The idea of the residency and also for the Drachma Project is to reflect on the meaning of visual and non-verbal representations of economic and social interaction. The question of aesthetics and of art is obviously related. The intention is to address and interrupt affective investments in the dominant social ideology, in consumption and production, and this intention has led to experiment not only with theory, but also with negotiating a contested space between image and word, between language and art. Banknotes provide a pre-eminent example of such an 'inter-mediation'. Georgios Papadopoulos and a couple of visiting artists will trace the process of national identity-building from the viewpoint provided by the visual representations within the currency, while questioning how economic value and political power are articulated and communicated in currency. These representations open a window to the workings of the monetary apparatus and its operating ideology. Currency provides a specific frame of reference for the analysis, constraining theoretical and artistic speculation through the visual syntax of notes and coins. Papadopoulos and the others employ these constraints creatively and productively in order to suggest a new iconography for a contemporary post-crisis identity. The residency programme is a cooperation between the _vilém_flusser_archive at the University of Arts (UDK) and transmediale, festival for art and digital culture Berlin.