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-It took us a little while to process everything that happened at the 2026 TRX Summer School of Bits and Atoms.A special...
20/07/2026

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It took us a little while to process everything that happened at the 2026 TRX Summer School of Bits and Atoms.

A special thank you to Young Boy Dancing Group (Young Boy Dancing Group Maria Metsalu ), Bernardo (.link), and Seth () for your kindness, generosity, and for leading the workshops into uncharted experimental territories.

And thank you to all the participants across the three workshops for your curiosity and open-mindedness:

jola 🐢
𝑨𝒏𝒏𝒂 𝑴𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒆𝒅𝒆𝒔 
 
ᴄʀɪsᴛɪɴᴀ ᴅᴇᴢɪ 
david_varhegyi 
 
 
𝕴𝔡𝔡𝔩 • visual artist 
Lorenza Ceregini 
fricky 
Maximilian Gutmair 
sara.pezzolesi 
Stefano Bonifazi 
 
 


See you next year!

(We intentionally chose to prioritize presence over documentation, creating a space where ideas could be explored freely, without the constant presence of cameras. So this is pretty much the only photo we will share from the week)

🇪🇸🧠BarcelonaThursday, June 18that Elisava, MDEF FestSaturday, June 20that Plaça dels Traginers
Post-Computing Lab Hybrid...
08/06/2026

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Barcelona
Thursday, June 18th
at Elisava, MDEF Fest
Saturday, June 20th
at Plaça dels Traginers

Post-Computing Lab Hybrid Semester final show, celebrating the inspiring projects of 2026 research fellows across new media and new theories.

Featuring projects by (A-Z):
Alejandra Cristina Rivera
Ayal Bark .b
Carlos Silveira .design
David Varhegyi
Ivan Hunga Garcia
Valeria Castillo M
Ziming Shang

🧠Full programSUMMER SCHOOL OF BITS AND ATOMSA collaborative takeover by .institute, .artificiale and .𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟔 – 𝟏𝟐, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔,...
01/06/2026

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Full program
SUMMER SCHOOL OF BITS AND ATOMS
A collaborative takeover by .institute, .artificiale and .

𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟔 – 𝟏𝟐, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔, in Pesaro, Italy.

A week-long residency featuring workshops, experimental labs, live performance and site-specific interventions.

WORKSHOPS

* July 6 – 10 (all day) FIGA.LINK
* July 8 – 10 (all day) YOUNG BOY DANCING GROUP
* July 8 – 10 (all day) RROSE
* July 12 (18.00-20.00) EGE ŞAHİN

PERFORMANCES & LIVE WORK

SATURDAY, JULY 11
* 19:30 – 21:30 | DAVID VARHEGYI (Site-Specific Installation & Performance)
* 21:30 – 24:00 | FEDERICO TANSELLA + MORGANA + HA KYOON

SUNDAY, JULY 12
* 21:00 – 21:30 | EGE ŞAHIN (Collective Performance)
* 21:30 – 23:30 | ZHUYANG LIU + ELVIN BRANDHI

COMMISSIONED WORK
* operating system_

Limited spots are available for the workshops.
The performances are free entrance for UA members.

Register for the workshops: https://linktr.ee/transmediaresearch.institute (link in bio)

Become an official member: forms.gle/twFTFfQeBULPZfne9 (link in bio)

Save the dates, spread the word, and pack your gear. See you there.
link

WorkshopRROSE Intuitive Psychoacoustics and Spatial Composition:Horizontal, Vertical, and Interdimensional Listening8 ...
20/05/2026

Workshop
RROSE

Intuitive Psychoacoustics and Spatial Composition:
Horizontal, Vertical, and Interdimensional Listening

8 - 9 - 10 July 2026
10am to 7pm.
Pesaro (PU), Italy

Register here, link in bio: https://forms.gle/2AaaN2X9HrJVrKcT6
Cost: 150€

Intuitive Psychoacoustics and Spatial Composition is an immersive workshop exploring the deep psychoacoustic concepts and history behind spatial audio. Through focused listening sessions and discussions, participants will dive into the compositional processes and experiential effects of spatial works, tracing a lineage from pioneers like Éliane Radigue, Iannis Xenakis, David Tudor, and Karlheinz Stockhausen.
The experience extends beyond the studio: participants will lead field outings to listen to and record real-world environmental sounds, ultimately combining these recordings to co-create a collaborative spatial composition.

Rrose is the latest incarnation of Seth Horvitz, an inter-disciplinary artist from California (currently residing in London) whose 25+ year musical history weaves in and out of academic circles and electronic music culture. Their work is informed by ongoing interests in microtonality, the limits of perception, and the idiosyncrasies of machines, which serve to create a distinctly detailed, sensual and hallucinogenic form of techno that challenges the mind and body in equal measure. The project extends into specific pockets of the avant-garde, leading to collaborations with luminaries such as Bob Ostertag and Charlemagne Palestine and reinventions of works by 20th century composers such as James Tenney. On stage, Rrose often stands in the shadows, going by he and she interchangeably (Rrose’s name and image allude to Marcel Duchamp’s female alter-ego) an implied interrogation of gender norms and artistry, albeit with a hint of black humour.

