This year’s video touring programme is a selection of outstanding works reflecting the transmediale.10 theme - FUTURITY NOW!, examining 2010 as a year which has been synonymous with past images of the future. Writers and commentators throughout the 20th century strove to depict 2010 as a shining example of a future framed by technological progress and social harmony. But as 2010 drew nearer it became clear that global society is neither the utopia nor the dystopia traditionally presented in these fictions, architectures and theories of the future. Indeed it could be said that the future is experiencing an identity crisis! The eight videos selected for the programme use a range of performative narratives and sampling techniques to investigate what these notions of future could be.

Elodie Pong - After the Empire
Switzerland 2008, 14 min

Vincent Meessen - Dear Adviser
Belgium 2009, 8 min

Sun Xun - Heroes No Longer
China 2008, 9 min

Adam Leech - Speech Bubble
Belgium 2008, 5 min 

Hörner & Antlfinger - Le nouveau OMIZA
Germany 2007, 6 min

Doug Fishbone - Hypno Project
UK 2009, 13 min

Bjørn Melhus - Murphy
Germany 2008, 4 min

Dominic Gagnon - Rip in Pieces America
Canada 2009, 21 min

Curated by: Marcel Schwierin.

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