Taking place over five days, the 2023 festival edition – a model, a map, a fiction – will transform the Akademie der Künste into a space of discussion and workshops, with exhibitions, performances, and film, sprawling across the venue. Merging theoretical discourse with social conversations and artistic interventions, the festival will explore how scale reconfigures relations, politics, and affects.
 
The festival’s opening evening takes place on 1 February at Akademie der Künste with exhibition, performance, and music., and is followed by four days of discourse, artistic interventions, and workshops. In the evenings, the festival will host a programme of performances and concerts.
Opening with the beginning of the festival on 1 February, an exhibition featuring Alan Butler and Simone C Niquille in Akademie der Künste will be on view until 26 February. Alongside the festival, the citywide exhibition Out of Scale takes place from 26 January to 26 February.
 
OUT OF SCALE

Distributed and embedded across eBay Kleinanzeigen, Tempelhofer Feld, Transmediale warehouse, and the city’s Spätis and U-Bahn, the exhibition challenges the optimised image of the city generated by an algorithmic process that scales across networks and platforms. Out of Scale challenges top-down algorithmically-enabled perspectives of the city through smartphones and platforms, and the exhibition examines the city through non-human, human, and algorithmic perspectives. Featuring work from over twenty international and Berlin-based artists, the interventions explore the city’s networks and question our reliance on the technological organisation of the city. Out of Scale will be on view from 26 January to 26 February throughout Berlin.
 
With work by Anna Ehrenstein and Jeanne-Ange Wagne, bela, Cy X, Elio J Carranza, enorê, Eva Papamargariti, Joana Moll, Justin Shoulder, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Lorna Mills, McKenzie Wark, Nazanin Noori, Nestor Siré, Nora Al-Badri, Patricia Domínguez and Suzanne Treister, Rosa Menkman, VNS Matrix, Tanat Teeradakorn and NúÚ P3A☭3, Uma Breakdown, Wednesday Kim, Sabrina Ratté, and Xcessive Aesthetics.
 
The 2023 edition of the Transmediale festival explores the impact of living in the aftermath of the post-digital and how technological scale sets conditions for relations, feelings, democratic processes, and infrastructures.