Once again, the jury of the transmediale Award 2010 consists of five curators, writers and artists. The jury members of the upcoming festival edition are the Belgian media activist and programmer Yves Bernard; Michelle Kasprzak, artist, curator and online/artblogging communities developer from Edinburgh; José Luis de Vicente, a Spanish researcher, curator and writer working around the edges of new media arts as well as the multi-media artist, curator and producer Li Zhenhua from China, and the curator and writer Doreen Mende from Berlin.
Together transmediale and CTM annually invite submissions to the transmediale Award. The transmediale award seeks to honor outstanding experimental artworks that embrace, question and enrich our understanding and relationship to our immersed media and technologically driven society. Once again an international jury has met in Berlin at the end of September to issue the list of Award Nominees for 2010.
A glowing 4m sphere of hundreds of energy saving light bulbs created by artist Wang Yuyang (cn): A poetic allusion to the changing roles of technology and environment, nature and artificiality as well as the, since 1969, still unresolved claiming of the moon between East and West.
An online work by Aaron Koblin and Daniel Massey (us) whose title refers to the song line 'bicycle built for two' from the well-known Daisy Bell: Based on a distributed system of 2000 human voices Bicycle Built For Two Thousand is a reconstruction and cover version of the very first song in history ever synthetically sung by a computer (in 1962).
The American art and design collective Sosolimited (Justin Manor / Eric Gunther / John Rothenberg) has been nominated with their performance project ReConstitution, a live remix of broadcast television, and a format originally configured for the 2008 presidential elections.
Michelle Teran's (ca) tour through the Spanish town Murcia on three levels at once: by bus, on Google Earth and YouTube. The search for places and authors of various YouTube videos shot in town - an intimate encounter between videomakers and audience, the overlapping of the real and the virtual, of past and present.
An audiovisual installation by the artist Félix Luque Sánchez (es). A peculiar, geometric object releasing a code of light and sound: synthetically generated images destabilise the viewers' faith in their own perception.
Founded in 2007 by Evan Roth and James Powderly, and grown by 17 new members since, the F.A.T. network is as a loose online collective working across several continents, and with a great amount of humour, on free software and other exciting projects supporting open values through the use of open licenses.
Free Art and Technology Lab was founded in 2007 by Evan Roth and James Powderly. It grew over the last 2 years to 19 members, working on more than 3 continents connected through the internet. With a great amount of humour they collaborate on free software and other projects with open licenses.
Daniel Massey is an artist whose recent work seeks to instigate new modes of collaboration, creation, and transformation. Daniel earned his MFA in Digital Arts & New media from UC Santa Cruz, and was part of the Yahoo! Design Innovation Team.