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transmediale 2013 BWPWAP

The net jargon acronym BWPWAP – Back When Pluto Was a Planet is an expression used whenever one wants to talk about things in our recent past that have changed quickly. On August 24th, 2006, at the closing ceremony of their general assembly, the International Astronomical Union infamously voted in favor of “demoting” Pluto from its planetary status. transmediale 2013 suggested that this classification crisis, spurred on by new technologies and shifting knowledge paradigms, opens up a rich space of cultural negotiation and artistic intervention.

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file_under: The Imaginary Museum

As an overall conceptual road-map to the yearly changing themes, at transmediale 2013 we also initiate the “file_under:” framework as an ongoing conceptual discussion surrounding the festival and our all-year programme. The “file_under:” activity will take place through workshops between partner organisations, public discussions at the festival and all-year events, experimental forms of documentation and publications. >> Read more.

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Thematic Threads

The programme follows four threads: Users, Networks, Paper, Desire. The festival will look at what these threads meant BWPWAP, what they are today and how they will develop in the future. >> Read more.

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BWPWAP Curatiorial Statement

Back When
Mobile phones were dumb. Letters traveled by pneumatic air. Tweeting was for birds. Users were chatting on the Minitel. ICQ beat IRC. Xerox challenged the Thermofax. YouTube was just another Web 2 start-up. Fax was the new Telex. You were calling up Bulletin Board Systems. Only university students were using facebooks. History had ended. We had nine planets.
Pluto Was A Planet.

 

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