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/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

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/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

/network CTM Open Call In Listening CTM is announcing two new open calls 🔉 As they shift the CTM Radio Lab into the new format In Listening, CTM is calling for submissions for works grounded in experimental sound and audio art and driven by conceptual approaches or sonic narratives. It supports exploration at the blurred edges between sound, music, storytelling, poetry, documenting, and more. The call is open until 6 September 2026 ⏱️ ▶︎ https://www.ctm-festival.de/festival-2027/open-calls/in-listening-2027

/collab conversation pieces: Containertechnologien Saturday 8 August, 15:00 Tropez im Sommerbad Humboldthain The third and last edition of the conversation pieces takes place this Saturday! 💦🐡 Engaging with questions of infrastructure, care work, and the relationship between speculative feminisms and the political potential of science fiction, Marina Naprushkina and Hannah Wallenfels will discuss The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction (1986) by Ursula K. Le Guin. With temperatures expected to be high, we recommend arriving early to enjoy the pool and secure your spot. To guarantee admission to the event, we encourage booking your ticket online in advance. The talk will be held in German. Join us one last time by the pool this summer! ⛱️ ▶︎ https://tropeztropez.de/en/marina-naprushkina-hannah-wallenfels-en/ Image: Marina Naprushkina, Mama, how much longer?, video still, 2025

/network CTM 2027 process…ing 22 – 31 January, 2027 Under the title process...ing, the 2027 edition of our sister festival CTM shifts its attention to what process means in its different iterations. More than ever, the festival programming will be a momentary manifestation of sustained conversations, collaborations, and exchanges, driven by a multiplicity of voices in dialogue. Find key dates, open calls, and further information on their website 📣  ▶︎ https://www.ctm-festival.de/festival-2027/theme

/open call Digital Art Residency in cooperation with Pro Helvetia Applications are open for the fifth iteration of the Digital Art Residency in cooperation with the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia. It will be awarded to one individual or collective working in the field of digital art practices, at the intersection of media arts, performance, sound, and moving image. Deadline: 28.08.2026 (23:59 CEST) ► https://transmediale.de/en/news/digital-art-residency-2027 Image: Amanda E. Metzger, Information Compression to Move Beyond Sychronomnia, transmediale open studio 2026

/open call transmediale x ARKO Residency in cooperation with Arts Council Korea transmediale presents the third edition of the residency programme in collaboration with the Arts Council Korea (ARKO). The residency will be awarded to one person of Korean nationality, based in Korea or elsewhere, working in the fields of digital art and moving image practices, design, sound, and media theory. This year’s open call seeks proposals offering alternatives to how we understand, respond to, and shape the technological conditions we inhabit. Deadline: 28.08.2026 (23:59 CEST) ► https://transmediale.de/en/news/transmediale-x-arko-residency-2027 Image: Ahreum Lee, Data Feeding: Slow Machine, transmediale open studio 2026

/open call Vilém Flusser Residency for Artistic Research in cooperation with Universität der Künste Berlin transmediale and the Vilém Flusser archive at the Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK) present the 14th iteration of their residency collaboration. It will be awarded to one Berlin-based artist-researcher working in the fields of digital art and moving image practices, design, sound, and media theory. 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. Deadline: 28.08.2026 (23:59 CEST) ► https://transmediale.de/de/news/vilem-flusser-residency-for-artistic-research-2027 Image: Martyna Marciniak, Hyperstitions, Tsunamis & Y2K, transmediale open studio 2026

/jobs 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…

/open call Open Calls for 2027 Residents The open calls for our 2027 residencies are now online! 🔔 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 calls 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 Universität der Künste Berlin Digital Art Residency in cooperation with Pro Helvetia transmediale x ARKO Residency in cooperation with Arts Council Korea Each residency has specific requirements; please check them carefully 🧚 Deadline: 28.08.2026 (23:59 CEST) ▶︎ https://transmediale.de/en/news/open-calls-for-residents-2027

/network Clouds to Commons The Hmm @ H&D Summer Camp July 23, 20:00 NDSM Theatre, Amsterdam & Livestream The Hmm @ H&D Summer Camp Clouds to Commons is taking a deep, playful, and experimental look at the Cloud, its materiality, infrastructure, and ownership ☁️☁️☁️  During the closing night of the summer camp, they will be exploring hands-on-hacking, collective learning, speculative fabulation, and big tech resistance with six artists, designers, researchers, and makers. You can join in person at the NDSM Theatre in Amsterdam or online on their livestream 🌬️ ▶︎ https://thehmm.nl/event/the-hmm-hd-summer-camp/

/collab A small reminder of the second second edition of the conversation pieces, which is taking place tomorrow! 🐠🐠 Anan Fries and Noemi Garay Murcia will explore online safety, survival, concealment, and deception, parting from The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet (2026) by Bogna Konior. 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/anan-fries-noemi-garay/

/network After Memory Opening: 10.07.2026, 17:00 Exhibition Period: 11.07. – 11.10.2026 Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien Opening today, the international group exhibition After Memory explores the subversive potential of digital technologies as tools of resistant remembrance against the acceleration of disinformation, data extraction, and algorithmic narrowing of perspectives, asking how we may remember and forget in the future. Curated by Lisa Deml, Nathalia Lavigne, and Víctor Fancelli Capdevila. ▶︎ https://kunstraumkreuzberg.de/programm/after-memory/

/collab conversation pieces: Internet Sunday 12 June, 15:00 Tropez im Sommerbad Humboldthain The second edition of the conversation pieces takes place this Sunday! 🐬🫧 Anan Fries and Noemi Garay Murcia will explore online safety, survival, concealment, and deception, parting from The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet (2026) by Bogna Konior. With temperatures expected to be high, we recommend arriving early to enjoy the pool and secure your spot. To guarantee admission to the event, we also encourage booking your ticket online in advance. We look forward to seeing you by the pool 🐠🐠 The talk will be held in German. ▶︎ https://tropeztropez.de/anan-fries-noemi-garay/ Image: Ana Fries, LORECORE, Film still

/network Resynthesising the Traditional Open Call CTM Festival x NOPA Artistic Research Lab 🔔 Our sister festival CTM is calling for submissions to their latest artistic lab initiative Fragmented Distance. Exploring what it means to connect to sonic traditions today, the lab takes on a specific subfocus to examine intersections between sound and diasporic experiences. This lab edition will take place 1–10 October 2026 in Armenia in collaboration with NOPA, a festival dedicated to sonic arts and experimental music. The call is open until 8 August 2026 🔊 ▶︎ https://www.ctm-festival.de/activities/resynthesising-the-traditional/artistic-labs/artistic-labs/open-call-nopa-festival

/network The Society of the Screen Book presentation July 8, 18:00 _Vilém_Flusser_Archive Tomorrow, the _Vilém_Flusser_Archive will host Martha Schwendener’s presentation of her newly published book, The Society of the Screen. The author explores the effect of art on Flusser’s thought, revealing how Flusser’s lifelong engagement with experimental practices informed his early vision of a world dominated by glowing screens. ▶︎ https://www.flusser-archive.org/