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SIMULTAN FESTIVAL ed. XX<\/strong>
ReMEDIATE<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1\u201312 Oct 2025, Timi\u0219oara
Comenduirea Garnizoanei, Cinema Studio, Theatrul Maghiar, Hala C4C

PAGINA EDI\u021aIEI<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The 20th edition of SIMULTAN Festival took place between 1\u20135 October 2025 in Timi\u0219oara (hosting exhibition programs extended until the 12th), continuing the exploration of the relationship between art, technology, and society through different artistic methods and practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The use of the transitive term Re:MEDIATE for the current edition is not a festive one, but rather a call to action, as well as an opportunity to reflect on the journey the festival has taken over the past two decades. Remediation is a process, as formulated by Bolter and Grusin on the evolving phenomenon of new media technologies, which adapt and transform older media forms, creating a dynamic progression in the media landscape. Extending this logic beyond visual aesthetics, the natural and essential question arises: what can we, in fact, remediate today?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The evolutionary phenomenon of new media technologies adapts and transforms older media forms, creating a dynamic progression in the media landscape. This process, as described by Bolter and Grusin, involves both immediacy \u2013 the tendency towards immersive, fluid experiences \u2013 and hypermediacy \u2013 the awareness of media layers, of their presence as media. In the contemporary art environment, this situation generates hybrid forms, where the old and the new cohabit, and the result becomes a space of continuous reconfiguration. But extending this logic beyond visual aesthetics, the natural and essential question arises: what can we actually remediate today \u2026 a situation, a relationship, a feeling?<\/em>
In a world in a continuous process of disintegration and reconfiguration, remediation is no longer just a technological or aesthetic concept, but a subtle form of ontological rebalancing. In mental space, the overlap has become obvious: between crises and solutions, between the past and an as yet unnamed future, between memory and forgetting. In the context of these dualities, remediation appears as an organic necessity \u2013 not just as a reformulation of the old through the new, but as a reconciliation between forms, discourses, identities.
The political no longer seems to have the strength to establish coherent narratives without being contaminated by viral aesthetics or the aesthetics of fear; the economy seeks itself in a recycling loop of failed paradigms; and society, caught between nostalgia and anxiety, manifests itself in increasingly strange echoes.
Remediation thus becomes a form of symbolic survival, an alchemy in which ruins become raw material for new meanings. It is not restoration, nor revolution, but a slow movement of rewriting reality in terms of a hybrid language, born of the collision between what was and what could be. It acts as a vital tension between memory and becoming, between exhausted forms and their potential to be reborn in another register.<\/em>
After all, McLuhan warned that the tendency to focus exclusively on content, blinds us to the expression of the form. Mediums are not neutral channels, but forms that create perceptions and identities, and remediation is precisely the gesture by which one world is born from another, not as a copy, but as a rewriting of memory in the language of the present.<\/em>
\u2014 Levente Kozma, Artistic director<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PARTICIPANTS<\/strong>

