Festival - Cairotronica

Cairotronica Festival

The exhibition curation takes place through an open call and inviting artists. Hence, creating various selection criteria from emerging media artists to established artists and art collective with different practices in art, science, and technology. All festival activities are open to the public and cover a diverse pool of interests where the audience can engage in activities according to their own interest.

The main exhibition brings together groundbreaking creative practitioners from across Egypt, Arab World, Middle East, and the world. The artworks presented range from video art, game art, installations, generative design to interactive and internet art, experimental film and animation also performances. In addition to the talks and panel discussion program that aims to start a mutual dialogue between the audience and artists. It gives the space for artists participating in the festival to share their ideas and concepts with the audience to better understand the different practices of artists using new technologies in their work.

Cairotronica workshops offer an educational program for young artists and students interested in learning about art and digital culture. Workshops are conducted by artists and experts to cover different subjects in digital and media art.

Out-Natured: Cairotronica’s 4th Edition

Cairotronica – Cairo Electronic and New Media Arts Festival opens the call for submissions for its fourth edition Out-Natured, which will take place in January 2025. The call is open for artists, students, individuals, collectives and groups to submit their work and projects, which correspond to the theme below.

Data Fiction: Cairotronica’s 3rd Edition

Data Fiction aims to start a critical reflection on the urgent topics around data and put a spotlight on how new technologies are affecting our data-driven society. The festival will outline

A Future of Possibilities: Cairotronica’s 2nd Edition

When logically thinking of the term “possibility”, one underscores the absence of contradiction, defining what is “possible” as what cannot be prevented by anything from happening, even if it does not at all occur.

Only Connect: Cairotronica’s 1st Edition

“Only Connect”, the imperative that governs the development of digital art, cultural convention, and the evolution of social media, has implications for education, urban planning, and human relations that are shared across the world. In exploring these issues, whether in celebratory, ideological or aesthetic mode, we recognise that artists and thinkers must push their practice beyond the conventions of habit into unknown territories of mind and matter.