a 
workshop - practical typology and phenomenology of climbing fences 
and crossing borders.

Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien - www.media-arts-lab.org
Conference
Software Art: Artistic Future or Curatorial Fiction?
Tuesday 4. Februar, 15 hrs
with Amy Alexander (us), Florian Cramer (de), Alex McLean (gb), 
Antoine Schmitt (fr), Olga Goriunova (ru), moderated by Inke Arns (de)
Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien: Mariannenplatz 2

Workshop
Heath Bunting - Tour de Fence
www.media-arts-lab.org/fences
Saturday 1. February, 13.00 hrs
Meeting point: House of World Cultures
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10

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4. Akademie der Kuenste: Licht und Schatten & Mediale Anagramme

Peter Pannke and Siegfried Zielinski undertake mediaarchaeological 
excursions into the 'deep time' of technical listening and seeing. 
These excursions take them to places and into historical 
constellations in which there were still multiple options for the 
shaping and the development of media. The musician and composer 
Pannke presents his sound piece 'Iternarium Kircherianum' which 
explores the acoustical world of the Jesuite Athanasius Kircher: a 
universe full of surprises and extravagant machine fantasies. 
Zielinski presents excerpts of his an-archaeological research into 
the forgotten and repressed zones of South and East Europe which have 
recently been published in a book for publishers Rowohlt enzyclopedia.

VALIE EXPORT is among the first, most widely known and most 
influential media artists. The exhibition is the first comprehensive 
presentation of her work in Germany and contains many of her key 
works since the 1960s as well as a series of lectures and a film 
programme at Cinema Arsenal at Potsdamer Platz.

Akademie der Kuenste - www.adk.de
Exhibition
Valie Export - Mediale Anagramme
18. January - 9. March 2003
Tuesday - Sunday 11-20 hrs

Presentation
Licht & Schatten - Konsonanz und Dissonanz
Peter Pannke, Siegfried Zielinski
Wednesday 5. February, 20.00 hrs
Akademie der Kuenste: Hanseatenweg 10

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5. Landesvertretung Niedersachsen The Politics of Visibility - The Scene of =
TV

This year's annual program from the Landesvertretung Niedersachsen 
examines, through exhibitions, symposium and projects the 
representation of politics, history and collective memory. In 
cooperation with transmediale.03, The Scene of TV introduces the 4 
part film program 'The Politics of Visibility'. From Agit Prop 
classics to fictional newscasts, the program shows an international 
selection of artistic strategies whose goal it is to discuss and 
critically subvert TV viewing patterns, relationships of social 
representation and the logic of war.

Vertretung des Landes Niedersachen
Video program
The Politics of Visibility - The Scene of TV
Wednesday 5. February, 18.00 hrs
Selected and presented by Florian Wuest, with works from: John Smith 
(gb) - Om, Nam June Paik (us) - Global Groove, Aleesa Cohene (ca) - 
Absolutely Video, Nicolas Siepen/Tara Herbst (de) - Ruin(s) of 
Representation: TV Live Act, Lennaart van Oldenborgh/Sarajevo 
=46estival Ensemble (nl) - Sarajevo World Report, Harun Farocki (de) - 
Nicht loeschbares Feuer.
Landesvertretung Niedersachsen: In den Ministergaerten 10

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6. BueroFriedrich: Jodi 'Install.exe'

They simulate error messages, viruses and computer crashes. Flood the 
screen with endless streams of brightly coloured hieroglyphs. Revive 
dead programming languages. Jodi's work deals with what is behind the 
familiar surface of the browser - with the code. Jodi were among the 
first artists to work on the Internet and have recently produced a 
series of artistic computer game modifications. In this first 
comprehensive individual exhibition the Dutch-Belgian artists duo 
present an overview over their work from the last years, as well as 
the new project '=A9 1984' which was conceived for the historical 
computer Sinclair ZX Spectrum. The exhibition will be opened during 
transmediale.03 and was produced by the Basle-based media lab [plug 
in] with networker Tilman Baumgaertel.

BueroFriedrich - www.buerofriedrich.org
Jodi: Install.exe
Opening: 1. February, 17.00 hrs
Exhibition: 1. - 15. February 2003
Tuesday - Saturday 12-18 hrs
BueroFriedrich: Holzmarktstr. 15-18

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7. ifa-Galerie Berlin: Nueva/Vista - Video Art from Latin America

=46or decades Latin American artists are successfully presenting their 
works in renown international festival as well as in famous art 
collections. Festivals for video art and other new media have long 
since established in all of Latin Americas capitals, e.g. 
'Videobrazil' in Sao Paulo serving for as a wide forum for 
international video art for more than 20 years.

Peru's capital Lima has its own video festival called 'Festival 
Internacional de Video/Arte/ Electronica' which is less well known 
but high in tradition. The festival's director, Jose-Carlos 
Mariategui, is curator of 'Nueva / Vista'. Additionally to a focal 
point on Peru 'Nueva / Vista' presents other Latin American artists, 
too, whose works are dealing with cultural, political and social 
issues of their particular native country. All of them show a new, 
different and sometimes ironic view on Latin America in the 21st 
century.

With works from: Angie Bonino, Ivan Esquivel, Eduardo Villanes, 
Alvaro Zavala (pe); Ximena Cuevas (mx); Edgar Endress (ci); Katia 
Lund (br); Gustavo Romano (ar); Andres Burbano (co)

ifa-Galerie Berlin - www.ifa.de
Exhibition
Nueva/Vista - Video Art from Latin America
24. January - 9. March 2003
ifa-Galerie: Linienstr. 139-140

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8. NBK: Urban Collisions

The exhibition deals with violations of rules and values within one 
civilisation, and with conflicts between different civilisations.

With: Pash Buzari (D): walking through the green grass, 2002; Maria 
Marshall (GB): When I grow up I want to be a cooker, 1998; Zoran 
Naskovski (YU): Death in Dallas, 2000; Maria Serebriakova (RUS) / 
Rudi Molacek (A): Polka, 2002; Uri Tzaig (Israel): Infinity, 1998; 
Dmitry Vilensky (RUS): Eine Mark, 2001.

Neuer Berliner Kunstverein - www.nbk.de
Exhibition
Urban Collisions. Zivilisatorische Konflikte im Medium Video
11. January - 23. March 2003
NBK: Chausseestr. 128-129

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9. Further Partner Events

Exhibition/Performance: 'hektor & file//:schoenwehrs - Grafitti 
Roboter (Lektion 1-5)' at galerie wieland (2. - 8. February 2003, 
daily Performances 14-19 hrs) www.galerie-wieland.de, Ackerstr. 5

Exhibition: Ulf Langheinrich (Granular Synthesis) Malerei 1988 bis 90 
at Chromosome Gallery (31. January - 1. March 2003) 
www.hauptstadtkunst.de, Invalidenstr. 123-124

Video-Installation: Angela Zumpe - Westausgang at Play Gallery (31. 
January - 15. February 2003) www.pushthebuttonplay.com, Hannoversche 
Str. 1

International Short-Film Festival 'Going Underground 2' on the 
monitors in Berlin's subway (Berliner Fenster & Interfilm Berlin - 
31. January - 6. February 2003) www.interfilm.de

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