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Still Unstable – 45 Years Of V2_
Programme: 24–26 Sep, 2026
Exhibition: 24 Sep – 18 Oct, 2026

For 45 years, V2_ has been a space where artists, researchers and technologists come together to question, explore and experiment with emerging technologies 👾

To mark this anniversary, V2_ presents Still Unstable: a programme of exhibitions, talks, interviews and live performances exploring the hidden systems that shape technological innovation today.

▶︎ https://v2.nl/events/v2_-45-years-still-unstable/

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Vorspiel Open Call

Vorspiel is back! From January 15 to January 31, projects all around Berlin will open their doors and join the initiative.

Independent project spaces, platforms, initiatives, curators, and artists based in Berlin are now welcome to apply with proposals of an event or activity to take place within Vorspiel. 

▶︎ https://vorspiel.berlin/

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Final days to apply for transmediale 2028 Festival Curation ∿⋆

► https://transmediale.de/en/news/open-call-for-festival-curation-2028

Deadline: 30 September, 2026

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Spatial Audio Experimentation Lab
Open Call by CTM Festival x SPR x Futures of Listening

The open call seeks artists and researchers interested in taking part in several days of practical experimentation and collective research, looking at the ways space can become an active element of musical composition.

Apply below until 15 October, 2026 ∼✧

►https://www.ctm-festival.de/festival-2027/open-calls/spatial-audio-experimentation-lab

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ROTBOTS Exhibition
1–17 Oct, 2026
/ rosa, Heidelberger Str. 28

Opening today at 18:00 ⚙︎

The collective exhibition looks at a new reshuffle of resources and the means of production through means of thought itself, of paraphrasing and meaning-making. By developing semi-autonomous content machines that generate and distribute artistic brainrot across social media, ROTBOTS asks whether automated content can become a form of resistance.

Including a panel discussion Tactical Rot with Vuk Ćosić and eeefff on 4 Oct, 2026.

► https://distant.gallery/rotbots-exhibition

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Goodbye Poverty Jetset: How Art Workers Make Solidarity Economies
Book Launch
1 Oct, 2026, 19:00
Casino for Social Medicine

This evening is the launch of Sepp Eckenhaussen’s book at Casino for Social Medicine. How is it possible that so much money is made in the arts, but not by the people who make the art? And how to change that? Goodbye Poverty Jetset is a toolbox for all the art workers who want to change the system they live and work in, collectively.

► https://casinoooo.org/

The design-sprint of the Solidarity Economies Lab, led by Sepp and Geert Lovink, is also taking place this weekend in our studio, where the lab participants are developing their own collective economic model for art workers. More notes about their progress to follow ⟶ ⁂

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First session of The School of Algorithmic Solidarity with eeefff

Do we think of this as nature?
9 Oct, 18:00 – 20:00
transmediale studio

The first session of the School of Algorithmic Solidarity focuses on the materialities of digital infrastructures. Former server ventilators, once used to cool the servers of a platform-economy company, become the main material of a deprivation-room-like environment. Out-of-service cooling machines can be reprogrammed for our burnt-out, exhausted bodies. Participants are invited to experience and navigate an environment shaped by the physical conditions of digital economies. 

Registration is still open ✰ 

► https://transmediale.de/en/event/do-we-think-of-this-as-nature

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transmediale screening at Arsenal Kino
Decoder (1984)
12 Oct, 19:00
Plantagenstr. 30

transmediale is a guest at Arsenal Kino’s Making space (Raumgeben) series, presenting a screening of Muscha's Decoder ✺

Decoder is an early cyberpunk fantasy, where the titular character roams desolate city streets collecting noises to chop up and reassemble in his studio. Convinced that the Muzak in fast-food restaurants keeps diners blankly content, he meets a cult of pirates and their high priest. Together they produce an "anti-tape" that throws the city into chaos.

Followed by a conversation with transmediale RFC 40 curators Barbara Cueto and Antonina Stebur, moderated by Stefanie Schulte Strathaus.

