[spectre] reSource 006: Overflow - 12-14 September 2013

[Tatiana Bazzichelli]

reSource 006: Overflow - 12-14 September 2013
Kunstraum Kreuzberg /Bethanien, Berlin
Concert at Mindpirates e.V.

## Discussions, workshops & performances
In the current development of digital culture we are experiencing a 
condition of overflow, where more information is being transmitted than 
machines can process, and humans can handle. The urgent pressure of 
issues such as ownership and privacy related to data overflow makes us 
wonder if producing more data means generating more control. The way 
complex data is going to be distributed and shared requires urgent 
analysis. Increasing information brings additional waste, which 
interferes with our physical resources. But this condition of overflow 
also represents the growing desire to be part of an extended 
connectivity that generates more opportunities of networking, 
communication and grassroots participation. How do we find conscious 
ways of activity/activism, both in the digital and the physical, without 
just becoming part of a system of abundant accumulation? This event 
highlights various strategies for rethinking our digital and physical 
spaces, and imagining a more sustainable and conscious online/offline 
presence by bringing together artists, activists and cultural producers 
active in Berlin and beyond. Curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli.
www.transmediale.de/resource

## Programme

## Thu, 12 September

16:00-19:00
# Open Debate: reSource Chats - Networking Berlin's transmedial culture

# Screening and presentation of the video: "Art Account Deutsche Bank" 
(2013)
By Carsten Lisecki
A glimpse on the adverse economic environment, where the artists have to 
survive. On 5 April 2013, on the occasion of the opening of the Deutsche 
Bank Kunsthalle in Berlin, artists were invited to bring an artwork to 
be exhibited in the new DB Gallery in Unter den Linden. Hundreds of 
artists queued for hours in the cold to have the “opportunity” to show 
their works. The video highlights the conditions of artistic production 
that lead to such desperate and politically uncomfortable choices, 
reflecting on the precarious role of the artist and the difficulty of 
acting collectively.

# Conversations with independent cultural producers and curators.
With: Christian de Lutz / Art Laboratory Berlin, Dr. Podinski / CiTiZEN 
KiNO, Ela Kagel / Supermarkt, John McKiernan, Kai Kreuzmüller and Daniel 
Franke / LEAP, Francesco Warbear Macarone Palmieri / Gegen, Erika 
Siekstelyte / Panke e.V., Allega Solitude / Liebig12. Moderated by 
Tatiana Bazzichelli.
This debate wants to highlight strengths and weaknesses of the condition 
of being trans-genre in the cultural landscape of Berlin, the hybrid 
character of activities that are mixing media, practices and languages, 
which often result in lack of political and cultural recognition and of 
sustainable funds.
The discussion is based on the reSource Chats project, a creative 
montage of interviews with various culture producers and local spaces in 
Berlin curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli.

# Presentation: "Mapping the reSource network"
By John Wild, Ph.D. Programme in Media and Arts Technology, Queen Mary 
University of London.
 From May to September 2013 John Wild worked in collaboration with the 
reSource transmedial culture berlin, to map the reSource network of 
independent technology-based art and hacker spaces in the city. This 
presentation gives an overview of the project's outcomes: a functional 
Android Mobile Phone application with the aim of increasing the 
visibility of the independent art/hack spaces in Berlin, and sonic 
abstractions of the network.

# Agents Recruiting for deadSwap // Numbers Station.
By the Telekommunisten network.
Activists. Whistleblowers. Spies. Covert action requires clandestine 
networks. Data hidden in public space. Seemingly random numbers spoken 
on the radio. What does it mean? There must be a system! How do you join 
the network? Can you be counted on? Are you committed? Do you have what 
it takes to join the network? Telekommunisten will be recruiting agents 
for deadSwap during reSource 006. deadSwap: a game of cloak and data. 
The edge of intelligence...

19:00-21:00
# Launch of the transmediale Magazine
Introduced by Kristoffer Gansing.
DJ-Set by Lukas Grundmann. Buffet & Drinks
transmediale/magazine is a new format of transmediale, a magazine on art 
and digital culture which marks the continued presence of transmediale 
in the city and internationally beyond the festival itself. A highlight 
in the first issue is a montage of our ongoing “reSource chats” series 
of conversations that have focused on the changing conditions of 
cultural practices in the city. The magazine also features a new visual 
identity for transmediale and introduces afterglow as the theme of the 
2014 festival.

