// Date: 1 – 6February 2010
// Venue: HKW and other venues, Berlin
 
As always, CTM's sister festival transmediale – festival for art and digital culture runs parallel to CTM at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW). Together the two festivals constitute a unique event with huge international impact. The joint CTM and transmediale festival offers the most relevant and radically comprehensive review of how new technologies and digital culture are shaping today's world.
 
With the theme RESPONSE:ABILITY transmediale.11 postulates 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, which responsibilities and possibilities this engenders for participating in the continuous process of its evolution. Especially now that economic and political mega-infrastructures striving for control and regimentation threaten to make a smooth space into a striated one.
 
The 2011 themes of CTM and transmediale complement and cross-pollinate, enabling an intensive collaboration between the two platforms. The two festivals therefore will link and interweave their discourse programs. Furthermore CTM and transmediale join forces to present the transmediale Award. On February 5, the prizewinners, chosen by an international jury from more then 1000 entries, will be presented to the public in a festive ceremony at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Afterwards, both festivals invite you to the Award Party to celebrate at Maria am Ostbahnhof.
 
More information:
› www.transmediale.de
 
If you wonder about the unusual constellation of the two cooperating festivals, that have almost the same name, read more about
› the relation between CTM and transmediale.