\u2013 LIVE<\/strong>
Andrei Raicu & Iulia Ripan, S\u00e9bastien Robert & Mark IJzerman, Emotional Support (Aya Metwalli, Emma Souharce, Beatrice Beispiel), Nicola Di Croce & Marta Magini, Vittoria Assembri, Katarina Gryvul, Makunouchi Bento x Selfmademusic x \u0218tefan Tiron, Sillyconductor, Anthony Pateras, Marie Delprat<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013<\/strong> SCREENINGS<\/strong>
\u21b3 ReMEDIATE (Artists: APOTROPIA – Antonella Mignone, Cristiano Panepuccia) \/ George Drivas \/ Stefan Nacke & Vladimir Genin \/ Elyse Johnson& Michael Metz \/ Geo Barcan \/ Senem Pirler & Monica Duncan \/ Valentin Sismann \/ Katina Bitsicas & Scott McMahon \/ Nicolas Lebrun \/ Katerina Messini \/ ffaux & synthcoder \/ S. Ali Hosseini \/ Olga Ward\u0119ga& Christoph Zeckel \/ Michel Kl\u00f6fkorn)
\u21b3 EMERGENCE OF AI (Artists: Zirui Chen \/ Ana Da Cunha Alves \/ Hui Kuang & Tao Han & Junshu Fang \/ Andrea Mikyska \/ Franz Rosati \/ Vincenzo Ascione \/ Jo\u00e3o Pedro Oliveira \/ Vibeke Bertelsen (Vertigo) \/ Jieyuan Huang \/ Kira Xonorika)
\u21b3 SHAPING SCAPES AND ENVIRONMENTS (Artists: Milan Antic \/ Karolina Cykowska-Halczuk & Przemys\u0142aw Zi\u00f3\u0142kowski \/ Maciek Stepniewski \/ Touchy Toy Collective \/ Leda Vaneva & Edo Garcia & Sari Sandberg \/ Sandrine Deumier \/ Inferstudio (Bethany Edgoose, Nathan Su, Sarah Su) \/ Diana Gheorghiu \/ Sohyun Lee \/ Po Yuan Juan \/ Sub Net \/ Christelle Mas & Olli Uikkanen)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013<\/strong> EXHIBITIONS<\/strong>
\u21b3 CODING DROPS, Curator: Diane Pricop (Artists: Floriama Candea, Mark Ijzerman, Ioana Vreme Moser)
\u21b3 HUSH GLITCHES (Artistic team: Luciana Andrei, Ada Anghel, Lorena Cocora, Simona Deaconescu, Denis Flueraru, Alexandra Necula, Roxana Nicoar\u0103, Codru\u021b Petre, Andrei Raicu, Alina Rusu, Gabriel Stoiciu, Sabina Suru, Andrei Tudose, Mirela Vlad)
\u21b3 NATURE AFTER NATURE, Curators: Ileana Pintilie, Cristian Nae and Raluca Oancea (Artists: Dan Acostioaei, Matei Bejenaru, Jos\u00e9pha Blanchet, Ole Blank, Irina Botea Bucan, Geta Br\u0103tescu, Floriama C\u00e2ndea, Zoi\u021ba Delia C\u0103linescu, Lorena Cocioni, Giulia Cre\u021bulescu, Suzana Dan, Andreea David, Drago\u0219 Dogioiu, Tatiana Fiodorova-Lefter, Constantin Flondor, Lavinia German, Cosmin Haia\u0219, Michael H\u00f6pfner, M\u0103lina Ionescu, Iosif Kir\u00e1ly, Aurora Kir\u00e1ly, Ana Kun, Kopacz Kund, Andrei Mateescu, C\u0103t\u0103lin Marinescu, Radu Martin, Andreea Medar, Liliana Mercioiu-Popa, Mircea Modreanu, Ana Maria Micu, Marina Oprea, Raluca Paraschiv, Tudor P\u0103tra\u0219cu, Dan Perjovschi, Bogdan Ra\u021ba, Claudia Retegan, C\u0103t\u0103lin Rulea, Sergiu Sas, Ovidiu Toader, Miki Velciov, Mihai Zgondoiu)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013<\/strong> LISTENING ROOMS<\/strong>
\u21b3 SIMULTAN 20: Listening Room (Artists: Eryck Abecassis, Alberta Balsam, Laurian Bardos (Syntax), Bass Clef Poetry, Billy Roisz, Crys Cole, C\u0103t\u0103lin Cre\u021bu, dieb13, Mario de Vega, Alessandra Eramo, Cedrik Fermont, Feldermelder, Jasmine Guffond, Jacob Kirkegaard, JD Zazie, Peter Kutin, Hanno Leichtmann, LeMarian, Roberto Maqueda, Lala Misosniky, Alberto Novello, Simina Oprescu, Annabelle Playe, Pleq, Usurper Rising, Patrizia Ruthensteiner, Ilpo Vaisanen)
\u21b3 ACOUSMIGNON 41 by Sillyconductor
\u21b3 A CITY DIVE WITH SEMI SILENT (M\u0103d\u0103lina Ciocanu, Pheobe riley Law, Mathias Guibaud, Sillyconductor)
\u21b3 S\u00c2MB\u0102TA SONOR\u0102: On gardens (Maria Balaba\u0219, Cosmin Nicolae)
\u21b3 TIMI\u0218OARA ECHOES by Adrian Marian<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photos by Andreea S\u0103s\u0103ran, Daliana Iacobescu, Levente Kozma

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\\ Funded by – The Municipality of Timi\u0219oara through the Center for Projects.
\\ Organized in partnership with The Municipality of Timi\u0219oara through the Center for Projects.
\\ With the support of – Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, Italian Cultural Institute in Bucharest, Creative Australia, Mondriaan Fund.
\\ Institutional Partners -Timi\u0219 County Directorate for Culture, Cinema Studio, Csiky Gergely Hungarian State Theatre.
\\ Cultural Partners – Qolony, Marginal, Obsolete, Semi Silent, Slow-Sync PH, Image and Sound, C4Company, Concentric Projects.
\\ Media Partners – Black Rhino Radio, Revista ARTA, Scena9, Revista Zeppelin, IQads, Propagarta, Rom\u00e2nia Pozitiv\u0103, Zile \u0219i Nop\u021bi, Visit Timi\u0219oara, Feeder, White Night of Galleries (NAG).



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SIMULTAN FESTIVAL XX.
\nReMEDIATE<\/i><\/p>\n

1 \u2013 12 Oct 2025 \/ Timi\u0219oara RO<\/p>\n

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