[syndicate] review of transmediale 08 (for french readers only)

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thank you anna, all i'd read was the lame report in liberation
(so, my review is still the best in french)
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anna balint a écrit :
> The Signature work of Janez Jansa was reincluded in the transmediale 
> exhibition in a wonderful, hanky-panky way, though the curator 
> distanced herself from the work - i don't know why the collectively 
> realized individual Janes Jansa did not announce this  on the list.
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> Transmediale this year was significantly different from the pervious 
> editions. It was more open, more international, the lectures more 
> open-minded, friendly and loosely connected to the topic conspire. I  
> noted many idea form the lectures of Einar Thorsteinn, Otto Roessler, 
> Loretta Napoleoni, Konrad Becker, and due to the Villem Flusser Theory 
> award I met for the first time  my life a theoretician from 
> Bangladesh. Naeem Mohaiemen (bd) won a honorary mention for his paper 
> Fear of a Muslim Planet: The Islamic Roots of Hip-Hop (available at 
> http://www.shobak.org/text/hiphop-full.html).
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> I liked the most the video program of the festival - many young 
> film-makers could present their work all five days during the 
> festival. Certainly a strong selection could be made out of the movies 
> that  the transmediale festival will present tour the world. I hope 
> that the Elesyn of Billy Roisz, the Pneuma monoxyd of Thomas Körner, 
> the Desert Hot Spring Motel of Sasha Pirker will be part of the 
> selection. Also the performances of the Japanese d.v.d. duo and  
> ibitsu were precise and deep enough to offer more than entertainement. 
> Unfortunately I missed the performance of Marko Kosnik, but it must 
> have been great to have a festival director to read at the opening 
> Marko's text he has written some while ago.
> The less happy I was with the works presented at the exhibition, not 
> that it was not good exhibition - perhaps it was - but it did not 
> leave any particular impression in me. Well, that is also only partly 
> true, as a true fan of Velimir Khlebnikov I admired the way Marko 
> Peljhan persuaded Hlebnikov to collaborate with him for a special 
> object  (Marko Pelhjan, Velimir Khlebnikov: Ladomir AB 7th Surface, 
> Object, si/ru, 2008), also I liked the way the Société Réaliste 
> cleared down some religious- utopian-revolution(s) into a minimal  
> calendar-master plan, and i liked Wonder Beirut, a reverse-magic 
> photographic ritual by Joana Hadjithomas/Hlalil Joreige (lb). That's 
> it, a lot of people come every year to transmediale to see what's up, 
> later in june scepticists say every year that media art is dead, net 
> art is dead, in september new calls come to the infosphere, and so on.
> greetings from Berlin,
> anna
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> On Feb 7, 2008, at 6:01 PM, fmadre at free.fr wrote:
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