Festival für visuelle Kunst und Jetztkultur

Digital art operates at the interface of technology, perception and social reflection. It combines image, sound, movement, data and space to create open, interactive systems that can not only be viewed, but also experienced and shaped. Aesthetic strategies meet technical processes, playful approaches meet critical questions - and open up new perspectives on the present and the future.

The 16th edition of B-Seite - Festival for Visual Art and Contemporary Culture - is dedicated to these processes with a curated exhibition and a performance program. Both formats examine how digital art can be experienced as an aesthetic and social practice. In the exhibition, interactive video installations, spatial interfaces and AI-supported works combine digital systems with physical presence so that the audience becomes part of the artistic process. Topics such as the environment, resource consumption, artificial intelligence and identity are not only presented, but actively negotiated.

The performance program expands these perspectives with live audiovisual formats in which artists work with generative images, electronic sound, sensor technology, light and live drawing. Many works are only created at the moment of performance and with the participation of the audience. The digital space is not understood as a rigid medium, but as a dynamic field for new forms of perception, interaction and collectivity.

Both program lines are characterized by experimentation. The B-side promotes an open approach to digital technologies beyond mere innovation and efficiency and understands digital art as a space for thinking, feeling and acting. Questions of accessibility, participation and responsibility play a central role here. The result is a place that combines aesthetic experience, technological debate and social discourse.

You can find the exact program here.