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  • "I smoked my first cigarette here. For years, I saw every single film at the Westdeutsche Kurzfilmtage, looking forward to those days in Oberhausen every year . These events were important for me, for my decision to become a filmmaker." Wim Wenders
  • Medi@terra 2000 -
    Neo[techno]logisms The neologism NEOTECHNOLOGISM, for Medi@terra 2000, is a starting-point for a series of activities which aspire to escape from the meanings which define them, in search for a new identity. This is not a festival (ceci n'est
  • How can Nietzsche’s fear of the Eternal Return made comprehensible, even if it may fallen victim to wrong interpretation? Elke Reinhuber's approach to explicate this problem is a vinyl record of an endlessly reiterating sound, which emphasises the
  • Cadence -
    Animated film poem created with a constellation of common wayside flowers, gathered during walks on land reclaimed from the sea along the shore of the Laira estuary, on the coast of SW Britain, an endangered habitat now threatened by coastal erosion
  • “On the Road”, consists of twelve lenticular panels that explore the cinematic narrative potential of the photographic image in non-electronic form. The exhibition’s title “On The Road” makes reference to the defining work of the Beat Generation’s
  • despain, Cara. All American: Defining Ourselves in a Time of Change Artpulse Magazine (July 2009).
  • Developments in new technologies appear to be revolutionising every aspect of our daily lives. The metaphors of 'revolution' are often applied to the speed of exponential change that the world is experiencing, in part through developments in
  • Taken -
    transmediale.07 with its theme "unfish!" analyses the artistic processes open for variation and reversion of choices once made. The festival has its focus on the point at which fixed things are put into motion again, and asks for the meaning of
  • The 20th transmediale festival again explores how art and society are changing under the influence of media and technologies which become more and more dominant in our everyday lives. In contemporary art, digital media like video and electronic
  • Before the background of unforeseen global processes, credit crash and climate change, the exhibition el proceso como paradigma researches the nature of processes and self organising, processual systems on a cultural level and in the arts. el