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28.01.2013

OCTO: A Global Pipe Dream Come True

OCTO-P7C-1 Intertubular Pneumatic Packet Distribution System is transmediale 2013’s Official Miscommunication Platform and is the result of a joint collaboration between the reSource transmedial culture berlin/transmediale, the Berlin-based collective Telekommunisten and the raumlabor berlin group.

21.01.2013

"Dear Jeff Bezos" online performance by Johannes P Osterhoff

Saturday January 12th was the birthday of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. On this day, transmediale participant Johannes P Osterhoff started his next online performance work, called "Dear Jeff Bezos". For this performance Osterhoff has modified his Kindle to, whenever he saves a bookmark, it is also emailed directly to CEO Jeff Bezos, and published publicly at http://bezos.cc as a comment on Amazon's logging of user data via their “Whispersync” technology.

14.01.2013

5th Meeting of Technology Based Art Spaces and Curators in Berlin

LEAP Berlin and reSource transmedial culture berlin invite all project spaces/curators focusing on technology based art for the 5th meeting. | 16 Jan, 18:00, LEAP Berlin. (Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 13, U Alexanderplatz).

19.12.2012

'Aesthetics Re-loaded' conference in Aarhus

The Aesthetics Re-loaded conference is taking place at Aarhus University, Denmark, running December 11-13. The aim of the conference is to advance and exchange basic research on aesthetics within the field of new technology. The conference explores the concept of aesthetics by investigating the challenges new computational technologies pose for current aesthetic theory.

19.12.2012

Coming Soon: Researching BWPWAP newspaper!

The Researching BWPWAP Conference and PhD Workshop took place at the Centre for Digital Cultures of the Leuphana University of Lüneburg on November 22-24. Around 20 international PhD students and researchers reflected on networked research practices. The meeting will culminate into the publication of a P2P reviewed newspaper.

09.12.2012

OutResourcing Seminar & Artist Talks in Bangalore

The OutResourcing Seminar & Artist talks will take place in Bangalore, India on December 3rd. It will run 14.00 – 20.00 UTC (GMT +5:30 hours) and a link for live streaming will be available here. This project explores the pervasive phenomenon of outsourcing from a critical point of view approaching it as a site for production of new hybrid subjectivities and economies –as outResources.

09.12.2012

OCTO is alive!

OCTO, the Official Miscommunication Platform of transmediale 2013. was successfully tested.The work OCTO-P7C-1 Intertubular Pneumatic Packet Distribution System is the result of a joint collaboration between the reSource transmedial culture berlin/transmediale, the Berlin-based collective Telekommunisten, and the group of architects raumlabor berlin.

19.11.2012

Towards the PNEUMAtic circUS @ OCTO

A special project of networked art will take place at transmediale 2013 BWPWAP. The festival will host the first ever networked art project with pneumatic post: PNEUMAtic circUS, an interaction at distance between a wide network of international networkers and the visitors, activists and artists present at transmediale. Over a hundred international mail artists have been invited by the Italian mail artist Vittore Baroni to contribute texts and pneumatic post capsules to be used by visitors of the transmediale festival...