Festival showcasing world leading artists and researchers whose work illustrates artificial intelligence through chatbots, deepfakes, creative interaction and biomimcry. Many are interactive and some are video art installations.

The event examines the question as to which new impulses art can provide for the societal, ecological and technological dynamics of the future in an age of global transformation.

Pioneering contemporary artists develop new works addressing issues of our times and participants witness art in the making. The industrial world heritage Zollverein will be transformed into an open production venue for Digital Arts.

Digitization doesn’t change our world but it does, however, radically change HOW and WHAT we can or must deal with in this world.