- /collabThank you to everyone who came to the studio for the launch of Barbara Cueto’s book. A small warm-up for transmediale RFC40 ⟢Her book White Papers on Dissent is now available in our online shop at a special festival price.
- tm/postImpressions from Mesh Festival, Basel – Myriam Bleau & Nien Tzu Weng, Mohamad Khezri Moghadam, Sophia Bulgakova, Nesting and Nesting Infrastructures w/ T.L. Cowan & Jas Rault @ Critical Media Lab, Aïsha Devi
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- /collabWhat can decentralised technologies and financial systems learn from practices of mutual aid across the tropical belt? BanKanga InterTropical becomes a ground for experiments in Financial Techno·fagia at transmediale studio on 23 October from 16:00. This includes a communal hangout with diagrams, textiles, maps, and hanging·structures, and an interTropical protocol activation of casting spells for a post-money bank.
- What if we cool bodies instead of servers? The first session of The School of Algorithmic Solidarity explored other ways of sensing and acting in a ventilator-filled environment. Thank you to all who took part ✳︎
- /collabBarbara Cueto will present her book White Papers on Dissent on 21 October at 19:00 at transmediale studio. The book explores blockchain technology beyond its economic narratives and technical promises, as a social device to rehearse post-capitalist imaginaries. The presentation is followed by a conversation with terra0, moderated by Chris Dake-Outhet.

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transmediale screening at Arsenal Kinotransmediale is a guest at Arsenal Kino, presenting a screening of the film Decoder (1984).Screening Date: 12.10.2026 - /tm27Over the past months, the Lattice Labs have been meeting irl and online, moving between critique and collective production. On Friday, the Solidarity Economies Lab, which focuses on collective economic models for art workers, begins its design sprint in Berlin, with methods ranging from love letters and LARPing to proposals and counter-proposals (as all good economic planning should). All of the Lattice Labs will present their work at the festival, with more notes from their progress to follow ⟶ ⁂
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The School of Algorithmic Solidarity with eeefff⟢As part of fragile currents, eeefff presents The School of Algorithmic Solidarity, a series of performative sessions working with the festival’s archive. - /open call
Open Call for Vorspiel 2027Vorspiel is back! The open call invites proposals from independent project spaces, platforms, initiatives, curators, and artists based in Berlin.Application deadline: 06.11.2026 - /noteBpB halts support for transmedialeWe share the following with frustration and deep concern: One of our longstanding main funders, the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (BpB), has decided to discontinue its support of transmediale after more than 20 years.
- /networkOlia Lialina’s solo exhibition Network Portraits opens tonight at panke.gallery, exploring the labour and transformations required to keep websites and digital cultures alive. Olia Lialina is the lab lead of the Reclaiming the Interface Lab , one of the Lattice Labs running in the months before transmediale 2027 👾 Opening 10 September, 19:00.

- /collabThe second artwork presented as part of the cooperation with the Transgressive Memory Festival is the collaborative project between Laura Cugusi , machine yearning , and Federico Zurani . Everything Is Computer is a game essay set in the aftermath of a Thielian apocalypse, where a Superintelligence cult has taken over. 12–13 September, 2026 at the transmediale studio 💥

- /collabAs part of the cooperation with Transgressive Memory Festival , transmediale presents the new work of the 2026 Vilém Flusser resident Martyna Marciniak . Desert of the Unreal departs from a 2023 Reddit post depicting AI-generated rescue scenes from a 2001 Cascadia earthquake; a disaster that never happened, yet evoked an uncanny sense of collective misremembering. 12–13 September, 2026 at the transmediale studio 🧸

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[CLOSED] Open Call for Festival Curation 2028transmediale e.V. is inviting applications for the Festival Curation for transmediale 2028. The position invites one or more persons to bring new questions to the field, grounded in critical reflection and political engagement.Deadline: 30.09.2026 - /networkCTM is calling for applications for their Resynthesising the Traditional artistic lab. The call seeks artists and practice-based researchers whose work critically examines the relationships, tensions, and intersections between the traditional and the extreme. Apply by 28 September 2026 ⌛


- /networkWaag is calling for proposals for creative interventions that result from critical engagements with AI tools. They look for artists, theatre makers, choreographers, dancers, game designers, and other creative practitioners that are willing to challenge, misuse, reimagine, hack, subvert, collaborate with, play with, and creatively interrogate these technologies. The project will take place from January till September 2027. Apply by 30 September 2026, 23:59 CEST ⏰
- /networkThis evening, join the live hack night with Ahreum Lee (on her last night in Berlin), organised by Show Us Your Screens. Open for works-in-progress, unfinished performances, hacking your devices, and info-dumping about your current obsessions 👾 At Offline , August 25, 19:00. All info here 🌀

- /networkOur former resident Anan Fries , together with musician Ricardo Eizirik and a robotic cat, will present LORECORPS (v2) during Pop-Kultur Festival tomorrow 🐈 They will guide the audience through the visual worlds of digital capitalism, revealing what lies beneath the polished surfaces of technological innovation: the gradual fusion of algorithmic control and authoritarian ideologies, the end of the open internet, and the power of new technological myths. Tuesday, 25 August, 19:00 at Kino Arsenal, Berlin 👾

