Event
Safeguarding Cultural Infrastructures and Digital Heritage
BETWEENstitute Forum
Green Deal Studio
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On a Painting by Hamishi Farah
Opening Night
Far Away is Close at Hand in Images of ElsewhereBasir Mahmood’s film ‘moon-sighting’ probes how bonds shared by Mirpuri communities in Pakistan and Britain can unravel through processes of ‘othering’ as what's deemed to be Mirpuri in Britain can be defined as British in Mirpur. The event will take the form of a conversation between Basir Mahmood and political geographer சிந்துஜன் வரதராஜா (Sinthujan Varatharajah), alongside a screening of the film and behind the scenes footage of its production.
Living in ‘Archival Time’, or at the End of Narrative(s)
Marie-Luise Angerer Lecture
a right of replyA collection of essay films explores the productive capacities of the distance between ourselves and the screens of our devices.
I am your ideal subject, I am your ideal collectiveIn her talk, Ideal Subjects: Abstract People in Data and Culture, Olga Goriunova asks what is the “me” that is profiled on a streaming platform or analysed by a smart watch. Mercedes Bunz follows with her lecture, Release me from your technical collective. This lecture aims to uncover a power of the technical collective usually overlooked. Following their lectures, Goriunova and Bunz will be joined in conversation by Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal.
Generating an Artificial Democracy: On Sociological Intimacies of Bots and/as Personas
Cheryl Scores a Tumblr
[closed] Pro Test: Monitoring Protests from Afar with Bard College Berlin and Amnesty International
Image Capture: On the Legacy of Scientific Policing
Indexing & Prototyping Trans*Crip Tech
Zoomed Out
[closed] Structures of Haunting
A School
Spaceship Earth 2.0
The Complex Yes
[applications closed] Children’s Drawings as Evidence
Acting and Knowing Together in the World: A Territorial Exploration of the Unknown as a Path Towards Closeness
Algosomatic Session: how to act on a distance, to race conditions, to sleep with algorithms?
transmediale running club
The Best Weapon Against Myth is MythmakingThe films in this programme explore how technologies mediate non-verbal methods of communicating in order to commodify the human or nonhuman body.
Why Your Own Programming Language?A language might be designed by one person but is rarely a solo effort. It finds its full expression when a community of practitioners explore it, discovering its nuance and character. The best esolangs surpass the intentions of their creators, becoming living languages.
This One’s for the Rabbits, the Also-Rans, and the Dreamers
The Grid: A Lecture on Cybotron and Techno-Vernacular Expressionism, followed by a screening of *Marshall Allen, 99, Astronaut*
The Inexorable Non-Player Character
*La Grande Vacance* [Changed to *Affirmations are Not as Powerful as Belief*]This lecture will present fragments from an ongoing artistic research project, La Grande Vacance. A non-binary film - part essay film and part speculative fiction - the project explores images of exhaustion and exhaustion through images.
Pacified/AnimatedAndrew Culp and Thomas Dekeyser trace the limits of a politics of activation and sketch out models for exit strategies.
Collective Disability Justice Focused Tech
UNTITLED (iii)A developing performance by Bhenji Ra, Tati au Miel, and SUUTOO, exploring trickstery as a fugitive practice and as a catalyst for embodied emancipation.
The distance between us. On violence, split technology, and Relation.
Sheep BalloonYoo portrays a streamer who regularly broadcasts online to explore forms of 'nonverbal dialogue' between South and North Korea, in the process revealing the nonsensical narrative of a love-hate relationship. Sheep might appear from time to time.
Affirmations are Not as Powerful as BeliefThe films in this programme capture the user in the midst of imagination: employing mind and/or body to disconnect and reconnect the user from their everyday lived realities.
transmediale x CTM | Synthesis 1
Andriy K.Exploring the therapeutic effects of textures and the depths of human reflection, Andriy’s music offers a journey through emotions and mental artifacts. His live performances often feature dubbed guitars and vocals, delivering a deep emotional impact.
Echoes of CareA collaborative multidisciplinary performance exploring the theme of haunting and Black ways of care and exploring the body as a vehicle for epiginetic memory of carelessness and carefulness.
GPS for the Brain: Cognitive Mapping RevisitedThis talk will put cognitive mapping in dialogue with advances in neuroscience and artificial intelligence. It will account for a few important misalignments in the metaphors used to describe the science of the brain, as well as revisit and critique the influence of cognitive mapping in architecture and urbanism today.
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Passive Proximities and the Choreographed ClosenessFour image-makers present three short lecture performances, each of which mines the productive distance between the viewer and the image.
Affective Proximities: A Genealogy of Queer Media Tactics, followed by screening of *Storytelling Liberation: Media as Process*This conversation will interrogate the interplay between tactics and strategy in relation to digital forms of queer activism from the 1980’s AIDS crisis up to the present day.
