Berlin is the city of adventure and imminent catastrophe; its architectural fabric, rough, variegated, multi-colored, allows for inexplicable moments of adjacency and contiguity, which can offer unexpected moments of pleasure. But alongside these liberating epiphanic occasions comes the inevitable decline of activity due in part to the city's dearth of financial resources for the sustainable support of small, alternative art institutions for its metropolitan center.

As a meeting place for many organizations working in media, the lab has up to this point represented a crossroads for a number of international scholars, curators, artists, programmers, and organizers over the past five years. However, it is certainly not immune to the effects of this monetary void.

Financed solely through the contributions of its members and sporadic project-based grants, the income of the lab is entirely subject to the gradual depletion of the threadbare, financial resources that the German governing bodies have to offer for general operating support.

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