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May 2026
Berlin
AI (Ancestral Immediacies): Digital Twins and Data Doppelgängers looks at the rapid growth of virtual representations and synthetic replicas that digital infrastructures enable, considering the implications of this ‘doubling’ of life. Lectures, performances, conversations, installations. HKW, 22 & 23 May.
The singuhr XXX festival celebrates singuhr’s 30th anniversary. The program features sound installations, two days of concerts and performances at Villa Elisabeth and the Kuppelhalle at silent green (30.-31.5.), as well as a matinee on the topic of sound spaces in Berlin with lectures and discussions at the daadgalerie (31.5.). 29.5. – 7.6.
Bratislava
The second edition of the Open Culture! International Conference engages cultural actors, policymakers, and advocates across Europe to address shared challenges to artistic freedom, democratic cultural governance, and the role of culture in an increasingly contested public space. Old Market Hall, 19–20 May.
The Bratislava Book Festival (BRaK) for publishers, illustrators, authors, graphic designers, typographers, and all friends of beautiful books. 27-31 May.
Brno
Distorted Image. Chapters from the beginnings of video art, House of Arts, 29. 4. – 16. 8. The exhibition looks at the beginnings of video art in the former Czechoslovakia and in Poland and Hungary from the late 1960s to the mid-1990s, including experimental films, documentary records of performances and actions, early works of animation, video magazines, video installations and video sculptures.
Budapest
archivuminternetwork marks 30 years of Artpool Art Research Center's presence on the internet. Since its launch in December 1995, artpool.hu has expanded the idea of the ‘active archive’ into digital time and space, where art and information exist in flux and flow, becoming, at times, indivisible. Artpool, 22 May – 14 August. Opening event with performance: Thursday, 21 May, 18h.
Kassel
Digital Archivables, Artistic Data and Curated Forms of Presentation: Archival Practices in the Performance-based Arts, conference and workshop, Fridericianum, 7-9 May. This event addresses the politics and logic of digital infrastructures in archival and artistic contexts. Artistic and curatorial initiatives often make use of commercial internet platforms as workspaces and documentation spaces. These digital tools are growing increasingly insecure in light of current developments in big data. The conference will explore possible institutional and non-institutional alternatives. Organised by the research project “Subverting Archival Practices” in collaboration with documenta archiv. Program PDF.
Linz
Art Meets Radical Openness (AMRO): Becoming Unreadable. Biennial community festival dedicated to art, hacktivism and open cultures, organised by servus.at in cooperation with the Linz University of Art, Department of Time-Based Media. 13-16 May. [1]
Ljubljana
A Cosmic Collective: OM production and Its Second Coming. OM production was a fictional entity existing as a concept and a myth, embodied in performative projections of 8 and 16 mm films. The exhibition explores the work and identity of one of the most elusive phenomena of the Slovenian and Yugoslav avant-garde and experimental film. Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, +MSUM, 6 February – 23 August.
The exhibition Archival Chain Reactions emerges from a collaborative project dedicated to connecting and activating important yet precarious archives of feminist art. It brings together Pinto mi Raya (Mexico City), an archive focusing on experimental art production and writing since the 1970s with a particular emphasis on performance and feminist artists; the project re.act.feminism (Berlin), which has been travelling as a living performance archive across Europe in several installments since 2008; and City of Women (Ljubljana), with its significant, but dispersed archive accumulated over 31 years of festival and programme activities. MG+MSUM, 23 April — 13 September. [2]
New York
Long Play Festival, Thursday, April 30 – Sunday, May 3. 70+ concerts throughout Brooklyn, New York.
radio
Reveil (2014—) is a collective production by streamers at listening points around the earth. Starting on the morning of Saturday 2 May in South London near the Greenwich Meridian, the broadcast will pick up feeds one by one, tracking the sunrise west from microphone to microphone, following the wave of intensified sound that loops the earth every 24 hours at first light. Streams come from a variety of locations, at a time of day when human sounds are relatively low, even in dense urban areas. This tends to open the sound field to a more diverse ecology than usual. The Reveil broadcast makes room by largely avoiding speech and music, gravitating to places where human and non human communities meet and soundworlds overlap. Streams. CENSE program.
Seattle
Seattle Art Book Fair, May 9–10, Washington Hall.
Trenčín
Tuning the City, performative situation for 300 instruments and one city. The performers are musicians — amateurs and professionals, adults and children — who have been preparing for this moment for an entire year. The premiere — and the only public presentation — will take place on 22 May in the centre of Trenčín.
