Since the late 1980s, transmediale has developed alongside technological change, registering and responding to the social and political transformations produced within technologies. The Archival Stations draw on transmediale’s 40-year history, using the festival’s archive as a political resource, a constellation of practices and ideas that were developed, practised, abandoned, partially forgotten, or failed.

Within each Archival Station, visitors can read and browse a selection of documents and historical materials from the archival research. Each artwork in the exhibition is linked to a station, providing historical and conceptual background, connecting the different works and practices, and enabling a non-linear navigation of the exhibition.