on translation
February 4th, 2006
one more reason not to buy a dell computer
Originally uploaded by stilleben.
The theme for this years transmediale and trip to Berlin must be translation so fare. Thursday I had the trouble of getting juice on my computer, and spend a couple of hours trying to get my Danish power cord translated into something that I could plug into a German power plug. But not only electricity needs translation, not surprisingly speech also needs it. It did come as a surprise though, that keynote Dominique Noguez spoke in French. I was looking forward to his talk on humour, since he is supposed to be one of the persons in the world that knows the most about humour, so I thought the talk would be at least fun - it probably also was, but in French! Seems quite oldskool that a new media festival has keynotes in French and German, since the netlingo for good or bad is English. But anyway I will give my german a shot this afternoon.
