German premiere of the Joshua Light Show, an audiovisual project based in New York, that has performed with musical luminaries such as Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jefferson Airplane. Soaked in the psychedelic iconography of rock culture, the Joshua Light Show is distinct for its "wet show" of coloured oils mixed and manipulated to create magical, biomorphic forms.
Co-presented by transmediale 2012 and CTM.12, the Joshua Light Show will perform three concerts at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, collaborating with Norwegian avant-garde jazz group Supersilent on Wednesday, ambient drone experimenter Oneohtrix Point Never on Friday, and, as a special highlight, the legendary Krautrock giant and vanguard minimalist composer Manuel Göttsching on Saturday, whose groudbreaking piece “E2-E4” celebrated its 30th birthday in December 2011.
Between January 30 and February 5, 2012, the transmediale and CTM festival offer one of the world's most pertinent and radically comprehensive review of how new technologies and digital culture are shaping our lives.
Within its 25th anniversary edition in 2012 and its theme in/compatible transmediale – festival for art and digital culture berlin investigates the productive and destructive sides of incompatibility as a fundamental condition for cultural production in times of crisis.
With the 2012 theme SPECTRAL, CTM – Festival for Adventurous Music and Related Arts, explores the current resurgence of the unearthly and dark in music and art.
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