Vancouver
Free and open to the public, Vancouver Art Book Fair is a three-day celebration of artists’ publishing featuring over one hundred local, national and international publishers, as well as a diverse line-up of programs, performances and artists’ projects. Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre, May 15–17.
Vienna
Lebt und arbeitet in Wien. Contemporary Art from Vienna, Kunsthalle Wien, 1.5.–26.10. Sculpture, installation, drawing, painting, photography, performance and video by over 50 artists will be presented within an exhibition that focuses on new commissions and works that have not previously been exhibited in Vienna. The exhibition takes its title from a survey first presented at the Kunsthalle in 2000, continuing and developing a format that seeks to offer a perspective on the dynamic, transnational and culturally diverse communities of artists living and working in Vienna today.
VDC - Vienna Digital Cultures. Festival for art, performance and discourse, dedicated to exploring the cultural impact of digital technologies. 21-24 May.
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File:Brewing Collectives How to Start a Permacomputing Collective 2026.pdf
"This is a guide brewed from conversations with initiatives in London (UK), Berlin (DE), Prague (CZ), Philadelphia (USA), Rotterdam (NL), Vienna (AT), Lutruwtia (Tas/AU), County Mayo (IE) and a community from Middle America gathering on servers. This text can support you when starting a permacomputing collective. It isn’t a strict recipe but more of a loose framework that can be freely modified to suit local tastes and conditions. Many actions are cyclical and can be seen as opportunities to revisit or re-purpose later."
Brewing Collectives was initiated by Aymeric Mansoux and Brendan Howell with support from Error 417 Expectation Failed. Text written by anna andrejew, Brendan Howell and Ola Bonati, based on interviews with Ana Meisel (London Permacomputing Club), Archipiélago I, Colm O'Neil (Wilderland permacomputing group), crunk and d1 (rotterdam.permacomputing.net), Brendan Howell (Berlin Permacomputing Meet Up), Michal Klodner (Node9), Nancy Mauro-Flude (Autoluminescence Institute), Simon Repp (permacomputing Vienna), and Steve McLaughlin (Philly permacomputing + solar punk meetups at Iffy Books, hosted together with Dave Slinger).
Brewing Collectives: How to Start a Permacomputing Collective permacomputing.net, January 2026 16 pages PDF, PDF booklet
2026-2-9
File:Careful A Repertorium on Shadow Library Practice 2025.pdf
"Large Language Models have, in a sense, created the ultimate (un)ideal readers for electronic libraries. By treating e-libraries as vast training datasets, algorithmic scraping has become both the fulfilment and the ruin of a core dream in public library culture: that access to books should be free and unlimited for all. AI systems read everything and nothing, at inhuman scale and speed — extracting patterns and selling what they pretend to know as consequence. What once symbolised a democratic promise now risks feeding extractive logics that empty reading of meaning.
So, why should we care — and if we do, how can we put that care into practice?
The ‘Careful VS Careless’ exhibition centres a new conversation between custodians of radical public libraries, known as ‘shadow libraries’. Organised around that conversation are a mixture of symbolic and tactical gestures that help people to think and act carefully in relation to the infrastructures of public knowledge systems."
Published on the occasion of Careful vs Careless: Library Custodians and Artificial Readers and Library Making as Practice at distro, Basel, 5–17 November 2025. With the Library of Inclusions and Omissions, Monoskop, The Piracy Project, Public Library / Memory of the World, a.o. Organised by Lucie Kolb and Maria Maddalena Lenzi.
Compiled by Dušan Barok, Marcell Mars, Tomislav Medak, Nick Thurston
Careful: A Repertorium on Shadow Library Practice distro, Basel, November 2025 [134] pages PDF (22 mb)
2025-11-5
File:Vertical Atlas 2022.pdf
"How to navigate the rapidly changing digital geopolitics of the world today? How do we make sense of digital transformation and its many social, political, cultural, and environmental implications at different locations around the world?
Vertical Atlas brings together the insights of a diverse group of internationally renowned artists, scientists and technologists from different backgrounds and places. From an investigation into the lithium mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo to maps of the fiber-optic submarine cables in the Atlantic and the ride-hailing platforms of China.
Vertical Atlas is not a classic atlas that depicts the world in a uniform manner and it is not a simple collection of traditional maps. This book is a tool that enables comparisons, connections and contradictions between different and diverse visions, realities and worlds – through newly commissioned diagrams, interviews, essays and works of art by leading experts from around the world."
