The 2023 edition of transmediale festival will take place at Akademie der Künste Berlin (Hanseatenweg) during the first week of February. This open call for festival proposals seeks ideas that engage with the festival theme of ‘Scale’ either through the topic or proposed format. The call is open to multiple formats including: algorithms, artworks, bots, discussions, essays, events, experiments, films, lectures, online projects, panels, performances, sound, walks or workshops.
Our understanding of the world exists in fictional and algorithmic logics creating divergent realities that oscillate in and out of sync with one another. From microscopic biomedical imaging, to widespread entertainment, to discreet surveillance technologies, the tools created to measure, map and ultimately dominate the ways we understand our surroundings are based on technical conditions of perception.
As climate and socio-economic crises emerge across different spaces and times, their interrelations are becoming increasingly opaque, yet urgent to grasp. How might scale, one of the tools with which we have come to know the world, be reimagined? And in what way can scale become a lens to observe, measure, question, and rebuild our perceptions, feelings, democratic processes, and technological infrastructures?
As a starting point for the upcoming edition, transmediale will explore how scale sets technological conditions and expectations that cement the positions from which we perceive the world. Opening with a series of calls for proposals and residents, transmediale 2023 welcomes ideas and projects that confront, queer, critique, undo, embrace, imagine, rethink and expose our multi-scalar contemporary technological condition.
The 2023 edition of transmediale calls for proposals that creatively engage with the scale and capability of socio-technical systems. They welcome proposals that explore ways to inhabit, expose, rethink, subvert or queer the multi-scalar nature of our contemporary technological condition. Selected applications will receive an artist’s fee, travel and accommodation during the festival.
