With RESPONSE:ABILITY, transmediale.11 puts forward a call for action in terms how we live on and with the Internet today. Having become a central stage for the unfolding of our public and private lives, we must ask not only how this experience of online-liveness affects and transforms our bodies and subjectivities but also, importantly, what responsibilities and possibilities this engenders for participating in the continuous process of its evolution. Especially now, with economic and political mega-infrastructures striving for control and regimentation, threatening to make a smooth space into a striated one.

transmediale.08 CONSPIRE... challenged the common notions of conspiracy as an artistic and cultural concept in our technological society: intensifying our own understandings of digital communities, it questions the subversive mechanism of control and information in our daily network practices.

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transmediale.05 explored the BASICS of artistic practice in a frantic and hyper-potential digital culture: aesthetical and ethical norms underlie the use of technology in art.

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PLAY GLOBAL! comments on the development of digital and electronic gaming: critical, ironic and at times humorous artistic strategies engage with social consequences of globalisation reflecting technological media strategies on a social basis.

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