The transmediale - international media art festival Berlin - will, in February 2003, be presenting outstanding works of media art for the 16th time.
This year's festival at the House of World Cultures in Berlin, which runs from February 1st - 5th under the motto: "play global!", deals with the artistic and cultural responses to globalisation.
TRANDMEDIALE
"Play Global!
Globalisation appears today as an unavoidable fact. Economics, politics, society and culture take place within a global network. However, the playground for participants in the global game varies considerably.
transmediale.03's central conference "Play Global!" will present artistic projects and ideas in which the utopias and dystopias of a global culture are played out. In conjunction with the discussion about cultural strategies for the global game,artists like Heidrun Holzfeind (at) or Coco Fusco (us/mx) present their works about Romanian immigrants in Austria and illegal Mexican workers in the US.
The festival's keynote, „Art Acts Global", will be held by art historian and curator Sarat Maharaj (gb/za), one of the most outstanding and knowledgeable art critics in the age of globalisation. "Cross-Border Cultures" "
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