Contributions by: Sophia Al Maria, Heba Y. Amin, Lotte Arndt, Benjamin H. Bratton, Kévin Bray, James Bridle, Ingrid Burrington, Adriana Bustos, Ben Cerveny, Guo Cheng, Chimurenga, Cristina Cochior, Sounak Das, Data Justice Lab (Philippa Metcalfe, Fieke Jansen), Pablo DeSoto, Alex Destoop, Marjolijn Dijkman, DISNOVATION.ORG, Maarten Vanden Eynde, Cao Fei, Shuang Lu Frost, Maya Indira Ganesh, Pélagie Gbaguidi, GCC Group, Geocinema (Asia Baz Qudyrieva, Solveig Suess), John Gerrard, Oulimata Gueye, Camille Henrot, Femke Herregraven, Yuk Hui, Sanneke Huisman, Victoria Ivanova, Vladan Joler, Isaac Kariuki, Francois, Knoetze, Srinivas Kodali, Bogna Konior, Lukáš Likavčan, Abu Bakarr Mansaray, Svitlana Matviyenko, Emo de Medeiros, Metahaven, Dorine Mokha, Jean Katambayi Mukendi, Edmond Musasa, Leu N’seya, Katja Novitskova, Trevor Paglen, Alice Piva, Chen 'Stanley' Qiufan, Nii Quaynor, Elia Rediger, Tabita Rezaire, Lucas Rolim, Bassem Saad, Nanjira Sambuli, Georges Senga, Nzilani Simu, Andrej Škufca, Ksenia Tatarchenko, Suzanne Treister, Unknown Fields, Jordi Vallverdú, Richard Vijgen, Sarah Waiswa, Zhan Wang, Kedolwa Waziri, Mi You, Qiu Zhijie, Dan Zhu.
Edited by Leonardo Dellanoce, Amal Khalaf, Klaas Kuitenbrouwer, Nanjala Nyabola, Renée Roukens, Arthur Steiner, Mi You
Vertical Atlas Publisher ArtEZ Press, Arnhem, and Hivos, 2022 ISBN 9789491444692 357 pages PDF (65 mb)
2025-11-3
File:Deborder Bollore 2025.epub
"Une publication multiformat coéditée par plus d’une centaine d’éditeurices indépendant·es, disponible à la vente en librairie et en libre diffusion sur deborderbollore.fr aux formats web, EPUB et PDF.
Dans le contexte de la campagne Désarmons Bolloré, et en emboîtant le pas au boycott appelé par les « libraires antifascistes », nous, éditeurices indépendant·es, coéditons collectivement cette publication multiformat pour prendre part depuis notre secteur à la réflexion générale sur le démantèlement de l’empire Bolloré.
Les contributions mettent en avant la pensée de chercheureuses, d’imprimeureuses, d’éditeurices et de libraires qui analysent et/ou subissent les dynamiques de concentration et d’extrême droitisation du marché. Chacun·e tente de formuler, depuis sa position respective, des réponses à cette question urgente : comment faire face au libéralisme autoritaire dans le monde du livre ?
En tant qu’éditeurices indépendant·es, nous sommes indirectement visé·es par le projet totalisant de Bolloré car nos structures sont des espaces qui permettent la fabrique de contre-récits et la circulation de voix minoritaires. Face à de grands groupes monopolistiques qui filtrent les récits, il nous faut lutter pour préserver ces espaces essentiels de résistance et qui — n’en déplaise aux prophètes·ses du « grand remplacement » et aux croyant·es du « lobby LGBTQ+ » — se font rares.
La forme de cette publication multiformat part du constat suivant : si, à lui seul, Vincent Bolloré se montre capable de mobiliser des moyens logistiques et médiatiques colossaux pour mener sa « guerre civilisationnelle », alors nous devons, de notre côté, mobiliser l’entièreté de notre réseau d’éditeurices, de diffuseurs, de libraires et de relais médiatiques pour y résister. Face à la concentration par les grands groupes, faisons jouer la multiplicité et la singularité caractéristique du monde du livre indépendant.
Bolloré, par l’intermédiaire d’Hachette, est un acteur majeur de la concentration capitalistique du milieu éditorial, mais il n’est pas le seul instigateur de cette dynamique. C’est la structure même du monde du livre qui permet à de grands groupes de s’accaparer 90 % du marché de l’édition. Ainsi avons-nous décidé de « déborder Bolloré », c’est-à-dire de dépasser la figure, certes exubérante du personnage, pour comprendre, dans un premier temps, les mécanismes avec lesquels il opère et comment, dans un second temps, les déjouer depuis nos positions d’acteurices de l’édition indépendante."
Déborder Bolloré: faire face au libéralisme autoritaire dans le monde du livre Collectif éditorial Déborder Bolloré, 2025 Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International License ISBN 978-3-0361-0138-5 EPUB, Web, PDFs, Markdown
2025-7-23
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