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BWPWAP - transmediale 2013

Back When Pluto Was a Planet
29.01. – 03.02., Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin

the imaginary, classification, nightmares of participation, dematerialisation, decontextualisation, shifts, alternative temporalities, semantic networks, WFIOTN (We Found It On The Net), appropriation, out of place, textual economies, critical literacies, taxonomy, rematerialisation, language games, recontextualisation , displacement, irritated memories, categorization, invention, user culture, lusers, lamers, prod-users, outsourcing, machine bastards, anachronisms, fictive materialities, reemergence from nowhere, intergalactic fantasies, delocalisation, telework, WHYUWWM (We Hope You Understand What We Mean)

Call for Works

transmediale 2013 calls upon artists, users and theorists to contribute to the creation of new cultural imaginaries, where behaving like BWPWAP is a dissident creative act.
Deadline for submission: 30 June 2012 | Read more and submit here.

Residency Programme

Vilém Flusser Residency Programme for Artistic Research

For our next residency, in 2013, you can now submit your works. The residency programme supports projects and activities which are simultaneously conceptual and practice-based, exploring links between aesthetics, materiality and politics. Deadline for submission: 31 July 2012 | Read more.


Currently Georgios Papadopoulous has already started working as our first artist in residence. In the next three months, he will work on the research project Iconographies of the Drachma – Speculation on the Symbolic Value, together with visiting artists, researchers and designers.
The project on Greek economy and currency will be presented, developed and discussed in a series of events organised with the Vilém Flusser Archiv at the University of the Arts, Berlin.

reSource - transmedial culture berlin

reSource reSource - transmedial culture berlin is our new year-round initiative, a project of networking, a work in progress based on the inter-connection of genres & practices. New events, reports or initiatives? See our latest posts.

reSource event 001: TrialCrack

11 – 12 May, General Public, Berlin

The first networking event of the reSource, discussing methodologies of collaborative curating and the cultural landscape of Berlin in the field of network economy, hacktivism and queer culture.


The reSource comes back after transmediale 2k+12 with a two day programme under the name of Trial Crack. 11 May: a collective discussion with cultural producers based in Berlin (15:00 - 19:00). 12 May: three different but conceptually linked discussions: Sustainable Disruption (13:00 - 14:50); Post Privacy (15:30 - 17:00) and Queer Shifts (17:30 - 19:00). | Read more

transmediale archive

Archive Our transmediale archive offers material from past festivals. You can also find updates on our process to digitise older content on our blog - insights into 25 years of transmediale. See our last posts here.