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12. Oct 2025

Inside MFRU31: A Conversation with the Festival’s Curators and Artists

Listen to festival’s curators and artists in conversation with Maša Žekš on the Kritiški posladek podcast

12. Oct 2025

MFRU x PANKE GALLERY: “Arcane Affinities” Publication Collaboration

We’re excited to share that MFRU is part of the new publication Arcane Affinities, launched as part of the project Esoteric Algorithms and Re-Enchanted Technologies—curated by Arianna Forte and Noemi Garay—opening on 16 October at Panke Gallery, Berlin.

20. Sep 2025

Announcing the best student new media art projects of MFRU31

As part of 31th International Festival of Computer Arts (MFRU31), Youth Cultural Centre Maribor hosted an open call for Student Award of the best new media art projects of MFRU 2025.

01. Sep 2025

To MFRU31 with a free festival bus: Ljubljana ⬌ Maribor

Join us at MFRU31! The bus goes from Ljubljana to Maribor on Saturday, 27 September at 9:00, with the return the same day at 21:00.

19. Jun 2025

Announcing MFRU31

This year's edition under the title Esoteric Ecotechnics. Irrational Computation and Conspiratorial Networking will thematically focus on the underground and secret connections between media technologies, users, knowledge and information circulation.

11. Jun 2025

Call for Student Intermedia Art Projects and the MFRU31 Student Awards – Deadline extended!

Students working in the field of intermedia and digital arts are invited to apply with their own original intermedia projects thematically related to the theme of this year's festival.

18. Sep 2024

Announcing MFRU30: the 30. International Festival of Computer Arts

The 30th International Computer Art Festival will run from October 18 to 27, 2024, the festival will take place at Velika Kavarna at Glavni Trg in Maribor (SI).

18. Sep 2024

Revealing best student intermedia projects of MFRU30 Festival

17. May 2024

Call for Student Intermedia Art Projects for the Student Award

Call for Student Intermedia Art Projects for the Student Award of International Computer Arts Festival 2024

10. Nov 2023

Otvoritev intermedijske razstave Nike Tomažič v Kulturnem inkubatorju 16. 11. ob 18h

Nika Tomažič je glavna nagrajenka Poziva za najboljši študentski intermedijski umetniški projekt 28. Mednarodnega festivala računalniške umetnosti v letu 2022. Kot nagrado je umetnica dobila možnost samostojne razstave v letu 2023 v razstavišču Kulturnega inkubatorja na Koroški cesti v Mariboru.

02. Oct 2023

Vabilo na otvoritev 29. MFRU

Mladinski kulturni center Maribor (MKC Maribor) vabi na otvoritev Mednarodnega festivala računalniške umetnosti (MFRU), ki bo v petek, 6. oktobra 2023, ob 19.00 na dvorišču Vetrinjskega dvora.

17. Sep 2023

The three prize winners – the authors of the best student intermedia projects of the MFRU 2023 festival – have been announced!

Twelve students applied with 11 projects. The members of the expert jury, Maja Smrekar, Miha Colner, and Aleksandra Saška Gruden decided unanimously.

21. Jun 2023

First media announcement on the MFRU Call 2023

In May, the public institution MKC Maribor announced the Call for Student Intermedia Projects for the Student Prize of the International Festival of Computer Art (MFRU) in 2023.

10. Oct 2022

Maribor's kindergartens, exhibition of children art works / 28th MFRU and Children's Week /

As part of Children's Week (October 3 – October 9, 2022), we invited Maribor's kindergartens to participate and create on the topic of the future and modern technology.

30. Sep 2022

MFRU 2022 pre-event: FU:BAR/GLITCH

Screening of MFRU's HIPERFILM and a conversation with the program director and KonS director.

21. Sep 2022

The three winners of the MFRU 2022 Festival - the authors of the best student intermedia projects - have been announced!

10. Sep 2022

A vision of the future; presentation of the festival.

31. Mar 2022

MFRU 2022: Expansion of the Possible and the Complexity of Consciousness

22. Dec 2021

Holiday Greetings 2022

May trust, cooperation and co-creation bring us together in 2022.
May the coming year bring you health, peace, and happiness.

