One of the annual festival highlights is the Award Ceremony, which honours internationally outstanding artists, artworks and projects from the realms of digital art. As in the past the transmediale Award will be given to visionary artworks addressing our technologically defined society and the Vilém Flusser Theory Award for artistic research and discourse. In 2011 for the first time transmediale additionally presents the Open Web Award. This prize supports Free and Open Technologies and possibilities for participation and collaboration on an Open Web. more...

New forms of expression, new dimensionalities for time and space, new semantics for relationships and connectedness, new sensorialities - all these factors determine the emergence of additional forms through which emotions can be expressed or experienced, propagated and observed. Workshop participants will build a wearable communication device via which one can receive the emotional conditions of an observed-one as low-current electrical stimuli on various parts of your body. more...

Communication technologies not only altered our perception of space but also evoke a sense of global connectivity. NeRVi (NeoRealismo Virtuale, engl. Virtual NeoRealism), a term coined by Iaconesi and Persico, describes this condition of ubiquity, where multiple realities are produced and remixed by location-based technologies and augmented reality. Space becomes a map of personal narratives. In the workshop we will use smartphones and a geographic information system to create an augmented reality narrative across the city of Berlin. more...