[resource-net] Sept 7: reSource network agenda

[Kristoffer Gansing]

Dear all,

Welcome to the reSource Network Meeting at SPEKTRUM Monday, 7 September
2015, 19.00.

SPEKTRUM | art science community

Bürknerstraße 12, 12947 Berlin

near U Schönleinstraße


A meetup for spaces and actors at the intersection of art, technology
and the politics of digital culture.

Organised by transmediale/reSource in cooperation with SPEKTRUM.
Participants include Art Laboratory Berlin, Panke, SPEKTRUM, Serhat
Köksal (Istanbul), Kristoffer Gansing (transmediale), Ben Vickers
(Serpentine/transmediale tbc.).

Join us for a reboot of the reSource Network meetings for Technology
Based Art Spaces and Curators in Berlin at the new space SPEKTRUM on 7th
of September, 2015, 19.00. These meetings began in 2012, and present
participants (artists, curators or anyone interested in the nexus of
technology, media and culture) a chance to meet, discuss and organise.
The meetings are based on the premise of building a community related to
'technology based arts' (in the broader sense) in Berlin. Of course,
visitors from outside Berlin are welcome as well.

For the agenda we would like to do a “status update” by returning to the
core question of the very first meeting in 2012:

“Berlin has over 400 commercial galleries and 150 non-commercial project
spaces. In a scene still dominated by traditional media, how can spaces
concentrating on innovative works in New Media, technology and the
borders of the arts, science and technology raise their profile, attract
a larger public, and gain access to more funding?“

Following that we would like to discuss the condition of the artistic
and critical digital art and culture scenes in Berlin today, given the
closing of several key spaces (while a few others have opened). How is
the scene visible, to the public and politically? What is its relevance
in the post-startup economy?
We will address the topic of crowdsourcing and community participation,
and how this type of bottom-up initiatives, often coming out of
independent spaces, can relate to the institutional art context.

Furthermore, we will look beyond the horizon of Berlin as such which is
necessary not only given the international character of the city's
cultural scene but because of the critical development of European
politics relating to austerity, migration and the instrumentalisation of
everything technology based to boost commercial innovation and control
measures. For this latter context we will be joined by visiting artist
Serhat Köksal from Istanbul who will share his experience of working
with audiovisual counter-media in the Gezi and post-Gezi Park situation.


About Spektrum
SPEKTRUM is a space of convergence for cultural communities and
transdisciplinary groups emerging and operating in and off Berlin. The
project aims to bring confrontation, open knowledge and a platforms for
idealisation, realisation and presentation of technology-based artworks,
science-focused events and futuristic utopias based on the principle
“do-it-together-with-others”. Above all, we are an open space promoting
participatory processes to co-define and co-design a social and physical
playground for curiosity and critical understanding.
http://spektrumberlin.de/

About reSource
The 'reSource transmedial culture berlin' is a programme of the
transmediale festival for art and digital culture, that happens
throughout the year in the city of Berlin. Activities include
residencies, curated and partner events as well as a research and
dialogue with institutions, independent spaces as well as individual
actors in digital culture. The reSource network is an informal offshoot
of the reSource programme and takes form as an online discussion through
the reSource mailing list, physical meetings and an input to the yearly
transmediale and ctm pre-festival programme.
http://transmediale.de/resource
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