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Prior to transmediale.08, xxxxx_Peenemnde presents an intense, highly speculative three day

long working group/workshop within a key, historical location in Northern Germany. Diverse

groups, populated by artists, theorists, and tacticians will actively examine that fiction which pres-ents a dark heart of technology (as evidenced, for example, by electromagnetic practice), and a

vivid relation to both entropy and ecology.

The Peenemnde location, hermetically sealed by military and scientific interests for over fifty

years prior to the reunification of Germany in 1990, acts as a questionable, treacherous and high-

ly concentrated site for an examination of information, signal meaning and technology, under the

overarching parabola of Thomas Pynchon's epic novel Gravity's Rainbow. Within this work, and

indeed the history of contemporary technological development, the Peenemnde site, as Heeres-

versuchsstelle Peenemnde (HVP), occupies a major position. Under the technical directorshipof one Wernher von Braun, so-called father of the cold war US space program, major develop-

ments encompassing aerodynamics, analogue computing and surveillance technologies took

place at this site within the context of the V-2 (A4) rocket development, and against the backdrop

of the Third Reich military-industrial apparatus. A vast living and working complex, at one point

employing 12,000 scientists, engineers and forced labourers occupying the peninsula, was de-

stroyed by both earlier Allied bombing, and international agreement after the Second World War.

An erased location, bearing few traces of previous occupation, Peenemnde signals a too clear

meaning, contrasting the utopic dream of spaceflight with an economy of propaganda, and de-

struction. The landscape is perhaps too easily decoded, inviting both speculative psycho-histori-

cal mapping, and advanced decryption technique.

Introduction

xxxxx_Peenemnde Investigatory Excursion 25/01/08 - 28/01/08

xxxxx_Peenemnde investigatory excursion is supported by transmediale.08

and the Historisch-Technisches Informationszentrum (HTI) Peenemnde.

http://transmediale.de

http://www.peenemuende.de


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Directions from Berlin Mitte to Peenemnde:

Leaving Berlin North on Prenzlauer Allee

A10 towards Prenzlau

Pass by AD Dreieck Schwanebeck, exit towards Stettin

A11 towards Prenzlau/Stralsund

Pass by AK Kreuz Uckermark, head towards A20 Stralsund

A20 towards Stralsund

Exit 27 towards Gutzkow, Wolgast

Pass through Wolgast, over Peene bridge towards Zinnowitz

Turn right soon after bridge to Karlshagen, Peenemunde

Follow signs to HTI


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We are happy to welcome you on the xxxxx_Peenemnde Investigatory

Excursion. Please find below some useful information regarding your

travel and stay on the Peenemnde Peninsula.

Day 0

Departure Time:

Meeting Point:

Travelling Time:

Accommodation:

Breakfast:

Lunch:

Dinner:

HTI Location:

HTI Opening Hours:

xxxxx Contact Phone:

25.01.2008

5.30 pm

Klosterstrasse 68 - 70 [U-Bahnhaltestelle U2]

ca. 3 hours

Every day: 7.30 am - 10.00 am at Hotel

Every day from about 1 pm, a Picnic-Lunch Catering will be provided atthe Headquarter in the HTI [Historisch-Technisches Informationszentrum],including hot and cold drinks and sandwiches.

Every day: 5.30 pm - 9.30 pm at the Hotel

Historisch-Technisches InformationszentrumIm Kraftwerk, 17449 Peenemnde, Phone 0049-38371-5050

Hotel Zur Zwiebel, Peeneplatz 3, 17449 PeenemndePhone: 0049-38371-26439

10.00 am - 8.00 pm

0049 - 176 67597946 [Any questions or problems during your stay]


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strongly recommends warm and weather-proof clothes!xxxxx

26.01.2008

Meeting and Introduction at the HTI

Tour through the HTI

First group Excursion to Prfstand VII

Second group Excursion to Prfstand VII

Working groups meetings/discussion/construction.

