The Audible Picture Show is an international touring show of audio works created for cinema by a diverse range of people including visual artists, film makers, animators, radio makers, audio artists, sound designers, writers and musicians. Each show is compiled afresh from a growing archive of 100+ unique works with many pieces being created at the invitation of the show's curator.

Tonight's screening at Kino Tilsiter Lichtspiele is co-curated by Berlin audio artist Helena Gough & the show's founding curator, artist & film maker Matt Hulse & will feature new works by Gilles Aubry, Martin Clarke & Esther Venrooy.

Tilsiter Lichtspiele
Richard-Sorge-Strasse 25a , 10249 Berlin, Germany
http://anormalboy.wordpress.com/2009/02/01/the-audible-picture-show/

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Described by Irvine Welsh as the would-be product of Cormac McCarthy, Franz Kafka and Benny Hill had they been housed together in Brighton, England, Nick Cave's second novel details the depraved road trip salesman Bunny Munro embarks on (with his son in tow) after his wife's suicide.

At once detailing the already-flawed Bunny Senior's descent into degradation, the story largely hinges on the relationship between father and son and the blinding idolatry and love the latter possesses for the former, despite Bunny Senior's constant neglect of his son (who is left in the car to starve while his father goes about his perverse exploits).

Musician and former longtime guitarist of The Bad Seeds Blixa Bargeld tonight takes on the challenge of delivering excerpts from Cave's melancholic yet witty tale, as he helps launch the audio version of the book.

Babylon: Mitte
Rosa-Luxemburg-Strasse 30, 10178 Berlin, Germany
http://www.babylonberlin.de/literaturlive.htm

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Do you believe in reality? What a question, you'll reply. Reality isn't something you believe in. It proverbially catches up with you anyway, always. But then what are we talking about here? Maybe we could talk about the fact that you so often hear people saying something was different 'in reality'? Or about why it has become so customary to add a 'really' or an 'actually' or an 'in fact' to so many of the things we say?

Let's talk about the cracks in reality, about the gap between the world we talk about and the world that's really there. But why this distinction? Because reality is always the other? Or the others? Everything that's waiting out there? Let's talk about the self-deceptions where reality becomes too painful. Let's talk about the fictional arsenal of the mass media and consumerism, about the rhetoric of distraction and appeasement. Won't that ultimately lead us to question contemporary art, and its relationship to reality?

From June 11 to August 8, 2010, at several locations in Berlin, the 6th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art will bring together numerous artistic positions on the present. Michael Schmidt's photographic works are the first artistic contribution to the biennial and will accompany it in the public realm and the media throughout its duration.

The biennial will be contextualized by an exhibition with works by Adolph Menzel (1815-1905), curated - at the invitation of Kathrin Rhomberg - by the American art historian Michael Fried in cooperation with the Alte Nationalgalerie/Old National Gallery and the Kupferstichkabinett/Museum of Prints and Drawings of the National Museums in Berlin.

The 6th Berlin Biennale's curator Kathrin Rhomberg recently Roman Ondák's contribution for the Czech and Slovak Pavillon at the 53rd Biennale di Venezia. From 2002 to 2007 she was the director of the Art Association of Cologne (Kölnischer Kunstverein) and between 2002 and 2006 she conceived the project Migration together with Marion von Osten, an initiative of the German Federal Cultural Foundation. Between 1990 and 2001 Kathrin Rhomberg was the curator and director of Secession, Association of Visual Artists in Vienna. In 2000 she co-curated Manifesta 3 in Ljubljana - European Biennial for Contemporary Art - together with Francesco Bonami, Ole Bouman and Maria Hlavajova.

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The exhibition brings together a group of artists from different backgrounds and generations whose work suggests a common attitude in terms of how they perceive, process, dissolve, and transform everyday impressions.

Important works by Richard Artschwager, Ken Price, and Ed Ruscha will be presented, and contrasted with outstanding works by a younger generation, represented by Cristian Andersen, Lothar Hempel, Kaz Oshiro, David Renggli, Amanda Ross-Ho, and Steven Shearer.

