BWPWAP - transmediale 2013 Back When Pluto Was a Planet // transmediale 2013 Call for Works // The Vilém Flusser Residency Programme for Artistic Research
///////////////// 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 The video programme is devoted to contemporary artistic video works and experimental film screenings with historical references.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planetary status in 2006 and is commonly used whenever one wants to point out that a statement or opinion is resting on no longer valid data.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/ /////////////////////////// The Vilém Flusser Residency Programme for Artistic Research Submission Deadline: July 31 2012 We are calling upon artistic research to actively explore the capabilities and limitations of transdisciplinary and transmedial situations in contemporary culture and thus to understand artistic research as exploring the links between aesthetics, materiality and politics. The Vilém Flusser Residency Programme for Artistic Research supports projects and activities which are simultaneously conceptual and practice-based. The programme is geared towards the initiation of new research or to the further development of existing projects. For Vilém Flusser, theory and praxis are intrinsically tied to each other. His nomadic thinking was shaped by a philosophy of positions, experimental testing of different ways of thinking and the linking of different disciplines and methodologies played a significant role in his work. Not the search for the truth but rather the playing around with the aesthetic constitution of truth characterised his thinking, often developed in dialogue with others. A fundamental principle of his philosophy is the dialogue between the disciplines, points of view and methodologies. Knowledge production as a dialogue between different standpoints, such as between science and art, laboratory and applied research, old and new media, local and global forms of organisation, is therefore the guiding principle for the concept of artistic research, which is supported by the Vilém Flusser Residency Programme for Artistic Research. This is not a production grant and while a public presentation/event will be expected, there is no pressure to present finished works. Where applicable, the support of publications, exhibitions, interventions and other results of the residency may be negotiated on a project-to-project basis. Special priority will be given to young and/or emerging artist-researchers. Note The residency begins in April 2013, as a minimum of two months work-and research-residency in Berlin. The applicant selected by the jury will have the oppportunity to further develop the submitted project during the time of the residency. The programme includes: # travel costs to Berlin # stipend of 1000 EUR per month # studio / workspace in the _vilém_flusser_archive at the University of Arts (UDK) in Berlin. Further details of the project presentation at the transmediale festival and _vilém_flusser_archive will be negotiated directly with the applicant. Submission Deadline: July 31 2012 -------------------------------------------------------- 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 kulturprojekte berlin gmbh aufsichtsratsvorsitzender volker heller geschäftsführer moritz van dülmen amtsgericht berlin charlottenburg, HRB 41312 B ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
