transmediale/
@transmediale.bsky.social
festival for art & digital culture berlin
By the Mango Belt & Tamarind Road: Compassing, Protocoling, Metaphoring
28 Jan – 1 Feb 2026
https://transmediale.de
By the Mango Belt & Tamarind Road: Compassing, Protocoling, Metaphoring
28 Jan – 1 Feb 2026
https://transmediale.de
🥭 By the Mango Belt & Tamarind Road: Participants and projects
Simon Speiser will present a new installation, Cuerdas del Manglar - Strings from the Mangrove, drawing on the history of the maroon society of Esmeraldas, Ecuador, and speculative physics.
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Simon Speiser will present a new installation, Cuerdas del Manglar - Strings from the Mangrove, drawing on the history of the maroon society of Esmeraldas, Ecuador, and speculative physics.
► transmediale.de/en/people/si...
December 4, 2025 at 2:27 PM
🥭 By the Mango Belt & Tamarind Road: Participants and projects
Simon Speiser will present a new installation, Cuerdas del Manglar - Strings from the Mangrove, drawing on the history of the maroon society of Esmeraldas, Ecuador, and speculative physics.
► transmediale.de/en/people/si...
Simon Speiser will present a new installation, Cuerdas del Manglar - Strings from the Mangrove, drawing on the history of the maroon society of Esmeraldas, Ecuador, and speculative physics.
► transmediale.de/en/people/si...
🌱 By the Mango Belt & Tamarind Road: Glossary
Metaphoring
Metaphoring is the practice of bypassing inherited logics and re-routing our technological imaginaries through stories, metaphors, and carriers that hold knowledge across distances. To metaphor is to re-code by way of imagery and relation.
Metaphoring
Metaphoring is the practice of bypassing inherited logics and re-routing our technological imaginaries through stories, metaphors, and carriers that hold knowledge across distances. To metaphor is to re-code by way of imagery and relation.
December 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
🌱 By the Mango Belt & Tamarind Road: Glossary
Metaphoring
Metaphoring is the practice of bypassing inherited logics and re-routing our technological imaginaries through stories, metaphors, and carriers that hold knowledge across distances. To metaphor is to re-code by way of imagery and relation.
Metaphoring
Metaphoring is the practice of bypassing inherited logics and re-routing our technological imaginaries through stories, metaphors, and carriers that hold knowledge across distances. To metaphor is to re-code by way of imagery and relation.
🥭 By the Mango Belt & Tamarind Road: Participants
Kidus Hailesilassie will present 6,500 Alphabets Make a Map, a large-scale installation drawing on 20 indigenous African knowledge systems, inviting audiences into an immersive and spatialised language archive.
► transmediale.de/en/people/ki...
Kidus Hailesilassie will present 6,500 Alphabets Make a Map, a large-scale installation drawing on 20 indigenous African knowledge systems, inviting audiences into an immersive and spatialised language archive.
► transmediale.de/en/people/ki...
November 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM
🥭 By the Mango Belt & Tamarind Road: Participants
Kidus Hailesilassie will present 6,500 Alphabets Make a Map, a large-scale installation drawing on 20 indigenous African knowledge systems, inviting audiences into an immersive and spatialised language archive.
► transmediale.de/en/people/ki...
Kidus Hailesilassie will present 6,500 Alphabets Make a Map, a large-scale installation drawing on 20 indigenous African knowledge systems, inviting audiences into an immersive and spatialised language archive.
► transmediale.de/en/people/ki...
By the Mango Belt & Tamarind Road: Glossary
Compassing
Compassing is about re·orienting, maneuvering, and pacing our algo·rhythms. Rather than seeking a fixed direction or optimisation, compassing attunes us to shifting currents and relational velocities - moving with the tides, not against them.
Compassing
Compassing is about re·orienting, maneuvering, and pacing our algo·rhythms. Rather than seeking a fixed direction or optimisation, compassing attunes us to shifting currents and relational velocities - moving with the tides, not against them.
November 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
By the Mango Belt & Tamarind Road: Glossary
Compassing
Compassing is about re·orienting, maneuvering, and pacing our algo·rhythms. Rather than seeking a fixed direction or optimisation, compassing attunes us to shifting currents and relational velocities - moving with the tides, not against them.
Compassing
Compassing is about re·orienting, maneuvering, and pacing our algo·rhythms. Rather than seeking a fixed direction or optimisation, compassing attunes us to shifting currents and relational velocities - moving with the tides, not against them.
💌 Introducing the programme of By the Mango Belt & Tamarind Road.
In the coming weeks, we’ll share more about the participants and projects, offer glimpses into the processes and research, and introduce glossary terms that open new ways of thinking about this edition’s themes.
Stay tuned!
In the coming weeks, we’ll share more about the participants and projects, offer glimpses into the processes and research, and introduce glossary terms that open new ways of thinking about this edition’s themes.
Stay tuned!
November 25, 2025 at 4:13 PM
💌 Introducing the programme of By the Mango Belt & Tamarind Road.
In the coming weeks, we’ll share more about the participants and projects, offer glimpses into the processes and research, and introduce glossary terms that open new ways of thinking about this edition’s themes.
Stay tuned!
In the coming weeks, we’ll share more about the participants and projects, offer glimpses into the processes and research, and introduce glossary terms that open new ways of thinking about this edition’s themes.
Stay tuned!
A friendly reminder ⏰
There’s just under two weeks left to apply for the 2027 Festival Curation open call.
► transmediale.de/en/news/open...
Deadline: November 30
We look forward to receiving your applications!
There’s just under two weeks left to apply for the 2027 Festival Curation open call.
► transmediale.de/en/news/open...
Deadline: November 30
We look forward to receiving your applications!
