Re-Articulating the Scenarios of Environmental Catastrophe

The Digital Greenhouse is transmediale’s salon for strategic artistic, performative and net-based discourse. Bringing together artists, cultural hactivists and a cosmopolitan array of thinkers and makers the salon seeks to address the cultural 'raison d'etre' beyond the daily headlines of climate change rhetoric. How does digital art and culture maneuver across political and societal boundaries between 'our' North and an emergent, less 'silent' and deep South to create new voices and strong cultural networks? The Digital Greenhouse will feature daily live online and interactive sessions with Salon partners including SLUM-TV (Nairobi), MAUJ (Karachi) and MOWOSO (Kinshasa).

Increasing social inequality, aggravation of living standards, short-sighted environmental policy, violation of human rights are all facts pointing to the increasing extremes in the conditions of life. These conditions are not cultural dysfunctions, but fundamentally connected to the processes of global capital to systematically exploit the environment.

Re-Articulacija project members Marina Grzinic and Sebastjan Leban invite the festival audience to join political philosophers Sefik Seki Tatlic and Madina Tlostanova, along with transmediale 2009 Award nominee Petko Dourmana to engage in a session of collective research to counter contemporary global forms of exploitation, control, censorship and expropriation.

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