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November 2025

Aarhus

README Software Art Festival 20 Years On. We welcome you to the event celebrating the launch of the archive of the 2004 Readme Dorkbot videos. To mark this occasion and discuss the last 20 years in art, culture and computation, some of the original presenters at Readme will come together online to talk about then, in-between and now. Digital Aesthetics Research Center, Aarhus University and online, 6 Nov 2025. Announcement.

Calendars: kunsten.nu, Duk Op.

Basel

Library Making as Practice / Careful vs Careless: Library Custodians and Artificial Readers / Library, A Network of Relations. The colloquium builds on two exhibitions at distro drawing together a range of tactics and strategies to library making as practice. It brings together artists who work with and through libraries to rethink the power asymmetries in the ways how knowledge circulates and how publics are formed. 5–17 November 2025. Repertorium PDF.

Calendars: Summe.

Bergen

Welcome to the 23rd edition of the Piksel Festival for Art and Technological Freedom! From November 20th to 23rd, Bergen transforms into the stage for electronic art, with 3 days of workshops, artist presentations, audiovisual concerts and exhibitions across the city. This year’s venues — Alt Går Bra, Østre, Studio 207, the Natural History Museum, and Piksel HQ — will host a vibrant mix of experimentation, technology, and creativity. We've added online and streaming activities to our Twitch channel and FRIKANALEN TV!

Providing speculative weather forecasts, diving into platform brutality, philosophising with gneiss, claiming the land, tracing the history of silk production, and dancing it all out. BEK welcomes you to Bergen for The Only Lasting Truth Is Change 2025, a symposium exploring Voice, Seed, and Brutality. 21–23 November 2025.

Calendars: Underskog.

Berlin

Nothing comes without its world!, exhibition, Deutscher Künstlerbund Berlin, September 13, 2025 – November 21, 2025. On the occasion of the presentation of the HAP Grieshaber Prize 2025, Cornelia Sollfrank takes the invitation to a solo exhibition as an opportunity not only to present a selection of her own works, but also to provide insight into the “world” that this work has helped to create: a long-standing relational network of Berlin-based and international agents. Accompanying event: Critical knowledge and communication infrastructure as aesthetic practice: Workshop for the tech*feminist art scene in Berlin, November 19, 2025, 10:30-18h. Toot.

The third edition of The Social Life of Film takes place from 20–23 November 2025 in Berlin. Hosted in collaboration with Aktionshaus, the congress will centre on alternative structures of support. The Social Life of Film is an annual congress which brings together independent screening initiatives to further the communal potential of the moving image.

The Gaza Biennale Berlin Pavilion unfolds from 21 November–21 December 2025 with exhibitions at venues including Flutgraben, AGIT, Khan Aljanub and Museum Called Baby, with additional programme hosted at Galerie & Atelier Arabisk, Casino Café Clinic for Social Medicine, Spore Initiative and KM28 among others, as well as around the streets of Berlin. With a collaboratively curated public program, the Gaza Biennale Berlin Pavilion invites people of all ages and backgrounds to join in talks, workshops, screenings and other gatherings to practice listening, healing and mourning; share joy and sorrow; and cultivate a communal strength that will ultimately be the key to dismantling oppressive systems based on fragmentation and extractivism—structural relics that lie at the root of the occupation of Palestine and colonial violence worldwide. Website.

EastUnBloc presents subversive, experimental and innovative media art works and practices from socialist and transition-era Central and Eastern Europe and their contexts. Exhibition, performances, talks, workshops. nGbK, Berlin, Sat, 29.11.25 – Sun, 15.2.26. Opening, 28 Nov, 18h. TV Free Europe presents, 29 Nov, 19h.

Calendars: Echtzeitmusik, mobilize.berlin, field notes, Index.

Bratislava

NEXT 2025 Advanced Music Festival. Radical melodies, spontaneous improvisations, unusual sounds, original musical techniques and concepts, acoustic instruments, innovative electronics, and multimedia projects. For the 26th time, you can look forward to five days of inspiring music and sound art in several venues across Bratislava. 26–30 Nov 2025.

Brussels

The Brussels Ass Book Fair returns for a second edition. Following the overwhelming response to the first edition, the second edition of the queer art book fair will take place at K1 from 28 to 30 november 2025. Organised by the Paris Ass Book Fair and Kanal-Centre Pompidou, the fair is dedicated to independent art publishing and will host 55 exhibitors from Belgium and abroad, complimented by a public programme of live events, music, talks, and special projects.

