transmediale

transmediale is a design conference based in Berlin where people collaborate together to create a variety of designs. The theme used this year was based on global warming. At first I was slightly dubious about this particular concept due to the fact that I felt this would limit the type of stuff that would be seen. Below is some in-depth information about this conference.


“transmediale is an international festival for contemporary art and digital culture. Located in Berlin, it presents advanced artistic positions reflecting on the socio-cultural impact of new technologies. It seeks out artistic practices that not only respond to scientific or technical developments, but that try to shape the way in which we think about and experience these technologies.”(1)


I really liked the fact that I was exposed to an eclectic mixture of work that I normally wouldn’t normally encounter. On the downside however I did feel that most of the work were more conceptually strong rather than technically strong.


One of the surprisingly elements of the conference were the daily lectures on different aspects of global warming, in particular the one I found interesting was the Lecture on Deep North in which they talked in-depth about the repercussions of what we as a human race have done to our planet, and how long it would take “realistically”, to solve thee problems.

Below is a list of resources used within this post.

Bibliography
(1) http://www.transmediale.de/