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 are open until February 19, 2026. Access  the application form.

FILE 2026 | GENERAL REGULATIONS

QUBIT AI | quantum & synthetic ai
Electronic Language International Festival

July 3rd to August 25th
Tuesday to Sunday, 10am – 8pm
FIESP Cultural Center

Design: André Lenz
Image: Iskarioto Dystopian AI Films – Athena

QUBIT AI

In its 25 years of existence, the International Electronic Language Festival (FILE) is an internationally renowned Brazilian project that since 2000 has explored the intersection between art and technology. With more than two decades of history, the festival stands out for fostering exhibition spaces and debate about artistic innovations driven by disruptive and innovative technologies, inviting the public to get involved with experimental forms of art that challenge the boundaries of conventionality. Currently, two of these technologies stand out in the contemporary scenario: the accelerated development of quantum computing and artificial intelligence corroborated by synthetic data.

Quantum computing, an emerging revolution in the technological field, offers a new range of creative possibilities for contemporary artists. This new era allows the exploration of unprecedented frontiers through a new computational format that consists mainly of quantum superposition and entanglement, a new field of exploration for synthetic computer science, as well as for the arts in general; on the other hand, artificial intelligence, fueled by synthetic data, offers artists a new way of making and understanding art, opening up space for new forms, concepts and artistic expressions.

Entitled QUBIT AI, the exhibition delves into this unexplored territory presenting a selection of works of art resulting from the connection between artistic creation and technology, proposing a theoretical reflection on what the interrelationship between quantum computers and synthetic artificial intelligence will be.

Visitors will be invited to experience immersive installations, experimental videos, digital sculptures and other forms of interactive art, which intertwine reality and imagination. The exhibition encourages reflections on the influence of technology on art and contemporary society, while at the same time providing an environment to compare already established technological arts (analog and digital) with the possible futures of art in the synthetic era, enhanced by quantum computing. The QUBIT AI exhibition at FILE SP 2024 transcends the mere presentation of works of art; it is a journey to the limits of human creativity, driven by the convergence of art, science and technology.

Ricardo Barreto and Paula Perissinotto
co-organizers and curators of FILE
International Electronic Language Festival

Barcodress/Barcodance
ELECTRONICOS FANTASTICOS! Il progetto ha reincarnato vari dispositivi elettronici di consumo in pensione come strumenti musicali come Electric Fan Harp, CRT-TV Drums, Air Conditioner Harp ecc. La band li suona catturando le onde elettromagnetiche. Il progetto Barcodress mira a creare il nuovo tipo di performance di danza. Gli abiti che hanno registrato suoni come motivi a strisce, i ballerini e gli artisti che scansionano gli abiti, insieme creano onde sonore elettriche in tempo reale. Espandendo i principi della registrazione e riproduzione del suono al corpo, esploriamo nuove possibilità per l’espressione della musica e della danza.

Electro-Magnetic Band
Barcodress/Barcodance
ELECTRONICOS FANTASTICOS! project has been reincarnating various retired consumer electronics as musical instruments such as Electric Fan Harp, CRT-TV Drums, Air Conditioner Harp etc. The band plays them by catching electromagnetic waves. The Barcodress project aims to create the new kind of dance performance. The clothes which recorded sounds as striped patterns, and dancers, and the performers who scan the clothes, together make electric sound waves in real time. By expanding the principles of sound recording and playback to the body, we explore new possibilities for music and dance expression.

