02/01/2012 | 18:30 EST | Botschaft von Kanada
transmediale Marshall McLuhan Lecture 2012: Andrew Feenberg
Ten Paradoxes of Technology
With the transmediale Marshall McLuhan Lecture the transmediale invites a figure from the Canadian cultural landscape, whose work expands on McLuhan’s media theories in the context of contemporary culture and society to present their insights.
This year’s speaker Andrew Feenberg is Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Technology at the School of Communication of Simon Fraser University. His lecture is entitled Ten Paradoxes of Technology, and with it Feenberg will present a philosophy of technology by drawing upon what we have learnt in the last 30 years as we abandoned old Heideggerian and positivist notions and faced the real world of technology. Knowing that most of our common sense ideas about technology are wrong, Feenberg will present ten propositions put forth in the form of paradoxes (albeit using the word loosely). The story is one of reconciling the incompatibilities between whole and part, lay and expert, means and ends, authority and democracy, reason and experience.
The evening will be moderated by Kristoffer Gansing.
Doors Open: 18:00 (please allow sufficient time for Embassy security)
This is a free event and the lecture will take place in English. To RSVP please email rsvp@transmediale.de with the subject heading McLuhan Lecture. Please be prepared to present a valid photo-ID at the door.
02/02/2012 - 02/05/2012 | Marshall McLuhan Salon
transmediale 2012: The Jeremy Bailey Collection
Jeremy Bailey (Toronto, 1979) is a new media, video and performance artist. This exhibition marks Bailey's first in Berlin and will include recent examples of many of his signature video works and ephemera, including Public Sculpture, VideoPaint, Colours of the Spectrum and Video Terraform Dance Party. In these works Bailey's "famous new media artist" persona demonstrates custom software of his own design. This software typically incorporates gestural interfaces and often augments reality in a way that Bailey satirically proposes makes us "much much more creative". Bailey applies his creative panache to help solve a diverse set of problems, from fascist oppression to city planning.
Opening hours:
Thu-Fri: 10:00-18:00, Sat & Sun: 14:00-18:00
Preview date & time: February 1, 20:00-22:00
Address: Marshall McLuhan Salon, Embassy of Canada, access via Leipziger Platz 17, 10117 Berlin
S/U Potsdamer Platz
02/10/2012 - 02/19/2012 | Marshall McLuhan Salon
Berlinale Forum Expanded: Steve Reinke - The Tiny Ventriloquist
// Canada 2011, HDCAM, 60 minutes, cinema projection and 4-channel video installation, with contributions from James Richards
The Tiny Ventriloquist is a suite of shorter works. Perhaps the titles to some of the components best communicate the breadth and flavour of the work: Great Blood Sacrifice, Beaver Skull Magick, Cartoon for those who have a certain fondness for ideas but are tired of thinking, The Root problem of the World, My Name is Karlheinz Stockhausen, Ass Reclaim Insert, What is Called Drinking (We Have Not Yet Begun to Drink). In these works, Reinke tries on and discards many voices, stances, histories, and ideologies. His style ranges from drawn animation to home and diary video to found footage. Connecting the wide range of stylistic approaches is Steve Reinke himself, acting as the narrator of his darkly humorous miniatures. Together they form a machine for draining all meaning from the world. Steve Reinke, born in 1963 in Canada, lives and works in Chicago.
Opening hours:
Mo. - Fr.: 12 - 18h,
Sa. & Sun.: 14 - 18h
Artist talk with Steve Reinke: 14.02.2012, 12:00-14:00
in conversation with Stefanie Schulte Strathaus
Opening: 10.2., 18:00-21:00; Steve Reinke will be present to open the exhibition
02/29/2012 - 02/29/2012 | 19:00 EST | Embassy of Canada
Art, Culture and Open Technology in the Changing Arctic
// CIRCUM / POLARITY is a r0g_media event in collaboration with the Embassy of Canada, hosted by the Marshall McLuhan Salon in conjunction with the ‘German-Canadian Arctic Science and Research Conference.’
As interest in the Arctic circumpolar region grows, so too does the cultural significance of its residents, and their need to assert their identities, autonomy and partnership in a networked, global community. Facing contemporary challenges and opportunities in what has been a largely unknown and remote landscape, a unique cultural entity becomes visible with new urgency and relevance to global society. Considered the world’s ‘early
warning system’ for a changing climate, the Arctic also provides a unique opportunity to experience and learn from the privileged knowledge and perspective that circumpolar cultures can provide to the rest of the world. The evening will introduce the Arctic Perspective Initiative and Circumpolar Cultures and Technologies summit, which aim at providing platforms for the indispensable roles played by art and open, collaborative and public domain technologies, in helping to create sustainable and independent Arctic societies.
Speakers:
Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag, artist, composer and spectral, acoustics researcher
Mark Resch, digital and emerging technologies, strategist
Stephen Kovats, architect, media arts and digital, culture researcher
The event is free and will take place in English. Spaces are limited so please RSVP: events@r0g-media.org or register online in advance.
Access via Leipziger Platz 17, 10117 BerlinS+U Potsdamer Platz