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.
