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Announcing CTM 2027’s theme - Proccess...ing. › Full details: https://lnkd.in/dyq7yKx2 We live in a present saturated by predefined scripts, hungry algorithms, and extractivist protocols, increasingly turning us into providers within systems we did not build. As the speed and complexity of these routines accelerate, they incapacitate our fundamental need to actually process what is happening around and within us, sacrificing agency, spontaneity, and our capacity for genuine thought. Within CTM 2027, Process…ing means resisting closure and valuing the collective acts of making and sharing above the polished artifact. In a world that demands finished results, we choose to remain unfinished, in relation, and present.

Open Call for 2027 Residents The open calls for our 2027 residencies are now online! 🔔 How do we reconfigure technical paradigms towards new cultural protocols, outside of widespread extractive logics, moving from critique to construction? The 2027 residency programme extends transmediale’s moment of reflection and future-imagining of its 40th anniversary across the year and asks how a network can stay legible to itself while the structures surrounding it are breaking down. This year’s open call seeks proposals offering alternatives to how we understand, respond to, and shape the technological conditions we inhabit. Vilém Flusser Residency for Artistic Research in cooperation with the Vilém Flusser Archive at the Universität der Künste Berlin transmediale x ARKO Residency in cooperation with ARTS COUNCIL KOREA (ARKO) Digital Art Residency in cooperation with Pro Helvetia ▶︎ https://lnkd.in/draaAbKM The application deadline for all programmes is 28.08.2026 (23:59 CEST). Each residency has specific requirements; please check them carefully in each open call section. Design by Bárbara Acevedo Strange

Open Job Position Project Manager We are looking for a Project Manager, responsible for the detailed planning and smooth implementation of the festival programme in close cooperation with the programme, production, and administration team. The position starts from 15.09.2026 for a fixed-term contract ending on 15.03.2027. Application deadline: 26.07.2026 ► https://lnkd.in/d6q_VMvV Photo by Laura Fiorio

Open Call DARC PhD/Research Workshop 2027 Interstices: Research (in) the gaps The research workshop organised by the Digital Aesthetics Research Center (Aarhus University) in collaboration with transmediale/ is calling for submissions 👾 The workshop invites proposals that occupy and move through the gaps that are social, as well as structural, ontological, and material, and that run through the fabric of matter, meaning and making itself. It invites speculations, practical interventions, and inferences that fill these gaps, and expand the diversity of possible communications and communities. The workshop is targeted toward PhD/early career researchers, and welcomes submissions from researchers from inside/outside the academy, including artists, designers, and curators. Deadline for submissions: Aug 28, 2026 (23:59 CEST) ▶︎ https://lnkd.in/d9xH7J7f

As the days get warmer on this side of the world, we have a lot to share. We are excited to announce the titles and thematic framework of transmediale 2027 💥 Under the title groundstates, the festival’s programme will take place during the last week of January 2027 in silent green. The exhibition fragile currents will be on show at the Akademie der Künste (Hanseatenweg) until March. Curated by Barbara Cueto, the festival revolves around the human scale of technology, resisting the expectation of a single technological future. groundstates presents four days of discursive and performative programme. The exhibition, curated by Antonina Stebur, treats infrastructural breakdown not as a moment of collapse but as a condition from which other forms of organisation can emerge. fragile currents presents a series of installations and a public programme developed with international partners. Find out more: ▶︎ https://lnkd.in/dpQG6TNM Design by Bárbara Acevedo Strange

Open Calls for Lattice Labs Application deadline: June 7, 2026 (23:59 CEST) transmediale 2027 is calling for applications for the Lattice Labs, a series of experimental working groups dedicated to rethinking and testing alternatives to technological monocultures of extraction and surveillance. Each Lab is formed by about five participants and guided by an experienced artist or technologist. The call is open for early career and emerging artists, researchers, curators, students, and practitioners from all disciplines. Participation in a Lattice Lab requires a commitment to an active working process from July 2026 to January 2027. ⚗️ Solidarity Economies Lab Led by Sepp Eckenhaussen and Geert Lovink Playful Misuse (of everyday software) Lab Led by Viola He Obscure Detritus Lab Led by Alex Declino Reclaiming the Interface Lab Led by Olia Lialina Minor Indexes Lab Led by selfservice.studio Read more here: https://lnkd.in/dfdBZkWQ Design by Bárbara Acevedo Strange

Save the Date 📅  12–13 September 2026  Transgressive Memory Festival silent green, Berlin 📍    What happens when memory refuses to be governed? When institutionalised forms of remembrance no longer hold? When archives glitch, bodies remember differently, and history is no longer fixed, but re-opened, contested, and rewired?   The eCommemoration Festival 2026, Transgressive Memory, that takes place during the Berlin Art Week, invites you to step into a new terrain of remembrance, where media art, performance, and critical discourse collide to challenge how, why, and by whom the past is told. The festival proposes transgressive memory as both method and principle: a mode of remembrance that unsettles institutionalised rituals, dissolves the border between documentary and fiction, and acknowledges the complicity of technology in shaping collective consciousness. Curious for more? A music programme run by CTMs Resynthesising the Traditional Lab, curated by Stas Shärifullá A special side-programme hosted and curated by our friends from transmediale/ And with amazing artists and scholars such as allapopp allapopp  Gabriel Massan  Göksu Kunak  Tiara Roxanne  Kostis Stafylakis and many many more.    More details soon 👀    #History #MemoryCulture #MediaArt #SaveTheDate #BerlinArtWeek

some notes, pictures & links from transmediale/ 2026 - By the Mango Belt & Tamarind Road: Compassing, Protocoling, Metaphoring ✨🌌💜🍵 https://lnkd.in/eUFhkPnk #transmediale #tm26 curated by Neema Githere and Juan Pablo García Sossa with Chia Amisola, Idil Galip, PhD, Lucas LaRochelle, Djamila Codou Anges Grandits, Tsige Tafesse, Laura Huertas Millan, Nursalim Yadi Anugerah, Arkadiy Kukarkin & many more who I'm not connected to here 🌱

Announcing the Festival Curator for 2027 We’re pleased to announce that Barbara Cueto will curate the 2027 edition of transmediale, marking the festival’s 40th anniversary. Selected through an international open call, Cueto brings a research-driven curatorial practice shaped by long-term engagement with critical technologies, decentralised infrastructures, and questions of value and resistance. Cueto was selected by transmediale’s advisory board, consisting of Nora Al-Badri, Asia Bazdyrieva, Gabriele Horn, and Jussi Parikka, for a proposal that places historical lineages of critical technological practice in dialogue with contemporary experimentation. The 2027 edition coincides with 40 years of transmediale, which began as VideoFilmFest in 1988. Alongside the festival, a major exhibition curated by Antonina Stebur will be presented at Akademie der Künste. We look forward to welcoming Barbara to the transmediale communtity! Photo by Jong Geleerd