Upcoming events

Extravagant bodies festival

November 18th to 25th 2016,  Pogon Jedinstvo, Trnjanski nasip bb, Zagreb, Croatia.
November 20th to 21st 2016, Dom omladine Beograda, Makedonska 22/IV, Belgrade, Serbia.

Organized by kontejner.org, Extravangant Bodies is a triennial project that deals with societal demarcations of normal and pathological physicality, appearance, behaviour, sexuality and/or life style. Fourth edition of Extravagant Bodies subtitled Crime and Punishment takes as its topic the social, legislative, scientific and ideological constructions of criminality and social norms that delineate criminal from non-criminal behavior. The program includes an exhibition, performances, workshops, theatre, lectures and film screenings. 

HYBRID MATTERs Symposium

24th - 25th of November, 2016, the Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki.

Hybrid Matters investigates hybrid ecologies, the convergence of our environment with technology and essentially the intentional and unintentional transformation of our planet through human activity. In a hybrid ecology biological actors like humans, animals and plants share a life-world with machines, networks and increasingly also genetically altered organisms and other post-natural actors. The announced keynote speakers are Jussi Parikka, Jennifer Gabrys, Steen Rasmussen, Cecilia Åsberg. Hybrid Matters is organized in collaboration between the Bioartsociety and the MA in Ecology and Contemporary Performance, Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki.

Piksel 2016

24th 27th of November, 2016, Bergen, Norway.

Piksel is an international event for artists and developers working with Free/Libre and Open Source technologies in artistic practice. Part workshop, part festival, it is organized in Bergen, Norway, and involves participants from more than a dozen countries exchanging ideas, coding, presenting art and software projects, doing workshops, performances and discussions on the aesthetics and politics of free technologies & art.