Adela International Festival of Generative Arts

Adela explores the practices arising in the expanded field of generative arts. It considers artworks as algorithms embedded in (im)material infrastructures and observes them as emergent machines and open systems in which human and other agents engage in the production of possible worlds.

It works to open up the material and cultural aspects of generative systems and encourage alternative entry points to their exploration – through the lens of open code, creative coding, media archaeology, fabrication processes and experimental electronics – to establish transformative practices and aesthetics to counter the dominant techno-cultural currents.

In its 2023 edition, Adela probes and models generative analogue-digital entanglements that fuse traditional techniques with automated processes, thus widening the field of generativity across divisions between the virtual and the material, the mechanical and the computational.