16. – 19. september 2026

Festival is being prepared
Festival starts on 29th of September 2027
Speculum Artium is an annual international festival of new media culture hosted in the post-industrial town of Trbovlje in Slovenia. This year it will take place from 29th of September to 2nd of October..
Featured projects in 2026 festival
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Plastic Bloom
Lumoskop_lab
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Tempus
Martina Testen, Simon Šerc
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Nokturno
Martina Testen, Simon Šerc
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Musica Subsonica 0.1
Filip Borelli
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Invisible Beauty
Filip Borelli
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Circus Lumineszenz: Laser Harp Q
Leonardo Bettinelli
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Rare Earths exhibition
curated by Fabricio Lamoncha
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Anatomy of an AI System
Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler
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Sculpturing a Peace Monument
Total Refusal
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Mouse
Volkan Dinçer
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Toaster Project
Thomas Thwaites
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[Alien] Star Dust – Meditations
Victoria Vesna
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Myconomy: A concept of circular economy based on ‘Ganoderma lucidum’
JKU, Soft Matter Physics (SoMaP) Division
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Ecology of Fire
Volkan Dinçer
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Breath of the Underworld
Pia Zupančič
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Experience ETI
ETI, Simon Okrogar
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Consumer / Consumed
Simon Okrogar in Andraž Medved
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Metro Animal
Jorge Emilio Yáñez Fernandez, Víctor David Badillo Díaz
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Please ask me something else
Colin Black, Eszter Polónyi, Jaka Železnikar
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Skolt Sami Nomadic Dictionary
Anna Tolkacheva, Steve Nest
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Desire for Movement
Simona Škorja, Klara Retko et al.
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Urban avba
Boris Beja, Naja Ražem, Jan Češnjevar, Jure Jelenc
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Gold Fish Anatomy
Nina Koželj
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Protocol Without Environment
Nikolina Popov
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Access to Collective Individual
Kristina Lazić
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Futurama
Berhan Mete Arkin
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Space & Time in moving images
Berhan Mete Arkin
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iPoet
Boštjan Kavčič
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Virtual Museum ft Kosovel Poetry
Matjaž Kranjčec in Lučka Plestenjak
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Digital Pictures in the Imagery of the Present
Mihael Giba, Boris Beja, et al.
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Touch)(ME
University of Applied Arts Vienna, Digital Arts Department students
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Ars Electronica Animation Festival 2025 on Tour
Various authors
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Extended Images of Post-War Modernist Sculpture
Alicija Bogacka, Boris Beja, Matic Gabrovec
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Moving Image Art 2026
TAMK students
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Amongst the Stars, Night and Day
Manca Baša
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Akademija umetnosti Univerze v Novi Gorici
študenti Akademije umetnosti
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Shadows of the Artificial Intelligence
Loke studio
Festival events
Schedule
- 16. September 2026
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9:00Exhibition 9 – 19 test
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10:00Danube Dance Alliance partner meeting test
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17:30Festival opening– location: Ploščad pred Delavskim domom
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- 17. September 2026
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9:00Odpiralni čas
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10:0010: 00 – 12: 00 Danube Dance Alliance VR– location: Gledališki oder
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16:00Danube Dance Alliance VR– location: Gledališki oder
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18:00CODA – Dance Performance in Coal Plant– location: Termoelektrarna Trbovlje
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- 18. September 2026
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9:00Exhibition 9 – 19
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9:00workshop for children– location: klub Zavoda za mladino, šport in turizem Trbovlje
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10:0010: 00 – 12: 00 Danube Dance Alliance VR– location: Gledališki oder
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10:00workshop for children– location: klub Zavoda za mladino, šport in turizem Trbovlje
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16:00Danube Dance Alliance VR– location: Gledališki oder
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16:00Lecture: Rare Earths (EN)
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17:00Lecture: Desire for Movement – Making Replicas of Modernist Artworks (SL)– location: kavarna DDT
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18:00Lecture: Discover, Explore, Participate: Citizen Science– location: Kavarna DDT
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18:30Under the Forest Surface — A Portrait of Zasavje’s Soil– location: zbirno mesto na ploščadi pred Delavskim domom Trbovlje
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19:00Project presentation: Expressive Movement for Well-Being
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19:15Project presentation: Time for Lunch
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19:45Film: Shadows of Artificial Intelligence (SL)
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21:00Rooftop Party vol.2– location: Zavod za mladino, šport in turizem Trbovlje, Ulica 1. junija 18, 1420 Trbovlje, Slovenija
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- 19. September 2026
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9:00Exhibition 9 – 18
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10:0010: 00 – 12: 00 Danube Dance Alliance VR– location: Gledališki oder
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10:00Programming workshop for kids– location: kavarna
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16:00Danube Dance Alliance VR– location: Gledališki oder
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18:00Victoria Vesna: [Alien] Star Dust: signal to noise, eyes wide open meditation.
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