festival for art & digital culture berlin
transmediale Residencies 2025
The open studio is two days away, and with that, we're introducing our final residency project ✨
During her residency, SunJeong Hwang is developing prototypes incorporating sensor networks, ecological data harvesting, and AI-driven compositional processes. Her project, Telluric Memories, results in a responsive architecture where rhythms are negotiated across human somatics, algorithmic logic, and planetary conditions.
D'Andrade will be presenting their work alongside all the transmediale 2025 residents during the open studio day this Saturday — an event not to be missed 🤍
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. Through the use of the anthropophagic word, D'Andrade proposes a form and language to transcreate through a translating process.
transmediale open studio
28 June, 14:00 to 20:00
Presentations 17:00
Join us this Saturday 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.
The open studio will include contributions from Anan Fries, D'Andrade, Stefan Karrer, SunJeong Hwang, and Andrea Galano Toro ✨
Open Job Position
Communications Manager
We are looking for a Communications Manager to lead and implement the communications strategy for transmediale 2026. This includes working closely with the different team members to create clear, engaging, and accessible public communications about the festival’s programme across all platforms. The position starts from 01.09.2025 and is limited until 28.02.2026.
► https://transmediale.de/en/news/communications-management-2026
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. On the Discord servers of Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and OpenAI Stefan Karrer observes the emerging poetics of prompting and the practice of Prompt Engineering as a new kind of Magic.
Open Call For Projects: LAB 4 Weird Futures
Medialab Matadero is seeking proposals for the Collaborative Prototyping Lab, a creative residency in the framework of the year-long LAB 4 Weird Futures programme. Participants will take part in a collaborative work process under the mentorship of writer and researcher Alex Quicho, artist and filmmaker Solveig Qu Suess, artist and experimental designer Joel Blanco, and Medialab curator Bani Brusadin.
► https://www.medialab-matadero.es/en/announcements/open-call-projects-lab-4-weird-futures
Aspects of Presence: Art in Times of Militarisation
Focusing on the situation in Central and Eastern Europe, international artists and scholars explore the intersections of military, ecological and technological developments through lectures, panel discussions and artistic contributions.
The symposium features a number of exceptional contributors including Asia Bazdyrieva, Anna Engelhardt, Mark Cinkevich, Ali Akbar Mehta, and Oleksiy Radynski, and more.
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. Inspired by Luciana Parisi's book Abstract Sex: Philosophy, Biotechnology and the Mutations of Desire, Anan will explore how information technologies and "artificial intelligence" reshape our desires, our sexualities and our understanding of gender.
transmediale Residencies 2025
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.
Assemblague(s) is a research-based project that speculates on vehicles and models of language-in-kinship with more-than-human companions — from microbes to dust, gut ecologies, and the microbial life embedded within technological devices.
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The distance between us. On violence, split technology, and Relation.
This talk by Nelly Y. Pinkrah interrogates how bodies, proximities, and technologies inhabit a relational continuum. It 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. What we make of it. How we make it. Pinkrah is later joined by Shaka McGlotten in conversation.
► https://transmediale.de/en/2025/event/the-distance-between-us
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 ⚘
Error 417 Expectation Failed, an independent foundation supporting radically contemporary Internet art and net-based arts practices, is launching its first open call. ERROR 406 T͚̙̈́ͮ̽͒͢E͡Ć̵ͭͪH̴͉̝ F̰ͩẠ̟ͨ̒S̠̥̯̅͑Cͯ̋͂͋I̪͓̰̣͒S̻͜M Ǹ͕̞̘͊͗͞O̹͈̙͑T AͅC͍̭̞͖̆̔̌C̟̥̍͑̀Ë͇́͑̔ͧP͌T̹Ȧͣ̂̐B͇̟̙̅͜LÉ̷̤̺̼͙ͫ is looking for artistic projects—instructions, scores, how-tos, interventions, and practices—against tech fascism.
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Letters from the Unmodelled
The lecture-performance by Catherine Griffiths examines how public protests have become experimental sites for AI surveillance and skeleton-tracking systems. This is followed by a conversation where Marija Ristic, Anna Engelhardt, and Julian Oliver join Griffiths to explore the shifting relationships between surveillance, public space, and resistance.
► https://transmediale.de/en/2025/event/letters-from-the-unmodelled
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Generating an Artificial Democracy: On Sociological Intimacies of Bots and/as Personas
Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal looks at the technical substrates of chatbots, which make them ripe for the use of 'personas,' a prompt engineering technique that instantiates different 'bots' from the same underlying AI model. Dhaliwal is later joined in conversation by Tiara Roxanne to question notions of agreement/disagreement or proximity/distance for machinic proxies.
► https://transmediale.de/en/2025/event/generating-an-artificial-democracy
As another treat presented by A MAZE. / Berlin, the performance Sons and True Sons by Total Refusal takes place at HAU 👾
The Viennese media guerrilla group examines the links between toxic masculinity, gaming culture and the 2021 US Capitol storming. In a live gaming lecture, they scrutinise the parallels between the video game Tom Clancy's: The Division 2 (2016) and real-life extremist movements – and highlight the dangers of hyper-masculine self-empowerment.
► https://www.hebbel-am-ufer.de/en/programme/pdetail/total-refusal-sons-and-true-sons
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, and includes hybrid components connecting the physical festival programme with the virtual world.
file_under: tm25
Pixels in, People out: An Image-Based Ideology of Space
With a focus on human/computer relations, this conversation between Felicity Hammond, Nina Davies, and Julian Oliver explores how algorithms shape public spaces by eradicating the human experiences that define place.
► https://transmediale.de/en/2025/event/pixels-in-people-out
Neema Githere and Juan Pablo García Sossa have been selected to curate transmediale 2026 🤍
Their shared vision builds on perspectives from geographies and epistemologies that have been historically marginalised in dominant digital narratives – articulating them into circuits, protocols, and systems of relation.
We are looking forward to welcoming them to the transmediale community ⚘
► https://transmediale.de/en/news/announcing-2026-festival-curators
Tomorrow, our dear friends of CTM Festival put on a special show at Bi Nuu in Berlin: SUMAC & Moor Mother presenting their new collaborative album The Film.
SUMAC’s crushing sludge, hardcore, and noise unite with Moor Mother’s searing poetics and radical politics to ignite the stage in an unrelenting surge of tectonic heaviness and incisive narratives.
Finnish duo Pharaoh Overlord set the stage with hypnotic krautrock, industrial grind, and synth-laced delirium.
► https://www.ctm-festival.de/activities/concerts-and-club-nights/event-detail/sumac-moor-mother