## Fri, 13 September

13:00-16:00
# Workshop Leakage Current By Jamie Allen & David Gauthier (restricted 
to 12 participants)
Part of "Critical Infrastructure: reSource/transmediale Residency 
Project" granted by the Canada Council for the Arts. The workshop 
provides opportunities to play with apparatus in code and electronics. 
The leaks example the advantage making and taking opened when leaks are 
detected, measured and exploited in information and power systems.
To participate in the workshop LEAKAGE CURRENT, please register via 
email to rsvp[at]transmediale.de. Costs for the workshop are 10 Euro. 
Please bring your own laptop!

17.00-18.00
# Presentation: Escape, Opacity, and Darkness: the Universal Standards 
of Identification and Queer Illegibility.
By Zach Blas, introduced by Tatiana Bazzichelli

Zach Blas' presentation centers on biometrics and facial recognition 
technologies as a form of identification standardisation and control, 
and also considers the structural violence it enacts on non-normative 
populations. He will talk about his current artwork Facial Weaponization 
Suite (exhibited at Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien) that deploys such 
illegible tactics against biometric facial recognition, and 
counterbalance this work with another current project called Face Cages, 
a critical dystopic installation that explores the relations of 
biometric facial analysis, criminalisation, informatic capture, and torture.


18.30-20.30
# Panel: Rethinking Gamification: Ludic Overload - Ludic Overkill
A collaboration of transmediale and Leuphana University of Lüneburg, 
Centre for Digital Cultures.
Panel with Julian Oliver and Ricard Gras (part I), Daphne Dragona and 
Marcus Bastos (part II). Moderated by Mathias Fuchs and Paolo Ruffino.
"Gamification" is a buzzword of today’s marketing business, but also an 
accurate description of a fundamental shift in modern society: the 
permeation of economical, political and social contexts by game 
elements. Rule structures and interfaces, inspired by computer games, 
are exceedingly used by corporations to manage and control 
brand-communities and to create value. The panel aims at stirring up 
common sense notions of gamification as a marketing tool and will 
discuss activist tactics, artistic concepts, and subcultural strategies 
in regard to a ludification or a de-ludification of society.

## Sat, 14 September

15.30-17.30
# Panel: Mining the Image
With Rozsa Farkas, Harry Sanderson and Vera Tollmann. Moderated by 
Anthony Iles and Josephine Berry Slater (Mute Magazine and Post-Media 
Lab / Leuphana University of Lüneburg).
A conversation between Vera Tollmann and Harry Sanderson, organised by 
Post Media Lab fellow Rozsa Farkas. The conversation is an additional 
research on Sanderson’s render farm project, opening at Arcadia Missa 
gallery on 14 October 2014 in London. The discussion will focus on the 
issues raised in Sanderson’s text “Human Resolution”, from which the 
render farm project developed, interrogating the material reality of 
digital technology and labour behind the image.

18.00-19.00
# Introduction to transmediale & CTM festival 2014
With Kristoffer Gansing and Jan Rohlf.

19.15-21.00
# Psychogeographic walk: Network Noise Drift
With John Wild (Media and Arts Technology, Queen Mary University of London).
A sonic drift composed from field recordings of the non-human machine 
processes that enable the reSource network. Constructed as sonic 
abstractions of the network, the route of the drift will pass through a 
number of geo-situated ambiances constructed from field recordings 
carried out in the various reSource network spaces. The drift will start 
at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien and finish at Mindpirates e.V.

22.00
# Reality Overflow @ Mindpirates e.V. (Falkensteinstraße 48 - U1 
Schlesisches Tor)
Concerts presented by Mindpirates and UnReaL, CTM Festival and transmediale
Live: Dracula Lewis, Primitive Art (Hundebiss Records).
DJs: Bill Kouligas (PAN), BlackBlackGold (UnReal), Tom Ass (UnReal)

More info:
http://www.transmediale.de/content/resource-006-overflow
Facebook Event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/168305220025147/?fref=ts

-- 
Tatiana Bazzichelli // programme curator
reSource transmedial culture berlin // http://www.transmediale.de/resource
transmediale festival // http://www.transmediale.de
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