[spectre] transmediale.03 newsletter cross-border cultures

[Andreas Broeckmann]

English version
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Newsletter 30.12.2002

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

Cross-Border Cultures
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1. transmediale.03: Cross-Border Cultures
2. The Trinity Session (Johannesburg, ZA)
3. ToroLab (Tijuana, MX)
4. De Waag (Amsterdam, NL)
5. I Love You - Exhibition

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1. transmediale.03: Cross-Border Cultures

Cross-border Cultures, a focal point of the festival's program, deals 
with models of successful work in media-culture within a global 
context. Presenting a variety of projects De Waag - Society for Old 
and New Media (Amsterdam, NL), The Trinity Session (Johannesburg, ZA) 
und ToroLab (Tijuana, MX) are exploring the festival's main themes. 
De Waag focuses on interactive software-based digital tools, The 
Trinity Session on media activist and social-cultural activities and 
ToroLab on artistic design.

Each of these groups will be present during the whole festival with a 
specially set-up showroom, where they work on and present their 
projects. Also they will introduce themselves in a scheduled 
presentation:

Saturday, 1 February 2003, 18.00 hrs
(House of World Cultures, John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, D-10557 
Berlin, http://www.hkw.de)

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2. The Trinity Session (Johannesburg, ZA)

It is the intention of the Trinity Session to extend its current 
analysis of its own working methodologies in South Africa and abroad 
- in The Mobile Office. The Mobile Office serves as an 
interdisciplinary assemblage-like work environment that responds to 
the architectonics of a given space or environment. The combination 
of support structure, furniture, computer technology, screening 
systems and audio visual equipment, enables this work environment to 
input or output a range of infotainment stimulants, either for the 
producers in the office or for audiences wanting to engage with the 
activities of the office.

=46or the duration of the festival the producers within the office 
featuring Simon Crouch a.k.a. DJ +27 will either be work-shopping 
current projects within semi closed sessions, or analysing projects 
in the company of festival visitors. Various aspects of daily 
production will either be projected in video / sound / computer or 
more formal person driven presentations. In this sense the office 
will transmit daily activities and outcomes.

http://www.onair.co.za/thetrinitysession/

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3. ToroLab (Tijuana, MX)

Torolab - its name is a play on the Spanish words for laboratory and 
bull - was established in 1995 as a socially engaged workshop 
committed to examining and elevating the quality of life for 
residents of Tijuana and the trans - border region through a culture 
of ideologically advanced design. A concrete response to social 
conditions in Tijuana - a booming, sprawling city of over 1.3 million 
citizens only twenty minutes south of downtown San Diego - as well as 
a utopian quest for the "sublime in the quotidian," Torolab employs 
abstract art and literature as primary tools in all its projects.

According to founder Ra=FAl C=E1rdenas Osuna, "Torolab is born out of the 
necessity of discovery: forms, identity, and dialogues within our 
context, with the purpose of creating conditions of life, optimum 
quality of life (dignified) for ourselves and the people we can touch 
with what we do." Preferring to propose rather than protest, Torolab 
strives to create an optimistic conspiracy of positive design 
solutions.
http://www.torolab.com

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4. De Waag - Society for Old and New Media (Amsterdam, NL)

Waag Society is a knowledge institute operating on the cutting edge 
of culture and technology in relation to society, education, 
government and industry. With its knowledge Waag Society wishes to 
make a contribution to the design of the information society. In this 
it doesn't let itself be lead by technology but instead looks at the 
possibilities of people, their creativity and culture. The interplay 
of technology and culture is the driving force of all Waag Society's 
activities. The Waag Society / for old and new media foundation was 
set up in 1994 and has been residing in the Waag monument at the 
Nieuwmarkt in Amsterdam since 1996.

Waag Society carries out research, develops new concepts and software 
applications and initiates the debate in the form of public events on 
the cutting edge of old and new media. Its research and development 
programme is focused on the possible ways in which people express 
themselves, how they can learn and how they can work together using 
(new) media. The applications developed by Waag Society come into 
being in permanent conversation with and feedback of the various 
target groups. The perfectioning of this 'Users as Designers' method 
is one of the ambitions of Waag Society.
http://www.waag.org

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5. I Love You - Exhibition

I love you has been the first media star among computer viruses. The 
exhibition, developed by digitalcraft at MAK Frankfurt, is dedicated 
to a phenomenon that implies more than mere subversion. 'I Love You - 
computer_viren_hacker_kultur' shall polarise. Visitors may appreciate 
a collection of 400 active viruses on isolated terminals, enable 
contaminated files with viruses like 'bad boy' or 'suicide' and make 
systems crash. Including the work of net- and software-artists 
(0100101110101101.ORG, epidemiC), literary scientists and code poets 
(Florian Cramer und Jaromil) as well as IT-security specialists 
(Trend Micro) the exhibition draws a line from computer viruses as an 
economic threat to computer viruses as a social phenomenon to 
computer viruses as an aesthetically challenging piece of art.

http://www.digitalcraft.org

Exhibition: I Love You
31 January - 5 February 2003, daily 10-24 hrs
House of World Cultures
Admission free

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transmediale.03
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1 - 5 february 2003
international media art festival berlin
http://www.transmediale.de
info@transmediale.de
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