transmediale.11 - RESPONSE:ABILITY: Opening

For the first time at transmediale a non-human digital personality will be participating! Special opening guest Derrick de Kerckhove will introduce his son,Angel_F (aka Pinocchio 2.0), a boisterous digitally conceived spyware entity born through the technological-sensual relationship between himself and Biodoll. Drawing reference to Marshall McLuhan's assertion that we would become extensions of our own machines and vice-versa Angel_F will be seeking the archetypal myths of our relationships with technology.

With a German premiere of "DUST" by Herman Kolgen, a poetic reflection will be drawn to our digital culture, inspired through one of the first works of collaborative electronic art, Man Ray's photo "Élevage de poussière" of Marcel Duchamp's "Large Glass". transmediale.11's zones of artistic and critical inquiry, the Open Zone and HacKaWay will open with labs, installations, actions and the inauguration of festival bureaus by Heath Bunting and Christin Lahr, and a performance of "Latent Image Protocol" by Paul Vanouse who will prepare the first of his unique DNA fingerprint samples. In the studio gallery, transmediale hosts "The Secrets Trilogy", the 4th Labor Berlin merging Reynold Reynold's "Secret Life", "Secret Machine" and "Six Easy Pieces" in a complex work that twists the notions of time and space – the imperceptible conditions that question the nature of our liveness within the cacophony of technological life.

18:30 Doors open

19:00 Stephen Kovats – Artistic Director, transmediale.11
Prof. Derrick de Kerckhove – Research Director, Universitat Obierta de Catalunya, Barcelona
Angel_F – Autonomous Non-Generative E-volitive Life_Form (it)
A/V performance: DUST by Herman Kolgen (ca)

20:00 transmediale.11 with Open Zone and HacKaWay turned 'ON'

20:00 Labor Berlin #4: The Secrets Trilogy by Reynold Reynolds (de/us)

21:00 HacKaWay: Latent Figure Protocol by Paul Vanouse (us)

21:00 Café Stage: Crowd vs the DJ | Christopher Doering & Jay Cousins

22:00 HacKaWay: Braun Tube Jazz Band by Ei Wada (jp)

22:15 Café Stage: Selected Videomusical Works | Gabriel Shalom, Videomusician (de/us)

More information: www.transmediale.de

A project of Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH in co-operation with the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, sponsored by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes