transmediale

Today's guest is the writer Elvia Wilk.

Elvia Wilk was a founding editor of the Berlin-based architecture magazine Uncube and the publications editor for Transmediale, the journal associated with the annual Berlin Festival of Art, Culture, and Technology of the same name.

Based in New York and Berlin, Elvia Wilk has published her writings in Freeze, Art Forum, Metropolis, Moose, Flash Art, and Art in America, among others, and is currently a contributing editor at Eflux Journal and finishing a master's degree at the New School for Social Research.

She has taught at the University of the Arts Berlin, Eugene Lang College, and City College of New York.

And I guess the learning for that was not just curating at scale, but working at how you create curatorial coherence across an event that's that large, you know, 100 events, 40 venues, hundreds of individual, you know, contributors, big names, you know, kind of smaller, kind of more emerging practitioners from the region and How do you tell a story that people can understand, you know, across that level of complexity? And that served me quite well, kind of, you know, when I've had to apply that logic and kind of ladder roles.

And then, as you say, after that, I moved to Berlin and was the guest curator of the 2010 edition of Transmediale.

which is Germany's most important, I guess, kind of media arts festival that grew out of the Berlinale Film Festival and then became an independent entity on its own.

And I guess it's interesting for our conversation because we decided that the theme for that year was Futurity Now.