transmediale.10 - FUTURITY NOW
transmediale is an international festival for contemporary art and digital culture founded in 1988, which takes place annually in Berlin. In 2010 it ran from 2-7 February, and Haus Projects was delighted to work with the festival team to help deliver events and manage artist liaison. tm.10 had over 200 participants from around the world, and we were excited to develop an ambitious programme of guest services and festival support for all those involved.
transmediale is the largest festival of its kind in the world, a celebration of culturally significant advanced artistic outlooks, using new technologies. The festival takes place at Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt (House of World Cultures), and includes exhibitions, performances, screenings, a conference, a programme of in-depth discussions and talks, workshops, a publication, and partner events.
The tm.10 theme was 'FUTURITY NOW!' 2010 has long been “a year which has been synonymous with past images of the future. Writers and commentators throughout the 20th century strove to depict 2010 as a shining example of a future framed by technological progress and social harmony.
"As 2010 begins, it is clear that global society is neither the utopia nor the dystopia traditionally presented in these fictions, architectures and theories of the future. Rather, it is an increasingly complex web... The future is experiencing an identity crisis. transmediale hope to act as a connection machine for the debate that now we are living in a time of atemporailty, where the future has caught up with us, and our task now is to define it.
"With FUTURITY NOW! transmediale.10 explores what roles internet evolution, global network practice, open source methodologies, sustainable design and mobile technology play in forming new cultural, ideological and political templates. The festival will invite artists, scientists, media activists, thinkers and visionaries to ask not what the future has in store for us, but what do we have in store for the future?"
Beckie spent over a month out in Berlin, working closely with the team on festival and guest service logisitics, which she then delivered through the 5 day festival.
The full transmediale.10 programme can be found here.
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