Traces Tea and Radio Lounge at The Open Zone during transmediale.11 offered a space for slow culture, open to relaxed interaction and deeper exchange with a live radio show, on-site collaborative publication, tea made from wild Lithuanian herbs, and cake!

The Traces Open Zone edition aims to continue to develop and expand on ideas from these conversations and exchanges. Contributions are still welcome responding to Open Zone themes and existing material in the booki sampler:

Response: Activities - Strategies of Political Participation
Lost in the Open? - Navigating the Open Web & Free Culture
The Currency of the Commons - The Value and Price of Free Culture

TRACES OPEN ZONE SAMPLER

Notes from the field:

This Traces Open Zone Sampler is created using booki.cc open and free collaborative publishing software and platform. Contributions courtesy of the artists, transmediale.11 festival guests and friends whose paths crossed mine during the activities between 1-6th February in Berlin. This reader and tea lounge are independent activities related to TRACES, however not part of the official events.

Originally intended as a journal made by guests in the tea lounge, during the course of the festival this became a more responsive and personal sampling of my own idiosyncratic trajectory through the transmediale.11 program, wandering the corridors, drifting through the open zone and reflecting in the artist green room. It became clear very early on that attempting to produce a live radio conversation show, while keeping the tea hot and serving cakes was already more than we could achieve in the 2 or 3 hour sessions, and so this edition took place in-between these and is focused on my connections and invitations with some live transcripts from the tea lounge by Mindaugas Gapsevicius. The introductions in italics to some texts are intended to provide context and coherence for the material - in these cases 'I' refers to Jodi Rose.

Conceived and edited by Jodi Rose at the invitation of Ela Kagel and Cara Bell-Jone in the framework of TRACES Tea Lounge and Editions in the Open Zone, transmediale.11

Editions initiated by Jodi Rose & Mindaugas Gapsevicius for TRACES.