Wentrup Gallery
Tempelhofer Ufer 22, 10963 Berlin, Germany
http://wentrupgallery.com/splash/

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Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else. Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities, 1972

Italo Calvino's book Invisible Cities is the cornerstone of much modern speculation about urban living and architecture. This session draws together four transmediale projects that use wireless technologies, augmented realities and mapping tools to reveal the undisclosed topologies of Berlin.

Moderator: Verena Kuni (de) Participants: Julian Oliver (nz), Martin Howse (uk), Oswald Berthold (de), Danja Vasiliev (de/ru), Adam Somlai-Fischer (hu) & Bengt Sjölén (se), Julius von Bismarck (de)

Haus der Kulturen der Welt
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin, Germany
http://www.transmediale.de/en/invisible-cities

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Instrument buidling workshop for kids by Staalplaat Soundsystem (DE/NL)

Staalplaat is a forum for soundartists, an organisation network with a music label, an e-zine, a radioprogram, an audio-galerie, shop, mail order and distribution company, started in Amsterdam.

.HBC
Karl-Liebknecht Strasse 9 , 10178 Berlin, Germany
http://www.clubtransmediale.de

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Art, Feb 06 - Mar 06, starts at 11:00 h



Some might call Henrik Vibskov a jack-of-all-trades, and it is true that Vibskov shows his innovative fashion designs in Paris, exhibits his artwork at established institutions such as PS1, MoMA, the Palais de Tokio and MU, and makes musical collaborations with the likes of Anders Trentemøller and Mikael Simpson. However for Vibskov, these seemingly different creative realms are not separate - it is intrinsic to his philosophy that they blend together, resulting in an all-inclusive Henrik Vibskov experience.

Vibskov consciously chooses not to isolate his interests. A modern incarnation of German composer Richard Wagner's mid-19th century concept of 'Gesamtkunstwerk' or 'universal artwork' - an idea that was central even to the Bauhaus movement - is carried on by Vibskov, dissolving the constraints of varying disciplines and allowing a unique art form to emerge.

In Henrik Vibskov: Graphic Works, Vibskov presents a selection of his two-dimensional pieces, exhibited alongside installation and knit-works. With colorful and organic shapes that seem like strange, animated beings, Vibskov's minimalistic "form-language" and "anarchistic lines" offer a glimpse at his own imagined universe. His experience with design, textile and pattern certainly shines through, resulting in a collection of works that, in keeping with his philosophy, intertwines a diverse selection of creative fields.

Henrik Vibskov graduated in 2001 from the prestigious Central St Martin's

Social networks in the so-called Web 2.0, traditional circles of friends, cultural and economic referential systems alike seem to always already generate a 'creative material' which artists use in different ways for their works. The panel Art 2.0 focuses on different strategies of artistic appropriation such as crowdsourcing, the direct invitation of a group of people to participate in an artwork, or the retroactive gathering and recycling of foreign contents and forms. The invited artists will present selected works which articulate new approaches towards authorship and intellectual property as well as towards the interaction between individuals and communities.

Moderator: Matthias Fritsch (de) Participants: Michelle Teran (ca), Jens Wunderling (de), Jamie Wilkinson (us), Aaron Koblin & Daniel Massey (us)

Haus der Kulturen der Welt
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin, Germany
http://www.transmediale.de/en/art-20

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Fashionweek, Jan 20 - Jan 24, starts at 10:00 h

The 11th edition of Club Transmediale Festival, Berlin's unique festival for music and related visual arts, will commence on Janaruy 15. De:Bug and zero" proudly present the festival's official audio compilation, available as a free download exclusively from zero-inch.com between January 15 and February 7, 2010.

True to this year's motto 'Overlap' the compilation presents 13 leading artists from the field of experimental music, club music and pop. The range of styles on display includes beat experiments by Patric Catani and Aoki Takamasa, striking neo-classic by cellist Hildur Gudnadottir, melancholic disco pop by Glass Candy and Desire, as well as modern dubstep interpretations by Mount Kimbie, Funckarma and Hotflush label owner Scuba. Mysterious ambient project Oni Ayhun further gives insights into its disturbing sound worlds, Etienne Jaumet evokes the retro-electronic ghost of John Carpenter, while Joris Voorn, DJ of the CTM.10 afterhours at Berlin's Panoramabar, represents current developments in the techno-house genre.

