EXCESSIVE RESEARCH asks: What happens when research is less about exchange and more about excess?

It relates to the announcement of transmediale 2016, Conversation Piece which highlights the compulsive actions of digital culture, and how we are constantly encouraged to stay active, to make, to share and to secure. Following a research workshop in Liverpool, organised in partnership with Liverpool John Moores University and the Liverpool Biennial, this issue of APRJA delves into the nature of these actions and their limits.

The workshop leading to this publication is a collaboration between Digital Aesthetics Research Centre (Aarhus University), Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool Biennial, and transmediale.