As every year, an evening of celebration initiates transmediale, and as ever, it’s all free! The opening ceremony features an illustrious line-up of transmediale participants, who will address the audience with rallying speeches—as befits the highly political 2018 festival theme of face value! Stefan Panhans and Andrea Winkler present their new installation and performance, created especially for transmediale. PWR and Jasmijn Visser are showing an infinite film, constructed from global live streams by an algorithmic director.