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Traces Tea and Radio Lounge at The Open Zone during transmediale.11 offers 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!

TRACES & radioCona invite guests to join the conversation in daily programs, 1-6th February 2011 in the Open Zone, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Foyer, Berlin.

Open invitation to collaborate on the 'Open Zone' TRACES Special Edition with on-site publishing using Booki mobile. A dedicated focus each day to explore Open Zone themes:

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

The radio shows will be streamed live on radioCona and made available on Artisttalk.eu initiative by MoTA, the Museum of Transitory Art.

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Traces Tea Lounge daily, Open Zone, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Foyer

TRACES Lounge hosted by Jodi Rose, Mindaugas Gapševičius, Vytautas Michelkevičius & Philippe Franck. New Media Partners radioCona, MOTA & artisttalk.eu. Cakes by Hudsons!

TRACES LOUNGE NEW MEDIA PARTNERS

radioCona is a temporary radio station and platform for contemporary art. Initiated by Irena Pivka and Brane Zorman and produced by Cona, the project examines the use of radio frequency space in artistic and wider social context. The core of the project is the periodic nature and mobility of the studio. radioCona creates a platform that inhabits particular Zones in response to current social issues through radio-phonic and internet distribution, collaboration and production.

Artisttalk.eu is an educational and archive platform based on open source and free distribution of ideas and knowledge. An open video channel that presents a series of lectures by artists, curators and theorists. MoTA - Museum of Transitory Art is a unique platform for research and production of Transitory Art, the convergence of contemporary and new media art. MoTA programs are realised in different locations and contexts, in material and virtual space.

The Open Zone

The Open Zone - Open Design City 'Make Your Own Market' with Jay Cousins and Christoph Doering // interACTicons with Ursula Endlicher // Wanted & For Sale with the kom.post collective // Tactical Tech Activism with Tactical Tech // Identity Bureau with Heath Bunting // Immediated Autodocumentation by KS12 (Patrizia Kommerell and Gabriel Shalom) // TRACES Lounge with Jodi Rose, Mindaugas Gapševičius, Vytautas Michelkevičius and Philippe Franck.

The festival theme RESPONSE:ABILITY is also a reflection of the Internet as an increasingly political sphere. Our entire repertoire of digital action – online-profiles, shopping, exchange and networking – is socio-politically ever more relevant and leaves traces in the real world. The Internet has become a strategic action zone, one that demands ever more composure from the status-updaters and prosumers of the Web 2.0 era.

While artists, activists and entrepreneurs seem to embrace this current recombination process by visionary experimentation, governments and copyright owners however see the Internet as a problematic zone. They respond with the same urge for privatisation and normalisation we already know from the realm of urban regulations. The Open Web, previously a kind of system requirement, is becoming a more and more competitive resource.

The Open Zone is thus the metaphor of a social experiment with different social territories that, for the duration of transmediale.11, are occupied by artists and media activists. The focus is on the split second between “stand by” and “on” – the moment where a person decides to act and a passive system becomes active/is activated. The strategic requirements of Open Culture are examined and can be experienced by visitors in open studios, project labs, exchange centres and experimental spaces located in the Foyer of the HKW with artists and media activists like Peter Sunde, Elizabeth Stark, Henrik Moltke, Kelly Sutton, Ursula Endlicher, Heath Bunting, Open Design City Berlin, kom.post collective, Sami Ben Gharbia, Allen Gunn, Evan Roth, Adam Hyde,Gabriel Shalom & Patrizia Kommerell / KS12, Dmytri Kleiner, Christopher 'moot' Poole and Michelle Thorne.