Berlin, 29.01.2021, http://transmediale.de In this cinema and gender studies talk, Honig takes up elements from three movies (A.R.Holmer, C.Chaplin, L.v.Trier) to show how the body reacts with movements to being fixated by norms and violent gazes. Especially the female body. She sketches a historical arc from the Greek “Bakchantes” to contemporary incarnations of the same…
Berlin, January 29, 2021, http://transmediale.de Lewis talked about computer game workshops he conducted with indigenous Hawaiians. He talked about the importance of creating one´s own questions and narratives, instead of accepting the generous help of caretakers, who unfortunately also impose their own worldviews in the caretaking process. He pleaded for a digital emancipation of indigenous…
Prague, September 22 – 28, 2017, https://lustrfestival.cz The fourth edition of a festival dedicated to contemporary illustration. In fact, the focus was on the youngest generation of illustrators emerging in Czech Republic with a number of foreign guests invited. This event was on the design side, which had its advantages. It was incredibly user friendly.…
Berlin, February 2 – March 5, 2017, http://www.transmediale.de This was a very nice new media art exhibition. Everything was perfectly set up, with theatrical spot lighting in a dimly lit spacious hall. There was a perfect balance of different media, as well as artwork sizes. There were some screens with videos, but not too many,…
Berlin, 6pm-8pm, February 5, 2017, https://2017.transmediale.de Johannes Paul Raether was talking first. His artwork Protektor.x.x has been also part of the transmediale exhibition. All his thought seem to be channeled through the set of colorful clown-like alter ego performances, where he addresses the questions of gender and biotechnology. He talked about witches preventing a rationalization…
Hong Kong, May 16 – 22, 2016, http://isea2016.isea-international.org/ ISEA is a conference/symposium dedicated to electronic arts. Not an exhibition or festival, but still centered on the topic of art and creation in digital art. The main difference to “usual” art events has been a certain inward-orientation of the event which has not been advertised publicly…
Seoul, October 2015, Seoul, http://scriptsymposia.org This looked like an interesting event, and it could have been, if I was able to understand what actually was going on. Unfortunately most of the “World Script Symposium” consisted of Koreans talking about something in Korean that I did not understand. There have also been some artistic interventions in…
Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, January 29 – February 3, 2013 Transmediale (TM) is an very ‘old’ new media art festival in Berlin, which is running more than 25 years. Originally conceived as a warm-up week for the Berlinale film festival (which takes place the following week), it developed into a separate event touching…
