This year’s Transmediale festival in Berlin was themed around the conceptual term ‘Conspire’. Here, Marina Vishmidt reviews its multiple presentations of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ collaborative truth production, and queries some suspicious absences

The BBC's Live Sites 2012 program is set to roll out 60 big screens in urban centres around the UK by 2012. Considering the vague agenda currently guiding their use, Richard Wright asks whether these big screens will ever open themselves to creative use or simply remain giant TVs controlled by giants
 

Several videos on housing struggles, sub-prime and free culture in Spain courtesy of CONSERVAS, Barcelona http://www.conservas.tk

The material has been shown and used all over Spain and now we are also organising shows or performance-presentations (see doc below), and at the same time we are opening a space here in Barcelona for exchange with others who are busy working on the same issues internationally. We are very open to colaborations and proposals. All the material exists in english, spanish, french and italian.

“The modern avenue served as laboratory for the flâneur, while the contemporary street finds the neo- flâneur manipulating the mediating filters of technology in pursuit of new connections to the landscape.” Glenn Bach. Atlas Peripatetic (MFA Project Report).