TRANSmission: Exhibition
The media exhibition at Künstler*innenhaus Dortmund is one of the festival’s cornerstones and presents a panorama of contemporary digital arts.
Between VR experiences, experimental games, video installations, and interactive interfaces, a diverse field unfolds, connecting playful curiosity with societal questions. Here, new forms of storytelling become visible, blurring the lines between art and game, between observing and participating. Wander through Mélanie Courtinat’s decelerated dreamscapes, embark on a rescue mission that quickly shifts your perspective, play your way to the future with a crystal ball, or roam through the Quantum Jungle.
The Lived Necrologue is a collaborative installation by OMSK Social Club, Happy New Tears, and Jonas Schoeneberg. As a living palimpsest, it unfolds between memory and renewal, between play and ritual, between sound and image – a space where viewers become co-players. more…
In Dorijan Šiško’s game The Core, players traverse an abstract labyrinth that creates and simultaneously challenges visions of the future. Decisions continually open new paths, until at the center, the notion of an envisioned future is disenchanted. more…
Quantum Jungle is an interactive installation that makes quantum physics playfully tangible. Over 1000 touch-sensitive metal springs and thousands of LEDs transform Schrödinger’s equation into glowing patterns, making superposition, interference, and wave-particle duality visible. more…
With Shininho, Yaloo designs a holographic sea voyage that propels an 86-year-old K-Pop icon as a pirate through the digital sea. Memories become loot, data becomes treasure. Between glaring screen reflections and a ghostly presence, the work explores how identity, history, and capitalism are reflected in data bodies. more…
Token Eater & Wasted – Two games, two reflections of our consumer world. In Token Eater, the claw machine transforms into a hunt for electronic scrap that refills endlessly. Wasted, on the other hand, throws us into an absurd arena of ATMs, where failure and crashing are part of the game. Both works ask what happens when resources, values, and bodies are worn out in endless cycles. more…
The Siren begins like a familiar adventure: a heroine in armor, a mission, a voice guiding the way. But the game quickly shifts, questioning why we follow orders, how we seek meaning, and what stories we tell ourselves about the ‘act of rescue.’ A work that opens up both playing and watching. more…
As an audiovisual installation, Violent Violins Exposed unfolds the dark sound and visual worlds of Babak Ahteshamipour’s album of the same name. Three videos for three tracks guide you through black dreams, techno-capitalist acceleration, and their interconnections of violence, war, and environmental degradation. more…
Cathex is a VR experience like a digital poem. In a dreamlike landscape, we move through emotional states, invest feelings in ideas and encounters, and become designers of a journey that opens up memories and new perspectives on our own existence. more…
BlueSuburbia is interactive poetry and digital literature, a net art cult classic from the early internet years. In its new edition, it opens dreamlike worlds between beauty and horror, where poems become landscapes and darkness awaits, both as liberation and dread. more…
Wall flower is an interactive sculpture with a modified Windows PC and its own controller. It runs the game “First Person Hugger”, where you don’t shoot, but hug – a playful response to the first-person shooter genre. more…
The laser installation Perplexity reveals how algorithmic surveillance simulates normality, calculates deviation, and thereby redefines our behavior in public spaces. Visitors see their own movements traced and can playfully break routines. more…