Memoblast is a group performance in a fax-based office. Raquel Meyers, Jacob Sikker Remin and Goto80 are office workers who handle the flow of information by following...

alva noto . uni acronym is presented as an installation in the theater on transmediale’s opening evening.

Back when openings were just openings, a few self-congratulatory statements and an introductory speech or two sufficed. At this year’s transmediale we are aiming...

It's alive!
See a giant OCTOpodous kinetic sculpture rattle and shake at the speed of light!

This performative event presents ReFunct Media #5, a multimedia installation that (re)uses numerous "obsolete" electronic devices (digital and analog media...

In the Blue Hour of Pluto, People Like Us – broadcaster of the sound arts radio show DO or DIY on WFMU – will play a DJ Set with a selection of the best...

“Depletion Design” suggests that ideas of exhaustion cut across cultural, environmentalist, and political idioms and offers ways to explore the emergence of new...

Location: HKW Lower Foyer

The Post-Digital Publishing workshop is doing its own little bit of “future re-distribution” for open source and...

This panel describes a few daring projects: from the activities of Robert Rehfeldt (the first and most well-known Mail Artist of the GDR), to the political aesthetical...

Contributors to this panel were invited to take part in a book sprint—an intense four-day writing retreat—in November 2012 in Berlin to explore André...

Nothing seems more difficult than the medial communication of reality. All communication is based on a particular view of the world, a pooling and contextualization of...

Books, letters, documents and indexes are all paperbound forms central not only to literary, but also to computational culture. In his recent book, White Magic. The Paper...

The panel is discussing the installation project Evil Media Distribution Centre by Graham Harwood (uk) and Matsuko Yokokoji (jp/uk) (YoHa) that is part of the festival...

Location: HKW Central Foyer

Ludic Interfaces is focusing on playful practices and theoretical approaches based on the intersection of art, design and digital...

In commercial film, a remake of successful material is routine. | With works from Malcolm Le Grice, Dan Boord, Luis Valdovino, Marilyn Marloff, Volker Schreiner, Lewis Klahr,...

The transmediale Marshall McLuhan Lecture 2013 will be held by Ian Hacking. In his lecture Pluto, Plutocrats & Plutonium, the world renowned Canadian philosopher Ian...

-logy is a "science fiction" performance representing the border between controlled and uncontrolled technology, exploring the exchanged energy between...

This audiovisual performance by musical instrument designer and circuit-bender Peter Edwards (aka Casperelectronics) occupies a sonic territory between noise and melody,...

In Movement Materials and What We Can Do, Andrew Norman Wilson employs corporate, academic and artistic lecture techniques to the intertwining concerns of his projects...

The exhibition [[[ I'll Show You HD ]]] consists of a series of “visual mixtapes” that all follow a vernacular remix aesthetic in which net culture is...

Instrumentarium is a performance series for musicians in separate rooms orchestrated by Berlin sound artist Boris Hegenbart in collaboration with various guest...

Y U NO having a Breakfast on Pluto before leaving to the Club? - DJ Set by actylat (STRFLD Simulation).

Location: Central Foyer. This meeting on the occasion of the Composting the City | Composting the Net launch brings together partners and projects of green rush...

Using e-waste as raw material, the workshop offers participants to become familiar with basic circuit bending, hardware and software hacking/recycling while gaining hands-on...

This event brings together participants of the Researching BWPWAP workshop that preceded transmediale and was focused on the question of how BWPWAP can be interpreted...

Atypo is a virtual publishing house that deals with the promotion and production of artist books.

Location: HKW Lower Foyer

A day of critical reflection on the state of the university: As the walls around universities’ repositories of knowledge...

Location: HKW Central Foyer

For his performative lecture, Siegfried Zielinski uses one of his well-known, characteristic devices: an overhead projector.

Like book printing, film has not evolved very much technically: Film today is shot on 35 mm just like in the 19th century. | With works from Germaine Dulac, Dwinnel Grant,...

Local Autonomy Networks (Autonets) is an artivist project focused on creating networks of communication to increase community autonomy and reduce violence against...

"Remixing Digital Cities" explores the concept of digital cities and alternative urban networks in Europe and Brazil. In Berlin, Amsterdam and elsewhere, "...

This panel takes its cue in part from Roland Barthes’ essay Death of the Author (1967), in which he argues that one should not focus on the writer’s...

Kyle Evans' de/Rastra is an oscillographic synthesizer, a real-time audio/video instrument and computer-interfacing device that generates visualizations intrinsic to...

Location: Central Foyer

The investors' insider tip of the year: OCTO! Total communications control with unprecedented ease of implementation.

Karl Marx saw “complete alienation,” the “dehumanization” of people, in the credit system. Capital does not appraise goods or labor to approximate...

In WMSWF (We Make Sound With Fire), fire and light are produced through various methods. Fluorescene is an improvised light and sound performance.

Social Media: From Complaints to Alternative Tools. This presentation gives a strategic overview of the philosophical underpinnings of the Unlike Us project, a...

This world premiere of the new live A/V set of People Like Us (PLU) is presented in an exclusive transmediale and CTM edition that applies a collage approach to networks in...

