file_under: tm/ 🕳️🐇 Step into the rabbit hole of transmediale’s history, from its first edition in 1988 to today. We've recently updated the archive, where you can browse through the themes, debates and programmes that have shaped the festival over the years. ► transmediale.de/en/all-past-...

From this Friday, there are several great events in and around Berlin we are looking forward to ⬇️ Disruption Network Lab’s TECHNOVIOLENCE - Confronting Systematic Injustice conference Sept 19-21 Kunstquartier Bethanien ► www.disruptionlab.org/technoviolenc

In preparation for the 2026 festival, the Research Netting Groups have begun! A central part of Neema Githere and Juan Pablo García Sossa’s curatorial approach, the Netting Groups are a series of IRL and URL gatherings taking place over the next months, located across the tropics.

On Tuesday, 16 September, our dear friends at CTM festival have their next Fam Jam night and album presentation with Kuntari, Hugging and VMO Violent Magic Orchestra. ► www.ctm-festival.de/events/event...

A big thank you to everyone who applied for our three 2026 residency programmes 🖤 We received over 250 submissions in total. Each of the jury groups has begun reviewing them, and the selected projects will be announced in October - stay tuned!

Our friends at CTM festival have two open calls: The CTM Radio Lab is looking for ideas that bring radio and live performance together, tuned to the festival theme dissonate < > resonate. ► www.ctm-festival.de/festival-202... Deadline: 14 September, 2025

We’re having our 📢last call for 2026 residents📢 before the deadline closes on 31 August. Each residency programme has different conditions for applying, so make sure to check the calls in detail. ► transmediale.de/en/news/open...

Continuing our archival efforts leading up to transmediale's 40th anniversary, a comprehensive overview of all festival editions and residencies has now moved to our main website! Browse through past: Festivals ► transmediale.de/en/all-past-... Residencies ► transmediale.de/en/past-resi...

Only 6 days left to apply for this year’s residencies. For Berlin-based artists: The Vilém Flusser Residency for Artistic Research will be awarded to one individual working in digital art, moving image practices, design, sound, or media theory. Deadline: 31 August ► transmediale.de/en/news/vile...

The transmediale x ARKO Residency will be awarded to one person of Korean nationality, based in Korea or elsewhere, working in the fields of digital art and moving image practices, design, sound, and media theory. Deadline for the open call: 31 August. ► transmediale.de/en/news/tran...

Vorspiel is looking for a Freelance Community Manager to support the coordination and communication of its 2026 programme. Application Deadline: 23 August ► vorspiel.berlin/collection/c...

・Save the date for transmediale 2026・ By the Mango Belt & Tamarind Road: Compassing, Protocoling, Metaphoring 28 Jan – 1 Feb 2026 silent green and more venues across Berlin ► transmediale.de/en/news/tran...

The first out of the three open calls for 2026 residents is the Digital Art Residency in cooperation with the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia – awarded to one Swiss or Switzerland based individual or collective working in the field of digital art practices. ► transmediale.de/en/news/digi...

We're happy to announce that the open call for our 2026 residencies is now online 👾 ► transmediale.de/en/news/open...

file_under: tm25 I am your ideal subject; I am your ideal collective Talks by Olga Goriunova and Mercedes Bunz address the digital subject composed of data and the power of the technical collective. Both are then joined in conversation by Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal. ► transmediale.de/en/2025/even...

10 days left to apply for the position of Communications Manager for transmediale 2026. We are looking forward to your applications! ► transmediale.de/en/news/comm...

We are inviting applications for the Exhibition Curation for transmediale 2027. The exhibition curator's central responsibility is the development of the exhibition as part of the festival’s programme. Deadline: 6 August, 2025 ► transmediale.de/en/news/open...

file_under: tm25 Collective Disability Justice Focused Tech Ren Loren Britton, Robel Afeworki Abay, and Pernilla Philip share how disability refigures the terms of technology through how (his - her - hir)storically disabled people have hacked and prototyped tech. ► transmediale.de/en/2025/even...

The open studio last Saturday was a joy ⚘ A big thank you to our residents and all those who came to visit. The residency month has come to a close, and with heavy hearts, we say goodbye 🤍 We're slowly stepping into our next chapter—with open calls and festival updates coming soon!

The open studio is two days away, and with that, we're introducing our final residency project ✨ Telluric Memories by SunJeong Hwang builds a responsive architecture where rhythms are negotiated across human somatics, algorithmic logic, and planetary conditions. ► transmediale.de/en/people/su...

transmediale Residencies 2025 The ultra-reading method by D'Andrade involves a deep and transdisciplinary analysis of social, environmental and political aspects in a mimesis of what they present with the neurosis of reading. ► transmediale.de/en/people/da...

Join us this Saturday from 14:00 to meet transmediale's 2025 residents, learn about their projects, and to have a drink 🥂 At 17:00, the artists will share their current research traces and prototypes through performative interventions and presentational formats. ► transmediale.de/en/news/open...

We are looking for a Communications Manager to lead and implement the communications strategy for transmediale 2026 ⚘ ► transmediale.de/en/news/comm...

transmediale Residencies 2025 The Prompt Engineer by Stefan Karrer examines AI through the lens of human contribution, focusing on how people interact with generative AI and the broader political, economic, and cultural systems surrounding them. ► transmediale.de/en/people/st...

Medialab Matadero is seeking proposals for a residency in the framework of the LAB 4 Weird Futures programme. Participants will take part in a collaborative work process with mentorship from Alex Quicho, Solveig Qu Suess, Joel Blanco, and Bani Brusadin. ► www.medialab-matadero.es/en/announcem...