Calendars: Brussels Artist-Run Network, Vous revoir.

The Hague

Brewing Permacomputing Collectives: Self-Organised Networks against Big Tech, a series of short presentations with members of international Permacomputing groups. Stroom Den Haag, Friday 28 november, 2025, 17:00 - 18:30 hrs. [1]

Kuala Lumpur

Kuala Lumpur Art Book Fair, KL & Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall, 28 – 30 Nov 2025

Leipzig

Robotron. Code and Utopia, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, October 25, 2025 - February 22, 2026. The rapid rise of computers and microelectronics since the 1960s is often described as the “third industrial revolution”. In East Germany, the name Robotron became closely associated with this transformative technology, which reshaped every sector of the economy. Revisiting the history of this state-owned enterprise highlights not only the technical possibilities and societal hopes it carried, but also the political and economic contradictions that ultimately contributed to the collapse of East Germany. Bringing together photographs, films, installations, and graphic works – some created in the GDR – the exhibition explores the transformation of the industrial landscape in East Germany.

Lille

The symposium When creation takes over publishing: Strategies and dynamics of artist publishing in the 21st century will examine the publishing processes put in place by contemporary art practitioners (artists, designers, writers, curators, publishers, etc.) and renewed by the widespread use of digital technologies. At the same time, a collective exhibition will present editions by artists and writers working on the form and materiality of books, from national and international collections. An artistic publishing project will also bring together fifty artists, invited to put the conference's theme into practice in a modest, shared printed form. LILLIAD, University of Lille - 12, 13 and 14 November 2025.

Oslo

From Barricade to Barricade: A Debate on Museums’ Responsibilities and Role as Political Actors. What responsibilities do art institutions carry when calls for solidarity arise, and how do the expectations placed on them by society and the art field shape their response? The past weeks’ public conversation concerning The National Museum’s curation of Noa Eshkol’s Mourning Carpet (Afterthe Ma‘alot School Massacre) in room 76, has stormed Norwegian media. In response, Young Artists’ Society (UKS) and Kunstnernes Hus will host a debate about the role and responsibilities of museums as political actors. Kunstnernes Hus, 5 November 2025. Video recording. Kunstkritikk.

Kunstbok Oslo - Art Book Fair at Kunstnernes Hus, November 15 - 16, from 12.00-17.00. 90 exhibitors, a two day seminar, program for kids and risograph-workshop in Kunstnernes Hus riso-room. We present artist books and independent publishers, and we are an online art bookstore as well as a platform for meetings and conversations.

Katalog for kunstnerisk publisering (Katalogen.org) documents important publications in the field of artistic publishing, seen from a Norwegian perspective. The catalogue's purpose is to highlight publications that rarely receive the attention they deserve. The first pilot version of Katalogen.org was published in autumn 2024. We will be launching Katalogen.org ‘2.0’ – an expanded version, incorporating 20 new works, at Kunstbok Oslo on 16 November 2025.

Calendars: Dukk Opp, Kunstakademiet, Underskog, Oslo Art Guide, Paragone, Concerts in Oslo, Broadcast.

Prague

The 2025 Performance Art Festival – Bodies Craving to Believe will take place on Friday, November 7, from 7:00 p.m. in the industrial space of the Old Wastewater Treatment Plant in Prague-Bubeneč (Čistírna1906). The program features six original performances exploring corporeality as a medium of emotional expression, hope, and queer self-determination.

Calendars: jlbjlt, akce.nolog.cz, Artmap.

Rotterdam

Composing for Multispecies Survival in Dark Times: Donna Haraway, Anna Tsing and Rosi Braidotti. What kind of life is possible in the aftermath of extinctions and other environmental crises? In collaboration with Praemium Erasmianum Foundation, the Nieuwe Instituut is hosting an in-depth programme to kick off the opening of the exhibition FUNGI: Anarchist Designers. 20 November 2025, 18:30-19:45.

Palestine Shadow Library, soft launch, Varia, Rotterdam, 30 November 2025. As part of the Colonial Infrastructures series, this 5th edition will focus on knowledge under duress and its circulation in times of repression. How do we gather to disseminate knowledge that was erased and dispersed?

Calendars: 010 kalender, Gancio, We Own Rotterdam.

Seoul

17th Unlimited Edition - Seoul Art Book Fair 2025, Seoul Museum of Art, 14-16 November 2025. [2]

Växjö

Towards The Non-Extractive Art School. Against the background of the dependency on extractive technological tools and infrastructures in art, design and education, this workshop gathers a number of artists and researchers at the forefront of imagining and building alternatives that materially manifest sustainable, small- and - human scale technological worlds. Hofs Lifs, Växjö, 21 Nov 2025. Toot.

