Transmediale winner 2010: Michelle Teran

Michelle Teran won the Transmediale Award 2010 for her work Buscando Al Sr. Goodbar, a "bus tour happening", that took place in Murcia, Spain, in 2009.

Her project Buscando al Sr. Goodbar (2009) is a threefold tour through the Spanish town Murcia simultaneously taking place by bus as well as on Google Earth and YouTube.
Seated on a bus an audience debarks on a physical search for the locations and authors of various YouTube videos produced in the city. Whenever any such YouTube video discloses the geographical coordinates of where it was shot, the video becomes tagged onto Google Earth via a special software mapping system. The bus can be followed virtually on Google Earth while YouTube videos are screened on the bus itself. By entering the spaces where videos were produced, an intimate encounter occurrs between video makers and audience.

From the Transmediale Website

The award comes with a prize of 6000 Euros.

At the Transmediale Michelle presented remix of the performance in the form of a video installation. The exhibition is still open untill 9 February 2010. So if you happen to be in the Berlin area, drop by. Several Faces members where in the audience and cheered on for Michelle. After the announcement the surprised and overwhelmed winner proclaimed: "This is for the women!"

This video shows an impression of the tour and some of the people one could encounter:

Buscando al Sr. Goodbar (Looking for Mr. Goodbar) from Michelle Teran on Vimeo.

The other two prizes consist of a honorary mention for Aaron Koblin and Daniel Massey for their work Bicycle Built For Two Thousand and the Villem Flusser Award for Warren Neidich for his research project Neuropower.