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For a democratic digital commons
May 20, 18:00
Online assembly

Register now for the online assembly by European Alternatives, where the infrastructure of the internet, the exploitation of our shared resources, and the beginning of our cross-sectoral call for claiming a digital democratic commons will be discussed and explored.

▶︎ https://euroalter.com/projects/democratic-digital-commons/

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transmediale residencies 2026

The first remote phase of the transmediale 2026 residencies begins next week! 💫 We are excited to introduce the residents’ projects during the coming days, starting with Data Feeding: Slow Machine by Ahreum Lee 🌊

Building on and translating her long-term research into space, Ahreum will be developing an interactive installation that reimagines digital infrastructure through deliberate slowness, using water as its central medium. Data Feeding: Slow Machine imagines a distributed constellation of shrines functioning as a slow, community-centred data centre. Ahreum is the artist-in-residence for the 2026 Residency Programme in collaboration with Arts Council Korea, the second iteration of this cooperation.

▶︎ https://transmediale.de/en/residency/ahreum-lee

Image: My Mother is Data, Ahreum Lee, installation view at Centre Clark. Photo by Paul Litherland

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A MAZE. / Berlin
international Games and Playful Media Festival
May 13–16, 2026
Opening: May 13, 20:00

A MAZE. / Berlin is back in 2026 for the 15th time, bringing together a worldwide community of arthouse game developers, artistic world builders, digital artists and playful media creators. 👾 From May 13 to 16, the festival takes place in silent green, Panke, HAU, Urban Spree, and satellite locations across Berlin – don’t miss out the exhibition at the transmediale studio! 🕹️

▶︎ https://2026.amaze-berlin.de/

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Our sister festival CTM is looking for interns to support them in the festival production of CTM 2027! This paid internship call is aimed at students that must complete an internship as part of their degree requirements. Please note that the internships require a strong command of German and English. Deadline for applications is June 8, 2026. Take a look at the details ✨ 

▶︎ https://www.ctm-festival.de/news/ctm-2027-internships

Photo: Camille Blake, 2026

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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
Led by Alex Declino

Reclaiming the Interface Lab
Led by Olia Lialina

Minor Indexes Lab
Led by selfservice.studio

▶︎ https://transmediale.de/en/news/lattice-labs

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transmediale residencies 2026

Hyperstitions, Tsunamis & Y2K by Martyna Marciniak

During her residency, Martyna will expand her ongoing research into the poetics and politics of visual misinformation. Her new project revisits known cases of collective misremembering and the idea of hyperstition: the recursive entanglement of fiction and reality, where imagined scenarios begin to shape perception and future possibility. Martyna is the artist-in-residence for the 2026 Vilém Flusser Residency for Artistic Research in cooperation with the University of the Arts Berlin (UdK).

▶︎ https://transmediale.de/en/residency/martyna-marciniak

Image: 2.2 microseconds, an anomaly, Martyna Marciniak

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Minor Indexes Lab
Led by selfservice.studio

Working towards the next festival edition, the Lattice Labs are open for submissions 💫 The labs are a process-based educational format for emerging artists, researchers, and practitioners looking to develop their practice in dialogue with others.

The Minor Indexes Lab develops strategies for autonomy, confrontation, and resilience under conditions of consolidation, capture, and surveillance in an increasingly repressive context. The lab's substrate is a Minor Index – a situated dataset built to confront the conditions of control: activated, composable, accessible, additive within a local hold.

Application deadline: June 7, 2026 (23:59 CEST)

This Lab takes place in Berlin, and presence in the city is required throughout the whole time.

▶︎ https://transmediale.de/en/news/minor-indexes-lab

Image courtesy of the lab lead.

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Obscure Detritus Lab
Led by Alex Declino

The Obscure Detritus Lab acts as revenge for the dead tech that refuses to die, the ghosts in the machines that refuse to be exorcised, matter self-organising in silence before snapping free from its containers and screeching out across the streets. Inspired by the tradition of Commedia Dell'Arte, this lab will build a cohort of AI characters defined by personality and obsession rather than competence and utility and set them loose in a world simulation to observe what narratives, conflicts, and unexpected behaviours emerge.

Application deadline: June 7, 2026 (23:59 CEST)

The lab will take place mostly online, with the possibility of meeting in person at Sybil in Berlin from September.

▶︎ https://transmediale.de/en/news/obscure-detritus-lab

Image courtesy of the lab lead.

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Reclaiming the Interface Lab
Led by Olia Lialina

The Reclaiming the Interface Lab proposes an intervention into the ongoing dissolution of the interface. Through historical inquiry and speculative making, the lab revisits the interface as a staged performance inviting the development of prototypes, gestures, and fictions that reclaim it as a space of imagination, negotiation, and agency.

Application deadline: June 7, 2026 (23:59 CEST)

The lab takes place fully remote, with presence in Berlin during the festival (January 26 – February 1, 2027).

▶︎ https://transmediale.de/en/news/reclaiming-the-interface-lab

Image courtesy of the lab lead.

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transmediale residencies 2026

Emergence: Hidden States and Other Worlds by Laura Benech

During her residency, Laura will investigate the concept of latency within entangled systems and how they shape the experience of coexistence between human and synthetic agents. Laura Benech is the artist-in-residence for the coExistence Residency in collaboration with HEK (Basel, Switzerland) and Pleamar (Mar del Plata, Argentina), with the support of Pro Helvetia.

▶︎ https://transmediale.de/en/residency/laura-benech

Image courtesy of the artist. coExistence design by Bárbara Acevedo Strange.