►https://www.arsenal-berlin.de/en/cinema/film-screening/5826/

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European Media Art Platform Residencies 2027

EMAP's call for a two-month production residency in 2027 is still open, inviting artists working across digital, media, robotic, and bio art. The programme places a strong emphasis on collaboration and invites duos, collectives, or proposals for collaborative projects developed with partners of choice or with a collaborator local to the host institution.

Application Deadline: 6 November, 2026 ⇤

► https://call.emare.eu/

Image: Ali Akbar Mehta, Purgatory EDIT, 2025

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White Papers on Dissent Book Presentation by Barbara Cueto
21 Oct, 19:00
transmediale studio

In White Papers on Dissent, Barbara Cueto explores blockchain technology beyond its economic narratives and technical promises, as a social device to rehearse post-capitalist imaginaries. The book introduces Critical Blockchain Art as an artistic practice that builds on the legacy of socially engaged art and institutional critique, while opening new spaces for testing alternative modes of governance and rethinking the infrastructures that shape collective life. The book sits alongside her curatorial work: Cueto is the curator of groundstates, the next edition of transmediale festival.

The presentation is followed by a conversation with terra0, moderated by Chris Dake-Outhet.

► https://transmediale.de/en/event/book-launch-white-papers-on-dissent

Copies of the publication will be available for sale at the event ⟢

The screening of Muscha's Decoder at Arsenal Kino is today at 19:00 ✺

►https://www.arsenal-berlin.de/en/cinema/film-screening/5826/

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BanKanga InterTropical
23 Oct, transmediale studio

16:00 Pre-Game: Communal hangout in the BanKanga Space

18:00 Protocol Activation: Feiticinhos – Casting Spells for a Post-Money Bank

If the globalised notion of a bank originated from the italian banca, the merchant’s bench, what might a bank look like if it had emerged elsewhere?

BanKanga imagines the banks' foundations not as wood but as cloth: the canga of Brazil and the khanga of the Swahili Coast. These textiles unfold as temporary grounds for gathering, carrying, offering, resting, and exchanging. 

A communal hangout is followed by an interTropical protocol activation, where the temporary community is invited to cast spells for a post-money bank, invoking a gradually growing infrastructure of reciprocity.

With Luiza Crosman, Théo Ferreira Gomes, Juan Pablo García Sossa, Pablo Somonte Ruano, and Tatyana Zambrano

▶︎ https://transmediale.de/en/event/bankanga-intertropical

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Emergent Conditions
Exhibition as part of Berlin Science Week

Opening: 3 Nov, 18:00
Exhibition Dates: 3 – 8 Nov, 2026
transmediale studio

In November the new works of two of our residents Amanda E. Metzger and Laura Benech are presented alongside a film work by Berlin based artist Zeno Gries at the exhibition Emergent Conditions. The exhibition reflects on the tensions and bridges that emerge as synthetic agents acquire very human qualities such as memory and voice. Its three installations locate technology as something felt in the body, in memory, and in the rhythms of attention.

► https://transmediale.de/en/programme/emergent-conditions

∿⟢ This Wednesday, 19:00, transmediale studio

Barbara Cueto presents her book White Papers on Dissent about new spaces for testing alternative modes of governance. She’ll be joined in conversation by terra0, moderated by Chris Dake-Outhet.

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Professional Accreditation for transmediale RFC40

For the anniversary edition, transmediale reintroduces a professional accreditation for people with a decision-making role in programming, publishing, or strategic direction at institutions, universities, and independent or smaller-scale initiatives across the media art and digital culture scene.

It includes a discounted professional pass, a gathering for accredited professionals with a curatorial introduction, and access to a dedicated exhibition tour and room for meetings.

Applications are open until 15 November ⏚

▶︎ https://transmediale.de/en/2027/professionals

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Thank you to everyone who came to the studio for the launch of Barbara Cueto’s book. A small warm-up for transmediale RFC40 ⟢

Her book White Papers on Dissent is now available in our online shop at a special festival price.

▶︎ https://transmediale.myshopify.com/products/barbara-cueto-white-papers-on-dissent-book

From 16:00 today the studio is taken over by BanKanga InterTropical, becoming a ground for experiments in Financial Techno·fagia, where trust travels farther than money and roots remember longer than credit scores ⚘

▶︎ https://transmediale.de/en/event/bankanga-intertropical