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conspire. unfinish! reality addicts BASICS FLY UTOPIA! PLAY GLOBAL! go public! DIY transmediale's network of partners, supporters, and friends who contribute the annual festival and beyond.
transmediale has been financially supported by public institutions, which are aimed to strengthen projects related to art and culture within Germany, having received notable contributions from these actors for the last 20 years.
The German Federal Cultural Foundation , financed by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) , is one of the largest publicly funded cultural foundations in Europe. The festival has been funded as a cultural institution of excellence by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes since 2004 and has extended (January 2024) its funding until the year 2029 in order to strengthen transmediale's relevance in a rapidly changing digital scene.
transmediale is one of the many independent cultural projects within Berlin, which receive funding from the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion (Senatsverwaltung fĆ¼r Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt) in the aim to promote the development of Berlinās cultural landscape. The Berlin Senate stands as one the longest regular funders of the festival.
Through its partnerships, transmediale establishes year-round collaborations resulting in the development of projects, festival programme, residencies, or publications. Over the past years, it has established notable relationships with various academic institutions ā such as Aarhus University , Winchester School of Art at Southampton University or UniversitƤt der KĆ¼nste Berlin , the Peter Weibel Research Institute for Digital Cultures at the University of Applied Arts Vienna or the Critical Media Lab at the FHNW Basel.
transmediale also partners with like-minded projects and partner institutions including Aksioma Institute for Contemporary Art Ljubljana , Werkleitz in Halle, and EMAP (European Media Art Platform) , Waag futurelab Amsterdam or FACT in Liverpool, as well as other international and local public funding bodies such as Pro Helvetia , Goethe-Institut , and the Embassy of Canada in Berlin .
Since 25 years, CTM has been taking place alongside transmediale highlighting new strains of pop and fringe cultures. CTM is a close partner to transmediale in the form of many co-curated or co-organized events and projects surrounding both festivals, including the joint pre-festival programme Vorspiel.
transmediale and CTM have been intertwined since 1999, when CTM had formed itself as an adjacent audio-focused programme named club transmediale. Since then it has established itself as its own independent actor, connecting multi-perspective experiences, critical reflection, hedonism, and collaborative learning via a yearly festival and continuous collaborative projects, publications, commissions, concerts, club nights, and more.
As one of CTMās and transmedialeās longest standing collaborations, Vorspiel presents itself in the form of a diverse programme of artistic interventions preceeding both festivals. Vorspiel is a program of distributed partner events in the field of digital art and culture and experimental sound and music, where a variety of partner venues invite local and international audiences to a series of exhibition openings, performances, interventions, artist talks and special events across the city of Berlin.
Over the course of its history, the festival has taken place in a variety of venues in Berlin, with its modalities and formats shifting accordingly to their infrastructures. transmediale's first hosting venue was Podewil in Mitte, followed by Haus der Kulturen der Welt , VolksbĆ¼hne and Akademie der KĆ¼nste .
transmedialeās office is currently situated in silent green Kulturquartier along with transmediale studio , where numerous exhibitions and events take place year round. The venue has also become a host of some of the festival's programme points since 2024, including lectures, screenings, performances and workshops.
transmediale happily supports and stands with fellow festivals and projects.
A MAZE. / Berlin is an international festival, a platform for independent and arthouse games and explores the world and culture of playful media. The festival invites artists and creatives from diverse fields to share their vision and projects, exchange knowledge, play, connect, and collaborate. The most recent editions of the festival have taken place in silent green and since then it has become a close neighbour, having hosted exhibitions at transmediale studio multiple years in a row.
Also taking place at silent green, Pictoplasma is the worldās leading platform for contemporary character design and art. The project pushes forward interdisciplinary discussion, development and promotion of a new breed of visual vocabularyāfrom illustration to animation, game to interactive design, urban to graphic arts.
As one of the 4,500 institutions affiliated with DIE VIELEN, transmediale commits itself to contributing to an open, solidarity-based, diverse and democratic society. In the solidarity network, cultural institutions in Germany and Austria are connected to each other as signatories of regional declarations. The declarations help the networked institutions to position themselves on racist and discriminatory incidents and to counter the hostilities against intellectuals, artists, POCs and LGBTQs.
