transmediale

For the 2010 and 2011 transmediale festivals I worked closely with the team to deliver the festival - assisting with the exhibition, looking after guest services for international participants, and managing the festival’s prestigious Opening Gala and the Awards Ceremony.

transmediale is an international festival for contemporary art and digital culture, which takes place annually in Berlin. It is the largest festival of its kind in the world, a celebration of culturally significant advanced artistic outlooks, using new technologies. The festival includes exhibitions, performances, screenings, a conference, talks, workshops, a publication, and partner events.

The 2010 festival theme was ‘FUTURITY NOW!’ As 2010 was a year which has been synonymous with past images of the future. Writers and commentators throughout the 20th century strove to depict 2010 as a shining example of a future framed by technological progress and social harmony. The festival invited artists, scientists, media activists, thinkers and visionaries to ask not what the future has in store for us, but what we have in store for the future.

In 2011 the festival attracted over 30,000 visitors, and the theme RESPONSE:ABILITY explored the challenges of an inherently connected society “going live” in the digital age. Including new initiatives such as the Open Web Award, the festival explored those real and active zones of radical artistic, cultural and political activity that we, as a global community of individuals and independent initiatives, need to protect in order to guarantee the unhindered freedom to create new forms of communication, social interaction and cultural development.

Photos - from Yvette Mattern’s From One To Many. Below Zilvinas Kempinas' White Noise, photo courtesy of Jonathan Gröger. Both part of 2010 festival.