overall i found transmediale a bit hit and miss, there were some aspects of it i really enjoyed and came away with a lot, the things i didn't really like were probably just the ones that didn't apply to what i want to do or am interested in.
Embedding Fear. The Internet And The Spectacle Of Hightened Alert:
4 speakers about the internet's 'open system' and terrorism. From the program it says that the open system makes it not only the worlds most powerful tool of conspiratorial narrative generation but also creates the broadest 'extranational' platform for the creation and dissemination of political, military and corporate propagand. Sounds interesting, but you'd be wrong. Only one of the speakers engaged the audience through storytelling and animations. The others just really talked at the audience, and while some people liked this conference i found it incredibly dull and disagreed with a lot of it. This was probably the only thing i really didn't like out of the whole event.
Constraint City - The Pain Of Everyday Life:
'Constraint City' is a critical performance in urban space, which stands as a scarcastic contribution to the discussion of 'locative' and 'wearable media' linking into a tradition of psychogeography, the philosophising of pleasure and pain.
I really enjoyed this talk. To sum it up very quickly, Gordan Savicic has designed what looks like a corset and tightens when there is a lot of wifi signals being sent in an area. Interesting use of something wearable interacting with newer and increasingly popular technologies and the elements of control the wearer has. At first i thought that the wearer had little or no control but thinking about it more, the wearer can change route, walk away or towards strong wifi signals and therefore controlling the amount of pain they are in. I thought of this film and talk as being representational of the pain and pleasure technology can give. I suppose just relating it to mundane pc use, the pleasure comes from playing games or chatting and the pain elements from slow connections, crashing and losing work?
When You're Strange:
A group of different films
Stranger Comes To Town:
Six people are interviewed anonymously about their experiences coming into the us. Each then designes a video game avatar who tells their story by proxy. Jacqueline Goss focuses on the questions and examinations used to establish identity at the border, and how these processes in turn affect one's own sense of self and view of the world.
Really enjoyed this film, and interesting how we can relate to avatars and sympathise with them and get a feel for their identity and story even though they are animations and computer graphics. What i liked about this film was that we would hear the persons voice before we saw their avatar which may have helped more in creating identity. Humourous in places too and reminded me a lot of the creature comforts adverts Nick Park did.
Arameans:
Video questions the mobility of the Arameans in the Lebanese social context. The film tells the story of an Assyrian Woman who experienced bombings. I'm not sure this film got its point across that well and felt a bit forgettable to me. Not really applicable to what i'm doing or interested in.Bilder aus dem Tagebuch eines Wartenden:
This is a search for the lost, or to be more exact wasted time spent during obligatory military service on the edge of Schengen country, which is embodied by the absurd micro-performances of the young showoffs and in banal, everyday monologs about the sense (or lack thereof) of their presence, enlarged to almost Becket-like dimensions.
Probably my favourite film i saw over there and very memorable. Like a video diary and reminded me very much of a blog with the mundane activities of people you don't know. Clever how it was made to be very funny and made you care about what happened to the people in the film, which has given me more to think about for my own work.Beach
A personal account in the form of an out of tune TV broadcast; an accelerating stream of images, depicting a family on the beach in Tel Aviv, is juxtaposed with a video of a girl running frantically on a bombed beach in Gaza, only about 100 kilometers away.
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