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Interface writer Micheal O'Connell traverses the fine lines of media art at Transmediale08 in Berlin. "People often see art as what's shown at really commercial art fairs. This is trying not to be a really commercial art fair". So says Miles Chalcraft, from Nottingham's multidisciplinary collective Trampoline, about Berlin's annual Transmediale. Other international media get-togethers, considered central for those making art within new media, such as Siggraph, are, first and foremost, trade fairs. But Transmediale situates itself outside both the art-market and the technology-market. This year's theme is Conspire, which, for most is interpreted to mean Conspiracy, partly explaining why the overwhelming impact is that the politics imbedded here appear genuine -certainly compared with other fine-art events and biennales. The opening seminar featured speakers who, along with Manchester UMIST cybernetics guru Stafford Beer, developed a social computer network called Cybersyn in Salvador Allende's Chile during the early nineteen-seventies. The system was decades ahead of its time and comparable conceptually with today's internet. Pinochet shut it down immediately following the...
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