transmediale.08 – Conspire …
festival for art and digital culture berlin
29 January – 3 February 2008
and
club transmediale.08 – Unpredictable
festival for adventurous music and related visual arts
25 January – 2 February 2008
*Invite your Entries to the Transmediale Award 2008*
:: Deadline: 7 September 2007
:: Award Ceremony: 2 February 2008
Please find the complete call and submission form for download at:
http://transmediale.de/08/pdf/tmctm08_call
*transmediale.08 – Conspire*
As one of the leading international festivals for art and digital culture, transmediale presents and pursues the advancement of artistic positions reflecting on the socio-cultural, political and economic impact of new technologies. As such, transmediale understands media technologies as cultural techniques that need to be embraced in order to comprehend, critique, and shape global societies. transmediale.08 seeks out the speculative realms of conspiratorial practice to question, subvert, undermine and bypass the unspoken rules, hidden codes of conduct and assumed truths entrenched within our information driven communication cultures and ideological belief structures. Do you conspire … ?
*club transmediale.08 – Unpredictable*
club transmediale (CTM) is a prominent international festival dedicated to contemporary electronic, digital and experimental music, as well as the diverse range of artistic activities in the context of sound and club culture. CTM presents projects that experiment with new aesthetic parameters and new forms of cooperation, develop possibilities for informational and economic self-determination, and reflect on the role of contemporary music against the backdrop of technological and social transformations. With ‘Unpredictable’ CTM.08 investigates artistic concepts that imply the surprising and unforeseeable, accidents, mistakes and coincidences as a means to alter the dynamics of creative processes and to discover new aesthetic forms.
Together, transmediale and club transmediale invite the submission of works and projects for the festival 2008. Submissions for both festivals participate in the transmediale Award 2008, for which the jury, comprised of Nicole Gingras, Olga Goriunova, Nat Muller, Wonil Rhee and Florian Wüst will award prizes totalling ca. 10 000 EUR. Abstracts and papers for a proposed Vilém Flusser Theory Award are also being invited.
transmediale is a project of the Kulturprojekte Berlin in cooperation with Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
transmediale is funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation.
club transmediale is funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds.