HYBRID Biennale 2024
12. – 27.10.2024 Festival for Digital Arts and Transformation
For several years now, the federal state of Saxony and the Smart City model city of Dresden have been regarded as important locations for the global semiconductor and software industry. In addition to large corporations such as Infineon or Globalfoundries, numerous leading medium-sized companies, renowned research institutes, e.g. in the field of robotics and AI, and the TU Dresden, one of the few German universities of excellence, can be found here. How are these impressive and internationally significant scientific and technological expertise and potentials reflected in (urban) society and in the cultural and artistic institutions?
HELLERAU, conceived over 100 years ago as a creative and experimental venue for an artistic avant-garde, will dedicate three editions of the HYBRID Biennale in 2022, 2024 and 2026 to these themes, potentials and processes in the midst of extraordinarily critical phases of global and digital transformations.
HELLERAU, conceived over 100 years ago as a creative and experimental venue for an artistic avant-garde, will dedicate three editions of the HYBRID Biennale in 2022, 2024 and 2026 to these themes, potentials and processes in the midst of extraordinarily critical phases of global and digital transformations. The 2024 Biennale will open with the spectacular project “ROBOTER.SINFONIE”, which explores the conventional concert hall against the backdrop of radical technological transformations: In cooperation with TU Dresden, the Dresdner Sinfoniker are developing a special double concert in which the musical director is replaced by a robot after the interval. Another project that addresses the entry of robots into human living spaces and worlds is Silke Grabinger’s performance “SpotShotBeuys” as a reminiscence of the legendary performance “I like America and America likes me” by Joseph Beuys.
Other highlights of the festival include the performance “NEW ILLUSION” by renowned Japanese artist Toshiki Okada, which plays with presences and absences in space, the game installation “Morphogenic Angels” by the KEIKEN collective and the concert project “SHIRO”, with which NONOTAK acoustically and visually remeasure the Great Hall in the Festspielhaus. This year’s Biennale will conclude with the international symposium “BLACKBOX WHITECUBE XR”, curated by Maria Chatzichristodoulou and Bika Rebek and taking place from 25.10.-27.10.202024, which will examine how spatial concepts for music and the performing arts can be rethought and developed in the age of radical digital transformations.
Further events and details will be made public by September 2024.
