⚡ Moments from #TECHNARTE2026.
Talks, installations, performances, conversations and a lot of inspiring ideas throughout this special 20th anniversary edition 👀
➡️Technarte agenda for Friday, May 15.
Full program with morning and afternoon sessions.
Check it and plan your day.
#Technarte #Conference #ArtAndTechnology
🎧 La artista interdisciplinar Alexandra Przybysz @aorszulka participará en Technarte Bilbao, la Conferencia Internacional sobre Arte y Tecnología.
📍 15 de mayo
🕑 14:00 h
📌 Palacio Euskalduna, Bilbao
Presentará su investigación “Registro sonoro de objetos a gran escala”, un proyecto que explora cómo el sonido puede ayudarnos a percibir fenómenos ambientales invisibles, como la contaminación por metales pesados o los efectos de los llamados “hiperobjetos”.
A través de la sonificación de datos y grabaciones en entornos marcados por la degradación medioambiental, su trabajo propone el arte sonoro como una herramienta para escuchar lo que no podemos ver, generando nuevas formas de sensibilidad hacia la crisis ecológica.
Una propuesta que transforma el arte en investigación y abre nuevas formas de entender nuestro entorno.
#Technarte #ArteYTecnología #ArteSonoro #AleksandraPrzybysz #Bilbao #InvestigaciónArtística #MedioAmbiente
👉 2026 speaker: Siobhán McDonald @technarte #Bilbao looking forward to this! 🙌
"Invisible Herbarium"
In a delicate enquiry using drawing, sound, and film, I explore the mystery of how the ancient plant Silene stenophylla was brought back to life from 32,000-year-old seeds.
Silene stenophylla, a plant preserved in permafrost for millennia could re-emerge into life, carrying with it a profound narrative of time, resilience, and ecological memory.
Siobhán works with natural materials, withdrawing them from their cycles of generation, growth and decay. This process gives form to a range of projects which consider our place on Earth in the context of geological time. Her artworks make use of natural phenomena and technologies to stage poetic and philosophical engagements between people and their natural world. Beginning with a specific site of investigation, Siobhán weaves diverse narratives into visual stories, often inviting nature itself to participate in the creative process.
👉 2026 speaker: Theo Harper
Theo is an artist, researcher, and senior lecturer at HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg, where he leads the Ceramic Art MA and contributes to the New Crafting Futures programme and cross-disciplinary pedagogical development in the Craft MA.
His work sits at the intersection of ceramics, digital fabrication, material culture, and emerging technologies, with a particular focus on how artificial intelligence is reshaping creative production, artistic knowledge, and embodied making practices. Trained as an artist with a PhD by practice, Theo maintains an active studio-based research practice alongside his teaching and international project work.
#CeramicsArt #MaterialCulture #DigitalFabrication #EmergingTechArt #ArtAndTechnology #AIinArt #ContemporaryArt #ResearchArt #StudioPractice #VisualArt #SculpturalProcess #PhysicalToDigital #InteractiveArt #CraftAndTech
👉 2026 speaker: Siobhán McDonald
Siobhán works with natural materials, withdrawing them from their cycles of generation, growth and decay. This process gives form to a range of projects which consider our place on Earth in the context of geological time. Her artworks make use of natural phenomena and technologies to stage poetic and philosophical engagements between people and their natural world. Beginning with a specific site of investigation, Siobhán weaves diverse narratives into visual stories, often inviting nature itself to participate in the creative process.
Siobhán McDonald is the recipient of prestigious international awards, including the European Commission’s S+T+ARTS 4Water Award (2024) and the inaugural Ocean Memory Award (2022). In 2023, she received further awards through the EU Commission Alumni Award (Italy), the Alfred Kordelin Foundation Climate Whirl Award (Helsinki.)
#NaturalMaterialsArt #EnvironmentalArt #EcologicalArt #ArtAndScience #GeologicalArt #AtmosphericArt #ContemporaryArt #VisualArt #SoundArt #PaintingAndSound #FieldBasedArt #ResearchDrivenArt #ArtisticExploration #NatureInArt #EarthTime #PoeticArt
👉 2026 speaker: Riccador Torresi
Riccardo is a new media artist from Italy based in Berlin. He holds an M.A. in Architecture and New Media Design, and his practice investigates the interconnections between science, art, and urban space through the use of new technologies and light as both tool and conceptual medium. His work has been exhibited and presented at international festivals and public institutions, including Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Athens Digital Art Festival, and the RIXC Ungreen Conference (Riga), among others.
In his early career, he directed several music videos and short films. In 2016, together with artists Asako Fujimoto and Maxime Lethelier, he co-founded the artist collective Ephemeral Tomorrow, which focuses on immersive art projects driven by real-time data. Since 2021, he has been an external lecturer in the Master’s program in New Media Design at the University of Europe, teaching the course New Media Tools and Technologies. He currently works as a Creative Developer at FIELD.IO.
#NewMediaArt #CreativeTechnologist #DataDrivenArt #ImmersiveArt #RealTimeArt #GenerativeArt #ArtAndTechnology #ScienceAndArt #InteractiveArt #DigitalArt #UrbanArt #LightArt #VisualArt #ContemporaryArt #DataArt #EphemeralTomorrow
👉 2026 speaker: Patricia Cadavid H.
