Off-Grid collects stories of protest infrastructures to explore what autonomy can mean in a world built on fragile, interconnected systems. Edited by Katažyna Jankovska, published by V2, with contributions from Andreas Broeckmann and Antonina Stebur among others 🪧
► v2.nl/publications...
An Incomplete Assembly
Festival 22–26 April
Exhibition 22 April – 25 May
Osnabrück, various locations
Next Wednesday kicks off An Incomplete Assembly, the 39th edition of the European Media Art Festival, presenting talks, exhibitions, film programmes, performances, and workshops.
► www.emaf.de/en/
Digital Decoding
Vernissage: 14 April, 18:00–22:00
transmediale studio, silent green Kulturquartier
Opening today, the Digital Decoding exhibition marks the conclusion of the DiGiTal Graduate Programme (2022–2026), taking place at the transmediale studio 🧵
► www.udk-berlin.de/en/event/dig...
Free Radicals
BURNING SILENCE
11–12 April 2026
Spore Initiative, Berlin
This Saturday, you can join our upcoming exhibition curator Antonina Stebur in a conversation around decoloniality as part of the BURNING SILENCE symposium by Free Radicals 🔥
► www.freeradicals.space/burning-sile...
We are pleased to announce coExistence, an artistic residency programme developed in collaboration with HEK and Pleamar, supported by Pro Helvetia, with Laura Cugusi (Pleamar), Laura Benech (transmediale), and Simone C. Niquille (HEK) ❇️
► transmediale.de/en/news/anno...
Mark your calendars for next January! 🔔 For its 40th edition, transmediale 2027 will take place during the last week of January 2027, presenting a festival programme at silent green Kulturquartier, curated by Barbara Cueto, and an exhibition at the Akademie der Künste, curated by Antonina Stebur.
Error 417 Expectation Failed
Call for projects: Error 406 [Netstalgia] Not Acceptable!
Error 417 Expectation Failed is looking for projects that reject the longing for a mythic “old internet” and confront the politics of net nostalgia head-on.
► error417.expectation.fail
IMPAKT Festival
Techno-Ancestrality
April 8–12, 2026
Utrecht & Online
IMPAKT Festival turns to ancestral knowledge as a vital source of inspiration for alternative approaches to technology with five days of performances, exhibitions, films, and conversations.
► impakt.nl/festival/2026/
Who will remember us when the servers go dark?
Presented during transmediale 2026 as introduction to the selfservice.studio workshop (Chris Dake-Outhet & Eren İleri), Cade Diehm’s essay on anti-cybernetic frameworks is published now by @newdesigncongress.org
► newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/who-w...
Akademie Schloss Solitude
Online launch of the Web Residencies »Polymorphic Futures«
March 26, 14:00
Together with our next festival curator Barbara Cueto, the six selected Web Residents will present their projects. Registration closing today!
More info:
► www.akademie-solitude.de/en/event/onl...
From 19 to 22 March, Disruption Network Lab will hold a four-day conference to assess and discuss the concrete impact of WikiLeaks on war, the military system, intelligence and cybersurveillance, government and diplomatic cables, global economy and art and culture.
Maisa speaking about her book in front of her slide of a unicorn with wings.
Thank you for joining us last night for the book launch with Maisa Imamović!
If you still would like to meet Maisa, you can join the workshop Tap to Go: Redesigning the Self-Deportation Apps, from 14.00–17.00 at the transmediale studio 👾
► transmediale.stager.co/shop/workshops
Coming up this Thursday and Friday 🔔
Maisa in Webland: Detouring UX Destinies
Book Launch: March 19, 18:30
Workshop: March 20, 14:00 – 17:00
at transmediale studio 💖
Spots for the workshop still available!
► transmediale.stager.co/shop/workshops
Coming up very soon!
Three people live-streaming in a green screen studio installed during the transmediale 2026 festival.
🏝️ As part of transmediale 2026 partner programme with the SAT Network, the SAN Archipelago unfolded through a chain of small studio-nodes hybrid-streaming together over several days of the festival. Read its report here!
► networkcultures.org/tactical-med...
Hand holding a copy of the book Maisa in Webland: Detouring UX Destinies
transmediale presents Maisa in Webland 🌐
Book Launch
March 19, 18:30
transmediale studio
Join us for a book presentation followed by a conversation with Maisa Imamović about her latest book. Copies of the publication available at the event – also signed! ⭒
► transmediale.de/en/event/boo...
exhibition graphic, three abstract splashes of different tones of pink colour on a white background.
CTM Exhibition finissage Echoes of Tumult
21&22 March
daadgalerie&Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien
Next Saturday & Sunday, our sister festival CTM is closing their exhibition Echoes of Tumult with a two-day finissage filled with performances.
Full programme info:
► www.ctm-festival.de/festival-202...