- /networkStarting this weekend, Trust.support will host a series of workshops in Berlin for skill sharing towards radical utopian projects and infrastructural conspiracy 🕸️ Join selfservice.studio this Sunday for their first session on community digital infrastructures and self-hosting. Next weekend, Sarah Friend and Julia Schicker will focus on building familiarity with code and software in their Coding for Curators workshop. Full calendar here 🕷️
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transmediale x Transgressive Memory FestivalAs part of the cooperation with Transgressive Memory Festival, transmediale presents an exhibition with Martyna Marciniak, Laura Cugusi, machine yearning, and Federico Zurani. - /networkEMAF is looking for an exhibition curator for their upcoming 2027 edition 🔔 Opening along the five-day festival, the exhibition will take place at Kunsthalle Osnabrück from 21 April – 23 May 2027, curated in line with the festival’s annual theme. The application deadline is September 4, 2026. More info on their website 🌐

- /networkThis week, our sister festival CTM in collaboration with Neue Nationalgalerie presents the music series Sound In The Garden, powered by d&b Soundscape*.* After four nights of live concerts, Sunday will be dedicated to special sound installations with a day-long program of expansive sonic dialogues. 12–16 August, full line-up and more info on their website 🔉

- /collabImpressions of the third and last edition of the conversation pieces at Tropez, with Hannah Wallenfels, Anna-Lena Panter, and Marina Naprushkina 💦🐡
- /networkFor their 2027 Research Networking Day , CTM is seeking proposals for short presentations that respond to their 2027 theme, Process…ing. The call is aimed at graduate or postgraduate students – as well as independent artists conducting self-guided research – traversing the fields of audio, arts, media, design, and related theoretical disciplines. Apply by 25 October 2026 ⌛

- /networkOur sister festival CTM is announcing two new open calls 🔉 As they shift the CTM Radio Lab into the new format In Listening , CTM calls for submissions for works grounded in experimental sound and audio art driven by conceptual approaches or sonic narratives. It supports exploration at the blurred edges between sound, music, storytelling, poetry, documenting, and more. The call is open until 6 September 2026 ⏱️

- /collabThe third and last edition of the conversation pieces takes place this Saturday ! 💦🐡 Engaging with questions of infrastructure, care work, and the relationship between speculative feminisms and the political potential of science fiction, Marina Naprushkina and Hannah Wallenfels will discuss The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction (1986) by Ursula K. Le Guin. Saturday 8 August, 15:00 at Tropez im Sommerbad Humboldthain ⛱️

- /networkUnder the title process...ing , the 2027 edition of our sister festival CTM shifts its attention to what process means in its different iterations. More than ever, the festival programming will be a momentary manifestation of sustained conversations, collaborations, and exchanges, driven by a multiplicity of voices in dialogue. Key dates, open calls, and further information on their website 📣

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[CLOSED] Open Calls for Residents 2027transmediale, in collaboration with two international and one local partners, is calling for applications for its 2027 residency programme.Application Deadline: 28.08.2026 - /open callVilém Flusser Residency for Artistic ResearchApplication Deadline: 28.08.2026
- /open calltransmediale x ARKO ResidencyApplication Deadline: 28.08.2026
- /open callDigital Art ResidencyApplication Deadline: 28.08.2026
- /networkThe Hmm @ H&D Summer Camp Clouds to Commons is taking a deep, playful, and experimental look at the Cloud, its materiality, infrastructure, and ownership ☁️☁️☁️ During the closing night of the summer camp on July 23, they will be exploring hands-on-hacking, collective learning, speculative fabulation, and big tech resistance with six artists, designers, researchers, and makers. You can join in person at the NDSM Theatre in Amsterdam or online on their livestream 🌬️
- /collabImpressions of transmediale x Tropez second conversation piece with Anan Fries and Noemi Garay 🐠
- Opening today at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, the international group exhibition After Memory explores the subversive potential of digital technologies as tools of resistant remembrance against the acceleration of disinformation, data extraction, and algorithmic narrowing of perspectives, asking how we may remember and forget in the future. Opening at 17:00, the exhibition goes on until October 💿

- /collabThe second edition of the conversation pieces takes place this Sunday, June 12! 🐬🫧 Anan Fries and Noemi Garay Murcia will explore online safety, survival, concealment, and deception, parting from The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet (2026) by Bogna Konior. Starting at 15.00, we recommend arriving early to enjoy the pool and secure your spot 🐠🐠

- /network🔔 Our sister festival CTM is calling for submissions to their latest artistic lab initiative Fragmented Distance. The lab will take place 1–10 October 2026 in Armenia in collaboration with NOPA, a festival dedicated to sonic arts and experimental music. The call is open until 8 August 2026. All info and how to apply here 🔊

- /networkThe _Vilém_Flusser_Archive will host Martha Schwendener’s presentation of her newly published book, The Society of the Screen tomorrow, July 8. The author explores the effect of art on Flusser’s thought, revealing how Flusser’s lifelong engagement with experimental practices informed his early vision of a world dominated by glowing screens. Starting at 18:00 at the _Vilém_Flusser_Archive in the UdK .

