Die transmediale ist ein Festival und ganzjähriges Projekt in Berlin, das neue Verbindungen zwischen Kunst, Kultur und Technologie herausstellt. Die Aktivitäten der transmediale zielen darauf ab, ein kritisches Verständnis der gegenwärtigen, von Medientechnologien geprägten Kultur und Politik zu festigen. Im Laufe seiner 28-jährigen Geschichte hat sich das jährliche transmediale Festival zu einem der wichtigsten Events in den Kalendern von Medienkunstexperten, Künstlern, Aktivisten und Studenten aus aller Welt etabliert. Der umfassende kulturelle Ansatz des Festivals wurde auch von der Bundesregierung anerkannt, die die transmediale als Leuchtturmprojekt der Gegenwartskultur unterstützt.
The Quantifiable
Everything?
STARTS Roundtable on The Internet of Things
The panel is organised through the STARTS initiative that sets out to bring together artists, scientists and technologists to explore new ways of working.
"Stop pretending that bits don't decay. Or that the virtual lacks any real-world consequences. The Internet of Things is at hand. Things that are Internet. Internet that is things. It's gonna settle that argument once and for all." - Bruce Sterling at the transmediale 2014 afterglow, opening ceremony.
When every thing and its potential relation to every other thing is assigned a number, physical reality becomes addressable and open to new economic and social interactions. This panel asks if tech developers, hackers and artists can respond in both critical and constructive ways to the challenges of the quantification of every-thing in ways that reach beyond the banal visions of the self-ordering fridge and the city as a digitally assisted playground. In a future hyper-connected society with semi-autonomous objects, what are the socio-cultural challenges and opportunities of the drive towards interconnected material and immaterial structures, through "Smart" technologies, innovation, maker and app driven economies? The panel is organised through the STARTS initiative that sets out to bring together artists, scientists and technologists to explore new ways of working.
Tickets:
8,00 € | erm. 5,00 €
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www.transmediale.de
(Photo: Still taken from "GoPro HD: Hero2 - Surfing In Egypt - Tomorrow May Never Come " by Hazem Hosny on Youtube. © Artwork by The Laboratory of Manuel Bürger)