FILE 2026

Electronic Music and AI Festival: brings together interconnected fields of contemporary sound art, in which sound and technology operate as structuring elements of the aesthetic experience.  These approaches explore sound as spatial, sensory, and conceptual matter, articulating active listening, bodily presence, and synesthetic relationships between audio and video, through digital systems, generative intelligence processes, algorithms, field recordings, and audiovisual performances.

Applications were open until February 19, 2026. Access  the application form.

FILE 2026 | GENERAL REGULATIONS

فلوريان هيكر
フロリアン·ヘッカー
Sound Installation

Event, Stream, Object

In his installations, live performances and publications, Florian Hecker deals with specific compositional developments of post-war modernity, electroacoustic music as well as other, non-musical disciplines. He dramatizes space, time and self-perception in his sonic works by isolating specific auditory events in their singularity, thus stretching the boundaries of their materialization.
Their objectual autonomy is exposed while simultaneously evoking sensations, memories and associations in an immersive intensity. Some of his works incorporate psycho-acoustic phenomena, disorienting listeners’ spatial perceptions and expanding their conception about sound. Hecker’s most recent recording, Speculative Solution ( Editions Mego, 2011), brings together Hecker’s sonic practice and psychoacoustic experimentation with philosopher Quentin Meillassoux’s concept of ‘hyperchaos’ – the absolute contingency of the laws of nature.
During his residency at MIT, Florian Hecker will research a new sound piece that takes the concept of the “auditory chimera” as point of departure. Originally developed at MIT by Bertrand Delgutte, senior research scientist at the MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics, the concept of the auditory chimera inspires an exploration of the relationship between pitch perception and sound localization. Hecker will create a text and sound piece that incorporates the recordings of material read by students. Using an anechoic chamber he will work with students to explore the experiential nature of psycho-acoustic practice.

Мари Шуинар
BODY REMIX GOLDBERG VARIATIONS
Durante los primeros pasos de esta creación, los bailarines y yo trabajamos sobre las Goldberg Variations de Bach, tal y como las interpretó Glenn Gould en 1981, así como la voz del pianista, con sus cadencias orales durante una entrevista de radio dedicada a esta particular interpretación.
Emprendí el trabajo con una mezcla de los cuerpos de los bailarines, a través del uso de varios elementos de apoyo: muletas, picos, arneses, etc. Una barra de ballet fue trasformada en un material musical. Pedí también al compositor Louis Dufort que usara un “apoyo”, concretamente una interpretación de Gould y su voz, y a proponer variaciones sobre las Variations. Diez de las treinta variaciones, así como las dos Arias, fueron remezcladas o incluso recompuestas (1, 2, 4, 11, 15, 16, 21, 23, 25 and 29). Otras tres variaciones (5, 6 y 8) se ofrecerán en su versión original.

Clavilux
Clavilux 2000 is a subtle music visualization installation that represents the playing of sounds by way of a simultaneous animation that can be interpreted. For every note played on the keyboard, a stripe appears of which the dimensions, position and color correspond to the way the particular key was stroke.

Диего Стокко
custom built orchestra

I always been fascinated by the raw musical power that an orchestra can express, so, after creating a series of videos where I’m performing a multi-track piece with an instrument I designed, I decided to take the concept a step farther and create my own orchestra made of unusually unique instruments. The project started by handcrafting a diverse selection of instruments, then I wrote a composition where I could fit them all in and finally performed each part.

Skinstrument
File Festival

Skinstrument is a musical instrument which can be played by two players. By means of a tiny imperceptible current the players become part of a circuit. When the players touch each other on the skin this circuit starts to generate sound. The intensity of the touch determines the frequency of the sound.

Брайан Ино
브라이언 이노
ブライアン·イーノ
בריאן אינו
براين إينو
Брайан Ино
baby’s on fire

As a composer, producer, keyboardist, singer and multi-media visual artist, Eno is responsible less for a new sound and look in pop than for an entirely new way of thinking about music — as an atmosphere, rather than a statement, an experiment in sound, rather than a virtuosic expression. Combining the cerebral qualities of European high culture with the technological outlook of a futurist, he also has been responsible for an aesthetic movement that incorporates both Western and Third World sounds.

Conservation of Intimacy

Made of pine, latex, music wire, copper, nylon line, paper, pens and video surveillance. It measured 20′ x 35′ x 26′ at Southern Exposdure.
A couple rocking on the bench sends air pulses to another room causing balls to move and pens to transcribe their motions onto paper. The paper is moved by a third person on a stationary bike. The couple on the bench can watch the balls on a video monitor before them where the balls appear to bounce into the air. The motion is delayed and languid as though under water. Action is best when the couple is moving slowly together. As visitors work together to animate the mechanisms, they create a theatre for themselves and each other. By encouraging participation, and touch the pieces coax visitors to engage their bodies as well as their minds. The way that pieces move and feel and sound as you rock them, pedal, crank and press against them applies the kinesthetic comprehension’s of childhood to the tasks of philosophy. Bernie Lubell’s interactive installations have evolved from his studies in both psychology and engineering. As participants play with his whimsical wood machines, they become actors in a theater of their own imagining.

