[aha] BWPWAP - transmediale 2013 - Call for Works

[T_Bazz]

Ciao a tutt@

abbiamo spostato la deadline della call di transmediale al 15 luglio!
quindi per chi volesse inviare un progetto c'e' ancora tempo :)

A presto,

T_Bazz

On 6/25/12 5:42 PM, T_Bazz wrote:
> BWPWAP - transmediale 2013
> Back When Pluto Was a Planet
> // transmediale 2013 Call for Works
> Deadline: 30 June 2012
>
> transmediale is Berlin's annual festival for cultural activities
> crossing art, culture and technology.
> For its 26th edition, from 29 January to 3 February 2013 at the Haus der
> Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, transmediale once again calls for
> contributions.
>
> Entries are now open for the transmediale 2013 programme which will
> consist of installations, film and video screenings, workshops,
> performances, talks and discussions. Even though transmediale is always
> interested in works exploring new technologies, either as a theme or as
> form, no genres or media are excluded. The exhibition programme is
> particularly oriented towards artworks that explore ambiguous and
> problematic relationships to technology and challenge common perceptions
> of it as a rational or creative tool. The video programme is devoted to
> contemporary artistic video works and experimental film screenings with
> historical references. Live audiovisual manifestations of old and new
> media form the main focus of our performance programme. The workshop and
> talk programme explores the critical dimension of networking,
> hacktivism, media theory and the politics of technological development.
>
> 2013 Thematic framework
> BWPWAP - Back When Pluto Was a Planet
> The Imaginary Museum I
>
> Can impossible and unrealistic uses and abuses of technology be
> translated into new cultural imaginaries? Into networks out of place and
> out of time? Like BWPWAP!?
>
> Back When Pluto Was a Planet: with this title transmediale 2013 will
> explore the simultaneous displacement and invention that takes place in
> cultural processes mediated by technology.
>
> BWPWAP is a popular net culture acronym referring to the cancellation of
> Pluto's planetary status in 2006 and is commonly used whenever one wants
> to point out that a statement or opinion is resting on no longer valid
> data. It can also be read as the recollection of a poetic imagination
> rendered obsolete by new technological knowledge paradigms. The decision
> to degrade Pluto's status in the planetary system is a testimony to how
> new technologies and discourses decontextualise networks that were once
> thought to be stable and lead to recontextualisations that are reshaping
> the very imaginary of culture.
>
> transmediale 2013 calls upon artists, users and theorists to contribute
> to the creation of new cultural imaginaries, where behaving like BWPWAP
> is a dissident creative act. On the one hand we are looking for works
> that interrogate processes of techno-cultural displacement: outsourcing,
> digital labor, user-generated content and prod-usage as phenomena that
> work to redefine cultural production. But equally we are interested in
> processes of invention: when networked collaboration and participation
> have become compulsory components of a new cultural industry, what are
> the critical technological practices? We recognise the user as a highly
> inventive figure occupying this techno-cultural landscape with all sorts
> of unruly and irritated behaviour, far beyond the straight-jacket of the
> notion of “the ideal user.” In the digital business world, where the
> user and not the customer is king, what kind of user agencies exist and
> how can we grasp the complex games of adaptation and appropriation that
> have unfolded within online as well as offline user cultures?
>
> Selection process
> Even though the themes of the transmediale are set by the curatorial
> team, the focus of the individual programmes are further developed in
> relation to the works submitted in response to this call for works. In
> this way we strive to create a dialogue between the thematic ideas and
> current artistic practice. The final programme of the festival
> eventually consists of a mix of invited participants, projects of our
> all-year platform (reSource - transmedial culture berlin) and
> contributions selected through the call. The review process lasts until
> the end of August.
>
> In mid September, a list of the entries selected through the call for
> works will be published on http://www.transmediale.de. No further
> notification will be given to those applicants who were not selected.
>
> Keywords
> the imaginary, classification, nightmares of participation,
> dematerialisation, decontextualisation, shifts, alternative
> temporalities, semantic networks, WFIOTN (We Found It On The Net),
> appropriation, out of place, textual economies, critical literacies,
> taxonomy, rematerialisation, language games, recontextualisation ,
> displacement, irritated memories, categorization, invention, user
> culture, lusers, lamers, prod-users, outsourcing, machine bastards,
> anachronisms, fictive materialities, reemergence from nowhere,
> intergalactic fantasies, delocalisation, telework, WHYUWWM (We Hope You
> Understand What We Mean)
>
> Deadline for submission: June 30 2012
>
> More info at: http://www.transmediale.de/
>
> ///////////////////////////
>
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> BWPWAP - transmediale 2013 | 29 jan - 3 feb 2013
> festival for art and digital culture berlin
>
> klosterstr. 68 - 10179 berlin - germany
> fon +49 30 24749 761 fax +49 30 24749 763
> http://www.transmediale.de
>
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> geschäftsführer moritz van dülmen
> amtsgericht berlin charlottenburg, HRB 41312 B
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