
Photo by Julian Paul www.julian-paul.com. CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

transmediale 2015 Opening Night. Photo by Julian Paul www.julian-paul.com. CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Ubiquitous Commons with Salvatore Iaconesi, Oriana Persico. Photo by Julian Paul www.julian-paul.com. CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Keynote Capture All_Play with McKenzie Wark. Photo by: Katharina Träg www.kate3000g.tumblr.com. CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

All Play and No Work with Marc Butler, Jennifer Whitson, Paolo Ruffino and Daphne Dragona.
Photo by: Katharina Träg www.kate3000g.tumblr.com. CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

All Watched Over by Algorithms with Felix Stalder, Matteo Pasquinelli, Antoinette Rouvroy, Evgeny Morozov. Photo by: Katharina Träg www.kate3000g.tumblr.com. CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Keynote_Work with Carolin Gerlitz, Judy Wajcman and Tiziana Terranova. Photo by: Katharina Träg www.kate3000g.tumblr.com. CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Your Future at Work: Logistics, Rights and Dilemmas. With Laurel Ptak, Mercedes Bunz, Ned Rossiter and Trebor Scholz. Photo by: Katharina Träg www.kate3000g.tumblr.com. CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Becoming Fog with Zach Blas, Mushon Zer-Aviv and Heather Dewey-Hagborg. Photo by: Katharina Träg www.kate3000g.tumblr.com. CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
For transmediale 2015, I was invited to co-curate the exhibition with Robert Sakrowski, the conference with Kristoffer Gansing and I also initiated the Foyer Program.
What do the futures of work, play and life look like through the black mirror of data? How will our quantified lives unfold? transmediale 2015 looked at how we make sense of a culture dependent on measurement and automation procedures, and how to act with autonomy within such a culture. The festival presented artistic responses and speculative scenarios as well as critical thinking on processes of gamification, quantification, ubiquitous networking and algorithmic control and their ways of making the spheres of everyday life, work and play increasingly indistinguishable. transmediale offered a diverse international programme of exhibitions, screenings, conference events, workshops and performances with participants from many different disciplines.
More info about the conference:
https://transmediale.de/content/conference
More info about the exhibition:
https://transmediale.de/content/exhibition
Images from the exhibition:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/transmediale/albums/72157650475339026/with/15822021843/