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File:Careful A Repertorium on Shadow Library Practice 2025.pdf

Compiled by Dušan Barok, Marcell Mars, Tomislav Medak, Nick Thurston

Published on the occasion of Careful vs Careless: Library Custodians and Artificial Readers and Library Making as Practice at distro, Basel, 5–17 November 2025. With the Library of Inclusions and Omissions, Monoskop, The Piracy Project, Public Library / Memory of the World, a.o. Organised by Lucie Kolb and Maria Maddalena Lenzi.

"Large Language Models have, in a sense, created the ultimate (un)ideal readers for electronic libraries. By treating e-libraries as vast training datasets, algorithmic scraping has become both the fulfilment and the ruin of a core dream in public library culture: that access to books should be free and unlimited for all. AI systems read everything and nothing, at inhuman scale and speed — extracting patterns and selling what they pretend to know as consequence. What once symbolised a democratic promise now risks feeding extractive logics that empty reading of meaning.

So, why should we care — and if we do, how can we put that care into practice?

The ‘Careful VS Careless’ exhibition centres a new conversation between custodians of radical public libraries, known as ‘shadow libraries’. Organised around that conversation are a mixture of symbolic and tactical gestures that help people to think and act carefully in relation to the infrastructures of public knowledge systems."

 Careful: A Repertorium on Shadow Library Practice
 distro, Basel, November 2025
 [134] pages
 PDF (22 mb)

Exhibition. Publisher.

2025-11-5

File:Vertical Atlas 2022.pdf

Edited by Leonardo Dellanoce, Amal Khalaf, Klaas Kuitenbrouwer, Nanjala Nyabola, Renée Roukens, Arthur Steiner, Mi You

"How to navigate the rapidly changing digital geopolitics of the world today? How do we make sense of digital transformation and its many social, political, cultural, and environmental implications at different locations around the world?

Vertical Atlas brings together the insights of a diverse group of internationally renowned artists, scientists and technologists from different backgrounds and places. From an investigation into the lithium mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo to maps of the fiber-optic submarine cables in the Atlantic and the ride-hailing platforms of China.

Vertical Atlas is not a classic atlas that depicts the world in a uniform manner and it is not a simple collection of traditional maps. This book is a tool that enables comparisons, connections and contradictions between different and diverse visions, realities and worlds – through newly commissioned diagrams, interviews, essays and works of art by leading experts from around the world."

Contributions by: Sophia Al Maria, Heba Y. Amin, Lotte Arndt, Benjamin H. Bratton, Kévin Bray, James Bridle, Ingrid Burrington, Adriana Bustos, Ben Cerveny, Guo Cheng, Chimurenga, Cristina Cochior, Sounak Das, Data Justice Lab (Philippa Metcalfe, Fieke Jansen), Pablo DeSoto, Alex Destoop, Marjolijn Dijkman, DISNOVATION.ORG, Maarten Vanden Eynde, Cao Fei, Shuang Lu Frost, Maya Indira Ganesh, Pélagie Gbaguidi, GCC Group, Geocinema (Asia Baz Qudyrieva, Solveig Suess), John Gerrard, Oulimata Gueye, Camille Henrot, Femke Herregraven, Yuk Hui, Sanneke Huisman, Victoria Ivanova, Vladan Joler, Isaac Kariuki, Francois, Knoetze, Srinivas Kodali, Bogna Konior, Lukáš Likavčan, Abu Bakarr Mansaray, Svitlana Matviyenko, Emo de Medeiros, Metahaven, Dorine Mokha, Jean Katambayi Mukendi, Edmond Musasa, Leu N’seya, Katja Novitskova, Trevor Paglen, Alice Piva, Chen 'Stanley' Qiufan, Nii Quaynor, Elia Rediger, Tabita Rezaire, Lucas Rolim, Bassem Saad, Nanjira Sambuli, Georges Senga, Nzilani Simu, Andrej Škufca, Ksenia Tatarchenko, Suzanne Treister, Unknown Fields, Jordi Vallverdú, Richard Vijgen, Sarah Waiswa, Zhan Wang, Kedolwa Waziri, Mi You, Qiu Zhijie, Dan Zhu.

 Vertical Atlas
 Publisher  ArtEZ Press, Arnhem, and Hivos, 2022
 ISBN  9789491444692
 357 pages
 PDF (65 mb)

Project website. Publisher.

