This year’s festival features three keynote conversations in which thinkers articulate this moment of flux: examining the political dimensions of information technologies, proposing alternative governance models, and speculating on infrastructure’s darkest potentials. These keynotes form a backdrop against which the discursive programme can react.

Keynote participants include: Marek Poliks & Roberto Alonso Trillo , Hito Steyerl , Primavera De Fillipi , Ryan Bishop .

Building towards the festival, the Lattice Labs introduce a process-based approach to collective learning and knowledge dissemination. The Labs are a series of experimental working groups dedicated to rethinking and testing alternatives to technological monocultures of extraction and surveillance. Running in the months before the festival, they bring artists and researchers together for sustained cycles of critical discussion and collaborative making, functioning as infrastructures for collective inquiry.