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The transmediale journal is an online publishing platform for conversation, reflection, and debate. Through essays and interviews, contributors engage past, present, and recurring festival themes in arts and digital culture.

Fiona Shipwright

Is "infrastructure" a hollow buzzword? An investigation

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Ryan Bishop

On Laurie Anderson's language of the future

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Steve Kurtz

On life, death, and resistance

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Fiona Shipwright

An interview with Olia Lialina and Kevin Bewersdorf on the duo's debut live theater piece

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Simon Biggs

Revisiting questions about multimedia art from a mysterious 1995 interview series

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Dieter Daniels

Tracing the historical trajectories leading to transmediale’s contemporary configuration

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Inke Arns and Elvia Wilk

An interview with artist David Blair about the ongoing impact of his unique 1993 multi-media, multi-everything project

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Elvia Wilk

"Media art" might sound like an outdated term, but its persistence is a good omen

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