reSource is a new initiative of transmediale – festival for art and digital culture, in collaboration with DISK/CTM and the Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien. The statement of interest is a call for collaborations for a number of additional projects within the process of creating a distributed platform throughout 2012 and beyond, by envisioning the festival as a peer-production context of research and knowledge.

reSource – A New Initiative of the transmediale Festival

Within the aegis of facilitating collaboration and the sharing of resources and knowledge between the transmediale festival in Berlin and the local and translocal scene engaged with art and digital culture, the reSource for transmedial culture acts as a link between the cultural production of art festivals and collaborative networks in the field of art and technology, hacktivism and politics. reSource for transmedial culture is a new framework for transmediale festival related projects that happen throughout the year in  the city of Berlin with decisive touchdowns at each festival.

This statement of interest is directed mainly at local and international artists, cultural producers, hackers, activists, and gender-situated communities active in the city of Berlin and in the broader field of net culture regionally and internationally, to co-develop experiences which invite exploration, experimentation and reflection. Artistic and hacker practices are not only thought as a resource for producing cultural innovation, but also as a strategic challenge to generate media criticism – and to reflect on modalities of artistic production  in the framework of digital culture and network economy.

By generating a set of questions and issues which address local and translocal communities within (and beyond) digital cultural production, the main idea is to develop mutual exchanges of methodologies and knowledge and project-space experiences, while investigating new ways of forming a cultural public and producing a meta reflection on strategies of collaborative actions.

reSource Launch at transmediale 2012

The launch of reSource will take place at transmediale 2012 with a dissemination of workshops, talks and performances. It will be an important feature of the 25th anniversary of the transmediale, looking into the future while acknowledging the importance of the festival as an accessible and dynamic forum for the translocal art scene as well as for interdisciplinary cultural producers and researchers.

Read the full text on the transmediale website and as PDF, or contact Tatiana Bazzichelli (reSource concept and programme developer) for more information.