transforum is published three times a year - online and in print - by the Austrian Cultural Forum NY.
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Contributed articles do not necessarily reflect the official view of the Austrian Government or of the editors.
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Editor-in-Chief | Andreas Stadler
Executive Editor | Maria Simma
Editor | Kerstin Schuetz-Mueller
Exhibitions | Elisabeth Haider
Film | Manfred Kapper
Literature | Martin Rauchbauer
Music and Dance | Michael Karning
On Books | Edeltrud Desmond
Contributors | Wayne Ashley, Miriam Brownstone, Lynn Gaubatz, Friederike Götze, Julia Huber, Lisa Matzinger, Valerie Pachner, Denise Riedlinger, Maria Simma, Simona Sivkoff
Translation and Proofreading | Susan Schwarz
Supporters | Austrian Airlines, Botstiber Foundation, RZB Finance, Zumtobel
PHOTO CREDITS
Cover
Michael Strasser, Incandescent, Infernoesque Berlin 2009, photo by Julia Zimmermann
Letter from the Editor
Andreas Stadler and Austrian Minister for Education, Claudia Schmied, photo by David Plakke
"No Budget", drawing by Tex Rubinowitz
NEWS USA
Zdenka Becker, photo by Lucas Beck
Alois Mock, June 27, 1989, the foreign ministers of Austria and Hungary cut through the “iron curtain” at the Austrian-Hungarian border near Klingenbach. Photo by Bernhard J. Holzner © HOPI-MEDIA
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Photo by Gilbert Pattison, 1936 [from: Wittgenstein, eine Ausstellung der Wiener Secession, Band 1, Biographie, Philosophie, Praxis / [Authors: Chris Bezzel ...] - 1989. - Vienna, 1989. - 296 pgs. (ger.), pg. 71]
ZEE, Artificial Fog, Stroboscopes, Pulse Lights and Surround Sound, 2008, image courtesy the artist
NEWS AUSTRIA
Krypta of the Carmelite church in Linz, Austria, photo by Br. Benno Skala, OCD
"Castle of Soul, 2003", photo by Václav Jirásek
Lech am Arlberg, photo by Georg Schnell
Nature Theater of Oklahoma, Fabian Krüger, Moritz Vierboom, Markus Meyer, photo by Valerie Pachner
Nature Theater of Oklahoma, Fabian Krüger, photo by Valerie Pachner
Nature Theater of Oklahoma, Kelly Copper, Pavol Liska, photo by Valerie Pachner
Vladislav Mamyshev-Monro, a photo from the series Secret Materials, (Politbureau portraits) 'Lev Nikolaevich Zaikov', © Vladislav Mamyshev-Monro
Dadalenin. Ebaylenin, 2007, photo by Rainer Ganahl
Iannis Xenakis, photo by Cecila Bright
EXHIBITION
Image © LichtFaktor (David Lübschen, Marcel Panne, Jens Heinen), Cologne
Pia Palme at sound:frame Vienna, photo © sound:frame
Still from Life Show (Channel-F Remix), © Kühn & Elischka
Sophie Calle, Neue Wache, aus: Die Entfernung - The Detachment, 1996, Sammlung Ringier, Schweiz © VBK, Wien, 2009
Leopold Kessler, still from Depot, 2005, Video, 3’ 19”, Courtesy Galerie Andreas Huber
MUSIC
Moving Sounds Logo by Astrid Steiner
The Argento Chamber Ensemble, photo by Sabrina Weisz
Bernhard Lang, photo by Gerline Hipfl
Dorian Concept, photo by Mihail Novakov
Barbara Paierl, photo by Josef Maier
Elisabeth Lohninger, by Barbara Gentile
Hans Glawischnig, photo by by David Sokol
Hari Ganglberger, photo by Fumie Ishii
LITERATURE
Josef Haslinger, image courtesy Josef Haslinger
Translation Prize image by Kerstin Schuetz-Mueller
FILM
Film poster for Schindler’s Houses
Filmstill from FILM IST.
PORTRAIT
Improvisations – National Hotel Pune, C-print 40 x 50 inch, 2008, photo courtesy the artist.
Assembled in Japan #4, C-print 31.5 x 40 inch, 2008, photo courtesy the artist.
Blew Hawaii – Installation view Austrian Cultural Forum New York, 2009, photo by Michael Strasser
ON BOOKS
Me and Kaminski Book Cover, Pantheon Books
Wolf Haas, image (c) Hoffmann und Campe Verlag
