<nettime-ann> transmediale.10 - FUTURITY NOW! Early Bird Passes available until Dec 18!

[stephen kovats <kovats@transmediale.de>]

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FUTURITY NOW!
transmediale.10 |  2 - 7 feb 2010
festival for art and digital culture berlin
*Early bird discounts of 10% on transmediale.10  Passes until  
December 18, 2009*


'But my mind was too confused to attend to it, so with a kind of  
madness growing upon me, I flung myself into futurity.'
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

As 2010 approaches - a year which has been synonymous with past  
images of the future - it is clear that global society is neither the  
utopia nor the dystopia traditionally presented in the fictions,  
architectures and theories of the 20th century. Rather, it is an  
increasingly complex web of economic, political and cultural systems  
dependent on the convergence of rapidly evolving technologies that  
compress what used to be thought of as 'future' into a more coherent  
and malleable 'present'. As the future catches up to us, as a concept  
of technological evolution and progress, it seems to be experiencing  
an identity crisis.

transmediale.10 FUTURITY NOW! invites YOU to ask not what the future  
has in store for us, but what is it that we have in store for the  
future?


Dear Spectrites!

The programme for transmediale.10 - FUTURITY NOW! taking place Feb.  
02 - 07, 2010 in Berlin is almost complete!

The festival kicks off Tuesday evening, February 2 at Berlin's  
landmark House of World Cultures with a welcome address by Computer  
Art pioneer Herbert W. Franke and a special live concert featuring  
Charlemagne Palestine playing Berlin's unique bell tower - the  
Tiergarten Carillon.

The festivalâs exhibition âFuture Obscuraâ, by transmediale  
guest curator Honor Harger presents artworks that use the materials,  
mechanisms and machines of image-making to illuminate and define our  
relationship with atemporality - the collision of past, present and  
future. Over a dozen international artists, including Zilvinas  
Kempinas, Julius von Bismarck, Ken Rinaldo, Alice Miceli and Julien  
Maire, have created create interdisciplinary explorations of light  
and chronology - some of which are new works premiering at  
transmediale.10 - which will unfold across the House of World  
Cultures, and several urban spaces within Berlin.

http://www.transmediale.de/en/transmediale10-exhibition-future-obscura

The daily programme begins on Wednesday February 3rd with the âFree  
Culture Incubatorâ Salons curated by Public Art Lab curator Ela  
Kagel, the Phuturama sub-conference hosted by c-base 'conceptioneer'  
Gregor Sedlag and this yearâs Marshall McLuhan Lecture by  
telepresence artist Graham Smith. Daily screenings curated by Marcel  
Schwerin highlight works from the Award competition and explore  
atemporal junctures between technology and image production.

Spectacular performances by Ryoji Ikeda and JÃrgen Reble with Thomas  
KÃner initiate tm.10âs extensive live programme including six  
events in collaboration with CTM which also reflect their theme  
'Overlap', and feature some of the most important figures working  
within music and sound today.

http://www.transmediale.de/en/festival/performances

The tm.10 'Future Observatory' conference, with keynotes by Bruce  
Sterling, Conrad Wolfram and Richard Barbrook, kicks off on Friday  
February 5, with a special âFuturity Long Conversationâ bringing  
23 leading artists, designers, theorists, journalists and media  
interventionists, including people such as Jem Finer (Longplayer),  
Susan Neiman (Einstein Forum), Andy Cameron (fabrica), Denisa Kera  
(transgenesis), Gustaff Harimann Iskandar (common room network),  
Trebor Scholz (digitallabour), RÃgine Debatty (wemakemoneynotart),  
and Warren Neidich (Flusser Award 2010 nominee) among distinguished  
others. From their own positions and experience, they will discuss,  
contextualize and explore the abstract and qualitative elements  
defining our take on what the concept of future - and with that, the  
tm.10 festival theme FUTURITY NOW! - must be today. Accompanying the  
âFuturity Long Conversationâ transmediale.10 Award nominees  
Sosolimited will unveil an entirely new work 'The Long Conversion',  
using ground-breaking text and visual analysis tools, as a tandem  
live coding performance of the The Long Conversation.

The format of the Long Conversation was developed in conjunction with  
the Long Now Foundation, an international organisation crafting ways  
with which to perceive time and durational process in radically  
different and perhaps media technologically appropriate ways. In  
their approach, we are in a period which redefines the 'now' within a  
timespan of a 1000 years, altering our notions of future and the  
acceleration of progress and development.

Artists Salons, workshops, satellite events across Berlin and a  
special night of sound art and performance from Shanghai - Myths of  
the Near Future - complete the program!




**** EARLY BIRD PASSES UNTIL DECEMBER 18th ****

Reserve your Festival Passes now for transmediale.10 FUTURITY NOW!

Early bird discounts of 10% on all transmediale.10 Day Passes and  
Festival Passes, as well as Kombi Passes for transmediale and club  
transmediale (CTM) are available until December 18, 2009 only! The  
discounts apply to all Passes - including reduced student passes, and  
are done via reservation and invoiced pre-payment.

To reserve your passes, please use the form here:

http://www.transmediale.de/en/node/10490

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More programme info, details schedules will be published soon!

We invite you to launch into futurity ... now! and join the  
'transmediale' facebook group, or follow us on twitter (you can tag  
the festival #tm10)


greetings to all, and looking forward to seeing you in Berlin,

Stephen


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transmediale.10 |  2 - 7 feb 2010
festival for art and digital culture berlin
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