Mind the Volcano is a text-based, TV-performance with a typewriter logic that remediates existing materials. >> Read more.

This panel analyzes misuse and abuse of online communication, sexual computational practices and porn fiction as code narrative, by focusing on a spectrum reaching from the...

In this workshop, participants build and play with a simple, modular and fully analog sound and light drone synthesizer.

Location: HKW Central Foyer

Lutz Wohlrab and Karla Sachse’s workshop feeds the OCTO P7C-1 installation, the pneumatic mini-network running...

Location: HKW Lower Foyer

A day dedicated to round-table demos and discussions to explore possible futures for the indie publisher; how to move to multi-...

Location: Central Foyer

Before we will have the definitive answer on where digital art practices fit into the universal cultural legacy of artistic practices a...

This panel focuses on the experience of active users and developers connecting the historical adventure of cyber-core BBSes (Bulletin Board Systems), ASCII porn and early...

Location: Central Foyer

Speaking Code begins by invoking the Hello World convention used by programmers when learning a new language; helping to establish...

Though English is the most common language of international communication, in the Russian Internet, behind the Chinese firewall and in African countries active social (video...

This panel adopts the concept of “Disrupting Bureaucracy” as a comparative standpoint to analyze grassroots artistic interventions in the digital and analog...

Location: HKW Central Foyer

This event and book launch discuss media archaeology in relation to technical media arts and digital culture. It revolves around...

by Johannes P Osterhoff

This workshop is a tool for artists who wish to go beyond common usage of these mobile-controlled consumption interfaces on the Kindle...

By proposing that the composting process can be applied both to the material (bodily waste, food scraps, papers, documents) and the immaterial (info-data, net archives), this...

Religions are networks that connect people across extreme temporal and spatial distance through a complex system of tradition, text, architecture, ritual, music and image. |...

Aesthetic growth: Becoming a Human, a Thing or a Piece of Code. How do we engage with the world, as it turns computational?

Coded Narratives (CN) is a retro-futuristic, campfire type of experience for the audience as active participants, articulated by the proto-programming language of...

This panel focuses on mediation and coordination of space and Space by the military. Since the advent of the Cold War, celestial bodies have featured in strategic military...

What are the consequences of becoming a name’s “user” when the name belongs to the country’s prime minister? And what is the meaning of name-change as...

Location: HKW Lower Foyer

This workshop invites you to learn how to quickly digitize books and share them with whomever you want all over the world.

Location: HKW Central Foyer

By addressing specific examples related to online sex and porn, porn-sourcing, love for sex machines and fictional characters, the objective is to investigate the current state...

LOL is a crowdsourcing project that explores how sexuality and desire are mediated through new technologies, specifically new models of global, outsourced labor...

Net culture BWPWAP was characterized by intimate communities based on shared special interests. In turn, the Web 2.0 era commercialized these communities into a mass culture...

The museum, in its beginnings, was primarily an accumulation of a lot of very different stuff. | With works by Jacques Louis Nyst, Elizabeth Price, Donigan Cumming, John Smith...

Location: HKW Central Foyer

OCTO announces official launch of P7C-1 at the transmediale 2013

To remind us that the Internet can exist without centralized control, INTK has created unCloud, an application that enables anyone with a laptop to create an open...

Location: Central Foyer

The project An Ecosystem of Excess by Pinar Yoldas approaches the problem of “man-made extreme environments” like...

Uncreative Writing with Kenneth Goldsmith in Conversation with Florian Cramer. With so much language available in the digital age, does anyone really need to write more...

BWPWAP, archives were the world’s central reservoirs of knowledge. This program spans the film medium as archive to films about libraries, museums and academies. | With...

This talk asserts that comics actually lie at the heart of the logical templates taking over our media cultures, dominating the grammar and semantic interface of Web 2.0...

With participation of Alejandro Jodorowsky through a live video stream. Through this video conversation with the infamous Chilean author, comic book writer, esoteric...

Following Kittler’s circuits and codes, operating with and against him, encountering Nietzsche and going beyond Foucault.

Following the video conversation with Alejandro Jodorowsky, this exclusive double-bill of sci-fi tinged performances takes you further into and beyond the confines of the...

This workshop presents intellectual ideas and software designs from efforts to transition from "digital-binary" to "quantum” computing.

The guests on this montage-style interdisciplinary panel each offer reflections on transmediale 2013 in relation to the notion of the Imaginary Museum. 

In a Quare Time and Place is the title of the upcoming book by queer theorist and curator Tim Stüttgen (Post / Porn / Politics).

Artists are taking their place in art history. | With works from Hermine Freed and Dennis Adams.

Today, the great hypertextual WWWeb is becoming more and more constricted by increasingly expanding online services. Not much value is placed in networks in the Web any more....

The narrative arc of Allucquére Rosanne "Sandy" Stone’s work has followed, more or less closely, the course of her life: refuse closure,...

How does one tell a life story in film when no film material about the protagonist or the stations of life important to the narrative is available?  | With works from...

Testicles are complex sexualized entities. Just as curvaceous hips sway side to side, testicles roll up and down. This is not conscious.

Still alive after one long Pluto day (and one earth week) full of panels, exhibitions, film screenings, performances, and workshops? Join the transmediale team at...