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Announcing the Lattice Labs participantsWe are pleased to announce the participants of the Lattice Labs joining us for transmediale 2027 🤍 - /jobs[Closed] Project Management Festival ProgrammeWe are looking for a Project Manager of the festival programme for transmediale 2027.Application Deadline: 26.07.2026
- /residencyThanks everyone for joining us by the open studio last week! Thank you to our residents Ahreum Lee, Amanda E. Metzger, Laura Benech, and Martyna Marciniak for sharing and presenting their research 💐 The residency month in Berlin has come to a close, but we will be updating about our residents’ next steps soon. Keep an eye open for the upcoming events and residency open calls! 🧡
- /collabImpressions from transmediale x Tropez
- /collabJoin us this Saturday at 15:00 for the first conversation piece with Alona Karavai & Vanessa Oberin. With temperatures expected to be high, we recommend arriving early to enjoy the pool and secure your spot. To guarantee admission to the event, we also encourage booking your ticket online in advance . We look forward to seeing you by the pool: Tropez by Sommerbad Humboldthain ⛱️ 🌞
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🔔 Entrance info for our open studio this evening: another event is taking place at silent green tonight, so you will receive a wristband to enter the premises when you mention the open studio. Follow the signs with the arrows and find us in our cooled basement! Doors open at 18:00, presentations take place at 19:00 💫 - /networkOur artist-in-residence Amanda E. Metzger will participate in the experimental evening text ~ image ~ sound at panke.gallery as part of the Project Space Festival this evening! Following the tradition of Sound Nights at panke.gallery, the title points to the three elements the program brings into relation, focusing on how they influence and reshape each other in real time 🌀
- /residencyThe transmediale open studio is next week! 🥂 Join us next Wednesday and learn about the current research of our residents Ahreum Lee, Martyna Marciniak, Amanda E. Metzger, and Laura Benech. Doors open at 18:00 on June 24. At 19:00, the artists will each share current traces of their research in a short presentation .ೃ࿔

- /networkThis evening, join Geert Lovink to talk about the future of the Institute of Network Cultures in Berlin! Next week INC Exit Fest takes place: a community gathering and party in Amsterdam & online, celebrating the departure of the research group from the Amsterdam HvA-polytech to become an autonomous centre/cultural organisation with two full conference days and a banquet of side programmes 🐝 June 15, 20:00 at Queen Qotti, Berlin
- /networkStarting this afternoon and over the weekend, the Reclaiming Data symposium and exhibition explores how artificial intelligence, digital archives, and data infrastructures are transforming collective memory, asking how these infrastructures shape historical consciousness and how artistic and critical practices might intervene in them. Exhibition opens at 17:00, first keynote at 18:00 at Flutgraben e.V. 🗄️

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conversation pieces: pool editionNew discourse series coming up this summer in collaboration with Tropez 🏊🏊 - /networkWhen Images Become Systems: On Visuality, Affect and Platform Power by Nora O’ Murchú and published by Aksioma is available to pre-order In this publication, former transmediale’s artistic director Nora O’ Murchú traces how artists make the conditions of the image visible through works by Simone C Niquille , Bassam Issa Al-Sabah , Jennifer Mehigan , and Ayoung Kim ; exposing a regime of visibility in which the synthetic governs the real. Preview and pre-order here 🪞
- /tm26The Marie-Luise Angerer Lecture 2026: Sensing More Than Human Cognition is now available to tune in 🎙️ With Teresa Castro, Katja Davar, and Rainer Mühlhoff, moderated by Djamila Grandits, the lecture approaches sensing as a broad field encompassing processes of perceiving, processing, relating to, and controlling more-than-human agencies ⋆˚꩜。

- /networkForests of Antennas, Oceans of Waves was a series of events taking place in Berlin from May to October 2022 with the aim of engaging both artistically and theoretically with phenomena of electromagnetic waves in urban environments. Come celebrate the publication about the project today, 19:00 at Weise7 ✨📚✨
- /networkThis evening, the second arc of Sybil closes with a WORLD of ONE‘s OWN: a showcase of its 16 resident projects – including Laura Cugusi's work, who is also part of our international residency programme coExistence 🪐 Doors open at 18:00, the exhibition goes on until Sunday!
- /open callClosing soon! ⏰ The open calls to apply for the Lattice Labs is closing this Sunday, June 7, 2026 (23:59 CEST). We look forward to receiving your applications!

- /networkOur artist-in-residence Martyna Marciniak will present Anatomy of Non-fact at the group exhibition Hyperbleed ; opening this Thursday at Solaris as part of the Project Space Festival 2026 ✨ The exhibition shows works by contemporary female artists investigating the the production, circulation, and manipulation of images, surfing on the border between fact and fiction 🪽

- /residencyLearn more about Amanda E. Metzger’s residency project: Information Compression to Move Beyond Synchronomnia will explore the imaginative potential of information gaps by linking computer science, quantum and bio computing with memory studies, investigating compression technologies as a generative tool 💠

- /open callThe Solidarity Economies Lab aims to develop its own collaborative economic model tailored to the specific needs of its cohort: a group of practicing art workers. Participants will review existing models of value creation and redistribution, selecting one to develop further together based on shared interests and urgencies. Led by Sepp Eckenhaussen and Geert Lovink. Find out more here 💸

- /open callLed by viola he, the Playful Misuse (of everyday software) Lab is an invitation to build a more direct and playful relationship to software, by reappropriating existing tools as instruments for collective performance and play.
Find out more and learn here 🛝
- /residencyDuring her residency, Laura Benech will investigate the concept of latency within entangled systems and how they shape the experience of coexistence between human and synthetic agents. Read more about her project Emergence: Hidden States and Other Worlds 🌀

- /open callThe Reclaiming the Interface Lab led by Olia Lialina proposes an intervention into the ongoing dissolution of the interface. Through historical inquiry and speculative making, the lab revisits the interface as a staged performance inviting the development of prototypes, gestures, and fictions that reclaim it as a space of imagination, negotiation, and agency. Read more and apply here ⚗️

