dear friends,

i will misuse this discussion list only once for pointing you to our 
upcoming festival programme. there will be exhibition, conference, 
film and video screenings and of course the events of club 
transmediale. the full programme for all this is online at 
http://www.transmediale.de

you may also want to check out the Jury Statement of the tm.06 award 
jury (in the Award section of the website), which raises some 
interesting issues regarding the status of 'art and media' that have 
been discussed on this list.

below, i am posting an excerpt from our salon programme, because that 
might come closest to ste spirit of this list, a kind of 'online 
salon' for curatorial issues in art and media.

it would be nice to see some of you in berlin next week.

best regards,
-a


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Newsletter 24.01.2006

transmediale.06
REALITY ADDICTS
Berlin, February 3 - 7, 2006
Akademie der Kuenste, Berlin
Hanseatenweg 10

Special Events @ transmediale salon
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1. transmediale salon
2. Alte Arte
3. Art and Copyright
4. Readme 100
5. Monochrom Gala
6. Urban Media
7. Novikova/Multklub
8. Su Ballard
9. China Connection

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1. transmediale salon

The Salon programme of transmediale.06 presents artistic projects and panel
discussions about current issues in art and digital culture. German and
international work in progress projects and initiatives present their work and
invite the audience for an exchange of ideas. Curators and critics discuss the
art scenes in countries like Italy, Belarus, Moldova, New Zealand, Australia,
Canada, Brazil, and China. Artists participating in the Smile Machines
exhibition talk about their work. Throughout the festival, the transmediale
Salon features in-depth conversations about contemporary art practices. In the
evenings, the programme concludes with performances.

The following are only a few examples of the extensive Salon programme. Check
http://www.transmediale.de for the full Salon schedule.

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2. Alte Arte
Friday, February 3, 16 hrs

Alte Arte is a TV art and culture magazine on Moldovan television. It 
is both TV
about Art and Art on TV, and works against the lack of qualified coverage of
contemporary art issues.
http://www.altearte.md/

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3. Art and Copyright
Saturday, February 4, 12 hrs

Art and economy each have their own rules. We now see the two models of
proprietarian and of free knowledge pitted against each other. While copyright
law is the central stage for setting framework rules, art practice and
discourse continue to challenge them.
http://iRights.info

with:
Matthias Spielkamp, editor iRights.info
Cornelia Sollfrank, artist
Eberhard Ortland, philosopher
Volker Grassmuck, project leader iRights.info, Wizards of OS, privatkopie.net,

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4. Readme 100 - Temporary Software Art
Saturday, February 4, 17 hrs

This experimental art festival dealt with the notion of production as 
it relates
to software, software art and software cultures. This presentation discusses
projects and research commissioned specially for Readme 100 in Dortmund and
features the first presentation of the Readme 100 publication, produced in
cooperation with transmediale.
http://readme.runme.org/

with:
Alexei Shulgin, Olga Goriounova
Presented by Inke Arns and Francis Hunger

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5. Monochrom Gala
Saturday, February 4, 20.30 hrs

monochroms transmediale medley is a tour-de-farce diversion: A joyful bucket
full of good clean fanaticism, language, culture, self-contentment, utopia,
mania and despair, condensed into the well known cultural technique of a gala
show.
http://www.monochrom.at/

with:
Guenther Friesinger, Johannes Grenzfurthner, Evelyn Fuerlinger, Daniel Fabry,
Anika Kronberger

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6. Urban Media
Sunday, February 5, 14 hrs

Architecture and public space are increasingly permeated by media. Facades like
the Spots light and media facade on Berlins Potsdamer Platz, developed by
realities:united architects, not only bring media art into public space, but
they turn architecture itself into an audio-visual, often interactive medium.
http://www.realu.de/index.html
http://www.spots-berlin.de/

with:
Tim Edler, Thom Sokoloski, Christian Moeller
Presented by Geoff Cox

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7. Tatiana Novikova: Transit_06 - Media Art in Russia and Belarus
Sunday, February 5, 19.30 hrs

Curator Tatiana Novikova from Minsk presents recent works made by Russian and
Belarussian artists who share a similar sense of their time and place. What
Russian poet A. Blok called the electrical dream is no longer a science fiction
movie, but comes closer and closer to real life.

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8. Su Ballard: Considering Digital Arts in New Zealand
Monday, February 6, 19 hrs

Aotearoa Digital Arts (ADA) is New Zealands only digital artist network. The 70
artists associated with ADA are engaged in discussions of the nature of digital
practice; the ways that these histories are being recorded and constructed; and
the kinds of relationships that might be emerging across public and gallery
spaces. The presentation considers the manner in which ADA and its artists are
constructing digital histories in New Zealand Aotearoa.
http://www.aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/

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9. Panel: The China Connection
Monday, February 6, 16 hrs

This panel discusses the role that European media arts and technology
organisations have been playing in the recent developments of a Chinese
media-cultural agenda. It asks how Chinas new electronic media artists deal
with the social potentials of globally connected media technologies - from CCTV
through cryptography to open source software, with all their attached cultural
dimensions.

with:
Alex Adriaansens, director V2_
Lu Jie, artist and media activist, 25000 Cultural Transmission Centre, Beijing
Martijn de Waal, journalist and independent media researcher
Presented by: Stephen Kovats, media researcher and program developer, V2_

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