transmediale.10 - Opening Ceremony

Begin your festival with the special opening gala, which starts with a ceremony featuring a rare appearance by celebrated author and futurologist, Herbert W. Franke, plus addresses by Stephen Kovats and Hortensia Völckers. Following the ceremony, Charlemagne Palestine will announce the commencement of the festival by ringing the bells of the Tiergarten Carillon, and Yvette Mattern's latest Global Rainbow laser installation, From One to Many, will be switched on spectacularly illuminating the path between the House of World Cultures and the Alexanderplatz.

17.30: Doors open

18.00: Opening Ceremony, Auditorium

19.00: From One to Many by Yvette Mattern, HKW Terrace

             Tintinnabulations For Tomorrow and Tomorrow by

            Charlemagne Palestine, Carillon

20.00: Future Obscura , Exhibition opens, Exhibition Hall

20.30: Performances, Café Stage

22:00: club transmediale aaajiao (cn) [live VJ set], Café Stage

Shanghai based digital artist and computer hactivist aaajiao embeds his open source sound and programming work into a performance of scintillating bursts of live visual data.