International Festival of Generative Arts
Design: Eva Bevec
DATE: 28-30 May 2026
LOCATION: Kino Šiška, Glej Theatre and SŠOF, Ljubljana
FREE ENTRY!
Early visions of interconnected knowledge networks that gather and make sense of streams of messy data have materialised in an extractive and operationalised World Wide Web. Running on data-hungry infrastructures geared toward large-scale machinic processing, our actions within the seamless interfaces of online platforms and applications are rendered into data points within systems of classification, optimisation and monetisation.
In our endless scrolling though the labyrinthine strata of AI slop, bot operations, tracking cookies and algorithmic recommendations – as a means of coping in the face of dwindling resources and the bleakness of the future on the horizon – communities are fragmenting into disempowered and alienated individuals, while creativity becomes merely a tool in the endless feedback loops of production and consumption, speculation and the consolidation of power.
Adela calls on bodies from the “always on” dark forest to join us “offline” and engage with rogue, open-source algorithms, wild, grassroots web experiments and communities that nurture creativity within limitations. By exploring the potential of low-tech, slow, obsolete, overlooked and small technologies, we will uncover the social, creative and infrastructural protocols for community computing and sustainable networking.
The festival will open with the exhibition Earthside Wish Machine by the 2026 Parameter fair award winner jiawen uffline. The installation establishes a time-based and site-situated protocol that appropriates abandoned military technology into an apparatus for wish transmission. On the following day, the Isitwatching workshop will focus on creating simple networked systems for machine vision and responsive kinetics. The evening will be illuminated by exposed screens, starting with the AV performance Show us your screen and followed by the traditional community event From Scratch.
On Saturday, at the Pocket Websites workshop, we’ll bring our old smartphones back to life and repurpose them as portable servers for our own websites. The Parameter fair will showcase works that creatively employ (re)generative methods and will enable the purchase of artworks for small digital-analogue collections. The Digital Dish will explore community-driven and sustainable visions of the web, and we’ll close the festival with an evening of Algorave's eclectic fusion of code, sound and visuals, live-coded by an international collective of coders.
Programme
jiawen uffline: Earthside Wish Machine
- Thursday | 28 May 2026 | 18:30 | Kino Šiška
- Exhibition opening
Isitwatching
- Friday | 29 May 2026 | 16:00 | SŠOF
- Workshop
- Mentor: Oskar Kandare
- Applications open 4 May
Turbulente & Eloi el Bon Noi: Show us your screen
- Friday | 29 May 2026 | 20:00 | Glej Theatre
- AV live coding performance
From Scratch
- Friday | 29 May 2026 | 21:00 | Glej Theatre
- Improvised live coding
- Everyone is welcome to join!
Pocket Websites
- Saturday | 30 May 2026 | 10:00 | Kino Šiška
- Workshop
- Mentor: Marie Verdeil
- Applications open 4 May
Parameter
- Saturday | 30 May 2026 | 16:00 | Kino Šiška
- Generative arts fair
- Participants: Qianxun Chen, Saskia Freeke, Cyrus Khalatbari, Yann Martins, Milan Milojković & Danilo Šainović, Thomas Pausz, Alevtina Senik, Dorijan Šiško & Aljaž Glaser, jiawen uffline, Julia Vollmer, Vita Eva Weisseisen & Aleksandar Tendjer
Digital Dish: Marie Verdeil & Kristoffer Tjalve
- Saturday | 30 May 2026 | 18:00 | Kino Šiška
- Presentations and discussion
- Moderator: Lea Sande
Algorave
- Saturday | 30 May 2026 | 21:00 | Kino Šiška
- Performances: Eloi el Bon Noi, Eye Measure, lil_data, Lina Rica, Lucretio, msngf, Kandela Solver, Turbulente
Adela 2025
Credits
28–30 May, Kino Šiška, Glej Theatre and SŠOF
Programme curators: Maja Burja, Luka Frelih, Katja Pahor
Participants: Qianxun Chen, Eloi el Bon Noi, Eye Measure, Saskia Freeke, Oskar Kandare, Cyrus Khalatbari, lil_data, Lucretio, Yann Martins, Milan Milojković & Danilo Šainović, msngf, Thomas Pausz, Lina Rica, Lea Sande, Alevtina Senik, Dorijan Šiško & Aljaž Glaser, Kristoffer Tjalve, jiawen uffline, Marie Verdeill, Julia Vollmer, Vita Eva Weisseisen & Aleksandar Tendjer, Turbulente
International jury (Parameter fair): Davide Bevilacqua, Maja Burja, Luka Frelih, Aleksandra Jovanić, Katja Pahor, Bérénice Serra
Production team: Maja Burja, Luka Frelih, Robert Mohorič, Katja Pahor
Production assistants: Jan Drozg, Lina Steiner, Tine Mulej Vrabič
Public relations and promotion: Jan Drozg, Lina Steiner
Visual identity: Eva Bevec
Photo documentation: Katja Goljat, Matjaž Rušt
Photo documentation: Simona Jerala, Maj Vrenko
Technicians: Črt Trkman, Valter Udovičić
Production: Ljudmila Art and Science Laboratory (2026)
Co-production: Kino Šiška, Razpotja journal (DHG)
Co-organisation: osmo/za, Glej Theatre, Secondary School for Design and Photography, Ljubljana (SŠOF), toplap.si, servus.at, Creative Coding Utrecht
Supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Ljubljana.
Digital Dish in Razpotja journal (XVII, 64)
Authors: Kristoffer Tjalve, Marie Verdeil