- /open callLed by Alex Declino, the Obscure Detritus Lab is inspired by the tradition of Commedia Dell'Arte: this lab will build a cohort of AI characters defined by personality and obsession rather than competence and utility and set them loose in a world simulation to observe what narratives, conflicts, and unexpected behaviours emerge. Find out more and apply here 🕹️

- /open callWorking towards the next festival edition, the Lattice Labs are open for submissions 💫 The Minor Indexes Lab, led by selfservice.studio, develops strategies for autonomy, confrontation, and resilience under conditions of consolidation, capture, and surveillance in an increasingly repressive context. The lab's substrate is a Minor Index — a situated dataset built to confront the conditions of control: activated, composable, accessible, additive within a local hold. Learn more here 🪄

- /residencyFind out more about our resident Martyna Marciniak’s project: her new work Hyperstitions, Tsunamis & Y2K revisits known cases of collective misremembering and the idea of hyperstition: the recursive entanglement of fiction and reality, where imagined scenarios begin to shape perception and future possibility 🔮

- /open call[CLOSED] Open Calls for the Lattice Labstransmediale 2027 invites applications for the Lattice Labs, a series of experimental working groups dedicated to rethinking and testing alternatives to technological monocultures of extraction and surveillance.Deadline: June 7, 2026 (23:59 CEST)
- /networkOur sister festival CTM is looking for interns to support them in the festival production of CTM 2027! This paid internship call is aimed at students that must complete an internship as part of their degree requirements. Please note that the internships require a strong command of German and English. Take a look at the details ✨ Deadline: June 8, 2026.

- /networkA MAZE. / Berlin is back in 2026 for the 15th time, bringing together a worldwide community of arthouse game developers, artistic world builders, digital artists and playful media creators. 👾 From May 13 to 16, the festival takes place in silent green, Panke, HAU, and Urban Spree, and satellite locations across Berlin – don’t miss out the exhibition at the transmediale studio! 🕹️ Opening tonight, 20:00

- /residencyThe first remote phase of the transmediale 2026 residencies begins next week! 💫 We are excited to introduce the residents’ projects during the coming days, starting with Data Feeding: Slow Machine by Ahreum Lee : building on and translating her long-term research into space, Ahreum will be developing an interactive installation that reimagines digital infrastructure through deliberate slowness, using water as its central medium 🌊

- /networkRegister now for the online assembly by European Alternatives, where the infrastructure of the internet, the exploitation of our shared resources, and the beginning of our cross-sectoral call for claiming a digital democratic commons will be discussed and explored. More info here .

- /tm26🎙️ As we slowly move towards summer, our residency month is just around the corner. Listen to the audio recording of the transmediale residents 2026 sharing session with Amanda E. Metzger, Ahreum Lee, and Martyna Marciniak, moderated by Anna-Lena Panter, now available on the audio documentation page ⋆˚꩜。


We are excited to announce the titles and thematic framework of transmediale 2027, marking 40 years of transmediale. The anniversary edition presents an expansive exhibition alongside a discursive and performative programme over four days 💥
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transmediale joins the eCommemoration Festival 2026: Transgressive Memory. The festival invites to step into a new terrain of remembrance, where media art, performance, and critical discourse collide to challenge how, why, and by whom the past is told. Additionally, CTM’s Resynthesising the Traditional Lab will run an evening music programme 💫 - /network
Sneak peak at Amanda E. Metzger Delta exhibition's opening at panke.gallery 𝚫 - /networkJoin our upcoming resident Amanda E. Metzger at panke.gallery tomorrow, where she will present her web-based work developed within the CERN Connect Residency. The exhibition examines the effects of data as abstraction and asks what the resulting difference (𝚫) between reality and its reconstruction produces. A guided tour of the exhibition with the artist will take place at 19:30 🔭 Opening: April 23, 18:00. More info here .

- /studioLast two days to visit the Digital Decoding exhibition at the transmediale studio! Until April 21, open 11:00-20:00🧵

- /networkOff-Grid moves across rural art institutions, repurposed power plants, exhibitions curated within forests and farmlands, and the early digital networks of the 1990s to explore what autonomy can mean in a world built on fragile, interconnected systems. With contributions from: Andreas Broeckmann, Lizaveta German, Garnet Hertz, Adelina Luft, Mari-Liis Rebane, Antonina Stebur, Timo Toots, Helen Turner, and Raluca Voinea. Edited by Katažyna Jankovska, published by V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media . You can pre-order it from today 📕

- /networkNext Wednesday kicks off An Incomplete Assembly, the 39th edition of the European Media Art Festival! Through a variety of events, including talks, exhibitions, film programmes, performances, and workshops, the programme explores the capabilities of institutions. Theme, schedule, and tickets here 🌟 Festival: 22–26 April 2026, Osnabrück, various locations. Exhibition: 22 April – 25 May 2026, Kunsthalle Osnabrück.

