#scale The Almanac The Eternal Network Affective Infrastructures Uneasy Alliances transmediale's publications throughout its history, from the first festival catalogues to the partner publications.
Thoughout its history, transmediale engaged in different publication projects: from the widely recognised collection across & beyond, published with Sternberg Press, to the transmediale/journal. Established in 2017, the journal is a dedicated forum for reflection and critical debate on past, present, and recurring festival themes in arts and digital culture, thematically compiled in issues. In addition, transmediale has regularly published festival- and theme-related print products. Among them are readers, exhibition catalogues, magazines, and publications resulting from the annual PhD workshop and other programme parts.
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A Short Incomplete History of Technologies That Scale is a joint publication by Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, and transmediale in Berlin. The publication reflects back on the shared theme of transmediale’s 2023 festival edition a model, a map, a fiction and of Aksioma’s programme Tactics&Practice #14: Scale . In this book, eight authors come together to challenge our conventions and understanding of scale as grounded in the human.
The curatorial online platform Almanac for Refusal represents the year-long publishing endeavours of transmediale 2021–22. Featuring different artistic formats and contributions alongside documentation of in-person events and exhibitions from the festival programme, the Almanac holds over 80 contributions.