Oblikovanje: Eva Bevec

DATE: Friday, 29 May 2026 | 20:00–22:30
LOCATION: Glej Theatre, Ljubljana
PASSWORD: Free admission

Ljudmila and Adela invite you to the opening night of this year’s festival featuring the audiovisual performance Show us your screen by Barcelona’s Eloi el Bon Noi & Turbulente and the annual open live coding session From Scratch at Glej Theatre!

Show us your screen

Photo: Cesc Mayor

Show us your screen is the phrase that the live coders’ collective TOPLAP has chosen in order to make clear the fact that in live coding practices the artists share their screens and code during the performance. In the same way that the audience can see and understand how a guitarist or a pianist relates to their instrument, it is possible to see the screen where algorithms are typed, cursors move through lines of code and define parameters. Therefore, a live coding performance can be understood as digital craftsmanship, loaded with an enormous dose of honesty and transparency.

From this premise, the musician Eloi Isern aka Eloi el Bon Noi and the visual artist Citlali Hernández aka Turbulente, regulars at the Barcelona live coding scene, present an audiovisual performance based on the real-time use of programming code in their own creative practice.

In Show us your screen, the visible code generates image and sound but, moreover, as in a game of infinite feedback loops, Turbulente starts from the screen filled with code of his partner and uses it to create textures and visual narratives. This performance is about code manipulating code, sound creating visual choreographies, and overlapping screens overlapping code.

Show us your screen is also an electronic session with a high dose of IDM and glitch with a prominent role for improvisation and audio-reactive visuals. In this way, the music stimulates the image that synchronously responds, creating a dialogue between the two artists.

From Scratch

Join us for a From Scratch live coding session at the Adela Festival of Generative Arts! We invite all live coding enthusiasts to take the stage and perform.

From Scratch is a relaxed jam session with only two rules:

• 1. Each coder has exactly 9 minutes to create a musical or visual piece from a blank screen.
• 2. Regardless of the result – and especially if there is no result – the audience MUST reward the performer with a round of applause exactly 9 minutes after the beginning of coding.

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