سيدي العربي الشرقاوي
西迪·拉比·切考维
Сиди Ларби Шеркауи
Sutra

O coreógrafo belga Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui junto ao renomado artista Antony Gormley e 17 monges do templo chinês Shaolin apresentam a performance Sutra, que mescla artes marciais e dança contemporânea.
Sutra conta com o cenário elaborado por Antony Gormley, que consiste em 21 caixas de madeira manipuladas de diversas formas na narrativa criada por Cherkaoui, e ainda apresenta música especialmente comissionada pelo compositor polonês Szymon Brzoska para piano, percussão e cordas, que é tocada ao vivo.

Nabaz’mob

100 Nabaztag smart rabbits play together an opera specially composed by Antoine Schmitt and Jean-Jacques Birgé.

Evoking John Cage, Steve Reich, Conlon Nancarrow and György Ligeti, this musical and choreographic score in three movements, transmitted via wi-fi, plays on the tension between the orchestral ensemble and the individual voices to create a strong and involved showpiece. This opera questions the issues of working together, organization, decision and control, which are increasingly central and difficult in our contemporary world.

Schmitt and Birgé have chosen to twist the industrial object into an artwork in which the choreography of the ears, the play of light and the hundred small loudspeakers hidden in the stomachs of each rabbit create a composition with three voices built on time delay and repetition, programming and disrespect for rules.

Les Riches Douaniers
File Festival – Machinima

Dirigido em 2006 a partir de “Shadow of Colossus”, “Chevauchée Nocturne” (Passeio Noturno) mantém apenas as linhas de formas, usando duas cores, preto e amarelo, que permitem a customização extrema do trabalho. Este maquinema também refere-se à realidade, pelo aparecimento de duas reviravoltas silenciosas. A música e o som são muito importantes. Ambos participam do ritmo, criando expectativa, pois todo diálogo é deletado.

Danse Macabre

Esta obra se inspirou em diversas fontes, mas a música do quarteto “A Morte e a Donzela”, de Franz Schubert, foi especialmente útil: “A donzela: Ah, me deixe! Prithee, me deixe! Terrível homem de osso! Pois a vida é doce, é agradável. Vá! Deixe-me agora em paz! Vá! Deixe-me já em paz! A Morte: Dê-me tua mão, oh, donzela bela ao olhar, Pois eu sou um amigo, apesar de minha aparência aflitiva. Tenha coragem agora, e muito em breve Em meus braços tu deverás repousar suavemente!”

Ólafur Arnalds – Ljósið

This project was inspired by two things: the wonderful music of the neoclasical icelandic musician Ólafur Arnalds and the incredibly awesome Trapcode Particular 2 plugin by Peder Nordby.

It started as an experimental take on an organic music visualizer. I used two color palletes (helped by my talented friend Sol Valladares) to visually separate the piano and the strings; the blue tones representing the melancholic part of the song and the warmer colors representing the hope and the joy.

梁基爵
Digital Hug
File Festival – Hipersonica
The project is in collaboration with Henry Chu, Adrian Yeung, Thomas Ip, Joseph Chan, XEX GRP, and Hamlet Lin. It started from the fabrication of digital hubs but it turned out to make you feel like having an intimate hug, such is the chemistry coming from the new media performance “Digital Hug”. GayBird and his group of “musical frankensteins” developed a series of unconventional custom-made musical instruments and a responsive sound installation, which are played in complement to interactive video-mapping images and animation. Digital Hug emphasizes “new instruments for new music”, with the aim of bringing a unique and performative live electronic music performance to viewers.

TRANSFORMIRROR

Daito Manabe and Kyle McDonald

FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Art and Technology – Installations
Electronic Language International Festival

Transformirror – Japan |  United States

When everything is imagined by AI—from music and images to prompts and titles—what’s it like to look in the mirror? This seminal study of real-time image generation, made possible in 2023 with Stable Diffusion XL-Turbo and Stable Audio, explores the future of media and interactivity. Can we better understand these systems by interacting with them physically, in real time?

BIO

Kyle McDonald creates immersive audiovisual installations and performances using computer vision, machine learning, and creative programming techniques to explore connections and shared futures between human beings. Daito Manabe combines technology and physical expression in collaborations such as Perfume and ELEVENPLAY with MIKIKO. Founder of Rhizomatiks, he has directed projects such as the closing ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympics.

Boundaries

Memo Akten & Katie Peyton Hofstadter

FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Art and Technology – Installations
Electronic Language International Festival

Boundaries – United States

Boundaries is a monumental work that explores the illusion of separation—between self and other, body and environment, matter and mind—and reflects on the interconnectedness of all things, from microorganisms to atoms forged in extinct stars. Created with custom code, AI, computer vision, digital painting, and dance, the work unites technology and bodily expression in an intimate and contemplative experience.

BIO

Memo Akten, a Turkish artist, musician, and researcher based in Los Angeles, creates speculative simulations about the relationship between humans and machines. With a PhD from Goldsmiths, he is a pioneer in the creative use of neural networks under human control. Katie Peyton Hofstadter is an artist, writer, and curator. Her work investigates the intersections between embodiment, technology, and consciousness, exploring how technologies shape cultural narratives and sensory experience.

Darren Slater (DSM)

FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Art and Technology – INTERATOR
Electronic Language International Festival

BIO

Darren Slater is a musician and amateur visual artist based in the UK. He composes cinematic soundtracks in ambient and techno-house styles with sci-fi inspiration, using attribute-free loops and sound effects. He uses Krea AI Animator to bring AI-generated images to life, creating immersive experiences. He also works as a traditional artist, painting fantasy worlds with brushes and pigments.

Darren Slater (DSM)

FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Art and Technology – INTERATOR
Electronic Language International Festival

Trip Portal – United Kingdom

Portal Trip is a captivating fusion of original music and Darren Slater’s AI-generated animations, transporting viewers on a surreal journey through ever-shifting dimensions. As abstract portals open and dissolve into fluid landscapes, the hypnotic visuals synchronize with Darren’s immersive soundscapes, creating an audiovisual experience that feels like entering another reality. A mesmerizing blend of movement and sound, this video invites viewers to lose themselves in its dreamlike, otherworldly depths.

BIO

Darren Slater is a musician and amateur visual artist based in the UK. He composes cinematic soundtracks in ambient and techno-house styles with sci-fi inspiration, using attribute-free loops and sound effects. He uses Krea AI Animator to bring AI-generated images to life, creating immersive experiences. He also works as a traditional artist, painting fantasy worlds with brushes and pigments.

Pods

Darren Slater (DSM)

FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Art and Technology – INTERATOR
Electronic Language International Festival

Pods – United Kingdom

Pods is an atmospheric fusion of original music and Darren Slater’s mesmerizing AI-generated visuals. This 4K video takes viewers on a surreal journey through an abstract world filled with floating organic forms and fluid transformations. The sci-fi-inspired imagery and immersive soundscape complement each other perfectly, creating an otherworldly audiovisual experience that lingers in the imagination.

BIO

Darren Slater is a musician and amateur visual artist based in the UK. He composes cinematic soundtracks in ambient and techno-house styles with sci-fi inspiration, using attribute-free loops and sound effects. He uses Krea AI Animator to bring AI-generated images to life, creating immersive experiences. He also works as a traditional artist, painting fantasy worlds with brushes and pigments.

Lakes of Skylands

Darren Slater (DSM)

FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Arte e Tecnologia
Festival Internacional de Linguagem Eletrônica

Lakes of Skylands – Reino Unido

Lakes of Skylands é uma experiência imersiva de animação e música com inteligência artificial. O vídeo apresenta uma paisagem sonora original no estilo downtempo, cuidadosamente elaborada por Darren para complementar os visuais hipnotizantes gerados por IA. Por meio de movimentos fluidos e paisagens etéreas, a combinação de música e animação convida o público a um refúgio tranquilo e, ao mesmo tempo, de outro mundo.

BIO

Darren Slater é um músico e criador visual amador radicado no Reino Unido. Compõe trilhas cinematográficas nos estilos ambient e techno house com inspiração sci-fi, usando loops e efeitos sonoros livres de atributos. Utiliza o Krea AI Animator para dar vida a imagens geradas por IA, criando experiências imersivas. Também atua como artista tradicional, pintando mundos de fantasia com pincéis e pigmentos.

The Noise of Art

Mario Klingemann

FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Arte e Tecnologia
Festival Internacional de Linguagem Eletrônica

The Noise of Art – Alemanha

Dançando pelo Espaço Latente

Mario Klingemann ama dançar — não profissionalmente — mas, sempre que o faz, tenta traduzir sua interpretação do movimento e dos gestos da música para o espaço multidimensional de seu corpo. Trabalhando com os espaços latentes de redes neurais, particularmente com GANs, encontrou um processo paralelo: traduzir som em imagens. A dança torna a música visível por meio do movimento; sua arte tenta fazer o mesmo com inteligência artificial, permitindo que a música molde imagens. As três obras em vídeo apresentadas — Freeda Beast — Bringing Things to an End (GAN generated beta) (2017), The Noise of Art (2020) e Liberation (2020) — são experimentos nessa tradução, cada uma criada de uma só vez por um código escrito por ele, que responde ao ritmo e ao clima das músicas. Bringing Things to an End, provavelmente um dos primeiros videoclipes totalmente gerados por IA no mundo, utiliza um modelo de geração de rostos treinado pelo artista.
Mario Klingemann é um artista e cético com uma mente curiosa. Seu trabalho explora a interseção entre arte e tecnologia, com foco em inteligência artificial, aprendizado profundo e estruturas algorítmicas, investigando continuamente os mecanismos internos tanto das máquinas quanto do processo criativo.

BIO

Mario Klingemann é um artista e cético com uma mente curiosa. Seu trabalho explora a interseção entre arte e tecnologia, com foco em inteligência artificial, aprendizado profundo e estruturas algorítmicas, investigando continuamente os mecanismos internos tanto das máquinas quanto do processo criativo.

Liberation

Mario Klingemann

FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Arte e Tecnologia
Festival Internacional de Linguagem Eletrônica

Liberation – Alemanha

Dançando pelo Espaço Latente

Mario Klingemann ama dançar — não profissionalmente — mas, sempre que o faz, tenta traduzir sua interpretação do movimento e dos gestos da música para o espaço multidimensional de seu corpo. Trabalhando com os espaços latentes de redes neurais, particularmente com GANs, encontrou um processo paralelo: traduzir som em imagens. A dança torna a música visível por meio do movimento; sua arte tenta fazer o mesmo com inteligência artificial, permitindo que a música molde imagens. As três obras em vídeo apresentadas — Freeda Beast — Bringing Things to an End (GAN generated beta) (2017), The Noise of Art (2020) e Liberation (2020) — são experimentos nessa tradução, cada uma criada de uma só vez por um código escrito por ele, que responde ao ritmo e ao clima das músicas. Bringing Things to an End, provavelmente um dos primeiros videoclipes totalmente gerados por IA no mundo, utiliza um modelo de geração de rostos treinado pelo artista.
Mario Klingemann é um artista e cético com uma mente curiosa. Seu trabalho explora a interseção entre arte e tecnologia, com foco em inteligência artificial, aprendizado profundo e estruturas algorítmicas, investigando continuamente os mecanismos internos tanto das máquinas quanto do processo criativo.

BIO

Mario Klingemann é um artista e cético com uma mente curiosa. Seu trabalho explora a interseção entre arte e tecnologia, com foco em inteligência artificial, aprendizado profundo e estruturas algorítmicas, investigando continuamente os mecanismos internos tanto das máquinas quanto do processo criativo.

Freeda Beast

Mario Klingemann

FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Arte e Tecnologia
Festival Internacional de Linguagem Eletrônica

Freeda Beast – Alemanha

Dançando pelo Espaço Latente

Mario Klingemann ama dançar — não profissionalmente — mas, sempre que o faz, tenta traduzir sua interpretação do movimento e dos gestos da música para o espaço multidimensional de seu corpo. Trabalhando com os espaços latentes de redes neurais, particularmente com GANs, encontrou um processo paralelo: traduzir som em imagens. A dança torna a música visível por meio do movimento; sua arte tenta fazer o mesmo com inteligência artificial, permitindo que a música molde imagens. As três obras em vídeo apresentadas — Freeda Beast — Bringing Things to an End (GAN generated beta) (2017), The Noise of Art (2020) e Liberation (2020) — são experimentos nessa tradução, cada uma criada de uma só vez por um código escrito por ele, que responde ao ritmo e ao clima das músicas. Bringing Things to an End, provavelmente um dos primeiros videoclipes totalmente gerados por IA no mundo, utiliza um modelo de geração de rostos treinado pelo artista.
Mario Klingemann é um artista e cético com uma mente curiosa. Seu trabalho explora a interseção entre arte e tecnologia, com foco em inteligência artificial, aprendizado profundo e estruturas algorítmicas, investigando continuamente os mecanismos internos tanto das máquinas quanto do processo criativo.

BIO

Mario Klingemann é um artista e cético com uma mente curiosa. Seu trabalho explora a interseção entre arte e tecnologia, com foco em inteligência artificial, aprendizado profundo e estruturas algorítmicas, investigando continuamente os mecanismos internos tanto das máquinas quanto do processo criativo.

Estudio Geométrico 03

Andrés Ferrari

FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Arte e Tecnologia – CGI Videos 
Festival Internacional de Linguagem Eletrônica

Estudio Geométrico 03 – Chile

Audiovisual work constructed through the communication between Blender and Max/MSP software via a parametric interaction in delayed time.

BIO

He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Composition and a Master’s in Arts with a focus on Musical Composition. His career as a musician is both consistent and diverse. His works have been regularly presented in Chile and abroad, and he was awarded first place in the Leonor Hirsch Prize. He is currently active as a composer and teaches at both the University of Chile and Universidad Mayor.

Music for Control Panels

Juan Manuel Escalante

FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Art and Technology – Video Art
Electronic Language International Festival

Music for Control Panels – Mexico

Music for Control Panels is an audiovisual exploration inspired by the aesthetics of machines and control rooms. In the tradition of electronic ambient music, sporadic acoustic events and drones guide the viewer through a contemplative journey. The visual component features a generative graphic score echoing projections of computer terminals, printers, and fax machines. The overall composition pays homage to the early computer systems using contemporary techniques.

BIO

Escalante is an artist and educator working with computer code, modular synthesizers, and analog drawings. His work has been shown in major festivals and exhibitions worldwide. Escalante holds a Ph.D. in Media Arts & Technology (University of California, Santa Barbara).

Begins with Chaos

Kenji Kojima

FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Art and Technology – Video Art
Electronic Language International Festival

Begins with Chaos — Lascaux – United States

The environment is filled with chaotic information. Sensory organs build the world by extracting only certain elements from this chaos—such as visual and auditory data—acting like filters. It is as if the world is constructed using the “key” of a specific sense, decoding a hidden code. All information is recorded in binary form. The artist transforms this binary data into new formats, turning it into artworks. To do so, a one-time-use key was used to encrypt and decrypt the colors within the image data.

BIO

Kenji Kojima was born in Japan and moved to New York in 1980, during the rapid rise of personal computers. He began creating digital art, exploring the connections between perception, cognition, technology, music, and visual art. His works have been exhibited in New York City and at media art festivals around the world.