“We are closer to them than their jugular vein”: The Metaphysics of Distance and Proximity in a Fictional WorldIn this talk, Italian philosopher Federico Campagna will explore the question of proximity and distance, as mediated by contemporary technologies, through a metaphysical and fiercely non-contemporary angle.
Pixels in, People out: An Image-Based Ideology of Space
How to Make a Refugee
Dark AdaptationSet in a crash-test centre of the future, Hammond’s installation and accompanying performance depict an evolutionary regression of the autonomous vehicle: one in which its sensors are hacked to collide with the fleshy rhythms of data that emerge from the human body.
Biraddali Dancing on the Horizon
transmediale x CTM | Synthesis 2
*On the Cybergothic*, Haunting/HauntedA collective discussion interrogates the wider framework of the politics of haunting/haunted, drawing threads from the transmediale instances contributed by the Critical Infrastructures and Image Politics group (Winchester School of Art).
Letters from the Unmodelled
Lumi, followed by Synthetic Surfaces and Planetary LightScreening of *Lumi*(2024), by Abelardo Gil-Fournier and Jussi Parikka. Followed by a conversation with Marco Ferrari joining Abelardo Gil-Fournier and Jussi Parikka on stage.
A Movement Hanging in the Air, followed by a screening of *Literally no place*Through works by Nina Davies and Aaron Ratajczak, *A Movement Hanging in the Air* asks what new intimacies arise when we dance for the screens of our devices – even when we know that no one is watching.
Digital Maximalism vs. ExistenzminimumIn this talk, Silvio Lorusso will discuss the contradictory relationship between our expansive digital engagements and the increasingly confined physical spaces we inhabit
Dead Dad Death CultDEAD DAD DEATH CULT [DDDC] is a (mostly) solo performance exploring how we fill the paternal void. The piece blends live art, character comedy, and confessional theatre, drawing from Samra Mayanja’s experiences in an anarchist eco-commune and the grief following my father's death.
*(near) near but — far*: A Closing ConversationThe closing conversation probes why certain struggles generate broader solidarity movements while others remain isolated, examining racial, economic, and structural factors that influence these dynamics.
The New NoteThis scored and improvised work brings artist Vivienne Griffin together with musician Úna Monaghan for a harp-based, experimental live performance.
transmediale running club
The Inexorable Non-Player Character
Sheep BalloonYoo portrays a streamer who regularly broadcasts online to explore forms of 'nonverbal dialogue' between South and North Korea, in the process revealing the nonsensical narrative of a love-hate relationship. Sheep might appear from time to time.
The Best Weapon Against Myth is MythmakingThe films in this programme explore how technologies mediate non-verbal methods of communicating in order to commodify the human or nonhuman body.
Affirmations are Not as Powerful as BeliefThe films in this programme capture the user in the midst of imagination: employing mind and/or body to disconnect and reconnect the user from their everyday lived realities.
DARC PhD/Research Workshop: *everything is a matter of distance*In response to transmediale's 2025 theme, this year’s research workshop, organised by the Digital Aesthetics Research Center (Aarhus University) in collaboration with transmediale, reflects on how current networked, technological environments are designing, capturing, and capitalising on ways of being social.
DARC PhD/Research Workshop: *everything is a matter of distance*In response to transmediale's 2025 theme, this year’s research workshop, organised by the Digital Aesthetics Research Center (Aarhus University) in collaboration with transmediale, reflects on how current networked, technological environments are designing, capturing, and capitalising on ways of being social.
Marshall McLuhan Lecture 2025
Libraries of Rest
The VomitverseVomitverse is a performance and video game evening curated by Fantasia Malware and featuring guest artists alpha_rats, wherethehasbeen and yeongrak. The Vomitverse is corporate tech's nauseous twin - a ghost world rendered in hyper-saturated strokes of bile. This event is part of Fever Loop Fountain - a four part series exploring video games and performance.
Let there be no illusion
Vilém Flusser Book Launch
Oceanic Refractions – Talk
She’s Evil, Most Definitively Subliminal
Closing Partyfestival closing party
The Nettime Listening Post
Resilient Wearables: Designing decentralised guerrilla networksIn this two-day workshop, Studio Weise7 will guide participants through creating DIY wearable electronic devices for guerrilla peer-to-peer (P2P) networks.
Content Realism
Book Launch: Systems and Tokens, Rules and Transgressions
ASchool
Closing Conversation
Users, Politics, linkinbio
Anti-Colonial Tech through Resistance and Discomforts
The Poetics of Unerasable Characters
The Kitchen Network: Anti-Fascism and Plants
Living Currency
Real/Unreal
Quilting in Real-time
Research Workshop 2024: Content/Form
洪火机构 (The Office Agency of Flash Flood and Wildfire)As correspondents for a fictional meteorological agency, bela and Kloxii Li deliver a ceaseless stream of predictions for imminent flash floods and wildfires.
[Withdrew] HANDOFFA choreography of light and sound descends on the stage as a feed of information scrolls controlled by Mario Santanilla.
