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Transmediale.07 Jan-Peter Sonntag - Borders and the Infinite
Saturday, 03 February, 2007 - 21:42
Jan-Peter E. R. Sonntag's presentation, Borders and the Infinite, was unusual in that he sat, mostly motionless on stage, and did not speak until the end of the session. Sonntag is an artist and composer, whose recent work concentrates on electricity research, video, installations and performance, but his presentation was profoundly about the sound as a form, phenomenon and 'fluid' medium.
His presentation began with a prerecorded female voice reading, we assume, Sonntag's own words, acknowledging that those words, written one month before, served to draw attention to the gaps in space and time that media open up and close down. Interstices remained a constant theme in a presentation which touched on the relation of sound to the body, Einsteinian relativity (again), and misapprehensions of Walter Benjamin and the Aura, and an acknowledgement of John Cage's attention to the musical pause.
Sonntag's sat for 55 minutes during his presentation, isolated on the panel, occasionally showing his enjoyment of the malaprops his voice artists committed, and which he evidently left in as a pleasure of the nature of human sound and breath, rather than deliver a sanitised production. Significantly his presentation argued that art need have no purpose - has no purpose - can be meant not to mean. An interesting performance.
WE ARE PODCASTING TRANSMEDIALE.07
Saturday, 27 January, 2007 - 02:05
As many of you couldn't join us at Transmediale art & digital culture festival in Berlin this year, we thought we'd bring the festival to you...
We have created videos and podcasts for you of all the interesting and bizarre things we experienced at Transmediale.07. "The 20th Transmediale festival again explores how art and society are changing under the influence of media and technologies which become more and more dominant in our everyday lives" (Intro, transmediale.07).
>We attended the festival as part of our teaching and research activities in IPE (Research Centre in Interactivity, Personalization & Experience). Beyond being fun, these podcasts are free to use as teaching and research resources for all of you interested in what's happening at the cutting-edge of interactive and digital media.
VIEW OUR PODCASTS:
PODCAST 1: We have arrived!
AUDIO: Arthur Kroker: Born Again Ideology - Keynote
VIDEO: David Rokeby - Taken
VIDEO: Herwig Weiser - Death Before Disco
VIDEO: Aram Bartholl - Random Screen
PODCAST 2: Interactive installations
AUDIO: Jan-Peter Sonntag - Borders and the Infinite
AUDIO: Orhan Esen & AbdouMaliq Simone - Unfinished Cities
VIDEO: Herman Asselberghs - Proof of Life
VIDEO: Moon Na - Against God By Water Pistol
VIDEO: Roman Kirschner - Roots
PODCAST 3: Interactive installation and keynotes
PODCAST 4: IPE interview Arthur Kroker
VIDEO: Technocalyps: Frank Theys Interview
View a slideshow of a selection of photos from the festival....View>
VIEW THE FESTIVAL PROGRAMME... more>
Highlights from the festival we'll be checking out include:
- unfinish! exhibition, dedicated to "open-ended artistic approaches to technology";
- film & video screenings, ranging from "feature-length documentaries to a number of compilation programmes with short artistic video works";
- audio-visual live performances, involving artistic and musical experiments reflecting this year's topic unfinish! "Diverse methods of production are being interwoven and combined";
- unfinish! conference, dealing with "the phenomenon of finiteness in art, science, architecture, computer science and politics"; and...
- ...the after-hours club transmediale CTM, presenting "outstanding international productions in electronic music and audiovisual performance", as well as some inebriated fun (...we hope).
HERE ARE A COUPLE OF OTHER EXHIBITS FOR YOU...
Tim Shore (UK) - Cabinet
transmediale.07 - video
nomination for transmediale Award
Seiko Mikami (Japan) - Desire of Codes
transmediale.07 - installation
courtesy: all images are for press use and copyright of transmediale.07
IPE RESEARCH & PRODUCTION TEAM:
CLAUDIA VIEIRA; JOE FLINTHAM; JAMES JORDAN; MARK SHUFFLEBOTTOM
We'd like to thank Andreas Broeckmann, Artistic Director, Transmediale.07 for allowing us to video podcast from the festival directly.
