Kicking off with a Wednesday evening programme and unfolding over the following four days, the festival’s core programme draws on the conceptual frameworks of compassing, metaphoring, and protocoling to re·route, re·orient, and re·define our technological imaginaries.

Structured through the twin temporalities of High Tide, where time-based events and encounters form collective, large-scale formations; and Low Tide, which offers more intimate and durational installations, the programme explores how situated, embodied practices can be translated into technological protocols.

The festival venues silent green and CANK will feature a series of installations and temporary relational architectures conceived as conversational platforms, creating environments that spark dialogue, engagement, and shared experience. Shifting from a speaker–audience spatial format, the temporary architectures create spaces where visitors can become passengers, contributors, and co•navigators, paying attention to the embodied conditions in which other technological imaginaries can surface.

Spaces for technological altars, offerings, and re·wirings. They gather devices, materials, gestures, and protocols that treat technology not as a neutral tool or finished system, but as something relational, situated, and open to care. Here, circuits, code, and objects are arranged as altars – inviting attention, repair, envisioning, and re-orientation. Contributed by Montika Kham-on, Fan Chon Hoo, El Alto Aesthetics, and Rochelle Webster Nembhard.

The interface spills into the room: desktops offer video·worlds and browser-based navigation, screenshots circulate as wallpapers, LED signs carry short poetic signals, and attention remains distributed across multiple screens and conversations. Rather than concentrating focus, Mango Net or A Cyber·Space Belonging to Kenya supports lateral engagement, partial presence, and repeated return.

The workshop programming takes place at silent green and CANK. Rituals, laboratories, protocols: Workshop contributors include Yadira Sanchez, Berenice Flores, Sarah Grant, Tzu-Tung Lee, Arc, and Interspecifics.

This part of the programme requires separate registration.