The concept for the 2013 festival architecture, actualised by raumlabor Berlin, is Life Forms – a spatialised elaboration of the BWPWAP explorations of Networks.

OCTO-P7C-1 Intertubular Pneumatic Packet Distribution System is transmediale 2013’s Official Miscommunication Platform and is the result of a joint collaboration between the resource transmedial culture berlin/transmediale, the Berlin-based collective Telekommunisten and raumlabor.

OCTO-P7C-1 is not only a living metaphor of a social network, but also a tribute to the local Berlin Rohrpost (a public service of Pneumatic Tube Transport created in 1865, operative until 1963 in West Berlin and 1976 in the East). The OCTO-P7C-1 system, used for on-site communications by transmediale staff and festival guests, features the PNEUMAtic circUS international mail-art project coordinated by Vittore Baroni.

Festival architecture by raumlaborberlin: Andrea Hoffmann, Markus Bader with Florian Stirnemann