The first PhD workshop initiated by transmediale and Aarhus University, in/compatible research, took place from 16 to 18 November 2011 at the Vilém Flusser Archive at the Berlin University of the Arts. Its aim was to explore the compatibility and incompatibility of various objects, processes, and systems. in/compatible research reacted to the theme of the subsequent festival edition, transmediale 2k+12 in/compatible, and addressed unresolved tensions: in-between different technologies, their cultures of production and use, as well as between different approaches to contemporary media culture.