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tm2015-arrival Just returned from a week away at Transmediale in Berlin, ‘Capture All’ where reSync co-habited with a set of social forum and offline network workgroups to explore respective exhaustion with social media, find fresh approaches to localised practice, celebrate a sense of disconnectedness as well as reunite old friends and baptise new.

So, in a noisy and overloaded foyer environment, we bumbled through a few hours of strained explanations and half understood activities until the 16 or so attendees clicked to our reGroove to spark up some add-hock badge pressing and kitten synchronisation.

To be honest we have performed better than this but despite all, some delight and pleasure was expressed by many involved! Our ‘reSync All‘ workshop could have well been called ‘reCapture Transmediale’ in acknowledgement of the sense shared by many, on our self surveillance and semi consciousness of the issues exhibited. Elsewhere, more earnestly expressed anxiety and abstractions were deliberated over until the jitter cut of one session on another bewildered and perplexed YT.

The Off-Networks review Out in the bar, on the terrace and about town the conversations flowed more realistically from where we eventually dragged our soles through to each new day reset and rarified for another go. There were no midnight trains (too early) but trawls through the 90’s ‘scape of tobacco overload and tinnitus trials. No massage but a shrinking scrape with urban imagination and cultural preposterousness.

Just before leaving we popped over to Tactical Tech for lunch and final farewell to hosts Oliver and X Londoner Adam.. yes we ran all the way to the airport.. Cheers All !

The ongoing transmediale project of The Post-Digital Review gathers experts from the fields of digital culture art, policy, curating and research to discuss shifting forms of cultural practice, of organisations, of the economy as well as of politics in a post-digital world. This particular session will focus on the question of how art and culture contribute to build new forms of commons for a post-digital civil society. The first event of the Post-Digital Review, Understanding Post-digital Cultural Forms was an intensive One-Day Review Summit organised by transmediale in cooperation with the German Federal Foreign Office and hosted by the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 10 November 2014. In the festival edition of The Post-Digital Review, we invite further experts as well as open up the discussion to the audience. An impulse lecture will be given by Nishant Shah followed by short position statements from the participants and an intensive open discussion.