We have decided for the 25th anniversary of transmediale to again screen the opening programme of the first VideoFilmFest '88... read more here.
With works by Michaela Buescher, Maria Vedder, Hanspeter Ammann and many more. | 17:00-18:45, 18:45-20:30, 20:30-22:15

A standard criticism of the sender-receiver model of mass media is that individuals are given no opportunity to insert themselves into the universal flow of images. This runs contrary to a strategy for longing and identification – affective deep in the psyche of the individual, and increasingly, in the marketing of products... more
With works by Anthony Discenza, Jesse McLean and Andreas Schneider.

Television in two senses, both as technical instrument of image transmission, and as metaphor for communication over great distances... more
With works by Raphael Montañez Ortiz, eteam, Babak Afrassiabi & Nasrin Tabatabai, Walid Mattar, Basma Al Sharif and Stefan Zeyen.

All attempts to make contact with the afterlife, whether through religion or magic, are doomed to failure. We cannot communicate with the dead, only with their effigies... more
With works by RASKIN (Rotraut Pape & Andreas Coerper), Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys, Sophie Kahn and Laura Horelli.

The image, at least since the advent of television, has gained precedence over the written word in the flow of information. If there is no image, or no images are brought into circulation, then there is no meaning... more
With works by Dellbrügge & de Moll, Nicolás Rupcich, Tom Holert, Susan Bowman, Daya Cahen and Reza Haeri.