[rohrpost] transmediale09 - Call for Entries

[Markus Huber]

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transmediale.09 Award Competition - Call
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transmediale.09 - DEEP NORTH
festival for art and digital culture berlin
27 January - 1 February 2009

club transmediale.09 - STRUCTURES
festival for adventurous music and related visual arts
23 - 31 January 2009


_Call for Entries_

:: Deadline: 5 September 2008
:: Award Ceremony: 31 January 2009

Find the complete call and submission form for download at:
http://transmediale.de/09/pdf/tmctm09_call_for_entries


*transmediale.09 - DEEP NORTH & club transmediale.09 - STRUCTURES*

As leading international festivals for art and digital culture as well 
as adventurous music and related visual arts, respectively, transmediale 
and club transmediale are calling for submissions to the transmediale 
Award competition and the Vilem Flusser Theory Award.

*transmediale* presents and pursues the advancement of artistic 
positions reflecting on the socio-cultural, political and economic 
impact of new technologies. It seeks out artistic practices that not 
only respond to scientific or technical developments, but that try to 
shape the way in which we think about and experience the technologies 
which impact virtually all aspects of our daily lives. As such, 
transmediale understands media technologies as cultural techniques that 
need to be embraced in order to comprehend, critique, and shape global 
societies.

*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.

For the 2009 edition, the festivals have each set a specific thematic 
focus.

transmediale.09 - *DEEP NORTH* peers beyond the evolving alarmist 
scenarios of catastrophe prevalent in the often contradictory global 
warming debate. transmediale.09 shifts this focus to the global 
artistic, cultural, societal and philosophical consequences that the 
presumed imminent collapse of the polar ice barrier may trigger. Are we 
about to reach another historically succinct moment of unavoidable and 
cataclysmic change - a point of no return leaving in its wake 
uncontrollable global transformations? Does climate change elicit 
cultural change, a shifting of extremes or a collapse in established, 
systemic and network norms? DEEP NORTH becomes not a fixed location, but 
a paradigm transforming loss, scarcity, inertia and rivalry into urgent 
and revealing states of being and expression.

With *STRUCTURES* - Backing-Up Independent Audio-Visual Cultures, club 
transmediale.09 presents projects that spring from the critical, 
interdisciplinary and experimental practice at the intersections of 
sound and other art forms. In recent years, a new breed of hybrid 
projects and initiatives that merges experimental audio and media 
cultures has developed in the convergence-zone between pop culture, 
science, arts and media technologies. This still remains primarily the 
domain of committed individuals and small, self-organised groups or 
networks that, often in the most precarious of circumstances, provide 
the supporting platform for these new artistic articulations and 
experiments. In its 10th year, CTM looks into the current state and 
potential development opportunities of these independent structures.

Together, transmediale and club transmediale invite the submission of 
works and projects that respond to these challenges and embody 
contemporary notions of art that embrace, question and enrich digital 
culture. Submissions of art works for both festivals participate in the 
transmediale Award 2009 while theoretical abstracts, papers and critical 
artistic positions are invited for the Vilem Flusser Theory Award, with 
prizes totaling ca. 10.000 EURO. Jury members of the transmediale Award 
2009 are Annick Bureaud, Paris; Bronac Ferran, London; Juha Huuskonen, 
Helsinki; Pooja Sood, New Delhi; Christoph Tannert, Berlin


transmediale is a project of Kulturprojekte Berlin in cooperation with 
Haus der Kulturen der Welt :: club transmediale (CTM) is a project of 
DISK - Sound & Image Initiative e.V. :: transmediale is funded by the 
German Federal Cultural Foundation :: CTM is funded by the 
Hauptstadtkulturfonds.


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research and development for program and conference
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transmediale.09 | 28 jan - 1 feb 2009
festival for art and digital culture berlin

klosterstr. 68 - 10179 berlin - germany
fon +49 30 24749 768 fax +49 30 24749 763
http://www.transmediale.de

kulturprojekte berlin gmbh
aufsichtsratsvorsitzender volker heller
geschäftsführer moritz van dülmen
amtsgericht berlin charlottenburg, HRB 41312 B
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