- /studioOpening today at the transmediale studio, the Digital Decoding exhibition marks the conclusion of the DiGiTal Graduate Programme (2022–2026) at University of the Arts in Berlin (UdK), weißensee kunsthochschule berlin, and Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin, it brings together research-driven projects and live performances by five female artists and designers working across sound, object, and textile design. transmediale studio, April 14, 18:00–22:00 🧵

- /networkThis Saturday, you can join our upcoming exhibition curator Antonina Stebur in a conversation around decoloniality, anti-colonial, and anti-imperial struggles as well as global power dynamics and systems of oppression, as part of the BURNING SILENCE symposium by Free Radicals. Full programme here 🔥11 – 12 April, Spore Initiative, Berlin
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coExistence artistic residency programmeResidency Programme in collaboration with HEK (Switzerland), and Pleamar (Argentina) - /tm27For its 40 years edition, transmediale 2027 will take place during the last week of January 2027. The anniversary edition will present a festival programme at silent green Kulturquartier, curated by Barbara Cueto , and an exhibition at the Akademie der Künste (Hanseatenweg), curated by Antonina Stebur , and on view until March. Mark your calendars for next January!
- /networkCall for projects: Error 406 [Netstalgia] Not Acceptable! 😵 Error 417 Expectation Failed is looking for projects that reject the longing for a mythic “old internet” and confront the politics of net nostalgia head-on. The full call can be found here ❇️ Application deadline: 4 May 2026.

- /networkOpening next Wednesday, April 8, and continuing over the weekend ► IMPAKT Festival turns to ancestral knowledge as a vital source of inspiration for alternative approaches to technology. Techno-Ancestrality takes place physically in Utrecht; festival keynotes, performances, panels and events will be live streamed on their platform Planet IMPAKT. More info and full programme here 🌊

- /tm26Who will remember us when the servers go dark? Presented during transmediale 2026 as introduction to selfservice.studio’s workshop , Cade Diehm’s essay on anti-cybernetic frameworks is published now by New Design Congress. Read about frameworks that critically draw on digital rights and democracy initiatives that proved ineffective against regulatory capture and authoritarian consolidation ► full text here
- /networkThis Thursday 26 March takes place the online launch of the Web Residencies No. 21 »Polymorphic Futures« of the Akademie Schloss Solitude. Together with our next festival curator Barbara Cueto , the six selected Web Residents will present their projects and share insights into the artistic processes developed during the residency. You can register by emailing webresidencies[at]akademie-solitude.de. Registration closes today! More info about the call and projects here .
- /networkOur friends at ausland kick off their series biegungen im ausland this evening at 20:00! 🎙️A concert series that embraces the open, diversity-oriented possibilities of creative musics and the meeting of musicians: three upcoming evenings of shred, bass, and mess. All the info about tonight’s event here 🎸
- /studioThank you for joining us last night for the book launch with Maisa Imamovic! If you still would like to meet Maisa, you can join the workshop Tap to Go: Redesigning the Self-Deportation Apps, from 14.00–17.00 at the transmediale studio 👾
- /tm26🏝️ As part of transmediale 2026 partner programme with the SAT Network, the SAN Archipelago unfolded through a chain of small studio-nodes hybrid-streaming together over several days of the festival. Read its report here, published by the institute of network cultures ► [´https://networkcultures.org/tactical-media-room/2026/02/20/a-report-of-streamartnetwork-transmediale26/
- /studiotransmediale presents Maisa in Webland: On March 19, join us in the transmediale studio for a book presentation followed by a conversation with Maisa Imamović about her latest book, Maisa in Webland: Detouring UX Destinies, published by Set Margins (2025). Copies of the publication will be available for sale at the event – also signed! ⭒ ► https://transmediale.de/en/event/book-launch-maisa-in-webland 👾 (transmediale studio, doors open at 18:30) 🌐

- /networkOn 21&22 March, our sister festival CTM is closing their exhibition Echoes of Tumult with a two-day finissage at daadgalerie & Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien filled with performances by Dror Feiler, Leslie García, Isuru Kumarasinghe, and Interspecifics. Full programme info ► https://www.ctm-festival.de/festival-2026/programme/exhibition Get ready for a busy next week! 🐝

- /tm26The team of AAD returned to transmediale this year, joining the participants in their dialogues, experiences, and connections throughout the festival. Watch their exchange with this edition’s co•curator Juan Pablo García Sossa here 🎥 ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXwRcdMAkXk
- /studioOn March 20, join Maisa Imamović for a workshop examining government-issued voluntary return apps as tools of bureaucracy, marketing, surveillance, and persuasion. Through speculative design and conceptual web development, participants will analyse their aesthetic and rhetorical strategies and create counter-proposals 👾 ► https://transmediale.stager.co/shop/workshops

- /network📢 From 19 to 22 March, 2026, our friends from Disruption Network Lab will hold a four-day conference discussing the concrete impact of WikiLeaks on war, intelligence and cybersurveillance, global economy, and art and culture. In collaboration with the Disruption Network Lab, we are offering three free tickets for the opening day , on March 19, 17:00 – 22:00. To participate in the raffle, please fill up this form 🍀 Deadline for signing-up: Wednesday, March 11, 23:59. More information ► https://dnlb.org/exposing-crimes

- /tm26Chilean Participation at transmediale 2026Bringing together artists, researchers, and practitioners from the tropical belt and beyond, the festival has continued its longstanding relationship with Chile.
- /networkEMAP Residencies 2026 – Open Call🔔 The European Media Art Platform (EMAP) returns in 2026 with a residency programme 🌍 European artists and collectives working in the fields of digital art, media art, robotic art, and bio art are invited to apply with a project proposal for a two-month residency taking place between April and December 2026. You still have two weeks to apply! Deadline: March 13th ► https://call.emare.eu/
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Maisa in WeblandJoin us for a book presentation, conversation, and workshop with Maisa Imamović.19 – 20 March 2026
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Barbara Cueto to curate 2027 festivalStill in the afterglow of this year’s festival, we’re happy to share that Barbara Cueto will be curating the 2027 festival edition of transmediale. - /tm27
Announcing 2027 Exhibition CuratorAntonina Stebur selected to curate the transmediale 2027 exhibition, marking 40 years of transmediale.
- /tm26If you attended transmediale 2026, we’d love to hear from you! 📋 Take a few minutes to share your feedback , it helps us continuously improve and shape future editions. Plus, everyone who participates to our visitors survey enters a draw to win a festival pass 🎟️ for transmediale 2027!
- /networkOur friends at Tendermesh, a community-driven art platform supporting local and international artists in Berlin, have announced the next two nights of their ongoing film festival at Studio DB! On Feb 5, Filmmakers from around the world will showcase work exploring the theme IDENTITY. 👾

