The theme of transmediale.07 unfinish! investigated 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 unfinishing a paradigm of digital culture?

Under its motto unfinish!, transmediale. 07 celebrated its 20th edition and explored artistic processes that are open to change and to the reversal of decisions once taken. The festival concentrated on the point where what seems fixed can be undone, and questioned the importance of continuity and change.

In the framework of the transmediate*20, the program of transmediale.07 offered many different artistic responses to the festival theme in an exhibition, the competition, the film and video screenings, as well as the conference and salon programs. The conference dealt with the phenomenon of finiteness in art, science, architecture, computer science and politics, while the exhibition was dedicated to open-ended artistic approaches to technology, as well as to the aesthetic reflection of repetition and reversibility in physical processes.