transmediale Award RIP! For the 2012 festival there will be no general transmediale Award. This change reflects our new ways of producing the festival: adopting the thematic approach early on we aim at curatorial coherence across the different programme sections and at the same time we wish to engage more directly in our community. Consequently, the call for tm.12 is tied to a thematic rather than an Award competition and the Vilém Flusser Theory Award now takes the form of a Residency Programme for artistic research. For 2012 there will be no Open Web Award, but the critical discussion of the politics of open and closed systems will continue in new formats. The decisions to cancel the transmediale and the Open Web Award are also connected to the development of a new project, “resource”, an all-year project working as a form of distributed project residency for transmediale's local, regional and international community.