Transmediale

Transmediale is an annual festival for art and digital culture, held in Berlin, Germany. Originating as a video and film festival for contemporary art that started in 1988, transmediale has since 2008 been directed by Stephen Kovats. Previous directors were Micky Kwella (1988-2000) and Andreas Broeckmann (2001-2007) who introduced an interest in software art and re-established the festival as an important contributor to the European art scene. Festival titles have included

• 2009 - Deep North
• 2008 - Conspire
• 2007 - Unfinish!
• 2006 - Reality Addicts
• 2005 - Basics
• 2004 - Fly Utopia!
• 2003 - Play Global!
• 2002 - Go Public!
• 2001 - Do it yourself!

The festival included large media art exhibitions in 2002, 2006 ('Smile Machines') and 2008. From 2005-2012, transmediale is receiving a major grant from the German Federal Cultural Foundation.

The festival incorporates an award competition for art and media. The three categories: software, image and interaction were used in the years 2001-2004, since 2005 the competition has been run without such categories.

Parallel to Transmediale is the annual DISK/CTM club transmediale a music and visual arts event held in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1999, the festival originally focused on electronic music, but has since evolved to cover a wide range of genres under the banner "festival for adventurous music and related visual arts".

External links

• Transmediale Official website
• The 20th transmediale offered interactive, low-tech and body art - an article of the Goethe-Institut
• DISK/CTM (club transmediale festival)

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