Covermotiv: Iannis Xenaxis, study for Polytope de Cluny (light trajectory diagrams), c. 1972. With kind permission by les Amis de Xenakis. All rights reserved. For the cover, the original drawing was processed by Beton.
Inspired by this pre-Internet idea of networks, transmediale 2020 – »End to End« focuses on both forgotten and potential futures with and without networks. Leaving behind a decade marked by a backlash against the Internet and the network society, transmediale aims at a comprehensive re-evaluation of networks and their limits.
Focusing on infrastructure for future networks of care, Forum is an installation and web application by artist Jelena Viskovic inspired by the ReUnion.network.* Playing on the public/private aspects of fountains and indoor bath culture, the installation is both a “discrete leisure” and public space that features a salt crystallization process, sculpturally marking a local space-time relation. Visitors are invited to interact with this process through a web application as they become part of a network of users connected through shared space and distributed time.
*ReUnion is an initiative that proposes an ecosystem for collective well-being through P2P care agreements and relationship-driven cryptocurrency in response to society’s atomization. http://reunionnetwork.org
Credits and collaborators
Sculptor/Fabricator: Thomas Grogan
Technical Assistant: Akinsola Lawanson
Fabrication Assistant: Thomas Pearson
Web Development: Rites Network (Tamas Pall, Tamas Marquetant), Akinsola Lawanson
Special Thanks: Anna Mikkola, Laurence Symonds
A cooperation of transmediale and the Digital Solitude program of Akademie Schloss Solitude.
Where: transmediale / Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin
When: January 28 to March 1, 2020
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