FRAC centre

EN 2006, le Frac Centre d’Orléans lance un grand concours international d’architecture pour imaginer et construire le bâtiment qui devrait héberger ses expositions temporaires dont Archilab et sa collection permanente d’art et d’architecture, l’une des plus importantes au monde en ce qui concerne l’architecture contemporaine. Le concours comportait cette particularité d’associer une équipe d’architectes à un artiste, une première. Au terme de ce concours, la paire Jakob MacFarlane + Electronic Shadow est lauréate avec son projet de Turbulences et sa peau lumineuse interactive intégrée à l’architecture.
Sept ans plus tard, le bâtiment est sorti de terre et s’ouvre enfin au public.
L’oeuvre intégrée au bâtiment en dessine les contours par la lumière et évolue au gré des informations qu’elle collecte sur les réseaux, conditions climatiques, saisons, vitesse du vent, autant de paramètres qui influencent le comportement de la peau de lumière.

FILE 2026

Registration is now open for participation in  FILE – Electronic Language International Festival 2026 , one of the most important events dedicated to art and technology. FILE invites Brazilian and international artists , as well as researchers, educators, and creators , to submit original artistic works and educational proposals — lectures, workshops, and training activities — focused on contemporary technological poetics.

Applications are open until February 19, 2026 .

With 26 years of experience , FILE is a non-profit cultural organization dedicated to promoting creation, research, and experimentation in Art and Technology , bringing together artists, scientists, programmers, and thinkers around exhibitions, events, and publications. The selected projects will be part of the FILE 2026 program, scheduled to take place at the FIESP Cultural Center in São Paulo, between August 18 and October 11, 2026,  with the possibility of parallel activities in other Brazilian states.

The call welcomes proposals in a wide variety of languages ​​and formats, intended for indoor or outdoor environments , in which the aesthetic experience emerges from the encounter between interfaces, data, space, and body . FILE 2026 seeks projects that propose new forms of perception, interaction, and critical and poetic reflection , expanding the debate on the aesthetic, cultural, social, and sensory impacts of contemporary technologies.

Access the registration form.

Pinokio Lamp

Pinokio is an exploration into the expressive and behavioural potentials of robotic computing. Customized computer code and electronic circuit design imbues Pinokio with the ability to be aware of its environment, especially people, and to expresses a dynamic range of behaviour. As it negotiates its world, we the human audience can see that Lamp shares many traits possessed by animals, generating a range of emotional sympathies. In the end we may ask: Is Pinokio only a lamp? – a useful machine? Perhaps we should put the book aside and meet a new friend.

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.

SIGGRAPH

San Francisco, United States (https://www.siggraph.org/)

ARS ELECTRONICA

Linz, Austria (https://ars.electronica.art/news/en/)

FILE

São Paulo, Brazil (https://file.org.br/)

NOVA BIENAL RIO

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (https://novabienalrio.org/)

ISEA

Multiple Cities (https://www.isea-international.org/)

STRP

Eindhoven, Netherlands (https://strp.nl/)

ATHENS DIGITAL ARTS

Athens, Greece (https://www.adaf.gr/)

JAPAN MEDIA ARTS

Tokyo, Japan (https://j-mediaarts.jp/)

KIKK

Namur, Belgium (https://www.kikk.be/)

ZKM

Karlsruhe, Germany (https://zkm.de/de)

TRANSMEDIALE

Berlin, Germany (https://transmediale.de/en)

ELEKTRA

Montreal, Canada (https://www.elektramontreal.ca/)

MUTEK

Montreal, Canada (https://mutek.org/)

LUMEN PRIZE

Crewe, Wales (https://lumenprize.org)

Inspired by thetruesize.com

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.

Visual Bird Sounds

Andy Thomas

FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Art and Technology – INTERATOR

Electronic Language International Festival

Visual Bird Sounds – Australia

Visual Bird Sounds transforms bird songs and sounds into computer-generated 3D visualizations. The recordings are converted into animated figures that resemble living digital organisms—like virtual representations of the birds themselves. The work invites the audience to reflect on the beauty of nature and the urgency of preserving its habitats.

BIO

Thomas is an artist specializing in the creation of “sonic lifeforms” and creative sound visualization. He collects recordings and images of birds and other animals on expeditions to remote regions, transforming these data into videos and digital works. His work unites science and art by fusing elements of flora and fauna into abstract visual compositions.

