Recycling_Sampling_Jamming. Artistic Strategies Now Festival/ Symposium Re-* :: February 26-28, 2009 :: Academy of Arts, Hanseatenweg 10, Berlin-Tiergarten.

The interdisciplinary festival seeks to examine through lectures, concerts, videoscreenings and an acoustic bar the artistic cross-media practices of Recycling, Sampling and Culture Jamming, which rely on the repetition and recreation of the Old and the transformation in the New. Reputable scientists and international artists from music, arts, netarts, film, design and advertising will exemplify at the Academy of Arts, Berlin, the current cultural and political relevance as well as the distinctions of these strategies.

The Festival focuses on recycling systems in the age of digitalisation, web 2.0. and archives filled to the hilt. Recycling and Sampling are not only digital and reproduction techniques but stand for the lifestyle of a new generation that reverts as consumers as well as producers to image-, sound- and textsources of a common cultural memory.

The practice of reference and above all of appropriation is historically rooted in collage and montage, in ready-made and appropriation art. The current scientific and artistic contributions deal with updated questions and topics of the arts dealing with what already existing. New communication strategies in the internet (YouTube) will be explored, as well as innovative forms of production in the field of design, videoesthetics and music. The meanings of the exemplary terms will be closely examined and presented and their variety will be presented.

Thursday, 26th of February 2009
7:00pm-12:00pm: Welcoming and opening concert by Rechenzentrum 2.0 and Party with ROBOSONIC
Free admission

Friday, 27th of February 2009
11am-11:00pm: lectures, discussion forum, videoscreening. Free admission

Saturday, 28th of February 2009
11:00am-8:00pm: lectures, presentations of artists work, discussion forum. Free admission
20:30pm: Closing concert Re-Inventionen. Free compositions for audio-tape and soloists
Compositions by Bruno Maderna, Luigi Nono, Alvin Lucier and John Cage. Entry 8,- E/ reduced 6,-E

Participants:

Lectures/ Discussions: Sabine Himmelsbach (D), Dr. Inke Arns (D), Prof. Dr. Susanne Binas-Preisendorfer (D), Dr. Jochen Bonz (D), Dr. Florian Cramer (D/NL), Martina Fineder (A), Dr. Marcus S. Kleiner (D), Prof. Christina Kubisch (D), Prof. Dr. Verena Kuni (D), Prof. Leigh Landy (USA/GB), Eduardo Navas (USA), Dr. Dietmar Rubel (D), Prof. Dr. Sabine Sanio (D), David Schwertgen (D), Marc Schwieger (D), Dr. Anne Soll (D), Cornelia Sollfrank (D)

Moderation: Martin Conrads (D), Prof. Dr. Rolf Grosmann (D), Prof. Dr. Helga de la Motte-Haber (D)

Concerts: Rechenzentrum 2.0/Robert Seidel :: Robosonic (Cord Henning Labuhn and Sacha Robotti) :: Ensemble Wandelweiser: Erik Drescher (flutist), Kerstin Fuchs (composer and performer), Burkhard Schlothauer (composer and musician) :: Videoscreening with composition by Oliver Laric, Jillian McDonald, Marisa Olson, Eddo Stern and others, curated by Sabine Himmelsbach.

Acoustic bar: With historic sampling compositions arranged by Ursula Block and Werner Durand (Gelbe MUSIK), complemented with examples of pophistory by Martin Conrads.

The Re-*Festival, curated by Claudia Tittel und Katrin Werner, is realised in cooperation with the Academy of Arts Berlin and is promoted by Hauptstadtkulturfonds.