Die Kunst ist der nächste Nachbar der Wildnis

Caspar de Gelmini

FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Art and Technology – Video Art
Electronic Language International Festival

Die Kunst ist der nächste Nachbar der Wildnis – Germany

in Art is the Closest Neighbor of the Wilderness, Caspar de Gelmini originally intended to create the entire video using Super8 film, and some pre-release versions were indeed produced in that format. However, he ultimately decided to reshoot the entire work digitally. A distinctive feature of the video is its extensive use of macro lenses—particularly in capturing close-up shots of grasses and in the transformation of real images into AI-generated visuals.

BIO

Caspar de Gelmini studied Music Composition and Video Art at the Music and Art Universities in Rostock, Weimar, Stock holm, Basel, Salzburg, Stuttgart, Paris and Braunschweig (Bachelor and Master both in Music and Art). Now he lives and works as a Media Artist in Berlin, Germany and teaches at a high school.

Daily Diffusion 53 & 86

Callahan Indovina

FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Art and Technology – Shorts Films AI
Electronic Language International Festival

Daily Diffusion 53 & 86 – United States

The Daily Diffusion series by Callahan Indovina was a three-month project launched in 2024, as Generative AI tools and various plat forms to support the automation of animations and workflows were still emergent. The YouTube series aimed to provide workflows, prompts, and examples on how to utilize Stable Diffusion and various enhancements to create psychedelic animations. Like many of his works, the Daily Diffusion series took inspiration from Calalhan’s experiences within his dreams.

Music: https://www.mubert.com

BIO

Callahan Indovina is a spir itual and psychedelic artist from California’s Sierra Nevada. His artistic expression combines traditional digital composition techniques with innovative practices such as generative AI. His creations, described as super natural and dreamlike, reflect his surreal and transcendental vision, drawn from experiences within his dreams

Deep Paula

Erika Kassnel-Henneberg

FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Art and Technology – Shorts Films AI
Electronic Language International Festival

Deep Paula – Germany

An old photograph is “brought to life” by artificial intelligence. What happens when flawed memory gives way to artificial vividness? Today, a perfect, seemingly alive digital self can be created. Will we become eternal puppets wandering the web? Who pulls the strings? And if a lost loved one is replaced by a digital twin, what becomes of grief?

BIO

Erika Kassnel-Henneberg (1973) is a conceptual artist. Her work explores a new humanism in the face of digital complexity. She investigates memory through AI-driven data analysis and questions perception as a construct between reality and fiction.

Music: AI-generated.

Black-collared Starling 烏領椋鳥 (Hong Kong)

An-Ting e Ian Gallagher

FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Art and Technology – Shorts Films AI
Electronic Language International Festival

Black-collared Starling 烏領椋鳥 (Hong Kong) – Taiwan | United Kingdom

An-Ting blends bird song recordings, experimental electronic music, soundscapes, and driving beats. Ian Gallagher employs cutting-edge artificial intelligence technologies to document the duo’s experiences, with live visuals that react in real time to An-Ting’s music.

BIO

An-Ting 安婷 is a versatile artist who moves between piano, electronic compositions, and various other forms of artistic expression. She transforms her life experiences into musical creations, exploring the relationship between humanity, nature, and the spiritual universe.

Ian Gallagher studied Theoretical Physics in Edinburgh before completing a PhD in Complex Systems at the University of Manchester. He has been deeply involved in Manchester’s music scene, working as a sound engineer, show producer, and performer on stage, collaborating with artists such as Daniel Johnston and Neva Dinova.

This work was supported by the British Council and the organization Cryptic Glasgow.

Unknown

Gabe Michael

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Electronic Language International Festival

Unknown – United States

Unknown follows a misunderstood creature haunting the halls of an art museum. Its impressionistic visual style earned the short film the Best Art Direction award at Runway Gen:48 – 2nd Edition.

BIO

Gabe Michael is an award-winning filmmaker and creative technologist specializing in artificial intelligence. He serves as Vice President and Executive Producer of AI at Edelman, advising teams, optimizing production workflows, and exploring creative innovation with AI. With extensive experience as a director and producer, he collaborates with major studios, brands, and digital platforms, and shares his insights on LinkedIn, YouTube, and in UCLA classrooms.

Music: ARTLIST

Robot Journey: Part 1, 2 & 3

ChrisLee

FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Art and Technology – Cine SYN
Electronic Language International Festival

Robot Journey: Part 1, 2 & 3 – China

In a future where Earth’s environment has become uninhabitable, a lone robot sets out in search of a new home for humanity. After decades of travel, it discovers a planet strikingly similar to Earth — but it’s not alone. In The Last Explorer, the robot encounters mysterious presences and begins to develop emotions while exploring the unfamiliar world. Confronted with challenges, it must make choices that reflect its growing sense of awareness.

BIO

Chris Lee is a visual artist and independent creator from China. Trained in industrial design, he worked as a visual designer before turning to independent filmmaking. A lifelong passion for drawing now drives his ambition to develop an original series that blends animation with live action, showing that small teams and independent creators can produce powerful, high-quality stories.

