Exhibition
Dark Drives. Uneasy Energies in Technological Times
Wed, Feb 1–Sun, Feb 5, 2012
Open from 10 - 22 h
With Sture Johannesson (SE), Ant Farm (US), ubermorgen.com (AT/CH/US), Daniel García Andújar (ES), Art 404 (GB), JK Keller (US), 0100101110101101.ORG (IT), Jennifer Chan (CA), Chris Cunningham (GB), a.o.
The transmediale 2012 is the 25th edition of the Berlin media art festival and this year it has a new artistic director in Kristoffer Gansing. Especially in times of crisis, it is important to recognize the productive and regenerative potential of interruptions, hiatuses and other “In/Compatibilities” and hence to regard “crises” as a chance for preservation and restructuring. What opportunities for information and action are offered by contrary tactics of the kind that are to be found in niches of modern-day network culture? In a spirit of the blurred, the maverick, the monstrous and the “Un-Entrepreneurial”, transmediale 2012 presents a broad international program of round-table talks, works of art, video screenings, workshops, publications and interventions. The two-day symposium “in/compatible: systems | publics | aesthetics” comprises inter-disciplinary panels and artists’ presentations on the problems and production logic of the incompatible. Fittingly, the exhibition “Dark Drives: Uneasy Energies in Technological Times”, curated by Jacob Lillemose, presents works and practices of art which are accompanied by a sense of unease and which point to the dark side of our highly technologized world. To mark its 25th anniversary, the festival also offers a comprehensive review of Berlin’s unique media art and cultural history. And at the same time we look to the future of trans-local network culture with our newly-launched platform “reSource for transmedial culture”, an open media art laboratory.
A project by the Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH in cooperation with Haus der Kulturen der Welt,with the support of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes