2026 is a year of building, connection, and dialogue.
The program brings together practitioners and theorists, new co-productions, workshops for young artists, and a publication that, for the first time, maps the festival’s history through the lens of its transdisciplinary concerns.

This year’s theme, RE:MEDIATE, reflects not only on the transformations brought about by mass media and technology, but also on how we might reframe, reconfigure, or reconcile broader aspects of our current reality.

RE:MEDIATE proposes a reflection on a process described by Bolter and Grusin, in which new media technologies transform previous forms and generate new structures of perception. The theme runs through the entire program, which brings together local and international artists and curatorial formulas that create a dialogue between sound, image, memory, and urban space.

Between 1-3 August we are welcoming you to Timisoara City Celebration, we brings to the Civic Park a world of sounds that don’t obey the rules – only curiosity. Dutch artist Toktek is coming with a show where improvisation and sound collide in a lively and unexpected performance and Sillyconductor proposes two interactive workshops for […]

Plant/Human Duo is a concert in which sounds are generated from different plants. The project seeks the relationship between different plant vibrations and aesthetic sound results.

Under the central theme, Desire for the Useless, 40 video and moving image works by artists from around the world commented, through visual narratives, on measurement of existence in the digital age.