Over the last 20 years, the festival has evolved from VideoFilmFest to transmediale, presenting twenty comprehensive programs of current art and media productions.

The festival editions brought together thousands of artists, media practitioners, and theorists who engage the power as well as the cultural and aesthetic potential of new technologies.This extensive publication lists all participants from the last 20 years of the festival in minute detail complete with a large index. As an outstanding compilation that documents the diversity and breadth of the festival's programs, the tm*20 Register offers an inspiring overview of all the people and works that have been part of transmediale so far.