Guest curator Rasha Salti from Beirut is going to present the online platform Arabshorts.net and discuss the relevance of digital media for the Arab world. Two additionally curated programmes will approach the theme of transmediale.10 from a historical perspective: Man & Machine is about the conflicts between man and the technologies created by himself. Short Fictions presents science fiction shorts made by artists. In 1957 Hugh Stubbins designed the utopian architecture of the HKW as a conscious counterpart to the Stalin Allee in East Berlin. In the Matinée on Sunday the plot of the GDR’s first Science Fiction film will unfold in this very building: Der Schweigende Stern (1959) by Kurt Maetzig pictures the dark vision of a failed civilisation.