- /tm26Impressions of our last day of transmediale 2026 💫
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Don't miss tonight's closing concert with Afrotronix. At silent green Betonhalle, 20:00 🌌 This event is included in the Festival Pass and the Day Pass. Single tickets are also available. ☾ - tm/post
Nasi kerabu is a dish originating from the Malay Archipelago. Nathalie Muchamad is bringing to silent green this dish, which embodies the act of foraging in the home garden – a careful, attentive gesture in a space that is both nourishing and nurturing. Sunday until 17:00. - tm/postYesterday at By the Mango Belt & Tamarind Road 🎢
- tm/postFestival Day 4 • Sunday ✧ We are excited for our last day of programme with you 🫧 starting with a sensory understanding of tropical intertwinements, to film screenings and a a talk-and-scroll session, alongside conversation on more-than-human cognition, lecture-performances and a hydraulic concert 🌊 As night falls, Afrotronix will close out the festival, fusing Chadian initiation rhythms, Sara, and Arabic vocal traditions with Afro House, Amapiano, and electronic production into Saharan Electro. 🌞 We look forward to seeing you, talking with you, dancing with you 💫
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Re-circulating: Deera World back in stock 💫 Following the opening-night sell-out of Kathleen Bomani's installation Deera World, a second controlled circulation of Deeras is now available in the vending machine (transmediale Studio) 👾 - tm/post
🥜 Holding·Structures (Edible Edition): we have Mae Charoen’s Thai Imbiss at silent green today for a one-off pop event – serving the best tofu and chicken Pad Thai 🥢 - tm/postImpressions from our second day of festival at silent green 🥭
- tm/postFestival Day 3 • Saturday 🍞 The sourdough starter is rising, the dollar cocktails are mixing, and we have a great pad Thai pop up for lunch today at silent green, as well as a tilapia tasting experience in the evening. Join us to shake up the recipes of our root•codes and learn through our senses, understanding food as a relational technology and a response·able practice. 🥭 And tonight: Animistic Beliefs & Jeisson Drenth present their new performance, followed by a DJ set by mobilegirl 🔊
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🌀 Our screenprinting station is open every festival day from 15:00-20:00, at silent green, Atelier 2 (next to the Pass Counter). Bring your own T-shirt, tote, or fabric and print it with By the Mango Belt & Tamarind Road motifs. We’re selling posters you can screenprint as well! - /tm26Tomorrow within the SAN Archipelago StreamArtNetwork partner program at transmediale 2026:The Non-Extractive Art School: Post-Fossil Internet & Solar Futures
Sat. 31 January, 2026, 15.30 – 17.00
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- /tm26Discover installations, temporary architectures, and activated artworks at CANK, our Neukölln venue 🪐
- tm/postAvailable to you during the festival days: a call (a)way with nènè myriam konaté – a 1:1 drop-in line for anyone who needs a break from masking. Each call is an invitation to sit with(in) your limitations and the possibilites they are always ready infused with. Text on telegram @a_call_a_way to set up a call with nènè ✨

- tm/post💙 first impressions of the opening evening of out 2026 edition By the Mango Belt & Tamarind Road
- tm/postFestival Day 1 • Thursday 🌊 Check out our daytime schedule at silent green today, with lecture-performances by Hiba Ali, Shaheer Tarar, and Lucas Rochelle, sound sessions, workshops, conversations, and screenings. 🔥 And join us in Neukölln later for our CANK ≈≈≈≈≈≈ Evening programme . Explore the installations and temporary architectures in the iconic building, alongside artist performances, a hydraulic concert by Colectivo Werebere, and DJ sets by Hanaby and Zufu. 🖤 And for night creatures, our CTM x tm club night begins at 22:00, at Säule (Berghain), with a 🌶️ line up until the early hours..

- tm/postFederico Pérez Villoro’s installation No Distance , on view at CANK in Neukölln, documents the material traces of the global network of submarine fiber-optic cables that sustain online connectivity. It displays a selection of carefully identified satellite images to reveal the scars – the physical impact – of an infrastructure that seeks to remain unnoticed beneath the ocean.