A video is included on the compilation as well: The trailer to Richie Hawtin's tour documentary 'Making CONTAKT', which will premier on this years Club Transmediale.

For the first time a video is included on the compilation and it is no other than an exclusive preview of Richie Hawtin's tour documentary 'Making Contakt': The public screening of 'Making Contakt' will take place at Berlin's Babylon cinema during the course of the festival.

Check the zero" website for more information and direct download.

Available as a free exclusive download between January 15 and February 7, 2010.

Exhibition, Jan 15 - Feb 27, starts at 11:00 h

Future Obscura brings together a group of diverse artworks which explore the complex condition of futurity through the lens of image-making. Clear boundaries of the time continuum are broken down by artists whose work allows us to peer into the "low light of the future".

Future Obscura explores how the machines and materials of moving-image making capture, retain and reproduce our reality and so alter our sense of temporality. Some of the works, such as those by Sengmüller and Maire, refer to the way that optical devices, such as the camera obscura and the film projector, manipulate light and temporality. Other works by the likes of Kempinas and von Bismarck show how mediums such as tape and film can act as both mechanisms of memory in the form of data-storage, but also as formal artistic materials.

We make our journeys out there in the low light of the future, and return to the bourgeois day and its mass delusion of safety, to report on what we've seen. What are any of these 'utopian dreams' of ours but defective forms of time-travel? - Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day (2006)

Together the works in the exhibition meditate on how futurity is an obscured notion of what we used to think of as the future.

Exhibition artists: Julius von Bismarck (de) Ryoji Ikeda (jp/fr) Zilvinas Kempinas (lt/us) Julien Maire (de/fr) Yvette Mattern (de/us) Alice Miceli (br) Julian Oliver, Clara Boj, Diego Diaz and Damian Stewart (nz/es) Ken Rinaldo (us) Gebhard Sengmüller (au) Bengt Sjölén, Adam Somlai-Fischer & Usman Haque (se/hu/uk) TeZ (it/nl)

Haus der Kulturen der Welt
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin, Germany
http://www.transmediale.de

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When filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker was asked to film David Bowie's concert at the Hammersmith Odeon in London on July 3 1973, he was kept in the dark as to the now-infamous theatrics the singer was planning for the performance: to "kill off" alter ego Ziggy Stardust.

Hardly given a second glance by Bowie's label RCA and critiqued largely for its poor sound and picture quality, the film's popularity has nevertheless snowballed, thanks to the legions of Bowie fans clamoring to witness his final performance as Ziggy.

Those seeking the personal portrait of an artist that earmarked Pennebaker's Bob Dylan biopic Don't Look Back (1967) as a classic may be left disappointed but with killer performances of Changes, Space Oddity and a medley of Wild Eyed Boy from Freecloud, All the Young Dudes and Oh You Pretty Things plus covers of the Stones' Let's Spend the Night Together and Lou Reed's White Light/White Heat, this film is unmissable for any Bowie fan.

White Trash Fast Food
Schoenhauser Allee 6-7, 10119 Berlin, Germany
http://www.whitetrashfastfood.com/events/2342-smoking-cinema

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Very few are able to create such a strong association between the mood of the street and their art like Incubus Project. The streetart-duo from St. Petersburg is famous beyond Russia for their complex non-linear collage compositions that merge with their environment. This is not just stencils on the walls, but also the walls themselves, their face, communication, pipes, wires, trans- former stations - they are all part of the arrangement. The themes are mainly futuristic and by displaying ma- chinery they bring early videos by „Kraftwerk", a german technopop band, to memory. Moreover the purist choice of colors -red/black - constitutes another part of their expressive and longevity stencils.

In 2008 Incubus Pro- ject were already an important part of the graffiti & streetart "Names Festival" in Prague, where they presented their work next to other internati- onal leaders of the scene like Blu, M-City and Brad Downey. Considering the for- mation of the group was only in 2006, their participation was quite impressive.

Since their break-up last year all works are signed by street-artist INKY and they contain more speci- fic references to his per- sonal career. INKY gra- duated from the St Peter- burg College of Art with specialty in painting, and is now completing trai- ning at Saint Petersburg's Academy of Art and De- sign as an architect. Both of these disciplines influ- ence and drive the creati- vity of the artist, formed his style, and defined the themes of his work. Inky is interested in formal architectural forms and structures equally with leading graphics and pic- turesque.

