transmediale reader – across & beyond

Book Design. A transmediale reader on post-digital practices, concepts, and institutions.
With Stefanie Ackermann. Special Tag: Institutional Narration

This collection of art and theory related to the annual transmediale festival in Berlin analyzes today’s post-digital conditions for critical media practices — moving across and beyond the analog and the digital, the human and the nonhuman.
In keeping with the meaning of the prefix “trans” in the festival’s name, the contributions also move across and beyond the field of media art, staking out new paths for understanding and working in the transversal territories between theory, technology, and art.

> Introduction of the transmediale reader. Published by Sternberg.

The Laboratory of Manuel Bürger was happy to design the long-awaited transmediale reader which spreads out the complexity of transmediale's discourses and its artistic outcome. The layout plays very obviously with dichotomies yet the space inbetween. Essays and artistic distributions go hand in hand - the amount of design-details enriches the transmediale experience, something familiar for visitors of the festival.




A. Imaginaries






B. Interventions






C. Ecologies






Used Tags

A. Imaginaries

29
Kristoffer Gansing:
1995: The Year the Future Began, or Multimedia as the Vanishing Point of the Net

44
Dieter Daniels:
Whatever Happened to Media Art?

63
Matsuko Yokokoji & Graham Harwood:
Evil Media Distribution Center

76
Jussi Parikka:
The Lab Imaginary: Speculative Practices In Situ

90
Baruch Gottlieb & Dmytri Kleiner:
OCTO C7P-1

100
Alessandro Ludovico:
The Touching Charm of Print

114
Rosa Menkman:
Elegy for the Collapse of PAL (2010–2012)

122
Florian Cramer:
When Claire Bishop Woke Up in the Drone Wars: Art and Tech-nology, the nth Time

135
Olia Lialina:
Not Art&Tech



B. Interventions

151
Tatiana Bazzichellire:
Source: A Year-Round Festival Program

168
Geoffroy de Lagasnerie:
Beyond Powerlessness

178
Erica Scourti:
Think You Know Me

184
Daphne Dragona:
What Is Left to Subvert? Artistic Methodologies for a Post-digital World

197
Julian Oliver & Danja Vasiliev:
Quarantined

202
Tiziana Terranova:
Red Stack Attack! Algorithms, Capital, and the Automation of the Common

221
Geraldine Juárez:
Hello Bitcoin/Jamie Allen
It’s Probably Time to Start Lighting Things on Fire

228
Cornelia Sollfrank:
Revisiting the Future: Cyberfeminism in the Twenty-First Century



C. Ecologies

253
Keller Easterling:
Things That Shouldn’t Always Work

262
Jamie Allen & David Gauthier:
Critical Infrastructure

270
Ned Rossiter & Clemens Apprich:
Sovereign Media,Critical Infrastruc-tures, and Political Subjectivity

284
Louis Henderson:
Lettres du Voyant

290
Ryan Bishop:
The Protean Munus and Nomos of the Political Subject in Polyscalar Autonomous Remote Sensing Systems

306
Benjamin H. Bratton:
Can the Bot Speak? The Paranoid Voice in Conversational UI

325
Morehshin Allahyari & Daniel Rourke:
The 3D Additivist Manifesto

334
Olga Goriunova:
Technological Macro-biome: Media Art and Technology as Matter