Open Access#BWPWAP
Author(s) -
Christian Ulrik Andersen,
Tatiana Bazzichelli,
Armin Beverungen,
Geoff Cox,
Kristoffer Gansing
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
a peer-reviewed journal about --
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2245-7755
DOI - 10.7146/aprja.v2i1.121120
Subject(s) - pretext , pluto , media studies , sociology , history , visual arts , astrobiology , political science , art , law , physics , politics
In referring to the cancellation of Pluto’s planetary status in 2006, #BWPWAP (Back When Pluto Was a Planet) – the 2013 edition of the transmediale festival – interrogates techno-cultural processes of displace- ment and invention, and asks for artistic and speculative responses to new cultural imaginaries. In light of this, the conference and workshop Researching #BWPWAP took place in November 2012 in Lüneburg, Germany, organised jointly by Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Aarhus University and the reSource transmedial culture/transmediale. The call for participation focused on Ph.D. researchers and other participants to speculate on BWPWAP as a pretext for presenting their research and even to further reflect on its circulation as a meme.