"Curated by Neema Githere and Juan Pablo García Sossa, the festival invites both a geographical and theoretical shift in the prevalent discourse on technology, media and our understanding of the internet as a world wide web. Moving beyond a speaker-audience spatial format and the presentation of only completed works, visitors can become passengers, contributors and co-navigators of the space."
"The imaginative coordinates, situated within the Tropical Belt, allude to China's One Belt One Road Initiative-which often frames itself as an alternative to development yet perpetuates dependency structures-examining the underlying frameworks shaping both the material and social dimensions of our systems. As part of the curatorial process leading up to the festival, Research Netting Groups were formed as lateral, working groups, convening in person across the Tropical Belt."
"Across four full festival days, in addition to the opening night on Wednesday, January 28th and the annual Marshall McLuhan lecture at the Embassy of Canada on January 27th, the festival's main venue will be silent green Kulturquartier in Wedding, complemented this year by a second venue, CANK, in Neukölln."
transmediale 2026, titled 'By the Mango Belt & Tamarind Road - Compassing, Protocoling, Metaphoring,' takes place January 28–February 1 in Berlin with events including an opening night and the Marshall McLuhan lecture. The festival foregrounds metaphorical coordinates across the Tropical Belt to re-figure systems, cosmologies and technologies and to challenge prevailing internet and media narratives. Curators invite a geographical and theoretical shift that enables visitors to be passengers, contributors and co-navigators rather than passive audiences. Regional Research Netting Groups convened in person to explore digital sovereignty, community-based networks, environment and technology, local pocket infrastructuring and collective knowledge-making. Programming alternates High Tide events for larger audiences and Low Tide for intimate, ongoing experiences.
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