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Playful Misuse (of everyday software) Lab
Led by viola he

Building towards transmediale 2027, the Lattice Labs are open for submissions ⚗️

Led by viola he, the Playful Misuse (of everyday software) Lab is an invitation to build a more direct and playful relationship to software, by reappropriating existing tools as instruments for collective performance and play. Participants explore how intentional playful engagement can rebuild a sense of agency, and how we can learn to love the computer (and through that, trust each other) again 🛝

Application deadline: June 7, 2026 (23:59 CEST)

The lab takes place fully remote, with presence in Berlin during the festival (January 26 – February 1, 2027).

▶︎ https://transmediale.de/en/news/playful-misuse-of-everyday-software-lab

Image courtesy of the lab lead.

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Solidarity Economies Lab
Led by Sepp Eckenhaussen and Geert Lovink

The Solidarity Economies Lab aims to develop its own collaborative economic model tailored to the specific needs of its cohort: a group of practicing art workers. Participants will review existing models of value creation and redistribution and think of platform cooperatives, rotating funds, cultural publishing ventures, NFTs, DAOs, community currencies, basic income experiments, fair payment guidelines, and trade and social unions.

Application deadline: June 7, 2026 (23:59 CEST)

The meetings will take place online. However, this Lab requires participation in the Design Sprint in Berlin (first weekend of October) and the festival (January 26 – February 1, 2027).

▶︎ https://transmediale.de/en/news/solidarity-economies-lab

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transmediale residencies 2026

Information Compression to Move Beyond Synchronomnia by Amanda E. Metzger

Amanda is the artist-in-residence for the 2026 Digital Arts Residency in collaboration with Pro Helvetia. During the residency, Amanda will explore the imaginative potential of information gaps by linking computer science, quantum and bio computing with memory studies, developing her new project investigating compression technologies as a generative tool 💠

▶︎ https://transmediale.de/en/residency/amanda-e-metzger

Image: herethere, Amanda E. Metzger, 2025

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Hyperbleed
June 4, 18:00
Solaris Space, Berlin

Our artist-in-residence Martyna Marciniak will present Anatomy of Non-fact at the group exhibition Hyperbleed; opening this Thursday at Solaris as part of the Project Space Festival 2026 ✨

The exhibition shows works by contemporary female artists investigating the production, circulation, and manipulation of images, surfing on the border between fact and fiction 🪽

▶︎ https://projectspacefestival.berlin/en/kalender/hyperbleed-2026-06-04

Image by Solaris Space, Berlin

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Closing soon! ⏰ 

The open call to apply for the Lattice Labs is closing this Sunday, June 7, 2026 (23:59 CEST). We look forward to receiving your applications!

▶︎ https://transmediale.de/en/programme/lattice-labs

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a WORLD of ONE‘s OWN
June 5, 18.00
Sybil Berlin
Showcase Opening

This evening, the second arc of Sybil closes with a showcase of its 16 resident projects – including Laura Cugusi's work, who is also part of our international residency programme coExistence 🪐 Doors open at 18:00, the exhibition goes on until Sunday.

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Forests of Antennas, Oceans of Waves
Book launch
June 6, 19:00
Weise7

Forests of Antennas, Oceans of Waves was a series of events taking place in Berlin from May to October 2022 with the aim of engaging both artistically and theoretically with phenomena of electromagnetic waves in urban environments. Come celebrate the publication about the project today at Weise7 ✨📚✨ Join some of the artists who were part of the event series to talk about how the discussion around EMR and 5G as well as how their work and practice related to these topics developed 📡

▶︎ https://antennenozeane.de/en/documentation/

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When Images Become Systems: On Visuality, Affect and Platform Power by Nora O’ Murchú and published by Aksioma is available to pre-order! 🪞

In this publication, former transmediale’s artistic director Nora O’ Murchú traces how artists make the conditions of the image visible through works by Simone C Niquille, Bassam Issa Al-Sabah, Jennifer Mehigan, and Ayoung Kim; exposing a regime of visibility in which the synthetic governs the real as we have become disconcertingly familiar with a new kind of image – affective, performative, computational – one that reorganises perception while destabilising meaning in real time.

▶︎ https://aksioma.org/when-images-become-systems

Cover image: Bassam Issa Al-Sabah and Jennifer Mehigan, Infinite Image Hunger, 2023

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conversation pieces: pool edition
transmediale x Tropez

We are happy to announce the upcoming discourse series conversation pieces: pool edition in collaboration with Tropez 🏊🏊

Tropez is an artspace located in the public swimming pool at Humboldthain. During the summer season, Tropez presents an exhibition, performances and discussions alongside the pool.

With Anan Fries, Alona Karavai, Marina Naprushkina, Vanessa Oberin, Noemi Garay Murcia and further guests, curated by Anna-Lena Panter 🌊

▶︎ https://transmediale.de/en/news/conversation-pieces-pool-edition

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Reclaiming Data – Art and Memory in the Age of Digital Archives
Symposium
12 & 13 June
Flutgraben e.V.

Starting this afternoon, the Reclaiming Data symposium and exhibition explores how artificial intelligence, digital archives, and data infrastructures are transforming collective memory, asking how these infrastructures shape historical consciousness and how artistic and critical practices might intervene in them. Exhibition opens at 17:00, symposium starts at 18:00 🗄️

▶︎ https://koerber-stiftung.de/en/projects/ecommemoration/reclaiming-data/

Reclaiming Data Symposium design by Yun Kuo