purgatory EDIT: Liberation Archives for the Cyborgs of Now
at transmediale studio, in collaboration with silent green X EMAP X transmediale 2025
Purgatory EDIT: Liberation Archives for the Cyborgs of Now premiers at Transmediale Studio from January 9 to February 2, 2025. The was installation part of UnNatural Encounters on view from January 9 to 19, 2025 at silent green, and transmediale festival 2025, near near but — far taking place from January 30 to February 2, 2025.
purgatory EDIT is collaboratively developed by:
Ali Akbar Mehta | Artist, Researcher & Archivist
Jernej Čuček Gerbec | VDMX Programming & Software Developer
Palash Mukhopadhyay | Web/UI/UX Design
Adnan Mirza | UNITY and Virtual Cinema Design
Pruthu Parab | Background Score and Additional sound design
Anoushkaa Bhatnagar | Arts Manager and Producer
Sanyam Varun | Archive Manager & Research Assistant
Aditya Rokade | Post-production and Video Processing
Koshy Brahmatmaj | Costume Design
Yuki Elias | Narrator
transmediale team
Anky Heidenreich
Marine Kervizic
Yunus Kleff
Simeon Cieslinski
Anna-Lena Panter
Nadia Gravina
Simon Ullrich
Georgia Georgiadou
Julie Warwel
Lumi Lausas
purgatory EDIT: Liberation Archives for the Cyborgs of Now is presented by transmediale 2025 in collaboration with European Media Art Platform (EMAP) and silent green Film Feld Forschung. Purgatory EDIT has received development support from the EMAP residency program 2024 at Werkleitz co-funded by the European Union. The project is made possible by partial funding from Taiteen Edistämiskeskus and Kone Säätio, and travel funding from support from the Finnland-Institut, Berlin and Goethe Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, Mumbai.
for more information about the project visit the project website here