Transmediale’s Postdigital Proposition

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Book Review| July 01 2020 Transmediale’s Postdigital Proposition Across and Beyond: A Transmediale Reader on Post-digital Practices, Concepts, and Institutions, edited by Bishop, Ryan; Gansing, Kristoffer; Parikka, Jussi; Wilk, Elvia, Berlin: Sternberg, 2016, 350 pages, €15.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-3-95679-289-2 Scott Wark Scott Wark Scott Wark is a research fellow for the Wellcome-funded project “People like You: Contemporary Figures of Personalisation.” He is based at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at the University of Warwick. He researches online culture, among other things. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (2): 274–276. https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-8233462 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Scott Wark; Transmediale’s Postdigital Proposition. Cultural Politics 1 July 2020; 16 (2): 274–276. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-8233462 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsCultural Politics Search Advanced Search Across and Beyond: A Transmediale Reader on Post-digital Practices was ostensibly published to mark thirty years of Transmediale, the art and digital culture festival that happens in Berlin each winter. Summing up just one iteration of this sprawling festival is hard enough; doing justice to thirty years of art and theory is something else again. Should the editors of this kind of book document its history? Serve up its greatest hits? Try to influence its future? Over its fifteen essays and ten profiles of artworks, Across and Beyond does a little of each. The result is a book that uses Transmediale as a platform for a series of propositions about how we might think media now—and imagine its futures differently.This book’s editors include Transmediale’s outgoing director, Kristoffer Gansing; Winchester School of Art professors Ryan Bishop and Jussi Parikka; and the writer and editor, Elvia Wilk. To lend it coherence,... Issue Section: Book Reviews You do not currently have access to this content.