2025-11-3

File:Deborder Bollore 2025.epub

"Une publication multiformat coéditée par plus d’une centaine d’éditeurices indépendant·es, disponible à la vente en librairie et en libre diffusion sur deborderbollore.fr aux formats web, EPUB et PDF.

Dans le contexte de la campagne Désarmons Bolloré, et en emboîtant le pas au boycott appelé par les « libraires antifascistes », nous, éditeurices indépendant·es, coéditons collectivement cette publication multiformat pour prendre part depuis notre secteur à la réflexion générale sur le démantèlement de l’empire Bolloré.

Les contributions mettent en avant la pensée de chercheureuses, d’imprimeureuses, d’éditeurices et de libraires qui analysent et/ou subissent les dynamiques de concentration et d’extrême droitisation du marché. Chacun·e tente de formuler, depuis sa position respective, des réponses à cette question urgente : comment faire face au libéralisme autoritaire dans le monde du livre ?

En tant qu’éditeurices indépendant·es, nous sommes indirectement visé·es par le projet totalisant de Bolloré car nos structures sont des espaces qui permettent la fabrique de contre-récits et la circulation de voix minoritaires. Face à de grands groupes monopolistiques qui filtrent les récits, il nous faut lutter pour préserver ces espaces essentiels de résistance et qui — n’en déplaise aux prophètes·ses du « grand remplacement » et aux croyant·es du « lobby LGBTQ+ » — se font rares.

La forme de cette publication multiformat part du constat suivant : si, à lui seul, Vincent Bolloré se montre capable de mobiliser des moyens logistiques et médiatiques colossaux pour mener sa « guerre civilisationnelle », alors nous devons, de notre côté, mobiliser l’entièreté de notre réseau d’éditeurices, de diffuseurs, de libraires et de relais médiatiques pour y résister. Face à la concentration par les grands groupes, faisons jouer la multiplicité et la singularité caractéristique du monde du livre indépendant.

Bolloré, par l’intermédiaire d’Hachette, est un acteur majeur de la concentration capitalistique du milieu éditorial, mais il n’est pas le seul instigateur de cette dynamique. C’est la structure même du monde du livre qui permet à de grands groupes de s’accaparer 90 % du marché de l’édition. Ainsi avons-nous décidé de « déborder Bolloré », c’est-à-dire de dépasser la figure, certes exubérante du personnage, pour comprendre, dans un premier temps, les mécanismes avec lesquels il opère et comment, dans un second temps, les déjouer depuis nos positions d’acteurices de l’édition indépendante."

 Déborder Bolloré: faire face au libéralisme autoritaire dans le monde du livre
 Collectif éditorial Déborder Bolloré, 2025
 Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International License
 ISBN 978-3-0361-0138-5
 EPUB, Web, PDFs, Markdown

Project website. Toot. Git.

2025-7-23

File:Figure it Out The Art of Living Through System Failures 2024.pdf

Edited by Mara Ferreri, Valeria Graziano, Marcell Mars, Tomislav Medak and Davor Mišković

Figure it Out (FIO) is an artistic and research project engaging practices and phenomena of coping, tinkering, making-do, and circumventing exclusions that are developed by marginalized, underserved, discriminated, and vulnerable people. Gendered, racialized, bordered, disabled, and exploited, these constituencies are often forced to develop tools and strategies that are considered unacceptable to the institutions of the system. Sometimes these tools and strategies are forged out of necessity, of survival, sometimes to exercise rights or to secure access to basic services available to those deemed more “deserving”. Other times, these coping mechanisms reclaim rest, beauty, or pleasure as part of a dignified life. What FIO practices and phenomena have in common is that they are not about scamming peers or those more vulnerable than them. Instead, they are practices that take issue with formalized, normative forms of oppression (state, welfare institutions, corporations, workplace, credit, housing, utilities etc.) that have sets of rules and conditions of access that specific populations or individuals cannot meet. They are actions directed at the conditions that produce and reproduce systemic violence and which reformist approaches aim to fix in the long run. FIO practices instead inhabit different temporalities from the perspective of those who cannot and will not wait. In their urgency, they open up spaces where different ethical practices can emerge, where knowledges are passed on in ways that complicate claims to a universal and transparent public sphere.

 Figure it Out: The Art of Living Through System Failures
 Publisher  Drugo more, Rijeka, November 2024
 ISBN  9789539976482
 108 pages
 PDF (1.4 mb)
 Zine

Publisher. Research project.

2025-7-19

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