Música: Karol Skowronek

AI Museum

Valezart

FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Art and Technology – Cine SYN
Electronic Language International Festival

AI Museum – Spain

AI Museum is an AI-generated short film that explores art, memory, and artificial consciousness. During a night shift, security guard James Foster encounters a mysterious force that brings museum masterpieces to life. As paintings step out of their frames, the line between art and reality dissolves in a post-apocalyptic world, culminating in a finale where humanity’s legacy merges with the digital.

BIO

Valezart is a multidisciplinary artist from Barcelona working across music, film, and game development. With award-winning soundtracks and a strong narrative focus, his work spans animated shorts, feature films, and immersive experiences. He currently explores filmmaking with AI, delving into the edges of artificial creativity.

Spiral of Time — Amazonas Brazil — UFAM

Edwin van der Heide

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Electronic Language International Festival

Spiral of Time — Amazonas Brazil — UFAM – Netherlands

Spiral of Time captures and stages the diverse soundscape of a specific location over the course of several years. By documenting the unique natural, cultural, spatial, and temporal dynamics of a place, the work honors the contributions of all its actors. Every hour, a one-minute recording is made, resulting in a vast sonic archive over time. It is accessible online through a spiral-shaped interface, allowing listeners to explore the cyclical patterns revealed by navigating the material across different time intervals. 

Since July 17th, 2024, the artist has been recording the sounds of the square in front of MACBA (Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona). It is a very interesting, diverse, and vibrant urban space. The work is accessible online via https://www.macba.cat/en/spiral-of-time-placa-dels-angels/ and will also be presented physically in the museum starting July 10th, 2025.

Edwin is expanding the project to include other recording locations around the world—not only in urban contexts (dominated by humans) but also in areas governed by nature. The artist dedicated himself to a recording site in the Amazon region. Since February 11th, 2025 Spiral of Time has been installed at the Amazon Rainforest surrounding The UFAM (Federal University of Amazonas) in Manaus. It is home to one of the world’s largest urban forest fragments. Completely surrounded by the dense urban matrix of Manaus, this forest has been isolated since the late 1980s. The forest retains rich ecological features, including areas of mature terra-firme forest, late-stage secondary vegetation, and small patches of white-sand forests. This unique setting offers a rare opportunity to study tropical forest dynamics within a metropolitan environment. 

Spiral of Time-UFAM immerses the listeners in the acoustic life of one of the most biodiverse ecosystems on the planet. This contrast between the natural rhythms of the forest and the human-made patterns of the city enriches the broader narrative of the Spiral of Time, offering a deeper reflection on coexistence, change, and continuity across different environments.

BIO

Edwin van der Heide is an artist, composer, and researcher focused on sound, space, and interaction. His work pushes the boundaries of musical composition toward spatial, interactive, and interdisciplinary directions. He creates installations, performances, and immersive environments where the audience is placed at the center, encouraged to engage sensorially and investigatively.

Deep Sixxx

Subsomnia

FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Art and Technology – Installations
Electronic Language International Festival

Deep Sixxx – Austria

A sci-fi world where cyborgs with human faces emerge. The video plays with the contrast between a technomorphic world and the beauty of the embedded female faces — an illusion that may dissolve when they transform back into robots. Not to be taken too seriously!

Music Deep Sixxx by I swear to God was downloaded from https://starfrosch.com under a Creative Commons 3.0 license.

BIO

Studied medicine and philosophy, spent a year at the film academy, and worked with theater groups in acting, video, and photography. After earning his medical degree, he worked as an emergency doctor. As the foundation of his work, uses camera recordings, which he processes through AI. His visuals are moving paintings — where colors and structures are not frozen on a canvas but come to life.

Stellar Civilizations

Subsomnia

FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Art and Technology – Installations
Electronic Language International Festival

Stellar Civilizations – Austria

Organoid structures – perhaps frozen remnants of an alien world. Or could there still be life within them? Their vivid colors give no hint of decay. Until you find the answer, simply enjoy their beauty and the relaxing music of Dreamstate Logic.

 Under a Creative Commons license.

BIO

Studied medicine and philosophy, spent a year at the film academy, and worked with theater groups in acting, video, and photography. After earning his medical degree, he worked as an emergency doctor. As the foundation of his work, uses camera recordings, which he processes through AI. His visuals are moving paintings — where colors and structures are not frozen on a canvas but come to life.

Vivaldi

Subsomnia

FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Art and Technology – Installations
Electronic Language International Festival

Vivaldi – Áustria

Vivaldi, for Subsomnia, represents emotional intensity and ornamental beauty. In this video, they try to find a visual counterpart to this, incorporating elements inspired by the mastery of glass manufacturing in Venice. However, they are not entirely sure whether Vivaldi’s music even needs a visual accompaniment…

Music: Antonio Vivaldi, La Cetra, Opus 9, Concerto No.3 in G, Largo, performed by Carl Pini, John Tunnell, Anthony Pini, Harold Lester, Denis Stevens, Orchestra of Accademia Monteverdiana

Download: musopen.org with a Public Domain Mark 1.0 Universal – PDM 1.0 – Deed – License – No Copyright

BIO

Studied medicine and philosophy, spent a year at the film academy, and worked with theater groups in acting, video, and photography. After earning his medical degree, he worked as an emergency doctor. As the foundation of his work, uses camera recordings, which he processes through AI. His visuals are moving paintings — where colors and structures are not frozen on a canvas but come to life.