09. Dec 2021

Heklab Re-cap

Formed after the dissolution of previous collective GT22inštrument, the band originated from the Maribor noise and vj scene, known for its spontaneous sessions and highly collaborative nature. The Re-cap live-stream performance is a collage of the past and present a/v material. The audio and video footage was systematized and re-made with the creative use of open source software and hardware hacks.Heklab Re-cap

09. Nov 2021

Photos from Saturday's opening (6.11. 2021) of the exhibition of last year's winner for the best student intermedia project MFRU 2020, Matej Mihevec.

08. Nov 2021

Overview of events of the 27th International Festival of Computer Art - MFRU, which took place between 8 and 15 October in Maribor, Slovenia and online.

22. Oct 2021

Performance, video projections and literary reading by Dejan Koban

As part of this year's post-festival programme for the 27th International Festival of Computer Art (IFCA), MKC Črka and the Media Nox Gallery invites you to attend a mixture of performance, video projections and literary reading by Dejan Koban, which he will prepare in collaboration with a number of literary authors from all over Slovenia.

13. Oct 2021

Conclusion of the 27th International Festival of Computer Art - MFRU

On Friday, 15.10.2021, we invite you to the conclusion of the 27th International Festival of Computer Art - MFRU, in cooperation with Modul konS and Nagib.

11. Oct 2021

INVITATION: TERRITORY - live audio broadcasts

from 11 to 14 October 2021 between 18:00 and 20:00

29. Sep 2021

What is really ours and what may the third decade of the 21st century bring?

Information on the 27th International Festival of Computer Art (IFCA)

17. Sep 2021

The three prize winners are known - authors of the best student intermedia projects of the 2021 IFCA festival!

13. Sep 2021

The MFRU Festival and NAGIB questioning the meaning of Transhumanism today

This autumn, MFRU+NAGIB is organising an eight-day live festival, modulated through citywide exhibitions and digital online meetings, with the concept of transhumanism as its 'central motto'.

16. Aug 2021

27th International Festival of Computer Arts (MFRU) is looking for volunteers!

Because we want to ensure the best possible performance, we are looking for volunteers who will help us prepare the best edition of the festival so far! Do you accept the challenge?

13. Apr 2021

Dangerous idea or (bright) future? - Transhumanism

The 27th International Festival of Computer Art (IFCA) will take place in Maribor between 8 and 15 October this year.

14. Dec 2020

The conclusion of the festival featuring the ŠUM journal, film projections and Heklab

The festival’s conclusion features a varied daily programme that will take place online and in the public space.

15. Nov 2020

The festival’s main curated programme is about to begin

Programme curator Tjaša Pogačar curated the festival’s main programme entitled Infrastructural Complex: Alter(ed) Earth that focuses on the infrastructural aspects of the relation between computer technologies and planetary ecologies.

12. Nov 2020

Dive into the dystopia of extraction and play with us!

Extractor is a dystopian board game designed by Simon Denny that maps the possible dynamic of global data companies or ‘platforms’ that fight for global domination. Three game sets are available at the IFCA and can be borrowed until the end of 2020.

29. Oct 2020

Student Award presentation, sonic revival of the Tonšpur passage and start of Kons modul

Due to restrictive measures, this year’s edition of the International Festival of Computer Arts (IFCA) will extend over October, November and early December. The student exhibition has just been concluded in real space with the award presentation in the Media Nox gallery, and visitors are welcome to attend the first sound installation in the Tonspur Passage. Online discussions have also been launched and will take place throughout the following month as a replacement for live conferences with artists and theoreticians.

21. Oct 2020

Announcement of the changes in IFCA 2020 programme

The recently declared COVID-19 epidemic and related measures, including restrictions of public events in Slovenia, have called for changes in this year's format of the festival programme in order to adapt to the new conditions. More information on the festival programme and dates to follow shortly.

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20. Oct 2020

TONSPUR revives the passage under Maribor's City Hall with sound

IFCA and Sonda Foundation are, together with TONSPUR Kunstverein Wien, taking care of, arranging and managing the TONSPUR_passage Maribor (passage / tunnel between Glavni trg and Rotovški trg) or an 8-channel sound instrument in a public space that plays music and sound compositions every day during 10:00 and 20:00 throughout the hole year.

13. Oct 2020

IFCA Student Award Winners Exhibition

The exhibition will present the works of the three IFCA Student Award winners who have all been developing their own artistic expression, working method and strategy of using the digital medium. From 14th till 30th of October in Gallery Media Nox.