ATM Gallery is proud to present INKY's first solo show in Berlin, where he will display a number of new works that were exclusi- vely produced for this particular exhibition and have not been shown in public yet. One can look forward to an artistic ex- pression that moves between socialistic propaganda and futu- ristic modernism as well as connecting East and West.

ATM
Brunnenstrasse 24, 10119 Berlin, Germany
http://www.atmberlin.de

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Having only launched in September this year, label Stroboscopic Artfefacts has pulled no punches making its mark on the seemingly impregnable Berlin electro scene, hosting its debut at Club der Visionäre and now teaming up with those masters of club-driven mayhem at Killekill.

Tonight's label showcase provides no shortage of sensory manipulations as Dadub and Kman mash-up their impressive dub sound with a visual display, while Walter Ercolino, Frank Martiniq and label owner Lucy show their electro chops with various deck spins, dropping hints as to why this is a label to listen out for.

Kantine @ Berghain
Am Wriezener Bahnhof, 10243 Berlin, Germany
http://www.myspace.com/stroboscopicartefacts

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There is, in Ben Butler's music, a bristling and expansive melodic madness inherited from the baroque experiments of 1970s studio megalomaniacs such as Vangelis, Alan Parsons, Triumvirat or even ELO, devoured, digested, sent back in time and thrown up over some bizarrely funky rhythmic backdrops that one would perhaps define as nerdxploitation, hadn't this term been spiritually trademarked by the evil ghouls of the MTV. This philosophical stance should perhaps make you think of Ben Butler & Mouse Pad as the shy hyper-intelligent cousin of a couple of popular French dance acts also raised on unhealthy doses of weirdo synth music, experimental disco and coffee black like sin, or the one true genius who will compose the jingle for Firefly, if this series ever comes back to the screens under Paper Rad's direction. Either way, he's onto a winner, and you will be too, once you step past the golden rings of the dimensional trans-sonic portal of his awesome music. via Juan - 20jazzfunkgreats.co.uk

22:00 Ben Butler and Mousepad - live - 23:00 Patric Catani - dj-

Free entrance, concerts start on time as they are broadcast live on www.couleur3.ch

.HBC
Karl-Liebknecht Strasse 9 , 10178 Berlin, Germany
http://www.couleur3.ch

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Likemind exists in many cities (take a look ) and is a loose network of creative people who enjoy common things (coffee, creativity, being nice and such).

Today´s breakfast is a special edition with the brains behind Transmediale, the annual festival for art and digital culture, held in Berlin.

There is sponsored coffee and we start the end of the week by exchanging likeminded ideas.

Sankt Oberholz
Rosenthaler Strasse 72a, 10119 Berlin, Germany
http://twitter.com/likemind_bln

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FAB|02 is an EVENT full of sound and vision, performances and art.

Queer Berlin is more than just an extra coat of lip gloss and a splash of glitter. It's the throbbing sound pouring out of the speakers, it's the wild performances which make you gasp for breath, it's weird, sexy art and, last but not least, it's an incredible mix of people who celebrate together like there is no tomorrow! Queer Berlin is more than a name, it's an attitude.

DJs

Warbear (Phag Off / Atomic / Rom) Adam Sky (Kitsune / Exploited) Fil OK (OK Music / London) Johnny Slut (NagNagNag / London) Metzgerei (Soap / Pornfilmfestival) Bomb Boutique (Mirror Mirror / Berlin) Noblesse Oblige (Repo Records / Berlin)

PERFORMANCES

Fred Bear & The Bears - FIRST TIME IN BERLIN (Bearlesque / London) Atomizer (NagNagNag Records / London) Killing Ira (Grotesque Gala / Berlin)

VJ

NIKKY (Flxer / Phag Off / Rome)

ART

Strangelove, Ango, The Meek Dead

**Unlike has 2×2 guestlist spots up for grabs. Email anna@unlike.net with the subject line "happy birthday!" for a chance to win.

Festsaal Kreuzberg
Skalitzer Strasse 130, 10997 Berlin, Germany
http://fabtory.org

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