03 Sep 2015

TRANSMIT: new educational platform for digital culture, art and technology

TRANSMIT | New Educational Platform for Digital Culture, Art and Technology

October 13-17, 2015 | Experimental Space NoD | Dlouha 33 | Prague 1

22 talks | 6 panel discussions | 5 workshops | AV live acts

Program details and early bird tickets available at www.transmit.org

SIGNAL Festival (www.signalfestival.com) is the most visited cultural event in the Czech Republic. It focuses on innovative art and tech projects in public space. Now it expands its program to integrate an educational platform called TRANSMIT. Recognized speakers and tutors from 13 countries worldwide will come together to present their work, debate and lead workshops in the field of digital culture, art and technology.

Prague will welcome remarkable community of artists, coders, designers, makers, thinkers, researchers, curators, inventors, producers and other professionals while TRANSMIT provides unique opportunity to share knowledge, experience and ideas.

This first edition features a diverse scope of topics: From generative design and digital art to ethics of algorithms, robotics, new concepts of computer interfaces, diy and fab labs, models of network collaboration and gender gap in technology. Last but not least, interactive light installations and art/tech production case studies will be presented and discussed.

List of speakers and tutors includes: Quayola (UK), Daniel Leithinger (AT/US), Pedro Lopes (PT), Shane Walter (UK), Janet Echelman (US), Matthijs Munnik (NL), Osman Koc (TR), Cheryl D. Miller (BE), Nohista (FR), Stanislav Glazov (RU), Matthieu Cherubini (CH) and many more...

As a bonus: Those attending TRANSMIT can also benefit from experiencing the evening/night program of the SIGNAL Festival that features over 20 public space light-driven installations and projection mappings, including, for the first time, also spherical dome projections. Among the artists there are Joanie Lemercier (FR), Ouchhh (TU), Nonotak (FR), Bordos Artworks (HU), HC Gilje (NO) and more.

www.transmit.org
www.facebook.com/transmitorg
www.signalfestival.com