Adela International Festival of Generative Arts 2027

Adela festival calls upon regenerative processuality and collective action in resistance to the dominant technocultural currents that strive for optimisation, standardisation and senseless updating on the brink of innovation and obsolescence. Engaging the principles of permacomputing, creative coding, media archaeological exploration, open-source practices and experimental electronics, it investigates the yet unrealised potentials of the divergent technological pasts while encouraging us to alter our relationships towards resources and production processes to create a sustainable technological future. In the same breath, it calls for sustainable creativity. For artistic exploration within limits and rhythms that transcend the short-term logic of projects and the allure of novelty. For reflecting on one’s role within their community and environment, pushing back against extractivist practices and exhausting mechanisms of production. Traditionally, Adela begins with “From Scratch”, an event featuring an open lineup, rooted in improvisation and insisting on applause. In workshops, we've explored alternative networking, live-coding graphics on oscilloscopes, weaving as a generative practice and crafting textile sensors with creative coding. Through the series of discursive events titled Digital Dish, we delve deeper into the history of computation, media theory, open-source intelligence, alive internet, network materiality and more. The Parameter Arts Fair presents artworks that creatively employ (re)generative methods, blending new and traditional techniques, while visitors have the opportunity to support artists by purchasing affordable pieces ideal for small-scale analogue-digital collections. We wrap up the festival with an evening of sound and visual performances at the Algorave, live-coded by an international lineup of exceptional performers sharing their love for code and for community with the audience.