| Tagline: | international media art festival berlin |
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| Venues: | Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Maria am Ufer |
| Date: | 01.02 – 05.02.2003 |
| Organisation: | Berliner Kulturveranstaltungs-GmbH |
| Website: | https://pastwebsites.transmediale.de/03/de/ |
Today, globalisation often appears to be an unavoidable fact. The economy, politics, society and culture take place in a global context. However, the scope for participation in the global game varies considerably. Through computer games, the connection between globalisation and play is made: on the one hand they can be seen as a form of entertainment and on the other hand they are examples for strategies of action in politics, military and society. Does this mean that computer games shape the world of the future? The media cultural laboratories investigate the experimental crossing of political, cultural and technological borders in order to re-define art in urban and media contexts.
festival catalogue preface
It’s not easy for art and culture In times of recession and the threat of war, though their social relevance may become even more obvious. In its 16th edition, the transmediale festival again deals with the role that media art and media culture play today. The festival takes art seriously, both as an autonomous aesthetic practice and as a form of critical agency and commentary. After Do It Yourself! and Go Public!, the motto of transmediale.03, Play Global!, implies a call to artists to take on the challenges offered by globalisation. We present critical, ironical, at times humorous artistic strategies for the global game and hope that the festival will become a market place for Ideas which help to develop a cultural counter-weight to economic and military forms of globalisation.
An event like transmediale depends on strong and reliable partners, which is why we are happy both about the substantial cooperation with the Haus der Kulturen der Welt and Goethe-Forum, and about the generous support which we again receive from ART+COM e.V., Ableton, HANSA Computer, Holsten Bierbrauerei, Luxoom, das werk novalisstraße, Native Instruments, Triad and others. The awards of the transmediale competition have kindly been sponsored by AVM Computersysteme and by Avid Technologies. It is also vital for the realisation of the festival to receive the support from the Embassies and foreign Cultural Institutes, the Mondriaan Foundation and the German Foreign Office, because they have all made possible the invitation of many of the participating artists. The transmediale remains dependent on the support granted by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds, which this year has given an additional grant to the club transmediale which could thus extend its programming and include an extensive presentation of electronic music from Central and Eastern Europe. The programme cooperations of transmediale.03 include the Federal Agency for Political Education (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung) with whom we are organising the conference, and the Museum of Applied Arts in Frankfurt/Main whose exhibition about computer viruses, I Love You , we have been able to bring to Berlin due to the kind support of the company, Trend Micro. We were also able to develop the programme partnership with different Berlin institutions which are presenting exhibitions and events in parallel to the festival and which thus extend the transmediale beyond Its locations.
We would like to thank the festival’s advisory board for their care and advice, the people at HKW, BKV and Goethe-Forum for their active support during the preparations, and most of all the festival team whose optimism and commitment has made tm.03 possible.
Andreas Broeckmann, Susanne Jaschko
Playing with the same thematic concepts, the sections of the programme divided into the conference, the workspace, the media lounge, and the screenings, performances, and workshops. Artistic projects and ideas in which the utopias and dystopias of a global culture erre played out as artists, sociologists, and media theorists discussed cultural strategies for the global game, while the exhibition I Love You explored the aesthetics of computer viruses. Simultaneously, the club transmediale took over Maria am Ufer exploring adventurous music from the East.
Interaction award
The jury was composed by Sabine Himmelsbach, Sally Jane Norman, and Atau Anaka.
Image award
With Reinhard Braun, Gina Czarnecki, and Piotr Krajewski as the jury; the winner 242.pilots with the video performance Live in Bruxelles.
Software award
The jury were Amy Alexander, Margarete Jahrmann, and David Rokeby; Schoenerwissen received the award with the project Minitasking.
Lux Ziffer #3 was an anonymous award for those who where given the deepest kiss of code.
The festival catalogue includes information of all events and artworks of transmediale.03 PLAY GLOBAL! transmediale_extended vol.1 represents a section of the most important types of medial means of expressions, current issues, and production methods. It introduces the main focus of the curatorial and discursive work of transmediale in cooperation with the Biennial of Video and New Media of Santiago and the Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Chile.
team
Dr Andreas Broeckmann Artistic Director, Dr Susanne Jaschko Curator & Deputy Director, Dr Dieta Sixt Curatorial Advice, Michael M. Thoss Curatorial Advice, Silvia Keller Coordination Festival, Jan Dietrich Coordination Assistant, Flóra Tálasi Support, Funding & Sponsoring, Thomas Munz Screening Program & Editor Publications, Marion Freude Assistant Imaging, Julia Duesterberg Coordination PR & Print, Jörg Leupold Program Assistant, Stefan Riekeles Program Assistant, Raffaele Rossi Program Assistant, Kathleen Forde Guest Curator Goethe-Forum, Dr Chris Salter Program Support, Annette Schäfer Press & PR, Guna Kanepe Assistant Press, Heidi Specker,, Bente Schipp,, André Ringel Corporate Design, Ruth M. Lorenz (maaskant) Interior Festival Design, Timm Rautert Cover Image, Thomas Bruns Chapter Images, Remco Schuurbiers Chapter Images, PrintFactory Berlin Printing, Tine Gundelach (34k) Web Design, Stefan Schreck (34k) Web Design, Luxoom & das werk novalisstraße Video Trailer, Console Sound Video Trailer, Phillip Sünderhauf (serve-u) Technical Director, Andreas Buchholz Technical Director/IT, Katrin Gausepohl Assistant Technical Direction
advisory board Alex Adriaansens, Ann-Marie Duguet, John Hanhardt, Dr Wulf Herzogenrath, Joachim Sauter, Yukiko Shikata
supporters
Funders: Hauptstadt Kulturfonds
Partners & collaborators: HKW, Goethe Institut, Geier-Tronic, Holsten Pilsner, TREND Micro, Bundeszentrale politische Bildung
Award sponsors: Avid, FRITZ!
Supporters: Ableton, Art+COM, Freixenet, fubac Media Solutions AG, Gerolsteiner, Granini, Hansa Computer, Havana Club, ibis Accor Hotels, luxoom, Das Werk Berlin, Native Instruments, Red Bull, Smirnof, Triad, Volkswagen Art Foundation, Volkswagen Sound Foundation, Auswärtiges Amt, Embassy of Australia, British Council, Danish Contemporary Art Foundation, Embassy of Finland, Embassy of France, BMF Bureau de la Musique Francaise, Fundación Telefónica, Embassy of Israel, Embassy of Italy, Embassy of Canada, Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln, M, Mondriaan Fonds, Embassy of the Netherlands, Embassy of Norway, Österreichisches Kulturforum, Podewil, Polnisches Institute Berlin, Kulturbüro von Quebec Berlin, Embassy of Switzerland, Pro Helvetia, Swiss Music Export, Bundesamt für Kultur Schweiz, Embassy of Spanien, Tschechiches Zentrum, Embassy of the USA, Werkleitz Gesellschaft e.V., IN-Berlin
Media partners: arte, De:Bug, intro.de, Le Monde Diplomatique, Mute, die tageszeitung, Radio Eins, Wire, Zitty