"This collection of art and theory related to the annual transmediale festival in Berlin analyzes today's post-digital conditions for critical media practices -- moving across and beyond the analog and the digital, the human and the nonhuman. The contributions also look across and beyond the field of media art, staking out new paths for understanding and working on the transversal territories between theory, technology anad art"--Preliminaries.

Design: The Laboratory of Manuel Bürger, Stefanie Ackermann, Manuel Bürger.

1995: the year the future began, or multimedia as the vanishing point of the net / Kristoffer Gansing -- Whatever happened to media art? / Dieter Daniels -- Evil Media Distribution Center / Matsuko Yokokoji & Graham Hardood -- The lab imaginary: speculative practices in situ / Jussi Parikka -- OCTO C7P-1 / Baruch Gottlieb & Dmytri Kleiner -- The touching charm of print / Alessandro Ludovico -- Elegy for the collapse of PAL (2010-2012) / Rosa Menkman -- When Claire Bishop woke up in the drone wars: art and technology, the nth time / Florian Cramer -- Nor art&tech / Olia Lialina -- A year-round festival program / Tatiana Bazzichelli -- Beyond powerlessness / Geoffroy de Lagasnerie -- Think you know me / Erica Scourti -- What is left to subvert?: artistic methodologies for a post-digital world / Daphne Dragona -- Quarantined / Julian Oliver & Danja Vasiliev -- Red stack attack!: algorithms, capital and the automation of the common / Tiziana Terranova -- Geraldine Juárez Hello Bitcoin: it's probably time to start lighting things on fire / Jamie Allen -- Things that shouldn't always work / Keller Easterling -- Critical infrastructure / Jamie Allen & David Gauthier -- Sovereign media, critical infrastructures, and political subjectivity / Ned Rossiter & Clemens Apprich -- Lettres du voyant / Louise Henderson -- The protean munus and nomos of the political subject in polyscalar autonomous remote sending systems / Ryan Bishop -- Can the bot speak?: the paranoid voice in conversational UI / Benjamin H. Bratton -- The 3D additivist manifesto / Morehshin Allahyari & Daniel Rourke -- Technological macrobiome: media art and technology as matter / Olga Goriunova.

This collection of art and theory analyzes today?s post-digital conditions for critical media practices?across and beyond the analog and the digital, the human and the nonhuman. The contributions also look across and beyond the field of media art, staking out new paths for understanding and working in the transversal territories between theory, technology, and art. The concept of the post-digital is a way to critically take account of, contextualize, and shift the coordinates of new technologies as part of contemporary culture. The post-digital condition is not merely a theoretical issue but also a situation that affects conceptual and practice-based work.0The program of the transmediale festival in Berlin, celebrating its thirtieth year in 2017, has reflected these changes, and this book gathers new contributions from leading international theorists and artists of media and art who have taken part in the festival program over its past five editions. Divided into the thematic sections ?Imaginaries,? ?Interventions,? and ?Ecologies,? this book is not a document of the festival itself, it is rather a stand-alone exploration of the ongoing themes of transmediale in a book format.