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. Festival's curators David Bevilacqua and Lara Mejač will work with local and international artists and researchers to propose alternative forms of computation and explore the social and ecological potentials of radical, disruptive and regenerative approaches to new technologies.

The exhibition and the festival programme will therefore explore alternative, mystical, subversive modes of mediation and non-normative understandings of digital technologies, with a view to methods of shaping future societies within sustainable ecological frameworks. The integration of artistic practices with permacomputing, rural computing and re-generative algorithms will open up new spaces for human (and non-human) coexistence, and will bring to the fore the consideration of new social alliances and alternative networks. The artists and other participants will draw their methods and reflections from the contexts of magic, folk traditions, rituals and principles of the irrational.

✹ Save the date ✹ 26 Sept – 5 Oct 2025, Maribor (SI)