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Nails, dollars, sourdough, and a dance tournamentLow Tide at transmediale 2026 tunes into living infrastructures and Tropical-powered movement.
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One week to go!Discover the films in our festival programme! - /networkOur friends at Tendermesh, a community-driven art platform supporting local and international artists in Berlin, have announced the next two nights of their ongoing film festival at Studio DB! On Jan 23, Filmmakers from around the world will showcase work exploring the theme COMMUNITY. After the films, the night will flow into live music. Come for the cinema, stay for the performances. 👾

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Evening programme at transmediale 2026Clear your evenings for the festival week 🔥 Programmes at silent green and CANK explore ritual electronics, futurism, and the dancefloor - /tm26
By the Mango Belt & Tamarind Road: ScheduleThe preliminary schedule is now online: take a look! - /tm27Antonina Stebur, transmediale 2027 exhibition curator , has been recently interviewed by Call for Curators. Learn about her background, curatorial interests, and projects here 🗞

- /tm26Registration for the Marshall McLuhan Lecture openRegister for the Model is the Message: transmediale 2026 Marshall McLuhan Lecture
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Highlights: Discourse ProgrammeAn overview of the first highlights of the discourse programme - /tm26The Vorspiel opening is almost here! Come join us on Friday 16 January from 18:00 at panke.gallery and Panke Club for a night of audio-visual performances and live sets contributed by Berlin media art initiatives and spaces in the BYOB (bring your own beamer) format!
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Countdown Begins!The festival is just three weeks away, we’re excited to share programme news. - /tm26
transmediale 2026 partner eventsFind out about our partner events, which unfold in parallel with and braided through the festival’s schedule. - /tm26Presented by HAU, Anan Fries’ new performance LORECORE is a live-generated video essay brought to life by three performers and a robot cat. Dealing with the logic and functioning of techno-fascism, the performance asks what synergies arise from the convergence of the tech industry and the New Right.
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transmediale x CTM silent green evening programmewith Nursalim Yadi Anugerah and Vica Pacheco.30 Jan 2026, 20:30 - /tm26
CTM x transmediale Säule nightpresenting an evening of shared performances, where sonic currents meet like winds in the Intertropical Convergence Zone.29 Jan 2026, 21:00 - 06:00 - /tm26
Programme updates; second venue CANKtransmediale will have its second venue at CANK (Neukölln), announcement of more programme contributions - /tm26The prize draw is open: you can win two day passes for Saturday and Sunday through the arte.tv platform ! 🏆 Log in with your MeinARTE account to enter the competition, open until 16 January, 2026.
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- /tm26💥 New on the 2026 festival website : click the button at the bottom right to explore an interactive diagram of terms and concepts that define this edition.

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Civa x transmediale cooperation event in ViennaWhat if? A Speculative Prototyping Session with Laura Cugusi and S()fia Braga, at Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab11 Dec, 18:00 - transmediale/studioImpressions of our last event No Signal, Still Watching, with the Emerging Eye Network
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First look: By the Mango Belt & Tamarind Road programme2026 festival contributions from Kidus Hailesilassie, Isola Tong, Rochelle Webster Nembhard, and Simon Speiser – more to be announced soon! - /open callCall for VolunteersWe are looking for committed and motivated volunteers to help us run transmediale 2026!
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No Signal, Still WatchingJoin us for an evening of short films and moving-image installations presented by transmediale in cooperation with the Emerging Eye Network.12 Nov, 19:00–22:00 - /residencyImpressions of the residents open studio in 2025
- /tm25Research Workshop 2025: Publication releasedThe journal publication resulting from the DARC PhD Research Workshop 2025 – a cooperation between the Digital Aesthetics Research Center (DARC), Aarhus University, and transmediale – is now available online.
- /open call[Closed] Open Call for Festival Curation 2027transmediale e.V. is inviting applications for the Festival Curation for transmediale 2027. The festival curator's central responsibility is the development of the curatorial concept and programme for the next edition of the festival, marking the 40th anniversary of transmediale.Deadline: 30.11.2025
- /residencyAnnouncing transmediale’s 2026 ResidentsConcluding the open call period for this year, we and the respective jury members for each programme are pleased to announce the selected residents for the 2026 transmediale Residencies, in collaboration with two international and one local partner.
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Announcing 2027 Exhibition CuratorAntonina Stebur selected to curate the transmediale 2027 exhibition, marking 40 years of transmediale. - /tm26Expanding on transmediale 2026 theme and methodologyUnder the title By the Mango Belt & Tamarind Road – Compassing, Protocoling, Metaphoring, the 39th edition of transmediale festival will take place from 28 January to 1 February 2026 in Berlin. The festival’s main venue will be silent green Kulturquartier, with additional satellite venues across the city to be announced.

