International Festival
of Computer Arts
02.–11. October 2026, Maribor, Slovenia
Same-day delivery, just-in-time computing, instagrammable art, attention span, AI assistants. In the global north, life and work have converged around an obsession with immediacy – a techno-fascist paradigm where a rhetoric of speed, optimisation and measurable output flattens affective experience, devalues interpersonal contact and fuels extractive platforms. Lestes invites audiences...
Questioning depiction, technology and dissent, 2009 uses the argument, the practice of persuasion, as theatrical device. Countering two pervasive tropes, the dystopic proclamation of the futility of critique and the moral economy of boastfully recognising that which “does not count”, the work culminates in a filmically figured defence of “critique”,...
This time, he presents an audiovisual concert entitled A Talk with Machines, offering an immersive, multi-layered experience at the intersection of sound and image. The artist’s sounds and music do not merely accompany the video as a backdrop, but enter into a direct dialogue with it – rhythm, texture and...
The work Parallel Flows begins with an intermedial performance that transforms into an installation.
SHE’S A 10: Possess! examines the social conditioning of bodily self-perception and the processes through which the social gaze is internalised within patriarchal-capitalist society. The project is grounded in an anonymous survey in which participants recorded positive and negative comments about their bodies that they had encountered throughout their lives....
A collaborative, interdisciplinary research project, Open Source Estrogen combines biohacking and speculative design to demonstrate the entrenched ways in which estrogen is a biomolecule with institutional biopower. It is a form of biotechnical civil disobedience, seeking to subvert dominant biopolitical agents of hormonal management, knowledge production and anthropogenic toxicity.
How do bodies queer at the molecular level? How is this queering inextricably tied to industrial capitalism? Combining body and gender politics with environmental toxicity, we begin to unpack the concept of “open source estrogen”, the underlying premise that hormonal molecules are ubiquitously all around us, available for us to...
The student exhibition at Kulturni inkubator showcases four selected projects, each exploring, in its own way, the relationship between the body, technology, and the systems that shape our everyday lives. Although they draw on different media and address various fields – ranging from labour and the military industry to artificial...
Through installation, drawing and constructed environments, the project develops from an interest in spatial imaginaries and archetypes circulating through contemporary image systems – spaces that operate simultaneously as ritualistic, synthetic and affective environments. The works explore collectively produced conceptions of space shaped through media circulation, online atmospheres and aesthetic repetition....
Grids is the result of thinking about networks and the uneasy relationship arising between its internal elements. Grids function as emergent phantasms. Because their logics are entirely composed of their individual elements, it becomes considerably harder to determine both their boundaries and the site of their emergence. This state of...
The non/living installation W.01 from the acclaimed series Wombs features hanging organ-like scientific glassware hosting biofilm-producing bacterial colonies. Its culture medium is infused with hormones metabolites and residues extracted from the artist’s urine by re-staging scientific methods.
What lies beyond the screen? You are invited to join an artistic field workshop where, together, we will explore the material and sensory connections between nature and technology. Through slow observation, collecting natural materials, drawing and simple paper electronics experiments, we will investigate how natural resources are transformed into technology...
Just before the release of sophomore album my dreams are only nightmares, m preis is gathering bits of years long research on water, pain and nightmares, to present in a before unheard collage of sounds. They have dived deep into the topic of water working with two austrian performance directors,...
The digital prayer booth VoxDei 2.6 explores the “dead internet” theory as a satirical reflection of contemporary digital culture. The internet, once imagined as a space of open communication, now appears as an environment dominated by algorithms, bots and generated content, in which the human voice is gradually losing its...
He crafts his soundscapes through a hybrid DJ routine, blending electronic and raw acoustic elements into a unique improvisational style. Flipping his studio process into a live experience, he puts the audience in the front row of the spontaneous creation of live mashups, dubs, bootlegs and fresh, unreleased sounds.
With her immersive video installation Chora, artist Gaia Radić introduces a new chapter in the body of virtual worlds that perform as perceptual narratives and transform the spaces they inhabit into autopoietic worlding systems.
In the video I Am Turning into a Faucet, objects appear fluid and malleable; their movement is seldom entirely separate from their surroundings. The foreground and background merge into a flat surface that acts like a piece of fabric which, when pulled at one end, stretches at the other as...
The starting point of the project is the phenomenon of the Women Astronomical Computers, a group of mostly anonymous women who combed the night sky layer by layer and mapped and classified stars through photographic glass plates at the Harvard Observatory in the late 19th century. The analogous beginnings of...
Digital art projects, performance and book presentation
The origins of the series of black and white analog and digital photographs, vapor(wave), date back to 2015, and the series gained additional momentum in response to the quarantine period of the global pandemic in early 2020. From classic analog and digital photographic techniques, the series, in which the photographer...
Andrej Škufca developed the BESM360-Kitov for the Ultrastructures series. It is based on fragments of military and civilian infrastructure scattered across Eastern Europe. The artist explores how the human environment and the structures created by humans become autonomous. The superfluity of the body is revealed in the involuntary participation of...