Patricia is an immigrant, artist, and researcher born in Colombia. In her work, she looks at the relationships and effects of coloniality in new media from the migratory experience and decolonial & anticolonial thinking. Her recent research is focused on the vindication of the memory contained in the ancestral interfaces of the Andes from Abya Yala, taken away by colonization and their connections with art and science, reusing them in new artistic processes related to video, sound interfaces, tangible live coding, and multimedia performance.
Patricia is pursuing a doctoral degree in the College of Arts, Technology, and Environment at the University of the West of England – UWE Bristol. She holds a MA from Interface Culture (Kunstuniversität Linz). Her work has been exhibited in festivals such as Ars Electronica (Austria), ADAF (Greece), MATE (Portugal), the NIME conference, and several spaces in the United States, Chile, Mexico, Spain, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Colombia.
#NewMediaArt #ArtAndScience #VideoArt #SoundArt #TangibleInterface #LiveCoding #MultimediaPerformance #ContemporaryArt #ElectronicMusic #SoundPerformance #AncestralTechnologies #InteractiveArt #VisualArt #CulturalMemory #ArtResearch
👉 2026 speaker: Martina Moon Zelenika
Martina is a renowned Croatian transdisciplinary artist whose practice unfolds at the intersection of drawing, sound, data, and emerging technologies. Working across installation, performance, video, generative and digital media, and augmented reality, she positions traditional drawing as a foundational matrix. Her work frequently incorporates the sonification of X-ray analyses, biosignals, satellite transmissions, and geophysical phenomena, including the Earth’s magnetosphere.
Zelenika has produced over thirty solo exhibitions and has participated in numerous international exhibitions, festivals, and conferences dedicated to art, science, and new media across Europe and South Korea. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb (BFA/MFA), and holds an MA from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana.
#TransdisciplinaryArt #NewMediaArt #DigitalArt #InstallationArt #SoundArt #DataArt #Sonification #VisualArt #AugmentedReality #InteractiveArt #PerformanceArt #ContemporaryArt #ArtAndScience #GeomagneticArt #DigitalCulture #GenerativeArt
2026 Speaker: Jeroen van Loon
Jeroen is a Dutch artist researching and visualising current digital culture through the lens of ephemerality and permanence. His work ranges from VR to video to installations and performances.
His work is exhibited internationally at venues such as Centre Pompidou, Transmediale, IDFA Doclab, Aksioma, NFF, Media Majlis Museum, Long March Space, Centraal Museum, HMKV | Dortmunder U, IMPAKT festival, SPRING performing arts festival, Nemo Biennale, V2_, KIKK Festival and MU Artspace. His work has been acquired by Verbeke Foundation and Museum Helmond.
#MediaArt #DigitalCulture #VideoArt #VRArt #InstallationArt #PerformanceArt #VisualEffects #RobotArt #AIArt #EphemeralArt #PermanentArt #ArtAndTechnology #ContemporaryArt #InteractiveArt #VisualArt #CriticalArt
2026 Speaker: Javier Osés Martínez de Zúñiga
Javier Osés is a researcher, teacher and university lecturer. From the very beginning of his research career, he has maintained a strong scientific and artistic interest. Over the years, he has collected a range of materials with high aesthetic and artistic potential and, in his spare time, has explored ways to investigate their synthesis and modification, as well as the physical principles behind the microscopic processes that create aesthetic changes in matter.
Building on the work he has carried out in this area since 2015, he developed a new concept of scientific-artistic creation, which in 2020 led him to launch Hidden Reflections, a project through which he shares some of the knowledge generated as an artist-researcher and reveals the hidden beauty on the surface of materials.
#MicroArt #MaterialScienceArt #LightArt #MicroscopyArt #HiddenReflections #VisualPatterns #OpticalPhenomena #ExperimentalArt #VisualArt #ArtAndScience #ContemporaryArt #SurfaceInteractions #ScientificArt #ColorInterference #NanoArt
👉 2026 Speaker: Aleksandra Przybysz
Aleksandra Przybysz is an artist and researcher and a graduate of the Faculty of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. She also studied at the Sound and Image Department of Escola das Artes in Porto, and she is currently a second-year PhD candidate in artistic practice at the University of the National Education Commission in Kraków. She works with Timothy Morton’s concept of hyperobjects—vast ecological phenomena such as climate change, radiation, and toxic waste that are difficult to grasp yet profoundly shape our lives.
She approaches these issues interdisciplinarily, drawing on posthumanist horror as well as sculpture, text, and sound practices. She is particularly interested in concepts of natural history that include toxic events and those caused by invasive human activity. In her work, art does not serve merely an illustrative function; instead, it becomes a method of inquiry capable of generating alternative models for describing contemporary natural history.
#InterdisciplinaryArt #ContemporaryArt #NewMediaArt #ArtAndTechnology #ExperimentalArt #ConceptualArt #MediaArt #ArtPractice #ArtResearch #VisualArt #ArtInnovation #CreativePractice