Disappear Here (Screaming, Crying, Throwing up)Chimeric computer-generated creatures take over the audiovisual apparatus of the festival.
Disappear Here (Screaming, Crying, Throwing up)Chimeric computer-generated creatures take over the audiovisual apparatus of the festival.
Crypto (Blue Marble)Exploring the mythologies on which corporate hegemonies are built, the performace traces fantasies of empires with their undeniable ecological realities.
MetaBourgeoisieMetaBourgeoisie is a rumination on the privilege of being non-political and its aesthetics.
Future Shock
Loaded Landscapes
Content or Freedom?
TerraForma
Let Me Tell You How It Played Out
Living with the Glow of the World on our Faces
Berghain Night
Festival OpeningThe festival opens with an evening of music, performance, and film screenings and features a lineup of performers and DJs.
Farida Amadou with Aquiles Navarro
Marshall McLuhan Lecture 2024Cory Doctorow explores the evolution of the internet and the history of its current condition.
open studio 2023
Mental Geology of Nuclear Threat & The Labor of Witnessing
silent green Open House 2023transmediale studio featured a Film installation as part of silent green’s open house programme, where we presented *Onset* - a film by last year’s residents Anna Engelhardt & Mark Cinkevich as well as the work in progress *The Alluvials* by this year’s Vilém Flusser resident Alice Bucknell.
Collapsing Time
A Silent Opera for Anthropogenic Mass – collective listening session with Joana Moll
The Art of Decolonising Digital Resistance
We Have Always Been Geological
Opening remarks
Drumming
Doing Things With Crisis
Listening and Whispering
The (◕‿◕✿) side of supremacy
/imagine an overheated debate:: #AIart, trending on Twitter, 4K render
Prompt Battle
Protocols of Sensing
La Orejona Records’ Sharing Station
La Orejona Records’ Sharing Station
La Orejona Records’ Sharing Station
Blowing and Breathing
Towards a Planetary Cultural Landscape
Proof-of-Scale
Research Workshop 2023: Toward a Minor Tech
The Higher The Risk
Algorithmic Solidarities
A History of Maps in Twelve Worlds
The View from Above Takes My Breath Away – Fully
read–write–modify
Planetary Portals: Diamond Power
Strata
Blue! Probably?
sumpong
how extremely lazy of me
An Engine Not a Camera
The Shredded Hologram Rose
What the World Knows About China, it Knows Through Loops
Real Time, Dead Time
Scales of Realtime
The Proxy Landscape in False Colour
Redaction: Disappearing Data, From Nano to Stratosphere
Logistical Counter-Cartographies
Onset ⊹ Applied Demonology
Worlds in Figures
How an Image Matters
Sublime Depths
Unconscionable Maps
Micro, Meso, Macro
Digital Middleman
The Uncertain Condition
Counter Cloud Strategies
Witnessing Beyond Imaging
On Seeing Where There’s So Much To See
Unscalable
How Water Calculates
Planetary Scales
Synthetic Images
How to Know, What to Scale
A State in a State
Film Night
GeoMarkr
Far Away is Close at Hand in Images of Elsewhere
Performance in the Present Tense
EMAP: Marleine van der Werf: Disembodied
/rosa: Skyscapes: Berlin-Mitte by Evan Roth
MILLIONS OF EXPERIENCES (HUGE IF TRUE)
MOREOVER
transmediale x CTM 2023 Saturday
transmediale x CTM 2023 Closing Concert
Marshall McLuhan Lecture 2023
transmediale Opening Night
Berghain Säule Night
refusing refusal Finissage
Research Workshop 2022: Rendering ResearchRendering Research
I AM THE WORLD
Von der Untätigkeit (On Idleness)
Day 1 - Opening Moderation
Dark Optimism: Conspiratorial Styles of Reasoning for the Biosphere
Moving or Being Moved
Fantasy and Damage
Beginnings and Ends of Colonialism: Undoing Imperial Temporalities
Terms and Conditions
Archiving the Unstable
The Infrapolitics of Leveraging
Marshall McLuhan Lecture 2022
Day 2 - Opening Moderation
Climate, Reparations, and Planning
Leche Holográfica (Holographic Milk)
IOU: Capital, debts, and promise
From Pixel to Point: A Story of Data Annotation Labour
Farming Otherwise in The Last Wetlands of California
notes for les sanglières (deuxième partie)
Calculation Otherwise
On not knowing (for that which cannot be imagined) & Unworlding
out of doors - Day 1: Unrendered factsout of doors
out of doors - Day 2: Networks of Desireout of doors
out of doors - Day 3: Tenderness in Extractive Worldsout of doors
out of doors - Day 4: Absence and Ritualsout of doors
out of doors - Day 5: Zombies, Ghosts and Dirt: A Performance in a graveyard gardenout of doors
The Reclamation of Social Timeinformation