The team of AAD returned to transmediale this year, joining the participants in their dialogues, experiences, and connections throughout the festival. Watch their exchange with this edition’s co•curator Juan Pablo García Sossa here 🎥
► www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXwR...
Maisa Imamović in the center, sitting on a desk in front of a computer screen.
On March 20, join Maisa Imamović for a workshop examining government-issued voluntary return apps as tools of bureaucracy, marketing, surveillance, and persuasion. 👾
More info
► transmediale.de/en/event/tap...
Registration
► transmediale.stager.co/shop/workshops
Poster of the event Exposing Crimes is not a Crime; The Real-World Consequences of Wikileaks, on March 19th to March 22th. At the theatre Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin, from March 19th to March 21st and at the Stadtwerkstatt on March 22nd.
📢 transmediale offers three free tickets for the opening day of the EXPOSING CRIMES ARE NOT A CRIME conference by @disruptionlab.bsky.social
To participate in the raffle, complete this form:
► transmediale.thegood.cloud/apps/forms/s... 🍀
More info about the conference:
► dnlb.org/exposing-cri...
🔔 EMAP Residencies 2026 – Open Call
The European Media Art Platform (EMAP) returns in 2026 with a residency programme 🌍
European artists and collectives working in the fields of digital art, media art, robotic art, and bio art are invited to apply.
Deadline: March 13th
► call.emare.eu
Maisa Imamović in the center, sitting on a desk in front of a computer screen showing the transmediale logo. In front, a hand holds the book Maisa in Webland.
📣 transmediale presents: Maisa in Webland
Book Launch: March 19, 18:30
Workshop: March 20, 14:00 – 17:00
We’re very happy to welcome Maisa Imamović to the transmediale studio for two special events: save the date! 💖
► transmediale.de/en/news/maisa-in-webland-book-launch-workshop
Thursday, Feb. 26: Ohne Black Culture keine Club Culture
18-23:00
MAAYA Berlin
Film screening and panel discussion in German and English
► tally.so/r/RG5V4l
Read below for some insightful reflections on transmediale 2026 by Will Allstetter 💜
► hypebeast.com/2026/2/trans...
Black and white photo taken in a gallery space with plain white walls and floor. A man sits wide-legged on a small white stool. He wears a white one-piece jumpsuit, black socks and black shoes. Large black over-ear headphones with a coiled cable run down to a PC 286 desktop computer with a monochrome black-and-white CRT monitor placed between his feet. On the screen appears a bold logo PRSI and the text OKITENE Z VENCI VRTNIC. On the computer case is a sticker with PRSI. On his chest badge reads INTIMA and below it Igor Štromajer. He looks directly at the camera with a serious expression, hands clasped.
Color outdoor photo from winter in Berlin. A man stands on a metal base next to a tall white vertical banner that reads "transmediale 99" in brown letters and "internationales medienkunstfestival berlin", with a yellow graphic at the top and a brown arrow pointing right at the bottom. He wears a long black coat, black gloves, black shoes and a gray hat. Behind him are leafless trees, a large historic building with a red roof, a parked white van, and a street sign reading 30 ZONE.
Sorry for the vulgarity. In the first photo, that's me in 1995 in Ljubljana.
In the second, I'm in front of Podewil in Berlin in February 1999 at @transmediale.bsky.social 99, where I performed my Oppera Teorettikka Internettikka.
📲 transmediale.de/en/festival/...
📲 intima.org/oppera/oti
some notes, pictures & links from @transmediale.bsky.social 2026 - By the Mango Belt & Tamarind Road: Compassing, Protocoling, Metaphoring ✨🌌💜🍵 jonathangray.org/2026/02/15/t...
#transmediale #tm26
Portrait photo of Barbara Cueto
🔈 Announcing our 2027 festival curator
Still in the afterglow of this year’s festival, we’re happy to share that Barbara Cueto will curate the 2027 festival edition of transmediale 💜
We look forward to welcoming Barbara to the transmediale community!
► transmediale.de/en/news/anno...
Graphic design for "East Un Bloc" exhibition
Saturday, Feb. 14: EastUnBlocked – Transmission Sign Off
18:00-22:00
nGbK, Berlin
Exhibition closing celebration with screenings, open stage, DJ sets, live music and cocktail bar. With Janine Sack and Cornelia Sollfrank, neonnutria, DJ Podinski (XLterrestrials) and more.
► ngbk.de/en/programm/...
Post-festival, we’re sharing our visitor survey 📋
If you attended transmediale 2026, we’d love to hear your feedback – it helps us improve and shape future editions.
Plus, you have the chance to win a festival pass for transmediale 2027! 🎟️
► us19.list-manage.com/survey?u=532...
Many thanks to @transmediale.bsky.social for hosting SteamArtNetwork (SAN) and CDI-TV at this year's festival! #lowbudget #highintensity #hybridtogetherness
