Vilém Flusser Residency
2012 – present
in cooperation with the Vilém Flusser Archive at Berlin University of the Arts (UdK)

The Vilém Flusser Residency for Artistic Research is transmediale’s longest-running residency, established in 2012. It is a cooperation with the Vilém Flusser Archive at the University of the Arts Berlin (UdK), which holds the literary estate of the cultural theorist Vilém Flusser. The programme supports knowledge production as a core principle of artistic research, fostering dialogue between science and art, theory and practice, old and new media, and local and global contexts.

D'Andrade, The ultra-reading method

Installation at transmediale open studio 2025

Alice Bucknell, The Alluvials, August 2023

Film Installation at silent green Open House

For Vilém Flusser, theory and praxis were inseparable. His nomadic thinking was shaped by experimentation, cross-disciplinary approaches, and dialogue. Rather than searching for fixed truths, he explored the aesthetic constitution of truth in relation to others. The residency invites artistic research projects that engage with the potentials and limitations of transdisciplinary and transmedial practices in contemporary culture. Artistic research is understood here as an exploration of the links between aesthetics, materiality, politics, and history. Flusser’s legacy offers a critical lens through which to examine emerging technologies and their genealogies. His thinking, often associated with media archaeology, encourages us to question not only technological innovation but also the historical, cultural, and epistemic conditions that shape it.

latest residents

  • 2026 Vilém Flusser Residency in collaboration with the Vilém Flusser Archive at Berlin University of the Arts (UdK)
  • 2025 Vilém Flusser Residency in collaboration with the Vilém Flusser Archive at Berlin University of the Arts (UdK)
  • 2023 Vilém Flusser Residency in collaboration with the Vilém Flusser Archive at Berlin University of the Arts (UdK)
  1. transmediale open studio, June 2025

  2. Alice Bucknell, Sahej Rahal and Laura Cugusi

    Collapsing Time, June 2023 at transmediale studio

  3. Pedro Oliveira, Luiza Prado, Daniel Rourke and Morehshin Allahyari (left to right) at "Singularities"

  4. Viktorija Šiaulytė and Marta Dauliūtė during the discussion How to Disrupt Yourself: Life in the Entrepreneurial Home at transmediale 2019

  5. Georgios Papadopoulos (left) and Rosemary Lee (right) at Lee's artist talk

  6. Daniel Rourke at the panel "Singularities"

  7. Luiza Prado at the panel "Singularities"

  8. Morehshin Allahyari at the panel "Singularities"

credits

The residency program is a cooperation between the Vilém Flusser Archive at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) and transmediale, festival for art and digital culture Berlin. The Vilém Flusser Archive is located in the premises of the Institute of Time-Based Media and holds the literary remains of the cultural theorist Vilém Flusser. The archive is directed by Maren Hartmann with Mirjana Mitrović as Research Associate. Find more information about the archive on their website .