Before we slow down into the summer months, we have plenty of news to share: As we say goodbye to this year’s residents, the open calls for the 2027 residency cycle are out!
In the meantime, preparations for transmediale RFC 40 are under way and submissions are open for the DARC PhD/Research Workshop 2027. We are welcoming our first participants to the festival now. The Lattice Labs started their collective process in July. For a little listening, you can tune into the audio recording of the Ritualistic Cinema conversation. And don’t miss our last pool event at Tropez in August.
RESIDENCIES 2027
How do we reconfigure technical paradigms towards new cultural protocols, outside of widespread extractive logics, moving from critique to construction? The 2027 residency programme extends transmediale’s moment of reflection. It encourages future-imagining of its 40th anniversary throughout the year. It asks how a network can remain legible to itself while surrounding structures fall apart. This year’s open call seeks proposals offering alternatives to how we understand, respond to, and shape the technological conditions we inhabit.
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
The application deadline for all programmes is 28.08.2026 (23:59 CEST). Each residency has specific requirements; please check them carefully in each open call section.
TRANSMEDIALE 2027
Open Call for DARC PhD/Research Workshop
Interstices: Research (in) the gaps
In response to transmediale’s 2027 thematic framework, the annual research workshop, organised by the Digital Aesthetics Research Center (Aarhus University) in collaboration with transmediale, is calling for participants. Interstices: Research (in) the gaps is targeted toward PhD/early career researchers, and welcomes submissions from researchers from inside/outside the academy, including artists, designers, and curators. Application deadline is 28.08.2026 (23:59 CEST).
Announcing the Lattice Lab Participants
A collective process building toward RFC 40Last month, we closed the open call for lattice labs participation. The Lattice Labs are a series of experimental working groups. They are dedicated to rethinking and testing alternatives to technological monocultures of extraction and surveillance. Each is led by an artist and technologist of the field. Building towards the festival, the Labs introduce a process-based approach to collective learning and knowledge dissemination. Learn more about all lattice lab participants on our website.
COLLABORATION
conversation pieces: pool edition transmediale x Tropez
Join us for the last conversation by the pool on August 8, at 15:00 💦 The discourse series conversation pieces takes everyday technologies as its starting point and situates them in the context of the swimming pool. What does it mean to hold, as a technological as much as a cultural practice? And what alternative narratives about technology open up when we stop thinking of it as a tool of conquest?
Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction(1986) forms the starting point for a feminist counter-narrative to the dominant story of technological history. 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 are in conversation, moderated by Anna-Lena Panter.
TRANSMEDIALE 2026
Audio recordings
The conversation between Montika Kham-On, Tianzhuo Chen, and Laura Huertas Millán, moderated by Djamila Grandits, reflects on practices of ritualistic cinema that extend film beyond the screen. Across their works, cinema appears as an apparition. It serves as an invocation and ceremonial presence. It unfolds through installation, performance, sound, and collective attention. Cinema does not remain bound to projection alone .
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