- /tm26The festival site for transmediale 2026 is now liveRead our curatorial compass and secure your festival passes now.Festival Dates: 28 Jan – 1 Feb 2026
- /open call[Closed] Open Call for Vorspiel 2026Vorspiel is back! The open call invites proposals from independent project spaces, platforms, initiatives, curators, and artists based in Berlin.Application deadline: 05.11.2025
- /jobs[Closed] Vorspiel Community ManagerVorspiel is looking for a Freelance Community Manager to support the coordination and communication of its 2026 programme.Application Deadline: 23.08.2025
- /tm26Announcing 2026 festival dates, title, and themetransmediale 2026 reimagines the festival as a living recursive carrier net – a hammock of relational technologies in practice that stretch across latitudes, rhythms, and root systems.Festival Dates: 28 Jan – 1 Feb 2026
- /open call[Closed] Vilém Flusser Residency for Artistic ResearchApplication Deadline: 31.08.2025
- /open call[Closed] transmediale x ARKO ResidencyApplication Deadline: 31.08.2025
- /open call[Closed] Digital Art ResidencyApplication Deadline: 31.08.2025
- /open call[Closed] Open Calls for Residents 2026transmediale, in collaboration with three international and one local partners, is calling for applications for its 2026 residency programme.Application Deadline: 31.08.2025
- /open call[Closed] Open Call for Exhibition Curation 2027transmediale e.V. is inviting applications for the Exhibition Curation for transmediale 2027.Application Deadline: 06.08.2025
- /studiotransmediale open studioJoin us as transmediale studio opens its doors once again, where visitors are invited to meet transmediale's 2025 residents and learn about their projects.28 June, 14:00 – 20:00
- /jobs[Closed] Communications ManagementWe are looking for a Communications Manager to lead and implement the communications strategy for transmediale 2026.Application Deadline: 21.07.2025
residents 2026
- /residencyResidency month is startingThis year we’re welcoming Anan Fries, Andrea Galano Toro, D'Andrade, Stefan Karrer, and SunJeong Hwang, who will continue working on their projects from transmediale’s home base at silent green.
- /tm25Festival Impressions transmediale 2025With transmediale 2025 more than two months behind us, a video sharing impressions from our last edition is now online.
- In SolidarityFormer coworker threatened by deportation for activist activities.
- /tm26Announcing 2026 Festival CuratorsNeema Githere and Juan Pablo García Sossa selected to curate transmediale 2026.23.04.25
- NewsFundraising for CADUS and for the Alliance for Middle East PeaceThis year we will again collect donations together with CTM to support humanitarian and peacebuilding efforts aimed at the catastrophic Israel-Gaza war.
- Open Call[Closed] Festival Curation for transmediale 2026transmediale e.V. is inviting applications for Festival Curation for transmediale 2026. The festival curator's central responsibility is the development of the curatorial concept and programme for the upcoming edition of transmediale festival.Deadline: 16.02.2025
- Newstransmediale 2025 Schedule OnlineThe full programme, line-up, and a preliminary version schedule are available online. Workshops are now open for registration.29 Jan – 2 Feb
- PublicationJournal Issue #7 ContentThe seventh issue of transmediale’s journal, Content, traces its eponymous subject’s mutation from discrete entity to ambient force in contemporary digital culture, examining how content operates simultaneously as container and contained.
(near) near but — far documentation
- NewsUnNatural EncountersAn exhibition at silent green presenting ten specially selected works, where acoustic experiments, immersive landscapes and speculative visions of the future examine the complex relationships between people, technology and the environment.10 – 19 Jan 2025
- Newstransmediale 2025 Programme Update(near) near but — far will form an understanding of how algorithms place us in weird proximities and new intimacies with one another and the qualities of closeness we lose by way of their machine-driven actions.29 Jan – 2 Feb
- Partner Programmetransmediale x CTMSister festivals transmediale and CTM come together this year for two shared performance programmes at the Miriam Makeba Auditorium of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt.31 Jan and 1 Feb
- /residencyAnnouncing transmediale’s 2025 ResidentsWe are pleased to announce the selected projects for the 2025 Residencies, in collaboration with three international and one local partner.
- Open Call[Closed] Call for VolunteersWe are looking for committed and motivated volunteers to help us run transmediale 2025!Application deadline: 15 December
- NewsOpen Call: DARC PhD/Research WorkshopThe workshop invites proposals that discuss questions of distance and/or proximity and how they relate to how we consume and are consumed by platforms, interfaces, and late-capitalist politics.Submission Deadline: 24 Nov, 2024
- NewsOn the Resolution for Protecting Jewish Lifetransmediale supports the wording proposals published in the FAZ for the Bundestag resolution.6 Nov, 2024
- Newstransmediale 2025: (near) near but — farThe 38th edition of the festival questions how our everyday interactions with digital platforms (re)form our human need for connection.Jan 29–Feb 2, 2025
- transmediale/studioLibraries of RestAn immersive installation at transmediale studio exploring the radical potential of resting.September 11–22, 2024
- /open call[Closed] Digital Art ResidencyOpen Call in cooperation with Pro HelvetiaApplication deadline: October 20
- /open call[Closed] transmediale x Chile ResidencyOpen Call in cooperation with ChileApplication deadline: October 20
- /open call[Closed] transmediale x ARKO ResidencyOpen Call in cooperation with ARKOApplication deadline: October 20
- /open call[Closed] Vilém Flusser Residency for Artistic ResearchOpen Call in cooperation with Universität der Künste BerlinApplication deadline: October 20
- /open callOpen Calls for Residents 2025In collaboration with three international and one local partners we calling for applications for 2025 residents.Application deadline: October 20
- Studio EventThe VomitverseVomitverse is a performance and video game evening curated by Fantasia Malware and featuring guest artists alpha_rats, wherethehasbeen and yeongrak.transmediale studio 15. August 24 19:00
- /jobsOpen positions at transmedialetransmediale e.V. is looking for German-speakers to support our communications and festival teams.Application Deadline: 1. September 2024
- NewsArtistic director departs transmediale festivalAfter four years in her role, Nóra O’ Murchú concludes her tenure as artistic director18. July 2024
- /jobsProgramme ManagerWe are looking for a programme manager for the next festival edition.Application Deadline: 12. August 2024
- /jobsMitarbeit Finanzen und Administrationtransmediale e.V. is looking for a German-speaker to support our administration and finances team.Application Deadline: 15. Juli 2024
- NewsGuided Exhibitions Tours & Art MediationPublic Programme this is perfect, perfect, perfect at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien
- NewsVideo & Photo Documentation OnlineA selection of recordings and images of transmediale 2024 is available now
- NewsFundraisingtransmediale x CTM fundraising 2024
- Statementtransmediale 2024: An UpdateOn the Berlin Senate’s Anti-Discrimination Clause and Artist Withdrawals
- NewsSchedule and full Programme onlinetransmediale 2024 is coming! Get your ticket





















































































