Tonight LIVE:RESPONSE presents two audiovisual performances which both revolve around cut-up techniques to remix items and icons of our contemporary pop culture. DONJON by Cécile Babiole and Vincent Goudard gleefully deconstructs a wide range of objects, particularly audiovisual equipment: turntables, radios, computers, musical instruments, telephones, video cameras – but also cocktail blenders, battery chickens, and various other domestic and fantastic appliances of ages past and present. In Genre Collage People Like Us manipulate the symbols, patterns and film stars of selected movie genres/sub-genres. more...

What better place to begin a festival examining futurity than a bell tower, that traditional demarcator of time. Before the invention of the mechanic clock, it was bell towers that manifested a concept of shared, public time. Pioneering musician Charlemagne Palestine will therefore launch transmediale.10 by ringing the bells of one of the world’s largest and most distinctive instruments – the Tiergarten Carillon, next to the HKW. more...

With this first set at the Café Stage, which is all about the strangeness of futurity, we get a taste of experimental sound art and music courtesy of Benjamin Laurent Aman. This is music that captures the senses by losing them! more...

transmediale.10 and CTM.10 are delighted to present two stunning works by some of the most important audiovisual performance artists today, that both address the materiality of moving images. Ryoji Ikeda, one of the world's finest electronic artists will perform his live set test pattern, and Jürgen Reble & Thomas Köner will mesmerise our sense with their live piece Materia Obscura. more...