December 06, 2005
transmediale.06
REALITY ADDICTS
transmediale.06: REALITY ADDICTS, Berlin, February 3 - 7, 2006, Akademie der Kuenste, Berlin, Hanseatenweg 10.
Nominations for the transmediale award 2006: 1. Competition 2. Roermond-Ecke-Schoenhauser 3. Eisbergsonde 4. Vexations 5. Burn Station 6. Point and Line to Plane 7. Google will eat itself 8. Honourable Mentions.
1. Competition: 1001 artists from 52 countries applied for the transmediale award 2006. An international jury, composed of Kazunao Abe (Japan), Marcos Boffa (Brasil), Honor Harger (England), Christian Huebler (Switzerland) and Nuria Enguita Mayo (Spain), announced a shortlist of six works. Five other works received an honourable mention. The prizes will be awarded in a ceremony on February 6th, 2006.
2. Roermond-Ecke-Schoenhauser: Markus Kison (de) - Roermond-Ecke-Schoenhauser: Webcams record inconceivable amounts of images and data. Markus Kison found four webcams in Kopenhagen, Amsterdam, Berlin and Roermond and uses them for his 3D-installation. Through a special mirror construction the images are projected onto architectural models. The virtual existence of distant places becomes almost real - close enough to touch. http://www.digital.udk-berlin.de/de/people/students/kison.html
3. Eisbergsonde: Agnes Meyer-Brandis (de) - 'Eisberg-Sonde / SGM-Iceberg-Probe' Agnes Meyer-Brandis has made a surprising discovery: there are subterranian icebergs underneath Germany's Ice-Scating Halls! The artist explores this geological sensation with her SGM-Iceberg-Probe and a mobile drill hole. The probe simulates a dive into 120 meter's depth displaying, on an external monitor, a mixture of images from real antarctic holes and virtual ones generated in real time. http://www.researchraft.net
4. Vexations: Yuko Mohri, Soichiro Mihara (jp) - 'Vexations - Composition in Progress' Erik Satie's piece 'Vexations' is said to be the longest composition, and the origin of minimal music. Yuko Mohri and Soichiro Mihara use Satie's piece to create an installation room as a sound medium. Together with the first 'Vexations'-theme, every sound made in this room is recorded, transformed into data, and played back as piano notes. In the course of the exhibition's duration, Satie's theme is transformed into a totally new, ever-evolving piece of music. http://cip.io/about/
5. Burn Station: Platoniq (es) - 'Burn Station' is a mobile self-service for searching, listening to and copying music and audio files with no charge. Moreover it is completely legal, released under an open licence, and non-commercial. The social application of technology and the idea of the internet as commons are of major concern by platoniq's members, activists of the copyleft movement. http://www.platoniq.net/burnstation/
6. Point and Line to Plane: Andres Ramirez Gaviria (co/at) - '-/' Ramirez' six minute video uses Morse code to visualize and sonify a section of the index from the book 'Point and Line to Plane', written by Wassily Kandinsky in 1926. The project interpolates abstract aesthetic elements (e.g. line, plane, form) with the informational space constructed in the Morse code translation. For Ramirez Gaviria, this is a way to invert the commonly known method of narration in audio-visual media. http://www.andresramirezgaviria.com
7. Google will eat itself: Ubermorgen.com feat. Alessandro Ludovico vs. Paolo Cirio (at/it) - 'GWEI - Google will eat itself' Ubermorgen declared war on Google: They generate money by serving Google text advertisements on their websites, technically deconstructing the new global advertisement mechanism by rendering it into a surreal click-based economic model. In order to take over and gain control of Google in due time, Ubermorgen use Google's pay checks to buy the company's shares, whose value currently sums up to more than all Swiss Banks together... http://www.gwei.org/
8. Honourable Mentions
Yves Coussement (be) - 'Insert the Name of the City Here' http://www.transmediale.de/page/detail/detail.1.projects.389.3.html
Manuel Saiz (es/uk) - 'Specialized Technicians Required: Being Luis Porcar' http://www.unxposed.com/saiz/index_work.htm
Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag (de) - '612.43WEISS'
Claudia X. Valdes (cl/us) - '192:291' http://www.claudiaxvaldes.com/video/192.html
Mai Yamashita, Naoto Kobayashi (jp) - 'When I wish upon a star' http://plaza.rakuten.co.jp/okumokum/3005
transmediale.06: REALITY ADDICTS--festival for art and digital culture berlin inf[at]transmediale.de; Klosterstr.68-70 - 10179 Berlin; tel. +49 (0)30.24749-761 fax. +49 (0)30.24749-814.
Posted by jo at December 6, 2005 12:07 PM
