The performance programme of transmediale is focusing on audiovisual and intermedial pieces which defy any strict genre categorisation. For transmediale 2014, the main focus is on performances that convey the experiential side of the afterglow thematic: post-digital performance works where the technology deployed is not the main focus but rather the often intangible spaces in between humans, objects and systems.

For this year's cooperation programme, CTM and transmediale present three special audiovisual performances in the HKW auditorium. Despite a diversity of approaches, the works performed by Lucky Dragons, Dinos Chapman, and Robert Henke all display a post-digital sensitivity to inter-media performance, which speaks to both CTM’s Dis Continuity and transmediale’s afterglow themes.
Virtuosity and bedazzlement of the audience is combined with a playful and an unpretentious approach where high- and low-tech mix with different artistic styles and expressions. Simultaneously referencing composition, science, and the legacies of electronic music, video art, and visual music, these performances take audiovisual performance beyond the inertia of VJ-style After Effects to delve into a post-digital revolution aesthetic of sensational ambivalence and tension between analogue and digital and between the improvised and the pre-defined.
Both CTM and transmediale aim to transgress boundaries of art, science, and popular culture. Following this approach, the cooperation programme presents strong artistic positions which are post-digital as much as they are intermedial.