xxxxx_temporary_structure CTM 2009 opens tomorrow, Friday 23 January, with an open lab and actions/performances from several of the participants beginning at 19:30 and running until 22:00. The laboratory will continue to be public every day until 31 January from 12:00-22:00 daily. There will be similar actions completing the lab cycle on the final day, Saturday 31 January, at 19:00.

LOCATION

KUNSTRAUM KREUZBERG BETHANIEN

Mariannenplatz 2 10997 Berlin-Kreuzberg

Public transport: U8 > Kottbusser Tor S3, S4, S8, S9 > S-BHF Ostbahnhof 10 minutes walking distance from MAO.

http://www.kunstraumkreuzberg.de/

ABOUT

xxxxx_temporary_structure CTM 2009

Tracing a clear line of development from both xxxxx_workshops: [in]tolerance during CTM 2008 examining the material basis of technology and a series of life coding events in Norway and Germany, xxxxx hosts an experimental nine day structure widening the scope of construction and constructivism to embrace the social and economic structures of production and performance. Public interface is to be made explicit, inviting participation, visit and conversation.

xxxxx temporary structure presents the expansion of both known and less familiar constructive procedures and apparatus, for example software (Pure Data, Python) and hardware (waves, circuits, simulation) into novel territory. Software becomes script and social pragmatics, hardware expands into optics, architecture, graffiti, elaborate kinetics and novel interfaces to the world addressing biologic and physical processes; a play of light, resonance and transmission.

The relationship between structure and system is playfully opened, with the modelling of systems as core activity within the temporary lab space; simulation within both code and analogue electronics, the embedding of an internal observer allowing for a play with agents and agency.

A concern with materiality and construction forms the base for an energetic examination of all manner of diagrams, public interface (reading space, discussion), bio-computing (plant life, EEG), world interface (practical endophysics), everyday technologies (light, food), code, transitions and translations. Such disciplines branch out mushroom like, revealing instabilities and new structures across nine days, in one space, publicly accessible throughout.

xxxxx temporary structure is inherently experimental and interdisciplinary, inviting practitioners and artists who are well able to prise open the gaps between reified disciplines to actively create new social and constructive apparatus within the xxxxx space.

A playful laboratory is proposed which does not mark boundaries between forms and between disciplines - which rather exposes and opens up social and artistic structures for sublime experience.

PARTICIPANTS

Alexei Blinov Danja Vassiliev Derek Holzer Dorotha Walentynowicz Georg Holzmann Jonathan Kemp Julian Oliver Lars Lundehave Hansen Lindsay Brown Martin Howse Martin Kuentz Oswald Berthold Otto Roessler Rob Mullender Shintaro Miyazaki Valentina Vuksic Verena Friedrich Walter Langelaar Will Scrimshaw Yunchul Kim

MORE INFO

http://www.clubtransmediale.de/festival-09/day-program/workshops-actions/xxx... http://scrying.org/doku.php?id=xxxxx:ctm09