The theme of transmediale.07 unfinish! investigates the terrain of human agency and artistic practice between openness, finitude, and closure. unfinish! is both the battle cry and the curse of digital work that knows no conclusion, but only consecutive versions. Is unfinishlng a paradigm of digital culture? The modern belief in progress teaches us that everything is in a constant process of change and improvement. The work in progress, the state of being unfinished, and the rejection of a completed ‘work’ have become positive and unquestioned qualities of artistic practice. There is an obvious desire to keep all options in the balance, as well as the fear that some of our decisions might in fact be irreversible. In contrast, the anti-Darwinist ‘intelligent design' hypothesis claims that the biblical creation is completed, representing a kind of pre-modern rejection of history as a process, which must be countered with a radical philosophy of openness. Artistic work is characterised by the readiness to re-open processes that have seemingly been concluded, to play out their multiple potentials over and over again, and to ask necessary as well as apparently futile questions in ever-changing variations. Under its motto unfinish!, transmediale. 07 explores artistic processes that are open to change and to the reversal of decisions once taken. The festival concentrates on the point where what seems fixed can be undone, and questions the importance of continuity and change.