16. – 19. september 2026
Festival is being prepared
Festival starts on 16th of September 2026
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 16th to 19th of September.
Featured projects
(projects are being added)
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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
Schedule
- 16. September 2026
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9:00Exhibition 9 – 19
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10:00Danube Dance Alliance partner meeting
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17:30Festival opening
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- 17. September 2026
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9:00Exhibition 9 – 19
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10:0010: 00 – 12: 00 Danube Dance Alliance VR
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16:00Danube Dance Alliance VR
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18:00CODA – Dance Performance in Coal Plant
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- 18. September 2026
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9:00Exhibition 9 – 19
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9:00workshop for children
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10:0010: 00 – 12: 00 Danube Dance Alliance VR
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10:00workshop for children
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16:00Danube Dance Alliance VR
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16:00Lecture: Rare Earths (EN)
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17:00Lecture: Desire for Movement – Making Replicas of Modernist Artworks (SL)
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18:00Lecture: Discover, Explore, Participate: Citizen Science
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19:00Under the Forest Surface — A Portrait of Zasavje’s Soil
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21:00Rooftop Party vol.2
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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
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10:00Programming workshop for kids
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16:00Danube Dance Alliance VR
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Side events
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Time for Lunch
Project presentation on September 18 at 7.15 pm at Delavski dom Trbovlje. This short animated film was created as part of the European project ArtElevate, which is funded by the Creative Europe program and led by Zavod Aspira. The film was created in collaboration with artists with intellectual disabilities and mentor Benjamin Kreže. It is…
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Lecture Discover, Explore, Participate: Citizen Science
September 18 at 6 pm at Delavski dom Trbovlje. The lecture presents citizen science as a form of research in which, alongside researchers, members of the public, local communities, associations, libraries, museums and other organisations can also participate. Participants will learn about the fundamental principles of citizen science, examples of good practice from Slovenia and…
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Desire for Movement Lecture
September 18 at 5 pm at Delavski dom Trbovlje. Slavko Tihec, one of the most innovative sculptors in Slovenia in the second half of the 20th century, created a sculpture in 1969 entitled ”Kinetic Object” or ”Verticals”. The circulation of water, which causes the floats to move randomly, gives this seemingly refined and industrially manufactured…
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CODA
September 17 at 6 pm at Trbovlje chimney. Registration form could be found here. CODA is a site-specific solo performance that brings human movement into dialogue with a robot dog inside the inactive Trbovlje Chimney, the tallest chimney in Europe. Set within a monument of the region’s industrial past, the work explores labor, automation, and…
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VR dance experience DanceScapes
September 17 to 19 from 10 am to 12 pm and from 4 pm to 6 pm. The film is an escape into dance – an ode to silent spaces and forgotten presence, where the body shifts silent voids. DanceSapes is a 360° virtual reality experience that brings together five choreographers and nineteen performers in…
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Rare Earths Lecture
September 18 at 4 pm at Delavski dom Trbovlje. This lecture presents Rare Earths, an exhibition bringing together artistic and scientific perspectives to explore how earthly materials, technological infrastructures, political systems and cultural imaginaries are deeply entangled. Authors think of the forest as a laboratory and as a mirror. A space where science meets the…
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Under the Forest Surface — A Portrait of Zasavje’s Soil
On Friday, 18 September, at 7.00 pm. The meeting point is on the forecourt in front of Delavski dom Trbovlje. We recommend wearing walking shoes, as we will be heading into the woods. We think of the forest as a laboratory and as a mirror. A space where science meets the logic of observation, where…
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Shadows of the Artificial Intelligence
In a world where artificial intelligence algorithms have become embedded in every pore of society, a once successful director finds himself in a hopeless situation. When it seems that he will never make another film because of his past sins, a mysterious producer appears and offers him a seemingly ideal solution – making a film…
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Desire for Movement Workshop
September 18 at 9 and 10 am at Zavod za mladino, šport in turizem Trbovlje. A traditional sculpture studio can sometimes turn into a real laboratory! This is exactly what happened to sculptor Slavko Tihec when he began creating intriguing art installations that combine movement, water, and sound in an ever-changing interplay of forms. Although…
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