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/tm RFC 40 fragile currents exhibition artist announcement ⟢ At the centre of fragile currents is the idea of holding tension: between exploitation and resistance, asymmetry and cooperation. Much like an electric current, where a difference in potential generates a flow, fragile currents emerges from differences that remain unresolved. The exhibition brings together sixteen artists and collectives, including Ana Mikadze, Assem Hendawi, Audiomapa, eeefff, Fernando Godoy, Mark Cinkevich, latency.club, Liu Chuang, Marta Romankiv, Medina Bazargali, Mimi Schmidl, Occupational Formations, Open Place, Variable Name, Weronika Zalewska, Živa Božičnik. ▶︎ https://transmediale.de/en/2027/exhibition-2027

/tm RFC 40 groundstates first festival programme announcement ⟢ groundstates describe a moment of lowest energy before a network is activated. It is a state of rest before eruption, in which imagination is at its peak and a sense of possibility gathers in the background. The first update on the groundstates programme is up – three keynote conversations with speakers Marek Poliks & Roberto Alonso Trillo, Hito Steyerl, Primavera De Fillipi, Ryan Bishop. More to be announced in the following weeks. RFC 40 has its own website now ⟢ A batch of early bird passes is ready for the taking ☕︎ We are also offering professional accreditation for this edition. Have a peek. ▶︎ https://transmediale.de/en/2027/tickets-2027

/collab A disaster that never happened and the aftermath of a Thielian apocalypse 🎮 Thanks to everyone for joining us this past weekend at the Transgressive Memory Festival ⟢  If you missed the exhibition, you can read more about the artworks on our website: Desert of the Unreal by Martyna Marciniak, and Everything is Computer by Laura Cugusi, machine yearning, and Federico Zurani 👾 ▶︎ https://transmediale.de/en/news/transmediale-x-transgressive-memory-festival Photos by Sylvia Rybak

/network Network Portraits Exhibition opening 10 September, 19:00 panke.gallery Opening tonight at panke.gallery, Olia Lialina’s solo exhibition Network Portraits explores the labor and transformations required to keep websites and digital cultures alive with practices such as archiving, re:mixing, re:enactment, distributed hosting, and the circulation of content across different browsers, platforms, and infrastructures. Olia Lialina is the lab lead of the Reclaiming the Interface Lab, one of the Lattice Labs running in the months before transmediale 2027 👾 ▶︎ https://www.panke.gallery/exhibition/network-portraits/

/collab transmediale x Transgressive Memory Festival 12–13 September, 2026 transmediale studio, silent green Kulturquartier The second artwork presented as part of the cooperation with the Transgressive Memory Festival is the collaborative project between Laura Cugusi, machine yearning, and Federico Zurani. Everything Is Computer is a game essay set in the aftermath of a Thielian apocalypse, where a Superintelligence cult has taken over. The installation presents a continuous video playthrough of the game, with dedicated sessions during which visitors can play themselves 💥 ▶︎ https://transmediale.de/en/event/transmediale-x-transgressive-memory-festival Image courtesy of the artists.

/collab transmediale x Transgressive Memory Festival 12–13 September, 2026 transmediale studio, silent green Kulturquartier As part of the cooperation with Transgressive Memory Festival, transmediale presents the new work of the 2026 Vilém Flusser resident Martyna Marciniak. Desert of the Unreal departs from a 2023 Reddit post depicting AI-generated rescue scenes from a 2001 Cascadia earthquake; a disaster that never happened, yet evoked an uncanny sense of collective misremembering 🧸 ▶︎ https://transmediale.de/en/event/transmediale-x-transgressive-memory-festival The work is produced as part of the Vilém Flusser Residency for Artistic Research in cooperation with University of the Arts Berlin (UdK) and premieres at Transgressive Memory festival. Image courtesy of the artist.

Open Call for Festival Curation  transmediale 2028 Applications are open for the Festival Curation of transmediale 2028. Since 2025 transmediale has invited a new curator for each edition, each bringing their own personality and position on the present moment in art and technology. We're interested in approaches that bring new questions to the field, grounded in critical reflection and political engagement.  The curator develops the concept and the programme for the edition. Open to one or more persons with previous curatorial experience.  ▶️ https://transmediale.de/en/news/open-call-for-festival-curation-2028 Deadline: 30 September, 2026 We are looking forward to your applications ✦

/network CTM Open Call Resynthesising the Traditional CTM is calling for applications for Resynthesising the Traditional. The artistic lab invites artists and practice-based researchers whose work critically examines the relationships, tensions, and intersections between the traditional and the extreme. Apply by 28 September 2026 ⌛ ▶︎ https://www.ctm-festival.de/festival-2027/open-calls/resynthesising-the-traditional-2027

/network Waag Futurelab Open Call Trust me, I’m an AI/rtist Waag is calling for proposals for creative interventions that result from critical engagements with AI tools. They look for artists, theatre makers, choreographers, dancers, game designers, and other creative practitioners that are willing to challenge, misuse, reimagine, hack, subvert, collaborate with, play with, and creatively interrogate these technologies. Apply by 30 September 2026, 23:59 CEST ⏰ ▶︎ https://waag.org/en/article/open-call-creative-interventions-trust-me-im-airtist/

