Thinkers have therefore claimed that film editing not only created the “dynamisation of space” and “spatialisation of time” (Erwin Panofsky, 1936) but moreover a completely new type of perception defined by “simultaneity” and “universalism” (Arnold Hauser, 1953), characteristics indeed constitutive of the contemporary conception of life. Television and the Internet ultimately made this already highly condensed information ubiquitous.

SyncExistence addresses the processual history around this universal outpouring of visual culture in an arc that extends from the Soviet Union in 1927 with the rapid-cut "appropriation comedy" A Kiss From Mary Pickford, through the early, slow television culture led by Nazi Germany and continuing into the intensive artistic debates of the 1960s. Moreover, there will be screenings of contemporary works approaching the curatorial premise from different perspectives that have been selected from the submissions to the award competition. Specials on Lynn Hershman Leeson, one of the pioneers of interactive art, and Ho Tzu Nyen, Award Nominee from Singapore, plus the Arab Shorts project round out the programme. As always, there will again be opportunities for Q&As with directors and filmmakers attending transmediale.11.