From the spatial to the temporal, the intimate to the geopolitical – scale and its many technological manifestations have long been means for measuring and organising. As machine learning and automated tools become common, the scaling of images and representations fabricates and circulates realities. The politics of scaling contests established hierarchies of information by favouring certain representations over others.

Calculation and its many biases make the world computable, yet it pushes and pulls our affections and politics through infrastructures and logistics, flattening us into tokenized transactions along the way. These operations assemble new unstable arrangements of relations, politics, and feelings, scaling them out of sync, and leaving multiple mis/representations at the surface of screens. As these many fragile realities risk further degradation and collapse, what role can scale play in altering what is mapped and measured?

The 2023 transmediale festival will explore the scalar politics and tactics at stake, questioning how the instrumentalisation and affect of scale can be challenged.

Nóra Ó Murchú artistic director, Filippo Gianetta managing director, Magdalena Ritter head of administration and finance, Anky Heidenreich festival coordination, Jade Barget programme coordination, curatorial assistance, Anna-Lena Panter editorial, communications, residencies, Ann-Christine Pilder administration and HR management, Lucas Matray administration, guest and studio management, Bárbara Acevedo Strange graphic design, Olha Pylypenko project manager programme, Cihan Küçük project manager programme, Manon Frugier front of house management, Julia Espindola social media assistant, Sylvia Rybak intern festival production, Kat Reichl intern communications, Lưu Bích Ngọc social media and community management assistance

curatorial team Lorena Juan (exhibition), Elise Misao Hunchuck (conference & journal), Ben Evans James film, Jussi Parikka curatorial advisor

Main funders: Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, Berlin Senat

Additional funding: by Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung

Partners: CTM festival, Akademie der Künste, Pro Helvetia, Ministry of the Cultures, Arts and Heritage of Chile, Neu Start Kultur, Fonds Soziokultur, Goethe Institut, Junge Kunst, UdK, Aarhus university, Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung, Cultúr Éireann / Culture Ireland, Embassy of Canda, creative industries fund NL, Institut Français Deutschland, Service pour la science et la technologie, Embassy of France, Institut Ramin Llull, arts formation, European Union, Impakt, V2_, Aksiona, Panke, Neon, Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz, EMAP European Media Art Platform, Arts Council Korea

Media partners: arte Berlin Art Link, Berliner Fenster, Le Monde diplomatique, York Kinogruppe, radioeins

Supporters: silent green, Stager, In-Berlin, werkleitz