November 18, 2025 at 10:12 AM
A friendly reminder ⏰
There’s just under two weeks left to apply for the 2027 Festival Curation open call.
► transmediale.de/en/news/open...
Deadline: November 30
We look forward to receiving your applications!
There’s just under two weeks left to apply for the 2027 Festival Curation open call.
► transmediale.de/en/news/open...
Deadline: November 30
We look forward to receiving your applications!
Thanks to everyone who joined us for the transmediale x Emerging Eye Network screening this week!
It was great to see you all 👾
It was great to see you all 👾
November 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Thanks to everyone who joined us for the transmediale x Emerging Eye Network screening this week!
It was great to see you all 👾
It was great to see you all 👾
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...
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...
November 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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...
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...
Martyna Marciniak
Vilém Flusser Residency for Artistic Research in cooperation with UdK Berlin
Martyna’s residency project explores how images shape belief and generate hyperstition: where the fake and the real intertwine.
► transmediale.de/en/residency...
Vilém Flusser Residency for Artistic Research in cooperation with UdK Berlin
Martyna’s residency project explores how images shape belief and generate hyperstition: where the fake and the real intertwine.
► transmediale.de/en/residency...
November 4, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Martyna Marciniak
Vilém Flusser Residency for Artistic Research in cooperation with UdK Berlin
Martyna’s residency project explores how images shape belief and generate hyperstition: where the fake and the real intertwine.
► transmediale.de/en/residency...
Vilém Flusser Residency for Artistic Research in cooperation with UdK Berlin
Martyna’s residency project explores how images shape belief and generate hyperstition: where the fake and the real intertwine.
► transmediale.de/en/residency...
Ahreum Lee
transmediale x ARKO Residency
Ahreum's project will reimagine digital infrastructures through gestures of deliberate slowness and ritual acts of data feeding.
► transmediale.de/en/residency...
transmediale x ARKO Residency
Ahreum's project will reimagine digital infrastructures through gestures of deliberate slowness and ritual acts of data feeding.
► transmediale.de/en/residency...
November 4, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Ahreum Lee
transmediale x ARKO Residency
Ahreum's project will reimagine digital infrastructures through gestures of deliberate slowness and ritual acts of data feeding.
► transmediale.de/en/residency...
transmediale x ARKO Residency
Ahreum's project will reimagine digital infrastructures through gestures of deliberate slowness and ritual acts of data feeding.
► transmediale.de/en/residency...
@aaa-e-ee.bsky.social
Digital Art Residency in collab with Pro Helvetia
Amanda's project explores the imaginative potential of information gaps—linking computer science, quantum & bio computing, and memory studies to reimagine compression as a generative act.
► transmediale.de/en/residency...
Digital Art Residency in collab with Pro Helvetia
Amanda's project explores the imaginative potential of information gaps—linking computer science, quantum & bio computing, and memory studies to reimagine compression as a generative act.
► transmediale.de/en/residency...
November 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
@aaa-e-ee.bsky.social
Digital Art Residency in collab with Pro Helvetia
Amanda's project explores the imaginative potential of information gaps—linking computer science, quantum & bio computing, and memory studies to reimagine compression as a generative act.
► transmediale.de/en/residency...
Digital Art Residency in collab with Pro Helvetia
Amanda's project explores the imaginative potential of information gaps—linking computer science, quantum & bio computing, and memory studies to reimagine compression as a generative act.
► transmediale.de/en/residency...
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-...
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-...
November 3, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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-...
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-...
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...
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...
October 24, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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...
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...
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...
Featuring works by Gala Hernández López, Hana Yoo, Anan Fries, Anna Engelhardt & Mark Cinkevich, and Nina Davies
► umede.lt/guest-film-p...
October 16, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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...
Featuring works by Gala Hernández López, Hana Yoo, Anan Fries, Anna Engelhardt & Mark Cinkevich, and Nina Davies
► umede.lt/guest-film-p...
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
Read the full announcement here:
► transmediale.de/en/news/anno...
Looking forward to working together
@a-stebur.bsky.social 🤍
📸 Violetta Savchits
October 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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
Read the full announcement here:
► transmediale.de/en/news/anno...
Looking forward to working together
@a-stebur.bsky.social 🤍
📸 Violetta Savchits
🔉 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
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
October 14, 2025 at 2:26 PM
🔉 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
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
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
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
October 2, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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
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
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
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
September 29, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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
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
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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-...
🕳️🐇 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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🕳️🐇 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-...
🕳️🐇 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-...
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.
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
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.
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...
► www.ctm-festival.de/events/event...
September 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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...
► www.ctm-festival.de/events/event...
And the second open call:
CTM’s Resynthesising the Traditional artistic research lab seeks artists exploring sonic traditions through critical, experimental, and transformative approaches.
► www.ctm-festival.de/festival-202...
Deadline: 14 September, 2025
CTM’s Resynthesising the Traditional artistic research lab seeks artists exploring sonic traditions through critical, experimental, and transformative approaches.
► www.ctm-festival.de/festival-202...
Deadline: 14 September, 2025
September 3, 2025 at 10:56 AM
And the second open call:
CTM’s Resynthesising the Traditional artistic research lab seeks artists exploring sonic traditions through critical, experimental, and transformative approaches.
► www.ctm-festival.de/festival-202...
Deadline: 14 September, 2025
CTM’s Resynthesising the Traditional artistic research lab seeks artists exploring sonic traditions through critical, experimental, and transformative approaches.
► www.ctm-festival.de/festival-202...
Deadline: 14 September, 2025
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
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
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
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...
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
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...
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...
Browse through past:
Festivals
► transmediale.de/en/all-past-...
Residencies
► transmediale.de/en/past-resi...
August 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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...
Browse through past:
Festivals
► transmediale.de/en/all-past-...
Residencies
► transmediale.de/en/past-resi...