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
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!
On our radar..
in Berlin:
The group exhibition EastUnBloc presents subversive and experimental media art works and practices by artists and collectives from socialist and transition-era Central and Eastern Europe.
Opening November 29
nGbK
► ngbk.de/en/programm/...
in Berlin:
The group exhibition EastUnBloc presents subversive and experimental media art works and practices by artists and collectives from socialist and transition-era Central and Eastern Europe.
Opening November 29
nGbK
► ngbk.de/en/programm/...
EastUnBloc
35 years into the post-socialist transition in Europe, images of the “former East” are often still rendered in shades of gray. Only recently, Cold War scholarship is beginning to move away from a view...
ngbk.de
November 21, 2025 at 5:06 PM
On our radar..
in Berlin:
The group exhibition EastUnBloc presents subversive and experimental media art works and practices by artists and collectives from socialist and transition-era Central and Eastern Europe.
Opening November 29
nGbK
► ngbk.de/en/programm/...
in Berlin:
The group exhibition EastUnBloc presents subversive and experimental media art works and practices by artists and collectives from socialist and transition-era Central and Eastern Europe.
Opening November 29
nGbK
► ngbk.de/en/programm/...
Our friends at Akademie Schloss Solitude are accepting proposals for their next Web Residency: “Polymorphic Futures”
Curated by Barbara Cueto, the digital residency invites artists to explore socially transformative uses of blockchain.
Deadline: Nov 28
► www.akademie-solitude.de/de/call-for-...
Curated by Barbara Cueto, the digital residency invites artists to explore socially transformative uses of blockchain.
Deadline: Nov 28
► www.akademie-solitude.de/de/call-for-...
Call for Web Residencies No. 21 »Polymorphic Futures«
www.akademie-solitude.de
November 20, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Our friends at Akademie Schloss Solitude are accepting proposals for their next Web Residency: “Polymorphic Futures”
Curated by Barbara Cueto, the digital residency invites artists to explore socially transformative uses of blockchain.
Deadline: Nov 28
► www.akademie-solitude.de/de/call-for-...
Curated by Barbara Cueto, the digital residency invites artists to explore socially transformative uses of blockchain.
Deadline: Nov 28
► www.akademie-solitude.de/de/call-for-...
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...
🪺 Introducing our 2026 residents
Check the links below for a teaser of their residency projects ⬇️
Check the links below for a teaser of their residency projects ⬇️
November 4, 2025 at 11:53 AM
🪺 Introducing our 2026 residents
Check the links below for a teaser of their residency projects ⬇️
Check the links below for a teaser of their residency projects ⬇️
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-...
Reminder ⏳
There is still time to send project proposals for Vorspiel 2026.
The deadline is next week, November 5.
There is still time to send project proposals for Vorspiel 2026.
The deadline is next week, November 5.
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
October 31, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Reminder ⏳
There is still time to send project proposals for Vorspiel 2026.
The deadline is next week, November 5.
There is still time to send project proposals for Vorspiel 2026.
The deadline is next week, November 5.
👁 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
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.
aprja.net
October 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
👁 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
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
🌠 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 @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...
www.kw-berlin.de
October 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
🌠 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 @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...
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...
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...
Deadline: 30 November, 2025
► transmediale.de/en/news/open...
transmedialetransmediale | Open Call for Festival Curation 2027
transmediale.de
October 24, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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...
Deadline: 30 November, 2025
► transmediale.de/en/news/open...
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
🎟️ 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...
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
🎟️ 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...
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...
Early bird tickets for transmediale 2026 are sold out!
Thank you for the great response 💛
Thank you for the great response 💛
October 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Early bird tickets for transmediale 2026 are sold out!
Thank you for the great response 💛
Thank you for the great response 💛
❤️🔥 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...
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
❤️🔥 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...
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...
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
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-...
🕳️🐇 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
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-...
🕳️🐇 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
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
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
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.
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.