Transcendence
Beyond Bodies,
Between Realities
Transcendence: Beyond Bodies, Between Realities
is part of the WRONG Biennale 2025/26, and marks the opening of the Transmedia Arts Department’s new online exhibition
platform, dedicated to experimental digital practices and showcasing works by selected students.
With works
by: Cristian Anutoiu, Lea Gander, Jona Lingitz & Neptunia Monna Anarchus, Maximilian Prag, Lea-Maraike Sambale,
freakygreenfish
Exhibition Design: Cristian Anutoiu
Curated by Martina Menegon
Online Exhibition
o transcend is to move beyond, to shift across
boundaries. From the Latin trans (beyond) and scandere (to climb), it suggests elevation, a movement past
the limits of the physical, the known, the habitual. In this exhibition, transcendence becomes a speculative practice, a way
of navigating between realities, bodies, and systems. Rather than tracing a single direction, the exhibition opens up a field
of entangled movements: speculative re-morphing of body and technology, glitched presence, layered hybrid corporeality, bodily
shattering and reassembly, bio-cybernetics, posthuman ecologies, distributed intelligence, soft interfaces, poetic resistance,
and algorithmic critique.
The works in Transcendence: Beyond Bodies, Between Realities trace these movements
through embodiment, glitch, wyrdness, softness and relation. Some confront algorithmic infrastructures directly, others move
through quieter ecologies of perception. Together, they also operate within a broader landscape shaped by the cultural, conceptual,
and emotional implications of AI, reflecting on a world where intelligence is not simply artificial or authentic, but synthetic,
distributed, partial, and already embedded in the fractured realities we inhabit.
Here, transcendence unfolds relationally,
through the spaces in between. 