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.

(Dis)connection

Viviane da Silva Tavares

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

 (Dis)connection – Brazil

The (Dis)connection workshop is an immersive in-person experience that invites participants to explore the impact of technology on their bodies and perceptions. Using high-quality projections and somatic practices, the workshop encourages conscious digital disconnection, offering tools for a healthier and more balanced relationship with technology.

BIO

Viviane Tavares is a researcher and digital wellness expert, focusing on the intersection of the body, technology, and design. With over 10 years of experience in the technology industry developing digital products, she uses contemporary dance and somatic practices to advocate for conscious disconnection in our hyperconnected world.

Afterlives-Chimeras: Wetland Carbonized Memories

Clarissa Ribeiro

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Electronic Language International Festival

Afterlives-Chimeras: Wetland Carbonized Memories – Brazil

Afterlives-Chimeras: Wetland Carbonized Memories reimagines ancient Egyptian animal mummification through the lens of ecological tragedy. Inspired by Brazilian swamps and the destruction of wildlife caused by agribusiness, mining, and the steel industry, the project uses AI (Krea.AI and Meshy.AI) to create hybrid creatures from images of charred animals. The chimeras, 3D printed with PLA, reminiscent of mummified linen, symbolize loss, transformation, and the urgency of ecological balance.

BIO

Clarissa Ribeiro is an Assistant Professor of Visual Arts at USP and former Director of Roy Ascott’s Technoetic Arts Studio in Shanghai. A PhD holder with a Fulbright postdoctoral degree, she intersects art, science, and technology in morphogenetic practices, adopting animism as a way to navigate ecologies as cosmologies.

Technosoma — Sensitive Circuits in the Flesh of the Machine

David Da Paz

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Electronic Language International Festival

Tecnosoma — Sensitive Circuits in the Flesh of the Machine – Brazil

In this workshop, participants will explore the fusion of body, technology, and artificial intelligence, creating interactive experiences with capacitive sensors and real-time generative models. Inspired by the concept of the Technosome—the machine as a sensitive, pulsating organism—the workshop explores how human touch can generate electrical signals that trigger audiovisual, auditory, and light responses. Microcontrollers (Arduino and ESP32), generative AI, and sensory interactivity will be covered.

BIO

Artist, researcher, and developer specializing in AI, machine learning, and IoT, he has worked for over 10 years with interactive art, generative systems, and sensory installations. He participated in the Artropocode residency (Spain) and the Spontaneous Combustion Residency (London), exploring cyberurban performances and locative media.

Digital Origami: Exploring Procedural Animation

John Otero

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

Digital Origami: Exploring Procedural Animation – Brazil

This workshop introduces procedural animation, a technique that uses mathematical parameters to create automated movements. Using the free version of Houdini software, participants will learn how to digitally assemble and animate origami, exploring the software’s features to simulate movements and behaviors. The creative possibilities of this approach will also be discussed, highlighting applications in animation, generative design, and visual effects.

BIO

João Otero is a visual artist, illustrator, animator, teacher, and visual arts graduate student at ECA-USP. He is a member of the Realidades research and outreach group. He holds a scholarship from the CAPES Teaching Initiation Program in the arts field; he also received a PUB scientific initiation scholarship, researching digital techniques applied to comic book production.

Animated Sprites: Frame-by-Frame Animation for Games

Realities Research and Extension Group

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

Animated Sprites: Frame-by-Frame Animation for Games – Brazil

Want to learn how game animations are created? In this workshop, we’ll explore how animated sprites work, and you’ll have the opportunity to create your own! Using free and accessible tools, we’ll transform ideas into animated art and integrate them into the programming of a simple game.

BIO

The Realidades Group (https://realidades.eca.usp.br/), founded in 2010, is a research and extension group at USP that works with art, technology and the concept of reality.

