[spectre] Review of Transmediale.10 - Futurity Now!

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Review of Transmediale.10 - Futurity Now!

By Marcello Lussana and Gaia Novati.

http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=380

The article features artworks, projects and conference highlights from 
individuals, groups and organisations. Honor Harger, Gebhard Sengmuller, 
Franz Buchinger, Ryoji Ikeda, Julian Oliver, Damian Stewart, Clara Boj, 
Diego Diaz, Ken Rinaldo, Michell Teran, Aaron Koblin, Daniel Massey, 
F.A.T, Warren Neidich, Kahaimzon Michel, Bruce Sterling, I-Wei Li, Steve 
Lambert Matteo Pasquinelli and more...

This year's Transmediale.10 Festival explores the theme 'future' through 
connections between arts and technology. A part of the introduction 
reads "Futurity is a concept that examines what the 'future' as a 
conditional and creative enterprise can be. At its heart lays the 
intricate need to counter political and economic turmoil with visionary 
futures. [...] what roles internet evolution, global network practice, 
open source methodologies, sustainable design and mobile technology play 
in forming new cultural, ideological and political templates."

2010 is a year that has often represented the future in Science Fiction 
literature, such as Arthur C. Clarke's 2010: Odyssey Two, and now here 
we are. A good time to compare how we percieved the future, the past, 
and assess what is really happening, what we lost and what we have 
gained, and 'perhaps' find better ways to proceed. Art can offer 
different perspectives, ways of seeing and understanding, revealing our 
present states of being, sharing alternatives or even new meanings for 
our futures. This festival allows those visiting and taking part, an 
opportunity to explore, negotiate possible avenues in understanding 
together, what all this means.


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