WHAT IS LIVE? [
Berlin]

WHAT IS LIVE? – Symposium in the framework of Club Transmediale, Berlin :: February 1-2, 2011; 12:00 – 6:30 pm :: HAU 1 (Hebbel am Ufer), Stresemannstr. 29, 10963 Berlin, Germany.
CTM’s this year’s festival theme #LIVE!? puts the spotlight on the practice of media-based audio/visual live performance. Accordingly, the symposium WHAT IS LIVE? opens the door to dialogue between artistic practitioners of the discipline and theorists of sound and image-based arts and cultural and media sciences.
Repeatedly in the history of media, the mass establishment of film, radio and television has sparked fierce debates about perfomativity and medialization, about the live character and the subsequent associated authenticity of content portrayed by media. Continue reading