Beyond My Skin

Flavia Mazzanti

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

Beyond My Skin – Brasil

Beyond My Skin é um projeto interdisciplinar apresentado na forma de instalação interativa, performance híbrida e experiência em realidade mista (MR), que explora a relação híbrida entre corpos humanos e suas representações digitais por meio do uso experimental de diferentes tecnologias e mídias imersivas. O projeto já foi exibido em diversos espaços, como o Deep Space 8K do Ars Electronica Center (Linz, Áustria).

BIO

Flavia Mazzanti é uma artista multimídia que vive e trabalha entre Viena e São Paulo. Sua obra explora conceitos artístico-filosóficos relacionados a pós-antropocentrismo, entrelaçamento, corpo e identidade, com o interesse de oferecer perspectivas alternativas sobre nós mesmos e nosso entorno. Seus trabalhos têm sido exibidos internacionalmente, incluindo em países como Áustria, Suíça, Alemanha e Japão.

Micromacro

ECA-USP Partnership

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

Micromacro – Brazil

In the LED SHOW category, the partnership between FILE and the Visual Arts Program of the Department of Fine Arts of the School of Communications and Arts at the University of São Paulo resulted in works developed under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Silvia Laurentiz, and with the collaboration of Dimitri Lomonaco. This partnership seeks to reaffirm the connection between the Festival and the University, stimulating the production of art in new media: a unique opportunity to access languages, cutting-edge technologies, and innovative resources for reflection and experimentation in the artistic environment and across cultural circles. Micrômacro is a compilation of independent videos, developed based on the following synopsis:

What distinguishes the whole from the part? Where is the limit between “we” and “I”? At what point do I separate myself? This work is a collection of investigations into the indivisible length of the split, the boundary between what separates and what unites. Micromacro is the result of this division. A significant unity of contrast. Part/Whole of the world. Present in each part, everywhere, chrono-micro-macro-macro between us.

Disconnection

Jorge Bandera

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

Disconnection – Colombia

Desconexion explores the transformation of energy. The piece intertwines spiritual and scientific perspectives—grounded in the Law of Conservation of Energy and Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. Symbolizing the continuous metamorphosis of life, the work reveals the eternity of energy, where the end of each cycle marks a new beginning.

BIO

Jorge Bandera is a multimedia designer and assistant professor at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. A specialist in design, interactivity, animation, and immersive experiences, he has collaborated with institutions such as Google, Teatro Mayor, and the Ministry of Culture. He is also an advocate of interdisciplinary co-creation in education.

UnBoxing the Infinite

WOW Studio by D2D

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

UnBoxing the Infinite – Egypt

The work explores the intersection between reality and hyperreality. As a dancer traverses confined spaces, discovers portals, and creates magical worlds with the audience. Using dynamic motion tracking and live visuals, the performance inspires transformation, creativity, and self-liberation, breaking down boundaries of perception.

BIO

Elena Kauffmann is the founder and creative director of WOW Studio (Egypt), focused on media arts, XR, and AI. She created WOW Zone, an experimental space powered by immersive technologies, and is a co-founder of VR developer UBR. She works as a creative producer, immersive experience designer, and art director. Carolina Assis is a Colombian contemporary dancer based in Egypt. Amr Ali is one of WOW Studio’s lead tech artists.

Mutant Tales — Posterra

Fredo Agudelo

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Electronic Language International Festival

mutanttales — Posterra – Colombia

In the end, the organic will eat technological waste like fungi. What remains of humanity in this finale? What remains of Earth over human vanity? We are beings in an unconscious mix, sitting behind screens as if traveling in a spaceship in the void of the universe. The layers fall away, and our corporeal reality remains. Scan your consciousness and step out of your spaceship; in Posterna, there’s still a world to live in.

BIO

Colombian audiovisual artist based in São Paulo. He has experience with video mapping, working in Colombia on various projects and participating in several video mapping festivals in Brazil. He is currently working increasingly with sound to bring a live audiovisual exhibition to the audiovisual art scene, blending experimental sound with video projections.

Surfaces

IED Partnership

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

Surfaces – Brazil

Concrete beams, glass, brick walls, cement… Buildings are built to last, to withstand time. LED screens, on the other hand, thrive on the light they emit—they turn on, blend, and fade. They are ephemeral. When a building is clad in LEDs, the permanent and the transient meet, between what already is and what might become. In the iconic FIESP building on Avenida Paulista, surface design transforms architecture into a field of experimentation. There, students from IED SP explore new possibilities for this building’s existence, redefining the structure through animated light and design.

BIO

Students of the Bachelor’s degree in Graphic and Digital Design at the Istituto Europeo Di Design (IED SP) have come together to create a collective work of animations inspired by surface design, its redefinition, and media materialization, seeking to explore language for visual communication projects. IED is an international training and research network in Design, Fashion, Visual Communication, and Creative Management.

Exo Gestus #2

Yvette Granata

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

Exo Gestus #2 – Estados Unidos

Exo Gestus #2 é uma animação experimental que investiga a forma como sensores de captura de movimento (motion capture) rastreiam incorretamente o corpo da artista. A obra constrói um mundo virtual a partir da amalgamação dos glitches gerados durante o rastreamento de seus movimentos com um traje de MOCAP que é grande demais para seu corpo. O traje foi projetado para corpos maiores, e nem mesmo o menor tamanho disponível pela empresa se ajusta a ela — como resultado, o tamanho de seu corpo provoca distorções nos dados capturados pelo sistema.

BIO

Iván Abreu é um artista mexicano-cubano que cruza ciência, design e tecnologia para questionar a interação humana e os sistemas sociais. Vencedor do Lumen Prize, expôs no ZKM, Ars Electronica e MAB. Malitzin Cortés (CNDSD) é artista mexicana que explora som, tecnologia e arquitetura especulativa, combinando codificação ao vivo, audiovisual e crítica narrativa.

Towards a New Nature

Pan

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Electronic Language International Festival

Towards a New Nature – China

Residents of the Metaverse might have hairstyles where the boundary between the person and the hair blurs, making the hair almost like an “organ.” These hairstyles could “grow” branches or flowers, have a dynamic motion similar to plants swaying in the wind, and feature geometric shapes, colors, and effects that surpass the physical world’s limitations.

BIO

Pan Qianqian is currently studying Digital Media and Mixed Reality at the China Academy of Art. She is good at 3D design and production, and new media art. She is involved in 3D imaging, interactive installations, virtual clothing and other fields. Her works have been exhibited at the First Digital Art Exhibition and Tianwen 2023: Mutual Learning among Civilizations.

AUTOCONSTRUCCION

CNDSD & Iván Abreu

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

AUTOCONSTRUCCION – Mexico

AUTOCONSTRUCCIÓN is a live-coded audiovisual concert and a video game animation performed by real-time algorithms. Through speculative architectural fictions, it narrates the phenomenon of informal housing in places like Mexico, Latin America, Asia, India, and the outskirts of Europe and the U.S. The artists are interested in live coding as a fluid, granular way to craft audiovisual storytelling.

BIO

Iván Abreu is a Mexican-Cuban interdisciplinary artist who blends science, design, and technology to question human interaction and social systems. A Lumen Prize winner, his work has been shown at ZKM, Ars Electronica, and MAB. Malitzin Cortés (CNDSD) is a Mexican artist exploring sound, technology, and speculative architecture through live coding, audiovisuals, and critical narrative.

A Dreamscape Cartography
Marc Samper

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

A Dreamscape Cartography – Spain

A Dreamscape Cartography is a 3D digital artwork created from scans and navigated via Blender. The piece reimagines the ancient ritual of dream incubation, fusing inner realms with virtual environments. Using scans of abandoned houses in the Cyprus Security Zone, it creates a space that blends dreamlike and physical dimensions. Narrated by texts by Paul Celan, the work seeks to build a bridge between imaginary and lived experiences, inspiring new connections between space, memory, and existence.

BIO

Marc Samper is a visual artist, experimental filmmaker, and photographer from Barcelona, currently based in Paris. Graduated in Philosophy from the University of Barcelona and with a Master’s in Cinema from Pompeu Fabra University, his work investigates the ontology and phenomenology of images in global media, speculative metaphysics, and the intersection between mysticism and technology.

ChromaPause

Jiatong Yao

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

ChromaPause – China

ChromaPause is an experimental film that explores the relationship between urban life, posthuman identity, and the yearning for nature in a digitalized world. Futuristic flowers bloom in a surreal mesh, symbolizing the balance between the organic and the synthetic. Posthuman figures merge with the technological landscape, embodying the convergence of humanity and technology. The work invites pause and reflection in this pulsating universe.

BIO

Jiatong Yao connects art, technology, and culture, exploring XR, 3D, AI, and interactive computing. He reflects on the transformation of the modern self through technology, creating immersive experiences that intertwine humanity and the digital age. With a background in computer science and technical art, he develops innovative projects on the impacts of information on society. 

Leonardo Da Vinci Project: Neo-Renaissance

CRUDE_CASTIN

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Electronic Language International Festival

Leonardo Da Vinci Project: Neo-Renaissance – China

Neo-Renaissance uses the protagonist and Leonardo da Vinci as clues to tell the story of people’s prosperous lives in the “cloud,” the emergence of a latent crisis, and the connection of digital subjects in the context of decentralization in the near future. The film makes extensive use of artificial intelligence-generated materials (AIGC), interweaving the Renaissance and Web 3.0 into a single narrative, aiming to reflect on the fading of popular power in the lower echelons of various social processes and on imaginations for the future.

BIO

CRUDE_CASTIN is a creative collective of young artists. Their focus is on revealing the hidden power structures behind technology and using diverse methods to explore the tension between technology and humanity. Their work combines art and technology, reflecting on the dilemmas of today’s technological society through themes such as technology and power, history, and nature.

Garden

Michael Betancourt

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

Garden – United States

Garden is a generative glitches animation created by deliberately conflicting AI (LoRA) models. Using multiple LoRA models to generate images that evoke flowers in a garden, the work transforms traditional representations of plant life into a fluid and hallucinatory exploration of growth, decay, and metamorphosis. These transformations suggest alternative ways of understanding organic growth, where the boundaries between individual organisms become fluid and permeable.

BIO

Michael Betancourt is a contemporary Cuban-American critical theorist, filmmaker, and artist-researcher known for his pioneering work in the fields of Digital Capitalism, Motion Graphics , and Glitch Art . Since 1990, he has explored the intersection of technology, culture, and aesthetics in a diverse practice unified by a constant concern with the poetic potential of images generated by errors.

Approximations of a Body Part

Jon Chambers

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Electronic Language International Festival

Approximations of a Body Part – United States

A machine learning experiment that takes custom model outputs trained on 3D body scans and uses them in other model inputs. After a few cycles, the resulting videos depict terrifying, seductive and uncanny distant echoes of the original body.

BIO

Jon Chambers is an artist and educator based in New Orleans. His work explores how we negotiate our physical and virtual lives to highlight a fractured sense of self as we attempt to coalesce disparate echoes of reference into something coherent amidst the difficulty of manifesting or orienting oneself within approximation and simulation overload.

Impression: São Paulo

#FFFF00

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

Impression: São Paulo – Taiwan

This is a silent video of colors sourced from São Paulo, which #FFFF00 have never been to, photos found on the Internet. While Impressionists painted outdoors in order to capture “the realistic scenes outside the studio,” today’s artists no longer do this — for the world now comes to us in the form of image. The work highlights this mediated reality, evoking the impression of the place with a hypnotic atmosphere.

BIO

#FFFF00 is imagining another art. Her mi̍h-kiānn swings between joke and protest against institutions. With appropriation, multiplicity and low-budget as main tools, strives to pave the way for outsiders. Graduated from National Taiwan University of Arts, has participated in group exhibitions in Asia, Europe, and America.

Natural Intelligence

Brit Bunkley

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Electronic Language International Festival

Natural Intelligence – Nova Zelândia

Natural Intelligence is “intelligence created by nature, natural evolutionary mechanisms” as opposed to artificial intelligence. With it, “there is a dynamic movement of natural intelligence that evolves from vague, fuzzy, and unconscious states to more concrete and conscious states, and thus realizing the essence of perception” (Perlovsky and Kozma, 2007). It is beautiful and deeply flawed, but it levels out in the end.

BIO

Bunkley has exhibited at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa. He participated in the Visions in the Nunnery at the Nunnery/Bows art gallery in London in 2022 and in 2024 at Rencontres Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, and he exhibited in Artweek Gyumri, Armenia. He was the award winner for Best Art | Experimental video/film at the New York City Independent Film Festival 2024 in NYC.

ArtiPerception

Yukang Tao

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ArtiPerception – United States

Based on scientific dogmatism, which assumes itself capable of absolute and supreme knowledge, and even strictly lingers to objectivity, eliminating all delusions of our sensationsBut when we rupture those scientific peculiarities, what is the naive essence underneath physical particles and waves, or scientific approximation?

BIO

Yukang Tao is an interdisciplinary artist who works in the fields of electronic arts, animation, video, and performance. While all of his artwork alludes to the concept of gender and observes the relationship between technology, nature and humanity, it also encompasses themes such as surveillance and self-absorption of society in media

(Gaia:Uni(que)verse)

Silvia De Gennaro

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(Gaia:Uni(que)verse) – Italy

Why look for artificial worlds when we already live in a world full of wonder?

BIO

Silvia De Gennaro lives and works in Rome, Italy. For twenty years she has been dealing with digital art, video art and animation. Her works have participated in several video art exhibitions and film festivals around the world.

Meka Talks — Além da carne, o aço

Koral Alvarenga

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Electronic Language International Festival

Meka Talks — Além da carne, o aço – Brazil

Meka talks are provocative dialogues between artist Koral Alvarenga and various machines, exploring the future of humanity. In this first encounter, the work reflects on the transition of humanity to a new state of existence, where the physical and biological limitations of the body are overcome by the durability and transformative potential of technology.

BIO

Koral Alvarenga is a digital artist with a degree in Visual Arts and a postgraduate degree from UNESP. Her research explores the intersection between the digital and the physical, using 3D modeling, digitization, virtual reality, and 3D printing. Her works address themes such as identity, post-humanism, and human connections, merging technology and art with a futuristic vision.

Music for Control Panels

Juan Manuel Escalante

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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

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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.

Elemental

Minimaforms & DRL Elemental Research Group

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Electronic Language International Festival

Elemental – United Kingdom

Within the contemporary condition, new conceptual terrains emerge that raise questions of agency and intelligence within a deep ecology of our environment. The work explored examines environmental phenomena in the service of sustaining life. The following video is an extract from a work-in-progress film produces exploring the technology phenomenon in attempt to expand the conversation on climate matters.. 

BIO

Dr. Theodore Spyropoulos is an architect and educator. He is the Director of the Architectural Association’s world-renowned Design Research Lab (AADRL) in London and a resident artist at Somerset House. He previously chaired the AA Graduate School and was a Professor of Architecture at the Staedelschule in Frankfurt and a visiting Research Fellow at MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies. 

sorrow

Fran Orallo

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sorrow – Spain

The work consists of a video glitch that shows a distorted body making dramatic movements. The project questions the idea of identity and identification with one’s own body, showing a disjuncture when it comes to representation. The work is a metaphor that represents the violence exerted on a dissident body. The video is collected within the field of self-portrait since the body rep resented is the artist’s own body.

BIO

Fran Orallo lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland. He studied art at UPV, Valencia, Spain, and New Media Art at City of Glasgow College, Scotland. His work focus es on experimentation with the field of video and animation. He has exhibited his work both in Spain and abroad, participating in biennials, collective exhibitions, and festivals in more than 40 countries.

Die Kunst ist der nächste Nachbar der Wildnis

Caspar de Gelmini

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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.

What future will we build upon the ruins of the present?

Barbara Oettinger

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What future will we build upon the ruins of the present? – Chile

What future will we build upon the ruins of the present? is a short film that embarks on a symbolic and poetic exploration of faults and glit ches in the fabric of reality, both physical and virtual. It delves into how these disruptions can act as catalysts, transforming our understanding of the world we inhabit.

BIO

Barbara Oettinger is a visual artist and filmmaker from Chile. She has participated in various exhibitions and scre enings in cultural centers, galleries, and museums in South America, North America, Europe, Asia and Oceania. Recently, she received a scholarship from the Chilean government (ANID) to pursue a PhD in Creative and Critical Practice at the University of Sussex in Brighton, UK.

Daily Diffusion 53 & 86

Callahan Indovina

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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

Ørigin

Ø STUDIO

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Ørigin – United States | Taiwan

Ørigin, an AI-generated experimental short film, invites viewers to engage with its open-ended narrative through the innovative use of AI tools. By challenging conventional perceptions of art and storytelling, the film fosters a dynamic, non-linear, and visually captivating exploration of the evolving relationship between humanity, nature, and technology. Directed by Davis Chang (Chin-Hsiang Chang), Ørigin veers away from photorealism and close-ended storytelling, opting instead for symbolism and ambiguity within AI-generated visuals.

BIO

Ø Studio is an award-winning AI creative studio specializing in AI-driven short films and new media art. With a unique blend of experimental visuals and humor, their works, like The HØST, Black Høle, and Ørigin have received international recognition and awards. Based in LA, Ø Studio col laborates globally with artists, exploring the intersection of humanity, nature, and technology.

AI Created a Sci-Fi World You Won’t Believe!

Cornelis Clement

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Electronic Language International Festival

AI Created a Sci-Fi World You Won’t Believe! – Germany

AI Created a Sci-Fi World You Won’t Believe! is a science fiction universe generated by artificial intelligence. Custom-created images for this world were brought to life with motion and an original soundtrack, resulting in an immersive experience. The work invites the audi ence to explore breathtaking alien landscapes, futuristic cities, and cosmic phenomena reminiscent of Dune and No Man’s Sky. This AI-generated video transports viewers into a realm of visual marvels and hypnotic atmospheres.

BIO

Cornelis is a Berlin-based artist specializing in AI-generated art. He views technology as the dawn of a new era in artistic creation and seeks to be an active part of this movement. His work aims to push creative boundaries, offering audiences new ways to experience imagined worlds.

Recursive Empyrean

DMTPortal

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Recursive Empyrean – Canada

Recursive Empyrean merges fractal-based visuals with an original ambient soundtrack, guiding viewers through infinite loops of creation and collapse. Each cos mic structure reflects itself into eternity, unveiling deeper mysteries with every shift in perspective. Radiant geometry and ambient pulses draw awareness beyond time and space, where subtle patterns reveal gentle truths, echoing the hum of cosmic purpose.

BIO

John Dobbie, a Classical Animation graduate from Sheridan College in Canada, has spent over 20 years shaping digital worlds for franchises like Call of Duty and God of War. Now based in New York’s Capital Region with his family, he crafts immersive cosmic-themed works as DMTPORTAL, merging technology, mysticism, and decades of experience to expand perception beyond the ordinary.