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Titled “By the Mango Belt & Tamarind Road: Compassing, Protocoling, Metaphoring,” the transmediale festival will take place in Berlin from 29. January to 01. February, 2026. The festival spans the city from north to south: The main venue, featuring programming on all four festival days as well as the opening on Wednesday 28. January, is the silent green Kulturquartier. For the first time, the CANK in Neukölln will also serve as a festival venue. Both venues will host temporary architectural structures and installations designed as platforms for dialogue and exchange. On Thursday 29. January, CANK will host an evening of live performances.
transmediale 2026 is dedicated to exploring diverse approaches to understanding systems, cosmologies, and technologies. Its thematic focus initiates both a geographical and a theoretical shift in the discourse on technology and media, upon which our current understanding of the internet as a global network is based. The festival days transcend the format of a conference program and the presentation of completed works: they create a collaboratively designed space where protocols developed along the equator-spanning Intertropical Convergence Zone can be experienced.
The imaginary coordinates By the Mango Belt & Tamarind Road are located in the tropical belt. Alluding to the so-called New Silk Road – known in English as the One Belt One Road initiative – which often presents itself as an alternative for development and infrastructure but …
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Image above: Montika Kham-on, Afterlives, 2025, 4K, color, stereo, 19 minutes, film still, photo by Montika Kham-on.
