Jamie Wilkinson (aka Jamie Dubs) is a technologist, hacker, and Internet culture researcher interested in open-source, viral media, decentralized systems and studying the online attention economy...
Markus Kühn has a vast background in music management and distribution. After his management activities at Universal Records, he shifted into the independent music sector. Since 2004 he is CEO of the broadcasting service Motor FM in Berlin.
Barbara Lippe (Dr Babsi), an Austrian renaissance girl of the digital era is also dubbed – when sporting her turquoise headdress – as the “Björk of Virtual Worlds”.
Longplayer is a one thousand year long musical composition. It began playing at midnight on the 31st of December 1999, and will continue to play without repetition until the last moment of 2999, at which point it will complete its cycle and begin again...
For transmediale.10, F.A.T. Lab will develop FuckGoogle, a collection of browser add-ons, open source software, theoretical musings and direct actions aimed at creating an awareness of the role Google plays in our daily lives.
Artzilla is dedicated to the development of experimental browser software. The platform collects and exhibits creative works, shares code and tutorials, and publishes news from the scene.
Since 2003 Feral Trade (import-export) has been trading small-scale releases of migrant grocery products, sourced directly from their suppliers and circulated along social routes...
Jens Wunderling is a media artist with a background in graphic design. His projects explore human-computer interactivity beyond standard user interfaces. His latest projects incorporate social media platforms such as Twitter.
Increasing social inequality, aggravation of living standards, short-sighted environmental policy and the violation of human rights are all facts pointing to the increasing extremes of the conditions of life. These conditions are not cultural dysfunctions, but are fundamentally connected to the processes of global capital to systematically exploit the environment.
The Brasilian DesCentro Network are hosts to transmediale's performative public brunch event with leading architects and thinkers, poets and bloggers, transforming the HKW into a temporary autonomous zone of tropical foliage and topical debate. Fusing the threads from the transmediale.09 Making/Thinking conference and Digital Greenhouse salon DesCentro open the doors of discourse and performance in a collaborative culinary experience focussing on the global futures of society, culture and consumption. Join Alexandre Freire and José Balbino of DesCentro together with members of the bricolabs network in building a House of Happiness!