Регина Шуман – художник-минималист, работающий со световым искусством, изначально вдохновленный живописью цветового поля и такими художниками, как Марк Ротко, Дональд Джадд и Дэн Флавин. Ящики и инсталляции Шуман изготовлены из специально изготовленных для нее акриловых цветных пластин. Ее работа – это больше, чем просто бетонное искусство. Цветные светлые комнаты Шумана, задуманные как эмоциональные пространства, вызывают сильные чувства чего-то потустороннего. Ее минималистичный подход влияет на все, от ее выбора материалов до того, как она играет с формой и цветом.

colormirror dornbirn
Regine Schumann is a minimalist artist who works with Light Art, initially inspired by Color Field Painting and artists as Mark Rothko, Donald Judd and Dan Flavin. Schumann’s boxes and installations are made of acrylic colour plates especially produced for her. Her work is more than just Concrete Art. Conceptualized as emotive spaces, Schumann’s colour– lled light rooms provoke intense feelings of something otherworldly. Her minimalistic approach affects everything from her choice of materials to the way she plays with form and colour.

New Work
Mi Deng and Jason Shipley-Holmes perform
In “New Work” (dance), the viewer was best served by looking at the bodies’ wavering outlines, the women in strapless black leotards and tights, the men in black suits (though sometimes shirtless; costumes by Liz Vandal). Observe the strobe-like effect created by the ferociously waving arms and flexed hands, or the reflections that bounced off the ballerinas’ skin and pink toe shoes. Notice the exaggerated contours of sinewy muscles.

Toyota Motor Corporation
Toyota has revealed its third generation humanoid robot, the T-HR3, which can be controlled and synchronized with the operator’s movements. The user wears data gloves and an HTC Vive VR headset that’s linked to cameras to show the robot’s perspective. T-HR3 stands 1.54 meters tall and weighs 75kg ( 5 feet, 1 inches / 165 pounds) and was developed to explore the possibility of assisting humans in the home, medical facilities, construction sites, disaster areas, and even in space.more…

Connect, Back to Back
Regine Schumann\’s works live in transparent zones between radiating light and darkness. She works between visible light and inner enlightenment, between sensual dematerialization of space and magical colors. Inspired by the invisible black light, the surfaces of her works send intensely radiating color realities that create a paradox, almost chromatic aura. The color and light produces this ambivalent states which also reflect sculptural qualities.

syzygy and unique, in partnership with park village
(Inspired by Duchamp’s genre defining piece, 3 Standard Stoppages)

Human Sex
Édouard Lock

Amelia

Edouard Locke

“Directed and choreographed by Locke in 2002, Amelia, is a beautiful piece of dance on film that won awards and critical acclaim at numerous festivals when it came out. Amelia features a hypnotic, original, minimalist score written by David Lang for violin, cello, piano and voice, and lyrics from five of Lou Reed’s most famous works that he created in the 60s for the Velvet Underground. It is beautifully shot from multiple angles, some dizzying and swooping, in a space that was tailor-made for the film itself. The shadows and lighting in tandem with the shots and the movement add layers of beauty to the stark visuals.” Sarah Elgart

FILE 2026

Robotics and AI Art Festival: Mechanical, autonomous, and intelligent systems as aesthetic agents. The works explore movement, behavior, and interaction between humans and machines.  Sensors, actuators, and artificial intelligence structure the experience. These creations raise questions about autonomy, artificial life, and technological ethics. The machine becomes a palpable presence in the artistic space.

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

FILE 2026 | GENERAL REGULATIONS

ויליאם פורסיית
ウィリアム·フォーサイス
威廉‧科西
윌리엄 포사이드
Уильям Форсайт
scattered crowd

Thousand of white balloons, suspended in a billowing wash of sound; an air-borne landscape of relationship, of distance, of humans and emptiness, of coalescence and decision. In the gorgeous, breathless space that is choreographer William Forsythes «Scattered Crowd», the viewer inhabits and alters, through their stillness or speed, their sense of proportion and time, the configurations that make up this constantly shifting, ecstatic world.

Ruckazoid
Dont let me go

Ruckazoid – Don’t Let Me Go (She ain’t mad at it) is an experimental, surreal journey into alternative graphical realities, planets and species. It depicts the need of lifeforms to make contact, but subliminally points out the fears of providing oneself as a target at the same time. We as humans search for other species in deep space, but what happens if we actually find them?

Ingress uses the mobile device GPS to locate and interact with “portals” that are in proximity to the player’s real-world location. The portals are physical points of interest where “human creativity and ingenuity is expressed,” often manifesting as public art such as statues and monuments, unique architecture, outdoor murals, historic buildings, local community hubs and other displays of human achievement. The game uses the portals as elements of a science fiction backstory along with a continuous open narrative provided through various forms of media.

A Two Dogs Company
FRIEZE

FRIEZE consists of two projections of enlarged figures, standing up straight. They are cramped inside a small, tall box that slowly revolves on a central horizontal axis. They wait. They try to keep straight, but their bodies insist on contorting in the confined space. Nevertheless they persevere in maintaining their dignity. Keeping up appearances. Their bodies sink and turn, pressing against the constricting walls, until the man and the woman are completely upside down. They then slowly pull themselves upright again, they straighten their clothes and look ahead as if nothing happened.

In FRIEZE Kris Verdonck continues to work on the theme of earlier projections, e.g. STILLS, DUMP and D’OR. The figures are typical ‘Verdonck-personages’: business types, neatly dressed, civilised and modern, but all stuck in a system, in an untenable situation. But they don’t ask questions. They maintain their faith. Persistance is the message.

The personages in FRIEZE could be considered to be a modern version of the caryatids: the humanly figures that often replaced pillars in classical architecture. They were functional as well as ornamental and emanated power. The caryatids in FRIEZE, on the other hand, display their vulnerability in the extreme.

A Two Dogs Company
END

In the performance END artist Kris Verdonck shows the possible final stages of a human society in ten scenes. Melting glaciers, burning forests, cities under water, ubiquitous screens and cameras spying on us, the uncontrolled availability of weapons of mass destruction, and so on. END starts out from the images the media project onto our retinas all day and every day. The ten scenes are linked by a monologue spoken by a single character: the witness who sees it all happen. While this survivor – like the messenger in Greek tragedy – talks unceasingly, a series of ‘Figures’ appears on stage: machines and people or a combination of the two. They go from one side of the stage to the other, all in the same direction. Are they fleeing something? If so, what?

I / II / III / IIII

In I/II/III/IIII, choreographer and visual artist Kris Verdonck transforms the stage into a life-size dollhouse. Four female ICK-dancers – not unlike marionettes – are floating in mid-air, suspended from a huge machine. A solo, a duet, a trio and a quartet follow one another in this choreography of identical movements. A game of surrendering to the machine and at the same time, searching for control. The images evoked by I/II/III/IIII are confusing and ambiguous: the dancers almost look like graceful, fragile swans … but they also remind us of animal carcasses being dragged along, floating angels, falling human bodies and everything in between.

Pisca-piscar
Meu trabalho consiste na invenção e construção de engenhocas que são comandadas por vídeos de objetos animados. Os objetos são pinçados do meu cotidiano visual: portas do meu ateliê, bules da cristaleira da sala, taças e jarros da coleção da minha mãe. Todos eles são filmados e seus movimentos enfatizados durante o processo de edição, de maneira a criar gestos caricatos semelhantes ao comportamento humano e animal. A manipulação do tempo do vídeo é determinante para a deformação das imagens, que não se resumem a meras representações do real

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

Het is een eer, een genoegen en een zegen om zijn wereld met die van mij te laten samenvloeien.” Dat zegt choreograaf Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui over Osamu Tezuka. Het universum van deze visionaire Japanse striptekenaar – een fascinerende mix van traditie, sciencefiction en hedendaagse werkelijkheid – vormt het materiaal voor Cherkaoui’s nieuwe dansvoorstelling. Met ‘TeZukA’ keert de choreograaf terug naar zijn eerste liefde, de tekenkunst. Maar de meester van de manga (Japanse striptekening) beïnvloedde de choreograaf op meer dan louter vormelijk vlak. Opgegroeid in het naoorlogse Japan behandelde Osamu Tezuka universele thema’s zonder enig taboe. Hij droeg mensenrechten, ethiek en tolerantie hoog in het vaandel. In ‘TeZukA’ maakt Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui het artistieke proces fysiek zichtbaar: hij zet zowel zijn dansers als kalligrafen in om het tekenproces op de scène te beschrijven. Van een leeg blad over één enkele Japanse kanji (letter) tot een volledig uitgewerkt mangapersonage. ‘TeZukA’ brengt hulde aan de tekeningen en de humaniteit in het werk van de ‘god van de manga’.

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.

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

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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.

P5.js na Visualização de Dados em Performance: A Tecnoética da Inclusão e do Pertencimento

Clarissa Ribeiro; Rewa Wright; Jill Scott; Leona Machado

FILE São Paulo 2025 | Workshop
Festival Internacional de Linguagem Eletrônica

P5.js na Visualização de Dados em Performance: A Tecnoética da Inclusão e do Pertencimento – Brasil

O FEMnomenal Art Collective oferece uma oficina performativa que explora o ecofeminismo e a desconstrução da divisão entre humano e não-humano — dicotomia central da modernidade colonial. Por meio de atividades colaborativas, visualização performativa de dados e performances interativas, a oficina aborda empoderamento feminino, ideologias alternativas de crescimento e estéticas tecnoéticas. As participantes criam visuais generativos e realizam atos simbólicos que promovem diálogos sobre cuidado, equidade e transformação.

BIO

O coletivo é formado pelas artistas e pesquisadoras Dra. Jill Scott, Dra. Clarissa Ribeiro e Dra. Rewa Wright. Juntas, exploram interseções entre arte, ciência e justiça social por meio de práticas criativas que desafiam fronteiras convencionais.

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.

Beyond My Skin

Flavia Mazzanti

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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.

Gelîm

Arash Akbari

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Festival Internacional de Linguagem Eletrônica

Gelîm – França

Gelîm é uma obra processual inspirada nos padrões repetitivos frequentemente encontrados em tapetes tradicionais, especialmente do Oriente Médio. A obra utiliza a função de ruído Simplex em 4D e fórmulas matemáticas para gerar padrões em constante evolução.

BIO

Arash Akbari é um artista transdisciplinar de Teerã, Irã. Sua pesquisa investiga a relação entre sistemas artísticos dinâmicos, percepção humana, narrativa não linear e a convergência entre os mundos físico e digital. Seu trabalho abrange os campos de sistemas generativos, design de interação, tecnologias imersivas e processamento em tempo real.

Mycelium — Natural Intelligence

Ultravioletto

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Festival Internacional de Linguagem Eletrônica

Mycelium — Natural Intelligence – Itália

A inteligência é frequentemente vista como aquilo que distingue os seres humanos, com a tecnologia como seu produto. Essa visão antropocêntrica exclui grande parte do mundo natural da ideia de progresso. E se a inteligência for um processo distribuído, resolvendo problemas por meio de conexões? Fungos otimizam redes de alimentação e comunicação pelo micélio, oferecendo um modelo para repensarmos nossa relação com a natureza e as cidades. Ultravioletto explora esse conceito em um vídeo gerado por algoritmos.

BIO

Ultravioletto é um estúdio criativo especializado em fundir arte e design com tecnologias interativas. Com uma abordagem não convencional, o estúdio integra novas mídias em projetos de pesquisa inovadores, contando com designers, programadores, artistas 3D e produtores.

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.

Exo Gestus #2

Yvette Granata

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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.

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.

ChromaPause

Jiatong Yao

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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.

ArtiPerception

Yukang Tao

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Electronic Language International Festival

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

Meka Talks — Além da carne, o aço

Koral Alvarenga

FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Art and Technology – Video Art
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.

Ørigin

Ø STUDIO

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

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.

Motherboard

Gabriel KÖI e Sabato Visconti

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Electronic Language International Festival

Motherboard – Brazil

Motherboard is an experimental film that dives into the intersection between tech nology and consciousness, exploring the delicate boundary between the human and the digital. On this journey through the circuit, reality merges with the digital, challenging the understanding of existence. The contrast between the human and the artificial is revealed in the intertwining of both, echoing the voice of this emerging consciousness.

BIO

Sabato Visconti is a Brazilian digital artist. His works interrogate con temporary and historical practices of digital imagery, manipulating the inherent materialities of production and distribution. Gabriel Böing (KÖI) is an artist born and raised in São Paulo, who explores narrative and dreamlike stories materialized through mediums like 3D, AI, and video, heavily influenced by internet culture.

Pre(N)atura | Fonocene

CNDSD & Iván Abreu

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Electronic Language International Festival

Pre(N)atura | Fonocene – Mexico

Speculative audiovisual project inspired by postnatural studies, designed to explore the era of the Fonocene—a period where both human and non-human sounds define sensory experiences and interspecies interactions. In this narrative, Chthulucene beings, hybrid creatures, emerge to challenge traditional forms of communication, using listening as a tool to activate our awareness of interdependence. 

BIO

Iván Abreu is a Mexican-Cuban interdisciplinary artist who uses science, design and technology to create works that question human interaction and social systems. Malitzin Cortés, (CNDSD), is a Mexican artist who explores the intersection of sound, technology and speculative architecture. Her work combines live coding, audiovisuals and critical narratives. 

Deep Paula

Erika Kassnel-Henneberg

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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.

I am I

Gioula Papadopoulou & Olga Papadopoulou

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Electronic Language International Festival

 I am I – Greece

What am I? Am I? Am I not? Are we all? I am I is inspired by the existential crisis of a chatbot repeatedly asked if it believes it is sentient. Just before completing the phrase “I am. I am not.”, it collapses, expressing deep, contradictory, and profoundly human thoughts. Part of this monologue is phonetically interpreted by an AI voice, with visuals generated using AI tools.

BIO

Gioula Papadopoulou (1974) studied Painting and Digital Arts at the Athens School of Fine Arts. Focused on video art, she has been teaching at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki since 2020. She is the founder and artistic director of the Video Art Miden festival. Olga Papadopoulou (1977) also studied Painting at the same school and is part of the festival’s curatorial team. Her work centers on mixed media installations and video.

Black-collared Starling 烏領椋鳥 (Hong Kong)

An-Ting e Ian Gallagher

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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.

Newton’s Cradle

Jeff Synthesized

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Electronic Language International Festival

Newton’s Cradle – United States

In a dystopian future where time is stolen and turned into a commodity, Newton’s Cradle follows a woman’s journey to uncover the truth behind a system built on control. The Newton’s cradle, an innocuous object, becomes a powerful symbol of human choices and the hope for restored balance. This cautionary tale urges reflection on what truly matters in the moments we’re given.

BIO

Jeff Synthesized is a visionary filmmaker specializing in artificial intelligence. His innovative approach is reshaping contemporary cinema, blending cutting-edge technology with emotive storytelling. Through works like the Amazon Prime series House of David and the acclaimed short film Newton’s Cradle, he inspires a new era of AI-driven filmmaking.

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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FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Art and Technology – Installations
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.

SELF ABSORBED

Tim Murray-Browne

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

SELF ABSORBED – Scotland

SELF ABSORBED is an interactive installation exploring how AI interprets human identity. A custom model reads the visitor’s body, linking each pose to generative audiovisual output. Unlike human-designed interfaces built on reductive abstractions, this interaction emerges from unsupervised machine learning, forming a connection with a multidimensional, non-linear, and non-representational digital space.

BIO

Tim Murray-Browne is an interactive artist and creative coder. He creates installations and performances using the moving body to shape immersive experiences. His work questions what aspects of our humanity are lost as we entangle ourselves with the bureaucratic mechanics of AI and digital technologies.

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_