*Note that this "reSource" is not the time-honored San Francisco emanation "RE/Search," but a new effort by Transmediale festival. It's probably composed entirely on sleek German-language iPads by fantastically hip Berlin guys whose dads were Kraftwerk roadies. Sorry, Vale.
reSource newsletter #3
English version
The reSource for transmedial culture, the recently-born all-year networking platform of transmediale, aims to facilitate collaboration and sharing of projects and knowledge between artists, hackers, activists, researchers and cultural producers. After the festival, the reSource programme is oriented towards the creation of distributed contexts of exchange and visibility for local and translocal communities in Berlin and in the broader field of net culture. The reSource programme will be developed in synergy with the thematic framework of transmediale 2013, and at the same time it will contribute to strengthen the concepts and reflections already initiated during transmediale 2k+12. In the following we would like to share with you what kinds of reSource activities you can expect during the year.
New activity: reSource Chats
reSource 001: “Trial Crack” @ General Public
reSource 002 @ Kunsthaus Bethanien/Kreuzberg, 22-24 August
Review: reSource at transmediale 2k+12
Review: reSource at Aksioma Project Space, Ljubljana
New activity: reSource Chats
In April we started a first phase of the reSource activity: the reSource Chats. The aim of this ongoing investigation is to address independent groups and art producers of Berlin, researching in which ways the reSource can contribute as a platform for networking enrichment. By sharing knowledge with cultural agents and independent curators in Berlin, the idea is to create a distributed map of art, hacktivism and networking projects in the city, and to encourage exchange of ideas and experiences. The day by day documentation of such an investigation will be published on our blog (i.e. photos, contents of discussion, quotes, suggestions, etc.).
The reSource Chats are meant to be an open process: If you have any suggestions of project spaces in Berlin we should contact, or if you are a group of event organisers in the field of art, hacktivism and net culture with similar interests to the ones of the reSource (see our Statement of Interest), please get in contact with us: [email protected].
Read more about the reSource Chats here.
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reSource 001: “Trial Crack” @ General Public, 11-12 May
The first reSource event after transmediale 2k+12 will be held on 11-12 May, at General Public (Schönhauser Allee 167, 10435 Berlin; U2 Senefelder Platz). On 11 May, from 15:00 to 19:00 there will be a collective discussion on networking methodologies of curating and distributed logic of artistic production with cultural producers based in Berlin. The discussion is moderated by Tatiana Bazzichelli and Kristoffer Gansing (transmediale), Stéphane Bauer (Kunstraum Kreuzberg /Bethanien), Oliver Baurhenn (CTM/Disk), Clemens Apprich and Oliver Lerone Schultz (Post-Media Lab, Leuphana University Lüneburg), who will introduce the general framework, and open up the discussion to the audience.
* For this first part of the event, please rsvp via email to confirm your attendance at [email protected]. *
After the open discussion the programme continues with audio-visual performances at the Liebig12 independent space (20:00 until late, Liebigstraße 12, 10247 Berlin; U5 FrankfurterTor).
The next day, on 12 May, the reSource programme focuses on three open discussions on the status of network topologies in the field of network economy, hacktivism and queer culture: “Sustainable Disruption” (13:00-14:50); “Post Privacy” (15:30-17:00) and “Queer Shifts” (17:30-19:00). The participants are (amongst others): tante ("Jürgen Geuter") / Die datenschutzkritische Spackeria, Michael Seeman aka @mspro /ctrl-verlust.net, Gregor Sedlag, Alexander Müller/Hedonist International, Weise 7, Lena Braun, Georgios Papadopolous and Rasa Smite. There is limited space at the venue. Please arrive on time to secure seating.
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reSource 002 @ Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, 22-24 August
The second event of the reSource is scheduled for the 22-24 August at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien. The programme will be divided into a series of practical activities, such as workshops, talks and networking interventions. The main goal of this event is to consolidate the networking activities started in spring, and continue the dialogue further, initiating art projects with touchdowns at transmediale 2013 – continuously from August 2012 to January 2013. The detailed programme will be announced on our blog after the event in May.
If you would like to propose artistic projects or art interventions in the field of hacktivism, networked art and network politics, please contact us at resource[at]transmediale.de
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Review: the reSource programme at transmediale 2k+12
The successful launch of the reSource took place at transmediale 2k+12 with a constellation of workshops, talks and performances distributed into five different sub-themes: reSource methods, reSource activism, reSource networks, reSource markets and reSource sex. During transmediale 2k+12 the diverse background and field of interventions of artists and activists involved in the programme (approx. 100 participants) enabled the possibility of generating a broad discourse touching different perspectives, from hacktivism to business disruption and from network politics to queer culture (read more about the programme here). The result was a collective meta reflection on distributive, iterative and socially-engaged models of participation and culture innovation, through both theory and practice.
Photos of the reSource events at transmediale 2k+12 can be found on Flickr; while some reports written by the workshop organisers are on our blog.
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Review: reSource at Aksioma Project Space, Ljubljana
Immediately after the festival, the first International partner event of the reSource took place at the project space of Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana: the exhibition Telekommunisten: Miscommunication Technologies - R15N (19 March to 6 April 2012). It was organised as part of the framework of the reSource for transmedial culture, in whose context the project R15N was initially launched. At the exhibition opening Dmytri Kleiner presented the Telekommunisten Manifesto section "P2P Communism vs Client-Server Capitalism" and Tatiana Bazzichelli introduced the evening presenting the reSource for transmedial culture.
Photos of the reSource event at Aksioma Project Space are also on Flickr.
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