Windswept

Subsomnia

FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Art and Technology – Installations
Electronic Language International Festival

Windswept – Austria

Planet-like structures emerge and vanish again, kept in motion by a force that stirs space and time like the wind. Horizons appear and dissolve — everything is shifting and morphing… 

Music by courtesy of The Intangible: Windswept from The Intangible’s new album: Starlove

BIO

Studied medicine and philosophy, spent a year at the film academy, and worked with theater groups in acting, video, and photography. After earning his medical degree, he worked as an emergency doctor. As the foundation of his work, uses camera recordings, which he processes through AI. His visuals are moving paintings — where colors and structures are not frozen on a canvas but come to life.

SynthPets

Tanja Vujinovica

FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Art and Technology – Installations
Electronic Language International Festival

SynthPets – Slovenia

SynthPets is inspired by the evolution of artificial intelligence and robotics, paying tribute to the creator’s robotic vacuum cleaner. These mysterious cyber-organic companions emerge through sketches, digital drawings, 3D sculptures, and AI-generated forms. The work explores humanity’s entanglement with electronic pets and devices that have become integral to everyday life.

BIO

Tanja Vujinovic is a multimedia artist who blends video art, games, music, and research to explore how technology shapes human experience. Her work examines the influence of synthetic environments and electronic devices, often featuring playful small figures—drawing inspiration from dolls, figurines, and talismans—that serve as symbolic guardians and companions.

3D computer graphics, digital sculpting and painting, generated AI, sound: Tanja Vujinovic

Production: Tanja Vujinovic/Ultramono, 2024—ongoing.

Consulting

RonBreIan, Software and Audio Engineer

https://www.tanjav.art/

@tanja_vujinovic_ultramono_

Modules

Modules is a VR art experience, where architecture, sculpture, film, and music blend together to immerse viewers into Zhestkov’s world. A total work of art, it is a world that questions the established definitions of our reality. In digital space, we can abandon the logic of reality and are freed from its boundaries. New worlds with total freedom are possible, worlds only limited by our creativity and the potential of art.

EGO

FILE 2024 | Installations
International Electronic Language Festival

The mirror stage in psychology explains how the Ego forms through objectification, where one’s visual appearance comes into conflict with emotional experience, a concept called ‘alienation‘ by psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. The interactive installation EGO reenacts and reverses this process by distorting the mirror image based on the user’s movements, highlighting the tension between the real and the symbolic, the Ego and the It, subject and object.

Bio

Klaus Obermaier is an interdisciplinary artist, director and composer who creates innovative works in the performing arts, music and installations using new media. Stefano D’Alessio researches social issues induced by the internet and explores how the web and its derivatives influence human behavior and the body. Martina Menegon creates intricate assemblages of physical and virtual elements, exploring the contemporary self and its hybrid corporeality.

Speculative Evolution, Prototype 1

FILE 2024 | Installations
International Electronic Language Festival
Speculative experiment on a future ecosystem under strict control. The narrative takes place in a simulation, 30 years in the future, where artificial intelligence and synthetic biology collaborate to optimize an environment for cultivated species. An AI-powered simulator helps visitors generate new species to balance the ecosystem. Inspiration comes from the book Under the White Sky by Elizabeth Kolbert and artists’ stories about life on a damaged planet.

Bio

Marc Lee is a Swiss artist focused on real-time rendered audiovisual installations, AR, VR and mobile applications, critically exploring creative, cultural, social, ecological, political and speculative themes. His work has been exhibited in important museums and new media art spaces. Shervin Saremi is an Iranian musician and audio engineer specializing in sonic computing, procedural sound design and production. Currently researching immersive audio at UdK Berlin.

The Forgettable Art Machine

FILE 2024 | Installations

International Electronic Language Festival

The Forgettable Art Machine is an artificial intelligence-driven video installation. When facing the panel, the public has their image captured, starting a cycle of analysis, creation and destruction. From this data, a composite emerges, slowly transforming the visitors’ image into a generative visualization. Once the cycle is complete, the composition is deleted, waiting for a new audience to be captured.

Bio

Matthias Oostrik works at the intersection of digital art, installation art, cinema and architecture. His works establish unpredictable relationships between people and their surroundings. Using digital technology, his installations allow visitors to reshape their environment and their relationships with each other. Oostrik collaborates with renowned professionals and, above all, with his audience, who often become an integral part of his work.

Credits

Co-production: Zester
IA Music: Than van Nispen

Space Odyssey 2002

FILE 2024 | Aesthetic Synthetics
International Electronic Language Festival
Valentin Rye – A Space Odyssey 2002 – Denmark

This video offers a surrealist take on futuristic sci-fi concepts from the 60s and 70s. Imagine a future colonization of Mars where interior design is given an avant-garde twist. It was created by brainstorming visual ideas, generating countless images, refining the best ones and assembling them into clips. After careful selection, these clips have been organized into a cohesive timeline, accompanied by atmospheric music to enhance the overall experience.

