Lives Streams From transmediale through Feb. 1

Author: Ryan Platt

Posted: 1/28/2009 - 2:45am

This post is just a brief note to alert any interested parties to the possibility of handy live streams from the transmediale festival in Berlin. I haven't entirely wrapped my head around the festival yet, and frankly, I suspect it doesn't deserve a ringing endorsement. It is a strange, sometimes seemingly cobbled together series of events, lectures, and art projects related to digital culture with an emphasis on music and sound. Its theme this year is "True North," which seems to want to address ecological extremities of global space in connection to the question of digital media. This reminds me of a not-too-shabby video piece, "Break" that I saw in the fall as part of the "European Month of Photography" made in 2004 by Christoph Brech of a Canadian ice cutter. (Could it be that that there is actually something to the connection between nordic ecology and sound?)

It's going to take me a few days to sort out Transmediale's odd array of offerings, and as I would rather not commit my time to trekking across Berlin in order to attend dubious events, I'm thankful to have the live streams available, as listed below:

The language of the streams is predominantly English. All times are GMT+1.

CONFERENCE EVENTS

All streamed from Auditorium, HKW, Berlin

Tuesday 27.1

Opening Ceremony
01/27/2009 ? 16:00

Wednesday 28.1

Action between Art, Industry, Policy (DE only)
01/28/2009 - 13:00

Sonolevitation & Untitled Sound Objects Performance
01/28/2009 - 20:00

Thursday 29.1

ClimateCulture - Climate change as cultural change
01/29/2009 - 13:00

Making / Thinking: The Cultural Tomorrow
01/29/2009 - 14:00

the Making and the Thinking of Culture
01/29/2009 - 14:30

Arctic Perspectives - Third Culture on the Floe Edge
01/29/2009 - 18:30