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.
BWPWAP Desire is a space in between. If Pluto stands for the introduction of an element generating crisis, in BWPWAP Desire the queer idea of uncertain belonging generates multiple perspectives, where the flow of desire becomes a way to re-imagine identities and subjectivities.
BWTGGWAG - Back When The Gutenberg Galaxy Was A Galaxy: In the post-digital and networked world, printed matter is no longer the exclusive factor that defines literacy as a cultural imaginary.
What was the User? Paraphrasing Foucault’s famous analysis of the author we might ask with what cultural imaginaries the “user function” is still providing us. Is it not an obsolete paradigm in the world of participatory pro-sumer culture?
What is the meaning of the assumption that networks are BWPWAP, when (social) networks have become a pervasive part of our daily life, and have contributed to changing the way we create friendships and connections?
transmediale 2013 is happy to announce the participant highlights of the one festival week long Pluto day: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Elizabeth Price, Ian Hacking, Lorraine Daston, Michael Brown, Kenneth Goldsmith, Olga Goriunova, Geert Lovink, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Dennis Adams, John Smith, Sandy Stone, Diane Torr, People Like Us, Boris Hegenbart and Felix Kubin, and many more here
The Miseducation of Anya Major openly investigates questions of knowledge, learning and education in relation to contemporary media.
A special project of networked art will take place at transmediale 2013 BWPWAP. The festival will host the first ever networked art project with pneumatic post: PNEUMAtic circUS, an interaction at distance between a wide network of international networkers and the visitors, activists and artists present at transmediale. Over a hundred international mail artists have been invited by the Italian mail artist Vittore Baroni to contribute texts and pneumatic post capsules to be used by visitors of the transmediale festival...
The PhD workshop in/compatible research explored the compatibility and incompatibility of various objects, processes, and systems and addressed unresolved tensions: in-between different technologies, their cultures of production and use, as well as between different approaches to contemporary media culture.
reSource 002: 'Out of Place, Out of Time' was the second event of the reSource transmedial culture berlin, which took place on 22.-24.08.2012 at Kunstraum Kreuzberg /Bethanien, presenting open discussions, panels, workshops and performances.
Have a look at the final programme for the International Research Conference and PhD Workshop: Researching BWPWAP, that will take place at Leuphana University of Lüneburg (Germany) bringing together a wide group of researchers and PhD students. The workshop is planned on 22-24 November 2012 and it is closed to participants selected via a public call.
If you did not have the chance to be present at the reSource 001: Trial Crack, we have some good news! Here you can watch all the panels that were part of the programme. The videos are the result of a partnership between reSource transmedial culture berlin and the Artistic Bokeh Research.
Art Laboratory Berlin, Panke, Liebig12 and reSource invite project spaces/curators focusing on technology based art for meeting. | 1 Nov, 18:00, Liebig 12, Liebigstr. 12, 10245 Berlin
As an overall conceptual road-map to the yearly changing themes, at transmediale 2013 we also initiate the “file_under:” framework as an ongoing conceptual discussion surrounding the festival and our all-year programme. The “file_under:” activity will take place through workshops between partner organisations, public discussions at the festival and all-year events, experimental forms of documentation and publications.
The programme follows four threads: Users, Networks, Paper, Desire. The festival will look at what these threads meant BWPWAP, what they are today and how they will develop in the future.
About transmediale
transmediale is a Berlin-based festival and year-round project that draws out new connections between art, culture and technology. The activities of transmediale aim at fostering a critical understanding of contemporary culture and politics as saturated by media technologies. In the course of its 25 year history, the annual transmediale festival has turned into an essential event in the calendar of media art professionals, artists, activists and students from all over the world. The broad cultural appeal of the festival is recognised by the German federal government who supports the transmediale through its programme for beacons of contemporary culture.
The curator of reSource transmedial culture berlin, Tatiana Bazzichelli, will be presenting the reSource project (in the thread 'The Art of Tomorrow') on Oct 18th, at the Digital Backyards conference. Kunstquartier Bethanien, Studio 1, Mariannenplatz 2. (U-Bahn Kottbusser Tor).
The idea for the Drachma Project by Georgios Papadopoulos is to reflect on and challenge the form, the content and the function of economic value.
The exhibition In That Weird Part, a cooperation between CTM and transmediale proposes a discussion on the limits between user and culture. Opening Thursday, 4 Oct, 18:00 at General Public (Schönhauser Allee 167c, U2 Senefelderplatz).
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The current issue of A Peer-reviewed Journal About Post-digital Research (Volume 4 issue 1) is now online. This issue examines the implications of datafication for research. It addresses the thematic framework of the 2015 transmediale festival “Capture All” as a research topic: “to investigate and propose actions that push against the limits of today’s pervasive quantification of life, work and play”, as the call explains. Indeed, to what extent does data “capture all” – even research?