Ceremony transmediale Awards 2010

This year’s winners of the transmediale and Vilém Flusser Theory Award have been announced. The awards were presented on the evening of February 6 by Barbara Kisseler, head of the Berlin Senate Chancellery, and the members of both juries.

The first-prize winner of the transmediale Award 2010 is the Canadian artist Michelle Teran, who lives in Berlin, with her work Buscando al Sr. Goodbar. Teran receives a cash award of 6.000 euros.

A distinction, worth 2.000 euros, goes to the artists Aaron Koblin and Daniel Massey from the USA for their work, Bicycle Built for Two Thousand.

The Vilém Flusser Theory Award, worth 2.000 euros, is awarded to Warren Neidich for his research project Neuropower. Warren Neidich is from the USA and lives in Berlin.

In preparation for the festival, transmediale and the CTM (club transmediale) invited competition submissions for both awards. Invited were artistic positions, which in their formal language, approach, and practice, question and enrich our relationship to our itechnologically-driven society. From the approximately 1.500 submissions from 75 countries, the international jury selected nine nominated entries, which are being presented at the transmediale.10.

The jury members of the transmediale Award 2010 are Michelle Kasprzak (Edinburg), José Luis de Vicente (Barcelona), Li Zhenhua (Peking/Zürich), Yves Bernard (Brüssel), and Doreen Mende (Berlin). Advisory committee members for the Vilém Flusser Theory Award 2010 are Marcel René Marburger (_Vilém_Flusser_Archive, Berlin), Oliver Grau (Danube University Krems) und Sabeth Buchmann (Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna).

Further information about the work of the winners and the motivations of the jury is attached.