Merging theoretical discourse with social conversations and artistic interventions, transmediale 2023 will explore how technological scale creates relations and fractures in the world, questioning how the instrumentalisation and affect of scale can be challenged.

Taking place over four days at Akademie der Künste, the festival’s discourse programme brings together over eigthy international artists, researchers, performers, and thinkers for a series of conversations, lectures, panels, performances, demos, and workshops.
During the festival days (1–5 February) the doors of Akademie der Künste open at 10:00, programme starts at 10:30. The Film Sunday starts at 13:30. The discourse programme will also be livestreamed on our website.
Lectures by Farzin Lotfi-Jam, Shannon Mattern, Shaoling Ma, Robert Pietrusko, and Tung-Hui Hu.
Lecture Performances by Dennis Dizon, Georgina Voss, Hannah Jayanti and Alexander Porter, Nadim Choufi, Orit Halpern, Rosa Menkman, and Planetory Portals.
Demos draw upon the legacy of the demoscene as they share methodological insights into their infrastructural investigations. With Anna Engelhardt and Mark Cinkevich, Charmaine Chua, Evan Roth, and eeefff.
Workshops by Nicole L'Huillier, Noura Tafeche, Nishant Shah, and the More-than-Planet Working Group.
A series of conversations and panel discussions featuring

This year’s film programme explores how technological scale creates relations and fractures in the world, transferring images through history and across political contexts.
