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Thanks to everyone who joined us for the transmediale x Emerging Eye Network screening this week!

It was great to see you all 👾
Two people in front of a screen introducing the transmediale x Emerging Eye Network screening A seated audience watching the transmediale x Emerging Eye Network screening A person watches a moving-image installation with headphones Moving-image installation comprised of two small screens installed in a stairwell
November 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Volunteer at transmediale

We are looking for committed and motivated volunteers to help us run transmediale 2026! In return for their support, volunteers will receive a free Festival Pass and insights into how the festival works ⚘

► transmediale.de/en/news/call...
Ticket collection desk at a previous edition of transmediale festival. 5 volunteers stand behind the counter in conversation.
November 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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🪺 Introducing our 2026 residents

Check the links below for a teaser of their residency projects ⬇️
November 4, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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transmediale x Emerging Eye Network screening: No Signal, Still Watching

November 12, 19:00
transmediale studio
Donation-based

🍿 Join us for an evening of short films and moving-image installations exploring the uncanny intersections of presence and absence.

► transmediale.de/en/event/tm-...
Graphic for the transmediale x Emerging Eye Network screening and installation event
November 3, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Reminder ⏳

There is still time to send project proposals for Vorspiel 2026.

The deadline is next week, November 5.
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Open Call Vorspiel 2026

After a year of pause and reflection with the community, Vorspiel is back! ❤️

Berlin-based project spaces, initiatives, curators & artists are invited to propose events or activities on digital art, culture, experimental music & sound.

Deadline: 5 Nov.

► vorspiel.berlin
A person with long brown hair, wearing a black jumper, faces away from the camera looking at a screen where an interactive artwork is projected. Their silhouette is captured in the projected image as a yellow outline, and they are raising their hand.
October 31, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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👁 Now available online: this year's Research Workshop publication Everything is a Matter of Distance

Responding to the 2025 festival theme, the journal explores how space is produced and shaped within contemporary techno-culture.

A cooperation with Aarhus University

► aprja.net
A Peer-Reviewed Journal About
APRJA is an open-access research journal that addresses the ever-shifting thematic frameworks of digital culture.
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October 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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🌠 In Berlin this week:

Holly Herndon @hollyherndon.bsky.social and Mat Dryhurst’s @afterlife.bsky.social solo exhibition “Starmirror”, opens on Thursday evening at KW

► www.kw-berlin.de/en/holly-her...
Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst Starmirror - Exhibitions - KW Institute for Contemporary Art
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, and the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf partner to realize a major exhibition and live program with artists and technologists Holly Herndon and...
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October 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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We're delighted to announce our 2026 residents 💓

Amanda E. Metzger
Digital Art Residency in collaboration with Pro Helvetia

Ahreum Lee
transmediale x ARKO Residency programme

Martyna Marciniak
Vilém Flusser Residency for Artistic Research in cooperation with UdK

► transmediale.de/en/news/anno...
Graphic with the text: transmediale / residents 2026. Amanda E. Metzger; Ahreum Lee; Martyna Marciniak
October 24, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Applications are now open for the Festival Curation of transmediale 2027, marking the 40th anniversary of the festival.

Deadline: 30 November, 2025

► transmediale.de/en/news/open...
transmedialetransmediale | Open Call for Festival Curation 2027
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October 24, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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We’re heading to Lithuania! 🔗 Our friends at Ūmėdė.lt festival invited us to present a guest film programme, modes of becoming, on October 18.

Featuring works by Gala Hernández López, Hana Yoo, Anan Fries, Anna Engelhardt & Mark Cinkevich, and Nina Davies

► umede.lt/guest-film-p...
Film still from Gala Hernández López's film "for here am i sitting in a tin can far above the world" (2024), featuring a split screen. One image is an out of focus, b&w close up of someone's face, and the other image features a man and a woman smiling into the camera next to analogue television set and computer. Film still from Hana Yoo’s film Bare Life (2021), featuring a person whose face is covered by a face-concealing balaclava, revealing only the outline of the head. Film still from Artificial Sex (Episode 1) (2025) by Anan Fries, which shows a screengrab of a computer programme with a digitally-created, orange, fictional object.
October 16, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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We are very happy to announce that Antonina Stebur has been selected to curate the transmediale 2027 exhibition, marking 40 years of transmediale! 🔥

Read the full announcement here:
► transmediale.de/en/news/anno...

Looking forward to working together
@a-stebur.bsky.social 🤍

📸 Violetta Savchits
Headshot of the new exhibition curator of transmediale 2027, Antonina Stebur, sitting down with crossed legs, looking directly at the camera. Antonina is wearing a t-shirt that reads "decolonize".
October 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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🔉 Our sister festival CTM has announced the first artists of their 2026 line up.

Available now: early bird Connect passes - granting access to both transmediale's and CTM's 2026 programme.

transmediale.stager.co/shop/connect...

Image: transmediale x CTM Synthesis Concert, 2025 📸 Mirka Pflüger
A dark and smoke-filled concert venue, lit by strobe lights, contains a seated audience facing the stage. No performer is visible through the smoke, but on a big screen a distorted, glitchy image of a face is visible.
October 14, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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🎟️ Now available: Festival Passes with our new flexible pricing system in four different tiers.

We’re introducing this approach for 2026 to make the festival more accessible, while giving those who can afford it the chance to further support transmediale.

► transmediale.stager.co/shop/festiva...
October 6, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Early bird tickets for transmediale 2026 are sold out!
Thank you for the great response 💛
October 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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❤️‍🔥 Early bird passes are on sale now for transmediale 2026!

There’s a limited amount, so don’t miss your chance! Additionally, we are introducing a flexible pricing system for the upcoming festival edition.

► transmediale.stager.co/shop/festiva...
October 2, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Festival website is live!

Our journey By the Mango Belt & Tamarind Road is unfolding 🥭

Browse through the freshly designed festival website and find out more about the curatorial compass of the next edition, reimagining systems, technologies, and infrastructures.

► transmediale.de/en/2026/tm26
Image graphic for "By the Mango Belt & Tamarind Road: Compassing, Protocoling, Metaphoring". The title is displayed in different fonts and colours, on top of an abstract graphic shape.
October 2, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Open Call Vorspiel 2026

After a year of pause and reflection with the community, Vorspiel is back! ❤️

Berlin-based project spaces, initiatives, curators & artists are invited to propose events or activities on digital art, culture, experimental music & sound.

Deadline: 5 Nov.

► vorspiel.berlin
A person with long brown hair, wearing a black jumper, faces away from the camera looking at a screen where an interactive artwork is projected. Their silhouette is captured in the projected image as a yellow outline, and they are raising their hand.
September 29, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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🕳️🐇 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-...
September 23, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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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
September 17, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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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.
September 15, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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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...
September 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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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!
September 11, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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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
September 3, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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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...
August 28, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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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...
August 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM