Digital Video and AI Festival: explores experimental languages beyond traditional narratives. Works may utilize digital editing, image manipulation, computational processes, and artificial intelligence technologies.
Applications are open until February 19, 2026. Access the application form.
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.
Джереми Бэйли
제레미 베일리
ג’רמי ביילי
ジェレミー·ベイリー
The Future Of Television
Since the early noughties Bailey has ploughed a compelling, and often hilarious, road through the various developments of digital communications technologies. Ostensibly a satire on, and parody of, the practices and language of “new media,” the jocose surface of Bailey’s work hides an incisive exploration of the critical intersection between video, computing, performance, and the body.
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.
Representa Corisco
O Projeto Representa Corisco está em desenvolvimento desde 2003 e neste período foram realizadas várias intervenções urbanas e vídeo instalações em cidades como Belo Horizonte, São Paulo e Barcelona. Com o objetivo de propor reflexões críticas sobre as relações políticas e sociais nas grandes metrópoles, o projeto trabalha com conceitos da cultura popular e ícones visuais relacionados com o universo do cangaço e um dos seus personagens: Corisco.
O cangaço foi um movimento armado que durou mais de dois séculos (XIX e XX) no nordeste brasileiro e pode ser associado a conceitos como de resistência e crítica a privilégios hereditários presentes na história brasileira. Evocar Corisco e o cangaço é um intento de desenvolver uma ação política dentro do contexto contemporâneo, uma maneira de reinterpretar um passado recente, um universo de poesia e sobrevivência em um cenário desfavorável como o da Caatinga.
METABUP
FILE FESTIVAL – MACHINIMA
“Meta Bup” de Nicolas Boone & Johann Van Aerden constitue un épisode de la série “Bup” qui explore le “système totalitaire” de la publicité. Cet épisode aux allures de jeu vidéo, a été réalisé dans l’espace “Bup” , construit dans “Second Life”, avec une foule d’avatars convoqués par les artistes pour participer au tournage. Envahi par des messages publicitaires et de propagande pour “Bup” , l’univers de “Second Life” se transforme en un espace où non seulement les avatars mais également ceux qui les commandent sont manipulés par le projet Bup. Le projet “Meta Bup” développe sur un mode ludique et festif une mise en abyme des mécanismes publicitaires.
GRAFFITI ANALYSIS
SCULPTURES
Graffiti Analysis is an extensive ongoing study into the motion of graffiti. Custom software designed for graffiti writers creates visualizations of the often unseen motion involved in the creation of a tag. Motion data is recorded, analyzed and archived in a free and open database, 000000book.com, where writers can share analytical representations of their hand styles. Influential graffiti artist such as SEEN, TWIST, AMAZE, KETONE, JONONE, and KATSU have had their tags motion captured using the Graffiti Analysis software. All tags created in Graffiti Analysis are saved as Graffiti Markup Language (GML) files, a new digital standard used by other popular graffiti applications such as Laser Tag and EyeWriter. Graffiti Analysis 3.0 is an open source project that is available online for free in OSX, Windows and Linux. Graffiti writers are invited to capture and share their own tags, and computer programmers are invited to create new applications and visualizations of the resulting data. What Martha Cooper did for archiving graffiti on film, and Chalfant/Silver did for archiving graffiti in video, Graffiti Analysis intends to do for archiving graffiti in code. The project aims to build the worlds largest archive of graffiti motion, and bring together two seemingly disparate communities that share an interest hacking systems, whether found in code or in the city.
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
Nihongo de Hanasoo
Nihongo de Hanasoo is an excerpted from a full evening perfornance work called Gaijin. Like Pop Titles ‘You’, it is an example of Z’s love for found text. She reads the chapter titles from a Japanese language text book accompanied by a loop of her voice reciting the Kana (Japanese phonetic alphabet) and a projected video (by Jeanne Finley + John Muse) of two, slow moving Butoh performers (Shinichi Iova-Koga and Leigh Evans).
Desire of Codes
This interactive installation in three configurations to expand.
Ninety structures resembling tentacles with built-in small surveillance cameras are placed across a white wall［Ninety Wriggling Wall Units, while six robotic search arms equipped with video cameras and laser projectors are suspended from the ceiling [Six Multi-perspective Search Arms]. Each device senses observe and follow as mosquito movements the positions and movements of visitors, and turns toward detected persons in order to observe their actions. In addition 4.7m round-shaped projection screen that looks like an insect’ s compound eye which installed in the back of the exhibition space［Compound Eye Detector Screen］.
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.
hidden in plain sight
“hidden in plain sight” é uma meditação sobre a natureza da programação de computador. Enquanto um game de computador roda, tanto o jogo quanto o compilador que transforma código legível de programa em código executável de máquina estão sendo compilados. Esse ciclo sem fim e recorrente cria uma miríade de ambientes em 3D de curta duração, que têm o emblema do processo inscrito em suas paredes. O trabalho é basicamente uma peça de software (Quake III Engine modificado, compilador) que roda por conta própria, compilando incessantemente e executando mundos virtuais. Este maquinema é um vídeo gravado de uma dessas interações.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Dimitri Lomonaco
FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Arte e Tecnologia
Festival Internacional de Linguagem Eletrônica
Vídeo ao vivo: imagem, espaço e interatividade – Brasil
A oficina combina artes visuais e novas mídias, na medida em que se utiliza da tecnologia de video mapping, ou projeção mapeada, como ferramenta para composições visuais no espaço físico. Para além das telas, a imagem projetada pode interferir nas mais diversas superfícies (arquitetura, objetos, corpo etc.), tornando-as telas de vídeo dinâmicas. Assim, o vídeo deixa de ser um retângulo plano e cria a ilusão de ser um elemento interativo, incorporando-se ao espaço.
BIO
Dimitri Lomonaco é um artista-pesquisador da imagem e de tecnologias digitais no campo do audiovisual expandido. Integrando design, cenografia e iluminação, desenvolve projetos de arte e tecnologia, criando experiências visuais imersivas e sensíveis. Atualmente é mestrando no programa de Artes Visuais da ECA-USP e integrante dos grupos de pesquisa em arte e tecnologia Realidades (USP) e GIIP (UNESP).
Hernan Roperto
FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Arte e Tecnologia
Festival Internacional de Linguagem Eletrônica
RUÍDO/SINAL (Ruído Visual e o Fluxo Infinito de Dados) – Argentina
“Todo ambiente tem um ruído de fundo dominante. Tudo que se destaca visualmente será um sinal” — Jorrit Tornquist.
Convivemos com desinformações, bombardeio de informações e distrações constantes, criando um ambiente caótico e sobrecarregado. Este projeto interpreta metaforicamente o ruído visual como uma representação do fluxo infinito de dados em que estamos imersos, convidando à reflexão sobre como navegamos neste mar de dados e a sua influência em nossa percepção e compreensão do mundo.
BIO
Hernán Roperto é um VJ, artista audiovisual e engenheiro. Especializado em design visual para performances ao vivo, incluindo vídeo em tempo real, design de projeção, mapping e programação criativa. Seus projetos foram apresentados em vários festivais internacionais, como FILE (SP, Brasil), Live Performance Meeting (Roma, Itália), Mutek Argentina, Haptic Hybrid (NY), Biennale Esch.
Ultravioletto
FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Arte e Tecnologia
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.
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.
Fredo Agudelo
FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Art and Technology – LED SHOW
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.
Vitoria Cribb
FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Arte e Tecnologia
Festival Internacional de Linguagem Eletrônica
//:Are you observing or being observed? – Brasil
Nesse curta-metragem criado para a Bangkok Art Biennale 2022, são explorados temas como vigilância, desvio de atenção, corpos digitais versus presença digital, e os limites entre materialidade e imaterialidade na contemporaneidade. A artista utiliza áudio e animação em CGI para expressar suas sensações e reflexões sobre esses temas. A obra propõe uma reflexão sobre o ato de consumir conteúdos online enquanto somos simultaneamente observados por algoritmos que coletam nossos dados — um jogo entre observar e ser observado. O trabalho encarna essa grande entidade anônima que nos cerca e nos vigia na internet.
BIO
Formada pela Escola Superior de Desenho Industrial da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Em 2025, participou da 16ª Bienal de Sharjah e da 14ª Bienal do Mercosul. Participações anteriores incluem: a 3ª Bienal Mayrit; a 22ª edição do Videobrasil – Festival SESC de Arte Contemporânea; Frieze Film Seoul 2024; Arteônica, no Museum of Latin American Art; e Shifting Horizons, no Pylon-Hub L.
S4RA
FILE São Paulo 2025 | CGI Videos
Festival Internacional de Linguagem Eletrônica
bot3quim – Portugal
Palco para intelectuais, artistas & livres-pensadores se encontrarem, bot3quim é um cenário de convergência que se tornou uma instituição cultural, santuário da expressão criativa e símbolo de resistência durante a ditadura portuguesa.
BIO
S4RA é uma artista interdisciplinar que se alimenta de dinâmicas de poder consensuais & jogos de gênero através de um processo híbrido de narrativa pós-dramática entre animação digital & ambientes imersivos. Também passa horas infinitas vagando por labirintos do pós-capitalismo & sua influência sobre o prazer libidinal.
Pan
FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Art and Technology – CGI VIDEOS
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.
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.
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.
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.
CRUDE_CASTIN
FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Art and Technology – CGI VIDEOS
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.
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.
Hsujing
FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Arte e Tecnologia – Videoart
Festival Internacional de Linguagem Eletrônica
XENO: UNDERTOW – China / England
XENO: UNDERTOW is an experimental short film that employs stream-of-consciousness narration and AI-generated surreal visual art to explore the identity struggles and inner turmoil of cross-cultural migrants in mainstream society. Through metaphor, the film depicts a whale forcibly displaced from the boundless azure sea, cast into a desert of shifting sands. This imagery symbolizes the challenges cultural migrants face in adapting to dominant cultures and the profound sense of identity loss.
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Hsujing is a contemporary artist and digital artist & director. His primary research focuses on the integration of technology and art, as well as speculative creative outputs. He is skilled in combining diverse techniques for artistic creation. His works blend elements of classicism with science fiction, not only envisioning future landscapes but also revealing persistent realities.
Yuting Chen
FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Arte e Tecnologia
Festival Internacional de Linguagem Eletrônica
A Camera and an Engine – China
A Camera and an Engine é um vídeo renderizado de 4 canais que retrata a dualidade do estado suspenso de uma jovem streamer de videogames chinesa nos mundos digital e real. Virtualmente, essa suspensão se manifesta em encontros com falhas, bugs e áreas não programadas, enquanto, na realidade, representa a instabilidade e a ansiedade em uma sociedade acelerada e altamente competitiva.
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Yuting é uma artista multimídia chinesa nascida em 1998, com base em Londres e Pequim. Seus interesses de pesquisa focam no vídeo experimental, motores de jogos e nos paradoxos da virtualização da realidade. Yuting é bacharel pela Universidade de Tsinghua em Mídia Impressa, e completou seu mestrado em Belas Artes na mesma universidade e no Royal College of Art, no Reino Unido.
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.
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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.
#FFFF00
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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.
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#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.
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.
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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.
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?
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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
Silvia De Gennaro
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Electronic Language International Festival
(Gaia:Uni(que)verse) – Italy
Why look for artificial worlds when we already live in a world full of wonder?
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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.
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.
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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.
Juan Manuel Escalante
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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.
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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).
Kenji Kojima
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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.
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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.
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..
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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.
Fran Orallo
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Electronic Language International Festival
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.
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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.
Caspar de Gelmini
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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.
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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.
Barbara Oettinger
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Electronic Language International Festival
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.
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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.
Callahan Indovina
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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
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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
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.
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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.
