A new kind of domestic robots invented by the british art collective Auger-Loizeau & Zivanovic Material Beliefs (Jimmy Loizeau / James Auger / Alexandar Zivanovic): bizzare carnivorous hybrids between machine and living organism feeding on small flies.
CTM.10, the 11th edition of Berlin’s unique Festival for Adventurous Music and Related Visual Arts, titled by many as Berlin's best pop and music event, is on from January 29th to February 6th 2010 under the title OVERLAP – Sound & Other Media.
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.
