Hosted by Mark Butler (us)
With the adludicators Natascha Adamowsky (de), Georg Russegger (at), Daphne Dragona (gr), Mathias Fuchs (at) and special guests. With participating projects by Steve Lambert (us), Shu Lea Cheang (tw/de), Johannes P Osterhoff (de), Ricardo Amaral (bz/de) and Paolo Podrescu aka Podinski (usa/de).

The Ludic Interface Research Group (L.I.R.G.) cordially invites everyone at transmediale 2012 to partake in a contemporary version of the surrealist game Le Cadavre Exquis. In the course of this event, different projects from the reSource for transmedial culture initiative – which is aimed at facilitating collaboration at the intersection of art, technology, hacktivism and politics – will be brought into a playful dialogue with each other through aleatoric, agonal and just plainly ludicrous methods. In the process, the in/compatibilities of everyone in the room as well as their undead-unconscious "lamella" (Žižek) will be sounded out. This Ludic Salon will lead into the official launch of the reSource initiative, which will spread the transmediale across the entire calendar year.

Presentation by Steve Lambert

Presentation by Shu Lea Cheang

Presentation by Paolo Podrescu aka Podinski

Presentation by Ricardo Amaral

Presentation by Dmytri Kleiner

Presentation by Nicholas Knouf

4 February 2012 Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin
transmediale 2k+12 in/compatible

Panel with Anthony Iles (uk) + Rachel Baker (uk), Liza Tsaliki (gr) and Norifumi Ogawa (jp)
Moderated by Krystian Woznicki (de/pl)

Riots in Great Britain, uprisings in Greece, crisis in Japan – what do these social eruptions have in common? The world system is in turmoil – a process that not only disrupts the fragile order of the global South but more and more aggressively also those walled gardens composing the industrialised world. Suddenly we are talking about failed states located inside exclusive clubs such as the G8 and the Euro-17. Before we are able to understand the implications of this far-reaching transformation, we notice new authoritarian trends in politics foreclosing democratic processes.

In this time of social crisis we have to ask about the potential of social media. After all it is a strong collaborative grassroots quality that qualifies them as platforms for social change. With respect to the walled gardens in crisis, this panel wonders: What are seminal practices and applications of social media? What is their disruptive potential in increasingly authoritarian media landscapes?

Presentation by Norifumi Ogawa (in Japanese)

Presentation by Norifumi Ogawa (in German simultaneous translation)

Composition, additional recordings, synthesizer, and German text-to-speech by Pedro Oliveira. Telephone dialogue extracted from samples of speech corpora freely available on the internet.

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