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We are excited to tell you more about the beginning of our year-long festival: transmediale 2021–22 opens with an exhibition and extended film programme. Read more.

In their project HyperBody, Qiang explores cultures within VR, fandom, and ACGN-communities, and experiments with transformative queer practices. Read more.

Apply now for the Vilém Flusser Residency 2021: the call on our submission platform is open until 30 November. 

We are very happy to present two new transmediale residents for our Residency Programme in collaboration with Martin Roth Initiative (MRI): Bassem Saad and Natasha Tontey. Read more.

As part of an ongoing collaboration between transmediale festival, Aarhus University and various other institutions, we are seeking proposals by research groups to collaboratively research refusal and its effects on research practices and infrastructures. Turn in your submission now!

The 9th issue of the open-access journal APRJA under the title Research Networks is out now! It is a result of our ongoing collaboration with Aarhus University as part of which we annually organize a research/PhD workshop related to our festival themes. Read more.

We have published a tender for the relaunch of our website. Find all the information here.

Would you like to be part of the upcoming transmediale edition? We are now looking for support in our communications and administration teams. You can find more information about all open positions here.

We are pleased to announce Pete Jiadong Qiang as Vilém Flusser Resident 2020: their multi-reality project Hyperbody explores the potential of game engine technologies as an emergent space for queer world-making

In January 2020 we will organize a research workshop together with KIM research group at HfG Karlsruhe to explore AI from the perspective of its limits and vulnerabilities in order to study how AI works—and how it fails. Submit your proposal until 10 November!

The 8th issue of the open-access journal APRJA under the title Machine Feeling is out now! It is a result of our ongoing collaboration with Aarhus University as part of which we annually organize a research/PhD workshop related to our festival themes. The call for the upcoming workshop Research Networks is open until 30 September. 

Associated with the festival theme of transmediale 2020, the next PhD/research workshop asks how we think about networks under post-digital conditions and what this means for research. Submit your proposal now!

Join us for a dinner performance and reading at ACUD MACHT NEU! Our current Vilém Flusser resident will prepare Brazilian food inspired by her research and dialogue with local communities in Brazil.

Would you like to be part of the upcoming transmediale edition? For the preparations of transmediale 2020 we are looking for a guest manager.

We regret to mark the all too early passing of Sascha Pohflepp. An artist and thinker who participated in transmediale several times, Sascha was always a powerhouse of ideas and creative energy with, as many have noted, a seemingly magical capacity to be everywhere at once. We will all miss you, Sascha.

Would you like to be part of the upcoming transmediale edition? For the preparations of transmediale 2020 we are looking for an event coordinator, a communication assistance, and a program assistance.