[spectre] transmediale @ Pariser Platz: Paik, Kempelen, DDR, Edition Edison

Tue Jan 2 16:55:11 CET 2007

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Newsletter 2.1.2007

transmediale.07
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January 31 - February 4, 2007
Akademie der Kuenste
Berlin, Hanseatenweg 10

transmediale @ Pariser Platz
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1. transmediale @ Pariser Platz
2. Nam June Paik: There is no rewind button for life
3. Kempelen - Zwei Maschinen
4. Media Art in the GDR?
5. Edition Edison

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1. transmediale @ Pariser Platz

The transmediale.07 programme includes a series of events that are being
presented outside the main festival venue of the Akademie der Kuenste on
Hanseatenweg. The new building of the Akademie der Kuenste on Pariser Platz is
an important second venue, where the festival week already begins a day before
the official opening, with an hommage to Nam June Paik who died exactly one
year ago.

Akademie der Kuenste, Pariser Platz 4, 10117 Berlin-Mitte

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2. Nam June Paik: There is no rewind button for life
Monday, January 29

Nam June Paik, the pioneer of Video Art, died on January 29th, 2006. Born in
Korea he came to study music in Germany in the late fifties, before he engaged
in the Fluxus movement as a visual artist. Although he left for New York in
1964 Germany remained to be his 'artistic homeland'. The Akademie der Kuenste
commemorates its prominent member.

18 h Traditional Korean music in the Foyer and other spaces
19 h Opening Klaus Staeck, followed by ‘Paiks Kosmos’. Introduction Wulf
Herzogenrath. Performances by Kunsu Shim, Gerhard Staebler und Mario Bertoncini
21 h Panel discussion with Mary Bauermeister, Pash Buzari, Anne-Marie Duguet,
Wulf Herzogenrath, Ira Schneider, Emmett Williams (invited). Moderation Manfred
Eichel
23 h Music performance by John Cage, played by Mario Bertoncini. Followed by
falling piano.
18 h - 24 h Video works by Nam June Paik: 'A Tribute to John Cage' (1973),
'Global Groove' (1973), 'Allan 'n' Allen's Complaint' (1982), 'Documenta 6
Satellite Telecast' (1977), 'Good Morning Mr. Orwell' (1984), 'Merce by Merce
by Paik' (1978), 'Stockhausen's Originale: Doubletakes' (1964-94), 'A Tribute
to Nam June Paik' (1982).

Installations by Nam June Paik ('Mercury', 1991) and Toni Serra, winner of the
NJP Award for 2006

Admission 10 Euro, reduced 7 Euro
Ticket Hotline: +49-(0)30-20057-2000

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3. Kempelen - Zwei Maschinen / Two Machines
Saturday, February 3, 15 h

Wolfgang von Kempelen, scholar and administrator in the court of 
Maria Theresia,
left many humble traces in history, the most memorable of which are his Talking
Machine and his chess-playing android. In 1769, Kempelen presented a mechanical
chess-player, dressed in an oriental costume. The 'Chess Turk' became 
one of the
great technical sensations of the 18th century. However, only ostensibly had an
automaton taken control of rationality, for on the inside, a man was hidden. In
contrast, Kempelen's Talking Machine was based on the ideas of 
enlightenment and
was supposed to give an audible voice to deaf people. The 
construction resembled
the human apparatus of articulation, and Kempelen's 1791 publication about the
mechanism of human speech marked the beginnings of experimental acoustics.
The event mainly revolves around the presentation of the 'Kempelen Box' with
reconstructions of both machines, which were developed and built at the
University of Applied Art Vienna between 1999 and 2001.
Participants: Brigitte Felderer, Jakob Scheid, Ernst Strouhal
Presented by: Siegfried Zielinski

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4. Media Art in the GDR?
Independent Film and Media Art in the GDR between 1976-1989
Sunday, February 4

In the last years of the GDR there was a lively film subculture that existed
beside the official image factories in Babelsberg (DEFA movies) and Adlershof
(TV). Multiple cine-films were produced and shown in private spaces, churches,
galleries, concert halls and improvised festivals. The medium of 'Super-8 film'
was first discovered in the late 70s by painters who adopted the Soviet ‘Quarz’
camera. Multimedia activities by A.R. Penck in Dresden or Lutz Dammbeck in
Leipzig triggered a veritable wave of films by painters, which later also
reached East Berlin.

16 h Film programme 'Revision DDR' (with works by Lutz Dammbeck, Joerg Herold,
Else Gabriel, Via Lewandowsky, Yana Milev, Ulrich Polster)
18 h Discussion 'Media Art in the GDR?' (in German) with Lutz Dammbeck, Else
Gabriel, Claus Loeser, Helke Misselwitz, Klaus Staeck, Christoph Tannert,
Dieter Daniels
20 h Film programme 'Films by Painters in the GDR' with works by Lutz Dammbeck,
Helge Leiberg, Cornelia Schleime, Andreas Dress, Christine Schlegel, Juergen
Boettcher, A. R. Penck. Film programme curated by Claus Loeser, Archiv
ex.oriente.lux

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5. Edition Edison
Workshop Installation: February 1 - 3
Finissage Performance: Saturday, February 3, 18 h

For more than a century physical sound-storage media, from the cylinder of the
Edison phonograph to the CD, have made music something that can be owned - an
unusual liaison between music and object. The LP managed to become a fetish;
the days of the CD are already numbered. With the emergence of the standardised
compression format MP3 and the Internet, sounds are once again roaming freely.
’Edition Edison’ brings together twelve objects in a limited edition - twelve
positions between music and object at the end of the age of sound-storage
media.
In the entrance hall of the Akademie der Kuenste at Pariser Platz, Nicolas
Collins, Aleks Kolkowski and FM3 will run a workshop-installation. For three
days the artists will manufacture objects. The number of multiples they produce
for the edition will be equivalent to their labour or non-labour. 
Edition Edison
is a project by Nicholas Bussmann and published by Diaphanes.
http://studiobeige.de
http://diaphanes.de

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