By the way, the video work “Not a Matter of If but When” by Julia Meltzer and David Thorne received a first prize of the award.

Also, as a distinctive feature of this year, I noticed that many Japanese artists were presented much more than last year.

“Filmachine” by Keiichiro Shibuya and Takashi Ikegami

Among the exhibition, “a plaything for the great observers at rest” by Norimichi Hirakawa expressed its existence overpoweringly. Also, at the day of the opening, a group called “d.v.d” had a performance combining drums and video. Moreover, “Filmachine” by Keiichiro Shibuya and Takashi Ikegami, which had showed in YCAM in Japan as a related project of Transmediale, was pretty overwhelming at the exhibition of les jardins des pilotes.

Transmediale 2008
Date: January 29th – February 24th, 2008
Place: Berlin, Germany
https://www.transmediale.de