Closure of HTI

Day One:

10.00 am:

10.30 am:

11.30 am:

12.30 pm:

02.00 pm:

08.00 pm:

Day Two:

10 am - 08.00 pm

Day Three:

Departure Time:

Meeting Point:

Rough Schedule

27.01.2008

Working groups meetings/discussion/construction.

28.01.2008 - Day of Departure from Peenemnde

12.00 pm

Hotel Zur Zwiebel


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1] Data forensics in

the lanndscape

Working Groups

Divining and providing ideas for a future (data) archeology. Key con-

cepts include physical data sedimentation, decoding and paranoia,

cryptography. techniques for the examination of promiscuous data lea-

kage, and making sense of/within a landscape.

Participants: Julian Oliver, Alejo Duque, Andrei Smirnov

Operations Room:

2] The filmed image,

history and pornography

Film, software, temporal bandwidth and time axis manipulation. Porno-

graphy (equally as paranoiac detail) and film as executable (proposed

action), and provoking world view, is divined within a particular motifin Gravity's Rainbow: Ghost children/cannon fodder conceived, doub-

led and unidentified within the Alpdruckn (filmed) rape sequence (cf.

GR. p 398)

Tatiana Bazzichelli, Gaia Novati, Federico BucalossiParticipants:

Operations Room: HTI - Large cinema

HTI -"The Third Floor" aka: Die dritte Etage

3] W.A.S.T.E as hidden/carrier for hiding and as contemporary networked action:

We Await Silent Tristero's Empire - The Crying of Lot 49.

Fiction as conspiracy theory par excellence. Language and betrayal/

treason to the codes.

Participants:

Operations Room:

Alejo Duque, Julian Oliver, Andrei Smirnov

HTI - "The Third Floor" aka: Die dritte Etage


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Working Groups

4] Endophysics in

practice

Collective world-view as conspiracy.

I recorded a few minutes in all three rooms. I recorded the toilet flushing

and the shower running. I recorded the water running in the kitchen

sink, the rattle of dishes and the opening and closing and hum of the

refrigerator. I recorded on the balcony. Now I lay down on the bed and

read some selections from The Magus into the recorder.

[William S. Burroughs. Cities of the Red Night]

Participants:

Operations Room:

5] The black box

Participants:

Operations Room:

Otto Rssler, Oswald Berthold

Working group towards the design of an interior CPU (interiority itself)

to be mapped over the world (as exposure), as literary, false data

sheet, as Jabberwocky API and as elegant diagram (early constructi-

vist). Peenemnde map/aerial photography/investigations.

Participants:

Operations Room:

Oswald Berthold , Marguerite Charmante , Jessica Rylan

HTI - Large cinema

Maxwell City and the haunted computer. A landscape and the expos-ure of its hidden (EM - electromagnetic) double. Ghost radio (EVP

(Electronic Voice Phenomena), ITC (Instrumental Transcommunicati-

on) and data radio - a message is transmitted - again the link to deco-

ding. EM and mind control, history of EM science and links to

spiritualism. Pink light (EM) as information carrier.

6] EM practice

Martin Kuentz, Gordan Savicic, Andrei Smirnov, Alejandra Perez Nunez,Ewen Chardronnet, Horia Cosmin Samoila

HTI - Alte Schweisserei

HTI - Large cinema


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External Participants

Alternative

Accommodation for

external visitors

ALL INVITED PARTICIPANTS ARE BOOKED IN:

Hotel Zur Zwiebel

Peeneplatz 3

17449 Peenemnde

Tel.: 038371-26439 - Fax.: 038371-26441

Residenz Am Peeneplatz

Peeneplatz 4

17449 Peenemnde

Tel. 03 83 71 / 5 55 28

Fax 03 83 71 / 5 55 29

http://www.meer-usedom.de/utg/residenz/haupt_kontakt.html

ca. 40 Euro fr 2 Personen

oder:

Peenemnder Eck

Strandstr. 1

17449 Karlshagen

Tel. 038371 - 21815

Fax 038371 - 28310

ttp://www.peenemuender-eck.de

42 Euro fr 2 Personen

FOR EXTERNAL VISITORS ONLY!

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