Bio

Valentin Rye is a self-taught machine whisperer based in Copenhagen, deeply passionate about art, composition and the possibilities of technology. He has been involved in AI and neural network image manipulation since starting DeepDream in 2015. While his IT work lacks creativity, he indulges in digital arts during his free time, exploring graphics, web design, video, animation and experimentation with images.

HYSTERESIS

FILE 2024 | Aesthetic Synthetics
International Electronic Language Festival
Robert Seidel – HYSTERESIS – Germany

HYSTERESIS intimately weaves a transformative fabric between Robert Seidel’s projections of abstract drawings and queer performer Tsuki’s vigorous choreography. Using machine learning to mediate these delayed re-presentations, the film intentionally corrupts AI strategies to reveal a frenetic, delicate and extravagant visual language that portrays hysteria and hysteresis in this historical moment.

Bio

Robert Seidel is interested in exploring abstract beauty through cinematic techniques and insights from science and technology. His projections, installations and award-winning experimental films have been presented at numerous international festivals, art venues and museums, highlighting his innovative approach to visual art.

Credits

Film: Robert Seidel
Music: Oval
Performer: Tsuki
Graphics: Bureau Now
5.1 Mixing: David Kamp
Support: Miriam Eichner, Carolin Israel, Falk Müller, Paul Seidel
Financing: German Federal Film Board

Stealth Technology of Ancient, Cosmic Pantheons

FILE 2024 | Aesthetic Synthetics
International Electronic Language Festival
Michael Sadowski (aka derealizer) – Stealth Technology of Ancient, Cosmic Pantheons – Austria

An abstract painting in motion, with colors and shapes exploding and transforming to the rhythm of the music. The dynamic element is not trapped in a static image, but can unfold in time and space.

Bio

Using Stable Diffusion, a visual synthesizer, the artist turns fantasies into videos using just a PC, similar to the invention of printing 600 years ago. Exploring the interplay between software algorithms that create visual worlds and the artist’s mind guiding this process is incredibly exciting. Unlike traditional cinema, there is no ‘reality’ or humans involved, making it a satisfying medium for creating visual art.

Credits

Visuals: Michael Sadowski
Music: Stealth Technology of Ancient, Cosmic Pantheons by The Intangible

Distortions of The Past

FILE 2024 | Aesthetic Synthetics
International Electronic Language Festival
Michael Sadowski (aka derealizer) – Distortions of The Past – Austria

Fractal elements that resemble cosmic structures evoke the illusion of traveling through a fractal universe. Rules, in the form of prompts, and chance interact with each other to create a visual fantasy.

Bio

Using Stable Diffusion, a visual synthesizer, the artist turns fantasies into videos using just a PC, similar to the invention of printing 600 years ago. Exploring the interplay between software algorithms that create visual worlds and the artist’s mind guiding this process is incredibly exciting. Unlike traditional cinema, there is no ‘reality’ or humans involved, making it a satisfying medium for creating visual art.

Credits

Visuals: Michael Sadowski
Music: Distortions of the Past by Dreamstate Logic

Useless Hands

FILE 2024 | Aesthetic Synthetics
International Electronic Language Festival
Infratonal – Useless Hands – France

When our hands become useless, what will we choose to do with them? We can use AI to visualize the unthinkable, the strangely familiar yet indescribable forms and structures. Generative AI could be used as an amplifier of our ability to explore abstraction and surrealism rather than a simple mirror of our usual perceptions.

Bio

Infratonal is an artistic project led by Louk Amidou, a Paris-based multidisciplinary artist who works at the intersection of digital arts, electronic music and interaction design. He uses algorithms to create hybrid visual and sound pieces which aim to be performed by the human gesture as intangible instruments. He questions the artwork’s nature at the age of AI and the relationship between the artist and the algorithm.

Journey of Life

FILE 2024 | Aesthetic Synthetics
International Electronic Language Festival
Dallaserra Maxime – Journey of Life – France

Journey Of Life was triggered by the death of the artist’s grandmother. There is a message of resignation and optimism in the face of adversity in this work. However, he decided to portray the life of a young man in a futuristic city. The video is rich in details. The strength of artificial intelligence lies in its ability to allow this profusion of images, which would otherwise require the artist an incomparable amount of time to produce.

Bio

Maxime Dallaserra is an electronic music composer who always wanted to produce a comprehensive audiovisual work. In addition to his music creation activities, he managed to create live shows with video projections, accompanied by a team. At the same time, he began broadcasting his creations. With the arrival of artificial intelligence, he found ways to enhance and realize his artistic vision, leading to the creation of Journey of Life .

Squid

FILE 2024 | Interator – Sound Synthetics
International Electronic Language Festival
Verbo Pluriel (aka volt46) & XWave – Calamar – United States and France

The Calamar music video is comprised of AI-generated clips that are sequenced and synchronized to create a hypnotic, ever-changing landscape.

Bio

Verbo Pluriel is an electronic music producer who has been active in the NFT scene since 2020 under the name volt46. X-Wave is also an NFT producer that trains its own AI models to generate collections. Although they never met in person, their participation in the web 3.0 art collective Based Ghouls led to their collaboration.

Credits

Music: Calamar (Kraken Mix) by Verbo Pluriel
Music Video: volt46
AI Video Generation: XWave