** TRANSMEDIALE 2026
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\nThe ethos of the 2026 edition proposes a recalibrated tempo of gathering: recursive, porous, and durational, combining expansive programming with spaces for re-regulation and conviviality. Framed metaphorically through the architecture of a shell, both the festival\u2019s rhythm and its thematic focus center on rethinking infrastructures, digital ways of life, and the language forms that shape how we inhabit, interact with, and move through these systems.<\/p>\n
The festival venues will introduce a series of temporary architectures and installations that are conceived as conversational platforms; a space to spark exchange.<\/p>\n
The Kuppelhalle of silent green, our main festival venue, will be transformed by Kidus Hailesilassie\u2019s large-scale installation 6,500 Alphabets Make a Map, a living atlas that draws on 20 indigenous African knowledge systems. Inviting visitors into an immersive and spatialised language archive, this artwork redefines \u201calgorithm\u201d as \u201calgo + rhythm\u201d; each data point a drumbeat in a communal, ancestral cadence. Rooted in her weaving practice, Isola Tong will present LAWALAWA, an installation and activated meshwork space that also offers a protocol, in which the basket becomes a symbol of Bayotic Refugia\u2014a term she coined merging \u201cbayot,\u201d the Bisayan language term for queer or femme, with \u201cbiota,\u201d referring to the plant and animal life of a particular region\u2014serving as a metaphor for refuge where broken life can heal and regenerate within oppressive environments. The net structure functions as a physical, offline \u201cweb,\u201d both an installation and a space to be held in.<\/p>\n
Complementing these spatial practices, each morning, artist RhaRha Nembhard, one of the festival\u2019s spatial architects, will lead Pray-per-view, a 15-minute ritual walk setting the collective tempo for the festival day. Nembhard\u2019s work weaves diasporic, ancestral, and futuristic aesthetics through ritual, art, and embodied practice.<\/p>\n
Working with parallel explorations, artist Simon Speiser will present a new installation, Cuerdas del Manglar \u2013 Strings from the Mangrove, which draws on the history of the maroon society of Esmeraldas, Ecuador, connecting speculative physics with histories of colonial re-existence expressed through music and syncretic ritual. Using string theory as a framework, he overlays the idea of black holes onto the shipwrecks that enabled Afro-Ecuadorian communities to form early maroon settlements. Composed of scratch holograms engraved into metal sheets, the installation reflects images from Esmeraldenian cultural memory while also echoing the region\u2019s ancestral gold mining practices.<\/p>\n
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** COOPERATION PROGRAMME
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** 2025 Research Workshop
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\nUnder the title Everything Is A Matter Of Distance, the 2025 Research Workshop (which took place during the festival) and accompanying publication explore how space is produced, shaped, and manipulated in contemporary techno-culture. The programme is a cooperation between the Digital Aesthetics Research Center (DARC) at Aarhus University and transmediale.<\/p>\n
Now available online (https:\/\/aprja.net\/) , the publication features contributions by Megan Phipps, Nico Daleman, Katya Sivers, Christoffer Koch Andersen, Daria Iuriichuk, and Sami P. It\u00e4vuori, and is edited by Magda Ty\u017clik-Carver and Pablo Velasco.<\/p>\n
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\nInitiated in 2012 as a collaboration of Aarhus University, transmediale, and varying partner organisations, an overview of each year\u2019s Research Workshop and corresponding peer-reviewed journal publication, is now available on our website (https:\/\/transmediale.de\/en\/programme\/phd-research-workshop) .<\/p>\n
** OPEN CALLS
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** Open call for volunteers 2026
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\nhttps:\/\/transmediale.de\/en\/news\/call-for-volunteers-2026
\nDeadline: 15 December
\ntransmediale is looking for committed and motivated volunteers to help run the 2026 edition of the festival. In return for their support, volunteers receive a festival pass and the opportunity to gain insight into the inner workings of the festival.<\/p>\n
Open call: volunteers 2026 (https:\/\/transmediale.de\/en\/news\/call-for-volunteers-2026)<\/p>\n
** Open call for festival curation 2027
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\nReminder: the deadline for the open call for the 2027 festival curation is November 30.<\/p>\n
We are inviting applications from one or more persons with previous curatorial experience to critically engage with topics at the intersection of art, technology, science, society, and politics, and to contribute to transmediale\u2019s long history as one of the leading festivals of art and digital culture. 2027 marks the 40th anniversary of transmediale.<\/p>\n
Open call: festival curation 2027 (https:\/\/transmediale.de\/en\/news\/open-call-for-festival-curation-2027)
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