Aspects of Presence: Art in Times of Militarisation Taking the current deployment of a German brigade to Lithuania as a starting point, the symposium at Akademie der Künste addresses contemporary militarisation from an artistic perspective. ► www.adk.de/en/programme...

transmediale Residencies 2025 DEEPER THROATS by Anan Fries is a post-digital, post-porn deep dive into digital genitalia, digisexuality, gooncaves, endosymbiosis and monstrous AI-generated porn. ► transmediale.de/en/people/an...

June is (almost) here, and with it comes the start of the 2025 transmediale residencies! One by one, we’ll be introducing each resident’s project – starting with Assemblague(s) by Andrea Galano Toro. ► transmediale.de/en/people/an...

file_under: tm25 The distance between us. On violence, split technology, and Relation. The talk by Nelly Y. Pinkrah probes the dual role of technology – as a tool of control and as an (infra)structure of Relation – and asks us to rethink how we engage with it. ► transmediale.de/en/2025/even...

CTM is looking for passionate, motivated interns to help bring CTM 2026 into existence. The call is open to students who are required to complete an internship as part of their academic programme ⚘ ► www.ctm-festival.de/news/ctm-202...

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file_under: tm25 Letters from the Unmodelled Catherine Griffiths examines how public protests have become experimental sites for AI surveillance and skeleton-tracking systems. Followed by a conversation with Marija Ristic, Anna Engelhardt, and Julian Oliver. ► transmediale.de/en/2025/even...

file_under: tm25 Generating an Artificial Democracy: On Sociological Intimacies of Bots and/as Personas Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal looks at how different model variants of LLM's are used to represent altering viewpoints and sociopolitical positions. ► transmediale.de/en/2025/even...

A MAZE. / Berlin returns for its 14th edition, bringing together the worldwide community of arthouse game developers, artistic world builders, digital artists and playful media creators. The festival takes place 14 – 17 May in silent green and Panke. ► 2025.amaze-berlin.de

file_under: tm25 Pixels in, People out: An Image-Based Ideology of Space This conversation between Felicity Hammond, Nina Davies, and Julian Oliver explores how algorithms shape public spaces by eradicating the human experiences that define place. ► transmediale.de/en/2025/even...

This week Pictoplasma will be taking over silent green 1 – 4 May. The festival and conference on contemporary character design questions our common understanding of character representation in the era of generative image production and fading pictorial hegemonies. ► conference.pictoplasma.com

Neema Githere and Juan Pablo García Sossa have been selected as the curators for the next festival edition in 2026. We are looking forward to welcoming them to transmediale 🤍 ► transmediale.de/en/pressRele...

Tomorrow, our dear friends of CTM Festival put on a very special show at Bi Nuu in Berlin: SUMAC & Moor Mother present the live premiere of their new collaborative album The Film. ► www.ctm-festival.de/activities/c...

file_under: tm25 GPS for the Brain: Cognitive Mapping Revisited The talk by Laura Kurgan puts the discourse of cognitive mapping into dialogue with advances in neuroscience and artificial intelligence. Laura is later joined in conversation by Jussi Parikka. ► transmediale.de/en/2025/even...

Reminder ⚘ There are 6 days left to apply for our Archival & Editorial Internship. Please note that the application is only open to currently enrolled students 👾 ► transmediale.de/en/news/arch...

file_under: tm25 In the talk Digital Maximalism vs. Existenzminimum, Silvio Lorusso discusses the contradictory relationship between our expansive digital engagements and the increasingly confined physical spaces we inhabit. ►https://transmediale.de/en/2025/event/digital-maximalism

The entire team of transmediale is appalled by the deportation decision made public earlier this week, targeting our former coworker Kasia Wlaszczyk and three other activists in Berlin, Cooper Longbottom, Shane O’Bien, and Roberta Murray.

We’re looking for an intern who can support us with archival research, editorial work, and digital content management during the summer months 👾 ► transmediale.de/en/news/arch...

file_under: tm25 The next addition to our online archive: The Grid: A Lecture on Cybotron and Techno-Vernacular Expressionism by DeForrest Brown, Jr. ► transmediale.de/en/2025/even...

file_under: tm25 As part of our expanding archive of festival contributions and critical practices, we are sharing recordings from transmediale's 2025 stream. Next up is Thomas Keenan's talk How to Make a Refugee, followed by a conversation with Anna Engelhardt. ► transmediale.de/en/2025/even...

Each month, we’ll be releasing three video recordings from the transmediale 2025 livestream 👾 Starting from Affective Proximities: A Genealogy of Queer Media Tactics, a conversation between Cait McKinney, David Isaac Hecht, and Alexandra Juhasz. ► transmediale.de/en/2025/even...

Totes, hoodies, longsleeves – we still have some merch leftover from our last festival! Find it in our online shop 👕 ► transmediale.myshopify.com

Last chance for applications – the open call for Festival Curation of transmediale 2026 is closing in three days! ► transmediale.de/en/news/open...

transmediale 2025 brought together over 100 participants from 34 different countries across three packed festival days at HKW, a fantastic opening at silent green, and two days of workshops. To help with the post-festival nostalgia, photos from the festival are now online 📸 ► bit.ly/tm25docu

As every year, we are happy to hear your feedback and impressions 👾 In return, there is a chance to win a festival pass for the 2026 edition of the festival! ► us19.list-manage.com/survey?u=532...