Organized by the METAA (Media Experiments in Technology and Art Association), localhost:2026 is a public event celebrating experimental artistic practices connected to emerging technologies.
This unique evening showcases emerging talents from the swiss and international digital scene while exploring the social, ecological, and political impacts of contemporary technologies.
Dasha Ilina is a Russian technocritical artist based in Paris. She employs low-tech and DIY approaches to question, document, and challenge the mythology surrounding technology, ultimately revealing what it tells us about the world.
Her practice engages the public in order to facilitate a space for the development of critical thought regarding social imperatives for care, privacy in the digital age, and the reflexive contemporary urge to turn to technology for answers.
Martyna Marciniak is a Polish, Berlin-based artist, researcher, and 3D designer whose work explores the intersection of visual storytelling, media theory, and systemic violence. Utilizing animation, film, and speculative fiction, she investigates technological biases and human rights abuses, bridging the gap between aesthetics and law.
She has collaborated with Forensic Architecture, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch, and co-founded the Border Emergency Collective. A former resident at Akademie Schloss Solitude and the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, her work has been exhibited at Ars Electronica, Copenhagen Contemporary, and the Warsaw Biennale.
2girls1comp is a modding duo founded in 2023 by Marco De Mutiis and Alexandra Pfammatter. Their work changes the logic of video games as an act of creative counter-play, revealing the social and economic fabric in which they are immersed: from reclaiming global digital infrastructures to commenting on free labor within the capitalist ideologies of the gaming industry.
Thomas Gaudin is a digital artist and designer exploring the relationship between humans and technology through interactive and algorithmic systems. His work investigates how digital environments influence perception and behavior.
Alumni of the Bachelor Media & Interaction Design at ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne, he is based in Switzerland and combines art, code, and critical reflection to question our reliance on technological systems.
Basile Brun is an artist, composer, and interaction designer with a Bachelor in Fine Arts and Master in Interaction Media Design from HEAD – Geneva.
Co-creator of Blue Ash Studio and Sound Designer at Panflip Studio, he creates independently as musician and 2D/3D artist under the pseudonyms Chap0ng and Oh Deer.
His practice bridges game design, sound design, and illustration through code, generative music, and audiovisual performance.
His work investigates spatial sound in digital environments and the hidden narratives in gaming.
Pauric Freeman is a multidisciplinary artist from Ireland working across audiovisual performance and installation.
He develops custom tools to generate real-time compositions from live instrumental data.
His performances unfold as structures of dense harmony and chaotic rhythms, where sound and image operate as interdependent systems, distorting and reconfiguring through permutations.
unsorted is a Zurich-based creative collective and physical space located at Josefstrasse 206.
It is run by a core group of five artists and is dedicated to the intersection of technology, artistic expression, and digital sovereignty.
The space serves as a research hub for collaborative knowledge exchange, bridging the gap between high-level digital art theory and practical artistic practice.
The collective operates through a variety of formats, including audiovisual performances, interactive installations, and educational workshops.
Their work is characterized by an exploration of using
DJ/VJ performance set.
My name is Fuzzy stages its pop songs through sound, visual, and interactive installations. In contrast to online music that is accessible anywhere and at any time, the audience only discovers the songs by visiting the installations.
Mathilde Périat and Juliette Cuénoud share a common love for moving images and other graphic vibrations. As image hunters and ‘cinegenic’ lovers, it was a natural fit for them to collaborate on a project that is unique, experimental, and visually rhythmic.
Pixelle Panthère is an analog visual experience created using vintage electronic equipment. Through their machines, spectators travel through the pixels of another era. All created images are improvised and generated live on the spot, tailored to accompany concerts, performances, and other festivities. The goal is to offer a visual medium for watching sounds, listening to images, and letting oneself be carried away by the spectacle.
Performance.
Performance.
Workshop session.
Workshop session.
*Reduced tickets are available for students, AI, AVS and unemployed If the ticket cost is a financial barrier, we still really want you to join! Please contact us.