Observing "Transmediale 07 - Unfinish!", the festival for media art and culture, which took place in Berlin recently, one came to the conclusion that it should better be titled festival for temporary art. As opposed to con-temporary art that is able to translate its vivid theoretical background into something mind-blowing. Full stop. Maybe most of the exhibitions, installations, workshops, discussions and concerts dealt with more or less "digital" aspects and effects of urban culture on the surface but in the end that is what most pieces of art do these days. Vice versa, the most interesting and challenging things to discover were neither necessarily digital nor were they unfinished. Aram Bartholl's "Random Screen", for example, is based on and working with tea candles and beercans to produce a somehow pixel-esque effect. Very low-fi, without any electricity and definitely using something very real (warmth and real matter) to create an installation which seemed to be inspired by "Medienfassade Blinkenlights" at Berlins Alexanderplatz which was realized some years ago by members of the Chaos Computer Club. Also, the winner Herman Asselbergh's "Proof Of Life" is not based upon algorithms."Proof Of Life" shows a comfy and empty room while at the same time you have to listen to the painful narration of someone being imprisoned. Yes, there is the australian "Media Artist" Stelarc who has implanted himself an extra ear within his forearm using stem cells and therefore gives a - frightening or welcomed - outlook on the future of total customization of the human body. Nonetheless most of the projects shown on Transmediale were proof to the criticism of media scientist Dr. Friedrich Kittler who spoke of "the bellowing of digital stags" in his lecture. So it was up to Dr. Sergi Jorda and the brave people of the Music Technology Group (which is part of the Audivisual Institute at the University of Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona) to delight us with their ReacTable hardware. Simply said it is a sound-processing translucent round table with a video camera suited beneath analyzing the objects on the surface. If the user is moving these objects, they directly control the parameters and structure of a sound synthesizer. At the same time a projector underneath gives visual feedback by drawing dynamic animations on the table its surface. Which is compelx in structure but easy to use and very entertaining. Also, it looks very good. But since obviously there wasn't really any overall idea in chosing the participants of Transmediale 07 the results were quite arbitrary, covering a too broad range of approaches. Something like a garden where there is no landscaping. Not even a gardener who seems to care.