In our online archive you can find materials from more than 30 years of transmediale. Browse through 12,000 artworks, events, past participants and collaborators, and texts to explore our festival history.
As every year, an evening of celebration initiates transmediale, and as ever, it’s all free! The opening ceremony features an illustrious line-up of transmediale participants, who will address the audience with rallying speeches—as befits the highly political 2018 festival theme of face value! Stefan Panhans and Andrea Winkler present their new installation and performance, created especially for transmediale. PWR and Jasmijn Visser are showing an infinite film, constructed from global live streams by an algorithmic director.
The 2018 transmediale Marshall McLuhan Projects are presented by transmediale in cooperation with the Embassy of Canada in Berlin. They comprise the transmediale Marshall McLuhan Lecture by Megan Boler and the partner project Feedback #2: Marshall McLuhan and the Arts. War and Peace in the Global Village, curated by Baruch Gottlieb with Marie-José Sondeijker.
Installed as a public reference resource, Hate Library explores the language of far-right political groups and parties across contemporary Europe, especially their use of online forums as recruiting and collaboration tools. The library’s interrelated components mix allegory and literalism by presenting texts as documentary artworks within a symbolic and social stage for reading, understanding, and dialog. Hate Library documents several of the positions adopted by far-right and right-wing communities.
Territories of Complicity takes the free port as referential starting point to explore how covert systems, technological infrastructures, and zones of exception shape our economic, socio-political realities. As a dynamic crossroads for global circulatory systems, with its camouflaged jurisdictions and opportunistic exemptions, the free port not only refers to the state’s complicity in authorizing and securing global capitalism, but also functions as a counter-image to the stalled movements of migration. Against the backdrop of increasing nationalism and populist demands for immigration caps and walls—ostensibly to protect national economies and values—the featured projects investigate the long-standing relations between the organization of space, accumulation of wealth, and racialized control of bodies.
Territories of Complicity was coproduced with Abandon Normal Devices, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, The Influencers, and STRP as part of the New Networked Normal with the support of the Creative Europe program of the European Union.
The conference of transmediale 2018 uses face value as a point of departure to address the crisis of politics, values, and meanings in today’s economized world. It examines the long-established relations between capitalism and racism, as well as neoliberalism and fascism, shedding light on the role of contemporary media in their current alarming formations. It considers how biases and forms of discrimination are enhanced within algorithmic culture , and looks into the processes of value creation that are involved in the circulation, filtering, and categorization of information. Studying the ways in which violence and hatred are now amplified in the mediasphere, the conference program challenges the affordances of communication technologies, underlines the power of language, and discusses how constructed differences allow capitalism to operate.
Against the thematic background of face value, the festival’s film and video program presents an international selection of experimental, essayistic, and documentary short films. The study of value and values demands self-reflection that questions the power of images and language; in historical and contemporary works, means of critical analysis are combined with artistic subversiveness and visionary thinking. The program includes a project developed especially for transmediale by Stefan Panhans and Andrea Winkler, the German premiere of Eric Baudelaire’s Also Known As Jihadi, and features Nothing To Lose: The Melancholy of Resistance, a special selection of films from Southeast Asia curated by Stefan Rusu.
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In January 2020 we will organize a research workshop together with KIM research group at HfG Karlsruhe to explore AI from the perspective of its limits and vulnerabilities in order to study how AI works—and how it fails. Submit your proposal until 10 November!
