file_under: The Imaginary Museum

31.10.2012

file_under: The Imaginary Museum

As an overall conceptual road-map to the yearly changing themes, at transmediale 2013 we also initiate the “file_under:” framework as an ongoing conceptual discussion surrounding the festival and our all-year programme. The “file_under:” activity will take place through workshops between partner organisations, public discussions at the festival and all-year events, experimental forms of documentation and publications.

With this framework we want to develop long-term arguments for the imaginary space that is created by the festival as a temporary multiform of ideas and practices. The framework was kicked off by the curators behind transmediale in early 2012 with a discussion of the notion of “The Imaginary Museum”. This discussion has been informing the development of the festival programme and instigated a critical re-engagement with André Malraux’s Imaginary Museum as one of the most influential paradigms for the technologically informed cultural production of the 20th century. At transmediale 2013 and beyond, this discussion of The Imaginary Museum will be interrogating the past, present and future processes of decontextualisation and re-contextualisation taking place in contemporary network culture.

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