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29/1/2004

Club Transmediale.04

Maria am Ostbahnhof, Berlin

[ FLY UTOPIA! ]

festival for electronic music and related visual arts
30. jan ­ 07. feb 2004 | Maria am Ostbahnhof

In cooperation with transmediale - international media art festival berlin

It has been a long way, but finally the programmation process for the next edition of the club transmediale festival has been finished. A first version is online now.

In 2004 club transmediale - for the fifth time - presents outstanding projects in electronic music and media arts related to sound- and club-culture. With its nine day programme at Maria am Ostbahnhof the club transmediale festival will again prove to be Berlin's most exciting event of the year.

For starters in this newsletter we would like to give you a brief overview on the main music performances, which take place at the festival's main venue Maria am Ostbahnhof. Detailed information on other programme parts will be provided in the following newsletters:

[ CTM EXTENDED ] - the festival's parallel events programme includes screenings, discussion rounds, installations and exhibitions, examining issues beyond the purely formal, aesthetic consideration of electronic music. A choice of artists has been invited to deal with the thematical focuses of the festival in installation works, which will shape the appearance of the festival venue. Artists include amongst others Gerwald Rockenschaub, Angela Bulloch, Costa Vece, Rosa Barba, Sejla Kameric, Beat Brogle, Jo Mitchell and Martin Wöhrl.

[ CTM SPECIAL ] - is a series of special events dedicated to the exploration of specific issues related to the main festival theme: FURTHER EAST continues last years focus on electronic music from Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. PERFORMING SOUND examines gender issues in the field od electronic music. Satellite projects DE-PLACE/ RE-PLACE and E-XPLO continue CTM's nomadic principles in a new form.

[ CTM COOP ] - comprises a number of partner events and cooperations with other international organisations and initiatives in the field of electronic music and the exploration of the time based arts, including New York based collective jammers SHARE, WORM from Rotterdam, the independent radio project REBOOT.FM, the HTMLLES festival from Montreal and others.

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FESTIVAL THEME: Fly Utopia!

transmediale.04 and club transmediale.04 will inquire into the utopian visions of an era dominated by the media and technology and explore the utopian potential of contemporary digital art practices.

Illusions and dreams only appear to be lost to our age. In fact, the collapse of the major ideologies of the 20th century has lead to a greater search for alternatives, which point beyond the constraints of the so-called factual and offer a vision of what the potential of creative agency and human community might be. Digital media and technology in general retain their double identity both as transmitter and locus of utopian hopes, and as harbinger of apocalyptic menace. Modern crises of reality are countered time and again by utopias, imaginary places which offer alternatives to all that is apparently inevitable. Such utopias are located in the fantasy worlds of mythical bygone epochs, in contemporary parallel worlds, or in conceptions of sci-fi futures. Positive and negative utopias are equally present, promising heavenly worlds of harmony or threatening visions of societies under optimised control and surveillance.

Fly Utopia! concentrates on real and imaginary places beyond the horizons of the possible. Utopias are not only the non-places of our imagination but also the means of transport by which such hypothetical places can be visited and explored. With concerts, digital art projects, exhibitions, video screenings, performances and lectures, the joint festival presents those non-places and social processes which are born of visions of better and worse worlds.

Ort / venue:
Maria am Ostbahnhof (MAO)
An der Schillingbruecke
Berlin-Friedrichshain
BVG / public transport:
U-Bhf Jannowitzbruecke
Bus 140 / 142 / 147 / 240 / 265 / 340, night bus N44 / N6

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