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Performance // Laurie Anderson: The Language of the Future at transmediale

Article by Beatrix Joyce in Berlin // Mar. 10, 2017
Building walls — the contemporary rhetoric exacerbated by Trump’s exhaustive twitter-feed — will no doubt go down in history as one of the most heated stories of our times. Seeping out of the internet…[read on]

Talks // transmediale Ever Elusive: Excursion on ‘Imaginaries, Interventions and Ecologies’

Berlin Art Link Black Quantum Futurism Collective Transmediale

Article by Candice Nembhard in Berlin // Mar. 02, 2017
In celebration of the 30th anniversary, transmediale extended their three-day festival programme with a month long series of excursions. Panels, discussions and exhibitions concentrated…[read on]

Performance // transmediale Ever Elusive: iii at HKW

Article by Beatrix Joyce in Berlin // Feb. 14, 2017
Transmediale’s robust programme for this year’s edition of the festival, Ever Elusive, also included experimental performance. The Instrument Inventors Initiative, an artist-run-platform based in The Hague,…[read on]

Screening // transmediale Ever Elusive: ‘The Sprawl’ by Metahaven

Article by Beatrix Joyce in Berlin // Feb. 14, 2017
‘The Sprawl: Propaganda about Propaganda’, the 2016 film by Amsterdam-based design-duo Metahaven, was screened during transmediale festival in the HKW’s cavernous auditorium. A question, prompted by…[read on]

Book Launch // ‘The 3D Additivist Cookbook’ at transmediale

Article by Lisa Birch in Berlin // Feb. 11, 2017
As part of the transmediale anniversary weekend, Morehshin Allahyari and Daniel Rourke presented the European launch of their project ‘The 3D Additivist Cookbook’. The duo offered up their digital publication as…[read on]

Talks // transmediale Ever Elusive: Discussion Program 2017

Berlin Art Link an overview of Transmedial 2017

Article by Lisa Birch in Berlin // Feb. 8, 2017
Transmediale celebrated its 30th anniversary by providing the public with a three-day celebration at HKW — Haus der Kulturen der Welt. The festival program for 2017 looked broadly at the ongoing shifts…[read on]

Announcement // transmediale Festival 2017

Berlin Art Link transmediale announcement

Article by Lisa Birch in Berlin // Jan. 19, 2017
transmediale, the Berlin based festival is celebrating it’s 30th anniversary with a month long event, taking place from February 2nd to March 5th, 2017 at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt and at other venues across the city…[read on]

NETWORKS // transmediale conversationpiece: Adrift in a Sea of Data

Article by Benjamin Busch – in Berlin; Friday, Feb. 12, 2016.

In the last keynote conversation of transmediale 2016, Hito Steyerl presented a perplexing image to the audience. The classified material leaked by Edward Snowden seemingly presents little more than static, or noise. Encrypted, the image would traditionally require machine decryption…[read on…]

Hit List // Berlin Art Link’s Must-See Picks for transmediale’s Conversation Piece

Article by Alice Bardos – in Berlin; Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2016.

Berlin Art Link weighs in on who the heavy hitters will be at this year’s transmediale Conversation Piece program. If you’re up for exploring capitalism through the lens of multimedia art, then check out our top picks taking place.… [read on…]

Announcement // transmediale ‘Conversation Piece’ & Vorspiel

Article by Alice Bardos in Berlin // Jan. 15, 2016
Berlin’s established festival, transmediale – which brings together art, culture, and media – could never really be called static. This year it’s aiming to push boundaries even further by curating its events around…[read on…]

Exhibition // How Did We Learn at transmediale?

Anthony Antonellis "Ways of Something Episode 2, Minute # 28" (2014) film still, photo courtesy of transmediale, copyright of the artist

Article by Alena Sokhan – in Berlin; Tuesday, Feb. 03, 2015.

The question that transmediale asks is not ‘what’ – as in, what can technologies do – but ‘how’: how are we using and being affected by technologies? I think the same question can be turned to transmediale itself, with the four days of events coming to a conclusion…[read on…]

Exhibition // transmediale Capture All: Disengagement or Acceleration?

Article by Natasha Klimenko – in Berlin; Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015.

“Track sleep. Track steps. Track habits.” – So begins the promotional video for this year’s transmediale, themed “Capture All”. Intimating an invasion, collection, and configuration of basic patterns and functions, the theme initially purports a fixation on human activity and an overabundance of whichever qualities it takes to be and predict what is human…[read on…]