Design: Eva Bevec

DATE: Saturday, 30 May 2026 | 16.00–20.30
LOCATION: Kino Šiška, Ljubljana

Artists: 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

Parameter establishes a testing environment for experimental artistic approaches in which technology operates – or fails to do so – differently. It is shaped by formats and practices that, through the revival of obsolete technologies, the conception of as-yet-unrealised protocols and the embrace of error and unpredictability, recode established processes and their traces.

Each year, the fair presents a selection of (re)generative creative practices and enables their inclusion in emerging collections. In uncertain ecological, social and political times, Parameter functions as a kind of almanac: a set of artistic proposals for action under present conditions.

The fourth edition is marked by a tension between long-term, uncontollable processes and the imprint of individual gestures. Rather than endlessly producing solutions, data and images, the featured works unfold generativity as an effect of operating within constraints. What would happen if our communication were shaped by planetary rhythms? If machine generation required manual materialisation, and computation left directly tangible traces of energy and time? If obsolescence opened the beginning of the next cycle of material and conceptual reconfiguration?

Photo: Katja Goljat

Credits

International jury: Davide Bevilacqua, Maja Burja, Luka Frelih, Aleksandra Jovanić, Katja Pahor, Bérénice Serra

Production: Ljudmila Art and Science Laboratory (2026)
Co-production: Kino Šiška
Co-organisation: servus.at, Creative Coding Utrecht

Supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Ljubljana.