Retune Festival — Art, Design and Technology

Retune Festival 2020

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Experimenting with speculative futures, the Retune Festival 2020 explores the role of art, design and culture in digital transformations. Over the course of three days, the event will adopt a playful, critical and creative approach to question how new technologies – such as the internet of things, augmented reality, artificial intelligence and robotics – will shape tomorrow.

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Silent Green and creative studios across Berlin

27.09.2018

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The Retune Festival is a biennial event at the intersection of Art, Design, and Technology. Happening from September 27 – 28, 2018 in Berlin. In its fifth edition, the Festival will bring together over 250 creative pioneers across 2 days.

Day 1, Thursday, Sep 27th

A full conference day with international keynotes, talks, discussions and performances. Taking place at Silent Green, a former crematorium and now a beautiful event space in Berlin-Wedding. Speakers include Kimchi and Chips, Evan Roth, Ralf Baecker, and Banz & Bowinkel.

Day 2, Friday, Sep 28th

On the second day, we take the Festival into the city. Satellite events in art and design studios all over town offer workshops, talks, exhibitions, and open-studios. We are closing the Festival with a performance and club night at STATE Studio.

Julian Adenauer
Jasmin Grimm
Nushin Yazdani
Wiebke Holtermann
Carsten Giese
Merani Schilcher

GlogauAir

Glogauer Str. 16, 10999 Berlin

06.10.2016

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The Retune Festival transforms a school building from the past into a playground of the futures. The space will be turned into experimental design studios, workshops, lecture halls, and offline chatrooms.

Exhibitions, talks, and workshops are clustered around four main themes:

Immersed Narratives – Exploring the opportunities of storytelling in virtual reality.

Neuronal Creation – Expanding creative expression with Artificial Intelligence.

Networked Transplantations - Extending bodies and senses.

Creative Production - Investigating how creatives get from prototypes to products.

360° Film Workshop
3D Printed Limbs
Learn how to print and assemble a 3D-printed hand by Asem Hasna
AI Ethics & Prosthetics
Breakout Session – An Endless Film?
Browser History Dating
Build A Drawing Robot
Building & Decorating Crab Robots
Code to Object
Digital Calligraffiti
Hands-on RasterFairy
How to Make a Human Sensor
IoT – Let‘s build a connected light bulb
Luminous Breath
Machine Learning for Artists
Natural Language Processing
SmellSCAPES
Sticky Fingers
Virtual Sculptures
vvvvR
WebGL Cables

Julian Adenauer
Jasmin Grimm
Christian Zöllner
Paz Diman
Wiebke Holtermann
Carsten Giese
Sita Grettmann

Arena Glashaus Berlin

Eichenstraße 4, 12435 Berlin

26.09.2014

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As increasing parts of our lives are influenced and ruled by technology, its relationship towards humans, society and culture needs to be renegotiated.

From 26. - 28. September 2014 the retune conference brings together for the third time artists, designers, technologists as well as researchers and scientists to inspire interdisciplinary thinking and making. This annual gathering of international creative minds seeks to explore, shape, and critically question the future of living, working, and expressing with technology.

Within a three days conference international thinkers and practitioners will give inspirational talks and key note speeches; participants will gain further practical experiences in workshops and have the chance to discuss and connect with like-minded creatives from various interdisciplinary fields.

3D Scanning And Printing
Choreographic Coding Lab
Embodiment And Empathy With The Machine To Be Another
Introduction To Openframeworks
Networkshop
Prototyping Interfaces
Real Time Video Tools
Twitter Orchestra
The Superobjects Paradigm
VVVV

Director

Julian Adenauer

Organization team

Raphaël de Courville
Jasmin Grimm
So Kanno
Iohanna Nicenboim
Anne Spaa
Rachel Uwa
Hanna Wiesener
Christian Zöllner

Advisory board

Prof. Jussi Ängeslevä (UdK Berlin / ART+COM)
Dr. Johann Habakuk Israel (Fraunhofer IPK Berlin)
Prof. Steffi Husslein (HS Magdeburg)
Prof. Dr. Jörg Petruschat (HTW Dresden)
Prof. Alan N. Shapiro (HfG Offenbach)
Prof. Peter Friedrich Stephan (Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln)

Visual identity and website design:

Carsten Giese (Studio Regular)

Theater Aufbau Kreuzberg

Prinzenstraße 85 F, 10969 Berlin

26.10.2012

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Designers, artists, hackers, architects and engineers all are connected through the world wide web. They share knowledge about materials, tools and code in online communities. They document projects online and inspire others to remix and DIY. Digital production technologies which a few years ago used to be exclusive to industrial users, nowadays are accessible to everyone. New financing models facilitate the implementation of projects without the help of investors and banks.

All of these developments spark off a new, creative culture of innovation. Retune brings together a heterogenous group of people and presents examples as to how passionate experimenting, breaking up old paradigms and open-mindedness can change the world. The event location right in the middle of Berlin Kreuzberg links the conference with one of the hotspots of this innovative movement.

Presentations and workshops will provide basic and expertise knowledge: which production technique is best for which material? How do developers organise their work most efficiently? How do you turn LEDs into clothing? How to programme a micro controller? How to make medical instruments from very simple materials? Insiders explain intriguing projects from concept to implementation. Musicians meet up for an open source music night and will perfom with their self-made instruments. Designers and artists present their interactive installations.