/network SHOW US YOUR SCREENS Live hack night August 25, 19:00 Offline This evening, join the live hack night with Ahreum Lee (on her last night in Berlin), organised by Show Us Your Screens. Open for works-in-progress, unfinished performances, hacking your devices, and info-dumping about your current obsessions 👾 Ahreum is this year’s ARKO resident and stayed with us this summer. ▶︎ https://pads.offline.place/p/show-us-your-screens flyer by Andric Spaeth 🌀

/network LORECORPS (v2) 25 August, 19:00 Pop-Kultur at Kino Arsenal, Berlin Our former resident Anan Fries, together with musician Ricardo Eizirik and a robotic cat, will present LORECORPS (v2) during Pop-Kultur Festival tomorrow🐈  They will guide the audience through the visual worlds of digital capitalism, revealing what lies beneath the polished surfaces of technological innovation: the gradual fusion of algorithmic control and authoritarian ideologies, the end of the open internet, and the power of new technological myths. ▶︎ https://www.pop-kultur.berlin/en/event/lorecorps-v2/

/open call Reminder – Open Calls for Residents 2027 There are 9 days left to apply for our residency programmes 💗 Applications close 28.08.2026 (23:59 CEST) ⏰ Digital Art Residency in cooperation with Pro Helvetia Open to 1 Swiss or Switzerland-based artist transmediale x ARKO Residency in cooperation with Arts Council Korea Open to 1 Korean artist, based in Korea or elsewhere Vilém Flusser Residency for Artistic Research Open Call in cooperation with Universität der Künste Berlin Open to 1 artist based in Berlin Each residency has specific requirements; please check them carefully in each open call section 🧚 ▶︎ https://transmediale.de/en/news/open-calls-for-residents-2027

/network Starting this weekend, Trust.support will host a series of workshops in Berlin for skill sharing towards radical utopian projects and infrastructural conspiracy 🕸️ Join selfservice.studio this Sunday for their first session on community digital infrastructures and self-hosting. Next weekend, Sarah Friend and Julia Schicker will focus on building familiarity with code and software in their Coding for Curators workshop. Trust.support is a Berlin-based network for creative, technical, and critical projects, and a site of experimentation for new ways of learning together. ▶︎ https://trust.support/feed/workshop-calendar

/open call A little reminder: the open call for the DARC PhD/Research Workshop 2027 is closing next week!⏳ The research workshop is organised by the Digital Aesthetics Research Center (Aarhus University) in collaboration with transmediale in response to transmediale’s 2027 thematic framework. The call is targeted toward PhD/early career researchers, researchers from inside/outside academia, artists, designers, and curators. Submission deadline: 28.08.2026 (23:59 CEST)⌛ ▶︎ https://transmediale.de/en/news/open-call-for-darc-phd-research-workshop-2027

/collab transmediale x Transgressive Memory Festival 12–13 September, 2026 11:00–22:00 transmediale studio This September, as part of the cooperation with Transgressive Memory Festival, transmediale will contribute to the festival’s exhibition in silent green with the new work of this year’s Vilém Flusser resident Martyna Marciniak alongside a collaborative project between Laura Cugusi, Machine Yearning aka Nada Zanhour, and Federico Zurani 🧨 Transgressive Memory is a new festival exploring how contemporary art and critical thinking are transforming the ways we as societies relate ourselves to our multifaceted pasts through a discourse programme and performances alongside the exhibition. ▶︎ https://transmediale.de/en/event/transmediale-x-transgressive-memory-festival

/network EMAF Open Call Exhibition curator EMAF 2027 EMAF is looking for an exhibition curator for their upcoming 2027 edition 🔔 Opening along the five-day festival, the exhibition will take place at Kunsthalle Osnabrück from 21 April – 23 May 2027, curated in line with the festival’s annual theme. The application deadline is September 4, 2026. ▶︎ https://www.emaf.de/en/

/network Sound in the Garden 2026 CTM & Neue Nationagalerie 12–16 August, 2026 This week, our sister festival CTM in collaboration with Neue Nationalgalerie presents the music series Sound In The Garden, powered by d&b Soundscape. After four nights of live concerts, Sunday will be dedicated to special sound installations with a day-long program of expansive sonic dialogues. Full line-up and more info on their website 🔉 ▶︎ https://www.ctm-festival.de/events

A small reminder of the last edition of the conversation pieces, which will take place tomorrow! 🐠🐠 Marina Naprushkina and Hannah Wallenfels will join in conversation discussing The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction (1986) by Ursula K. Le Guin. Starting at 15.00, we recommend arriving early to enjoy the pool and secure your spot. We also encourage booking your ticket online in advance. Looking forward to seeing you by the pool! ⛱️ ▶︎ https://tropeztropez.de/en/marina-naprushkina-hannah-wallenfels-en/

/network CTM Open Call Research Networking Day For their 2027 Research Networking Day, CTM is seeking proposals for short presentations that respond to their 2027 theme, Process…ing. The call is aimed at graduate or postgraduate students as well as independent artists conducting self-guided research. Apply by 25 October 2026 ⌛ ▶︎ https://www.ctm-festival.de/festival-2027/open-calls/research-networking-day-2027