Collective interventionEGE ŞAHİNa billion phonesWorkshop/walk/performance——12 July 202619:00 - 21:30Chiesa del Suffragio...
18/05/2026

Collective intervention
EGE ŞAHİN

a billion phones
Workshop/walk/performance
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12 July 2026
19:00 - 21:30
Chiesa del Suffragio
Centro Arti Visive Pescheria, Pesaro (PU), Italy
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Register here, link in bio: https://forms.gle/MbCfZTudDn8KEEhi6
Cost: 25€
Free for UA members
No prior experience required
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“a billion phones” is a participatory piece in a workshop/walk/performance format, inviting the audience to use their mobile phones as a collective distributed speaker setup in dialogue with the environmental sound and public cityscape.
Through a custom web-based platform built by the artist, the piece turns a group of 10 to 100+ participants into a distributed sound system, using only the speakers and microphones already carried in their pockets. Guided by a simple open-text score, participants anonymously enact a sequence of actions by triggering designated audio materials at specific moments and locations.
Pre-politically, phones, as a medium of composition and performance, propose a temporary reprogramming of everyday technology, shifting mobile phones from tools of control into instruments for anonymous collective intervention and shared play with attention in private and public space.
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Ege Şahin (b.1996, Turkey) is an experimental composer and improviser based in the Hague, working across experimental music and sound studies with sensitivity to perception, participation, and metaphysics. His work draws on rational tunings, feedback, noise, and field recordings—using guitar, computer, found objects, and audience’s mobile phones in performances, recordings, and installations.

WorkshopYOUNG BOY DANCING GROUP ——8 - 9 - 10 July 202610am to 7pm.Pesaro (PU), Italy——Register here, link in bio: https:...
14/05/2026

Workshop
YOUNG BOY DANCING GROUP

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8 - 9 - 10 July 2026
10am to 7pm.
Pesaro (PU), Italy
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Register here, link in bio: https://forms.gle/jMsjG8qhECf8fDp77
Cost: 100€
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Young Boy Dancing Group workshop consists of choreographic instructions with a clear and substantial goal: to be part of a group, to dance together, to embody feelings, to explore a sense of safety in stillness with one another and to produce collective highs.
Rather than a series of exercises, the workshop is offered to the participant as an intimate journey with a punk attitude towards modern dance and the possibility to allow ourselves to use vulnerability to dive deep into emotions.

Young Boy Dancing Group

Workshoplink PNG to .OBJ
3d printing prompt workflow——6 - 10 July 202610am to 7pm.Pesaro (PU), Italy——Register here, lin...
12/05/2026

Workshoplink PNG to .OBJ
3d printing prompt workflow
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6 - 10 July 2026
10am to 7pm.
Pesaro (PU), Italy
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Register here, link in bio: https://forms.gle/Fgfi1jHLPxyr5yD66
Cost: 150€ (upon selection)
png to .obj is a 5-day workshop led by Bernardo Martins (.link) in collaboration with Titles, built around a process that guides participants from concept to 3d print. Imagine, describe and together we bring it to irl. 
The process is experienced both collectively and individually.

Laptop required. Everything else is provided.
[limited spots available]

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Bernardo Martins (.link) is a Berlin-based concept artist exploring the shifting relationship between digital and physical reality.His practice follows possibilities as they move from screen into materiality, and question how generative imagery can participate in culture.

🔒 amazing lecture yesterday on OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) for TRX 2026 research fellows
23/02/2026

🔒 amazing lecture yesterday on OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) for TRX 2026 research fellows

Antidisciplinary Semester of Bits and Atoms. Final projects: “THE MANOSPHERE”-How are toxic masculinity communities evol...
11/09/2025

Antidisciplinary Semester of Bits and Atoms. Final projects:
“THE MANOSPHERE”
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How are toxic masculinity communities evolving online—and what memes, trolls, and tools are they using to spread their ideology? What happens when their ideas start going mainstream?

As part of this research two pieces were presented using a mixed research methodology combining digital anthropology with cultural

Methods of mediation/ re-mediation, datafication and sentiment analysis to investigate algorithmic network transformations . The sources involved in the piece is a vast and on-going research into different forums and language specific to the manosphere.

Artworks
The Manosphere (2025) This video essay follows Oscar, a fictional 14-year-old boy from London, to explore how platforms like TikTok shape young minds through fitness culture, lookmaxxing, alpha male rhetoric, and misogyny. The footage is drawn from a real experiment simulating Oscar’s algorithmic feed.

Game Over (2025) is a sculptural installation of four chess queens, exploring power, gender, and resistance within systems built to suppress. Drawing from the symbolism of the queen—the installation explores how gendered strategies of control mutate over time. The queens no longer serve the logic of victory—they evolve as artifacts of failed mastery, refusing to be optimised. As ideologies of dominance iterate through algorithmic platforms, these figures drift from avatars of power to agents of systemic collapse. Game Over speculates on agency after exhaustion, strategy after failure, and femininity beyond the board.

Thank you , , and @2050.plus for your generous insights and support.

Antidisciplinary Semester of Bits and Atoms. Final projects:xin “Hypersensitive Tremor 过敏性震颤”-ᴹʸ ᵛⁱˢⁱᵒⁿ ᵇˡᵘʳˢ,ᶜᵒⁿˢᶜⁱᵒᵘˢⁿ...
10/09/2025

Antidisciplinary Semester of Bits and Atoms. Final projects:xin “Hypersensitive Tremor 过敏性震颤”
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ᴹʸ ᵛⁱˢⁱᵒⁿ ᵇˡᵘʳˢ,ᶜᵒⁿˢᶜⁱᵒᵘˢⁿᵉˢˢ ˢᵉᵗᵗˡⁱⁿᵍ ˡⁱᵏᵉ ˢᵉᵈⁱᵐᵉⁿᵗ ⁱⁿᵗᵒ ᵍᵉᵒˡᵒᵍⁱᶜᵃˡ ˡᵃʸᵉʳˢ· ᴬᵗᵐᵒˢᵖʰᵉʳⁱᶜ ᵖʳᵉˢˢᵘʳᵉ—ᵗʰᵉ ʷᵉⁱᵍʰᵗ ᵒᶠ ᵉᵒⁿˢ—ᵖʳᵉˢˢᵉˢ ᵈᵒʷⁿ ᵘᵖᵒⁿ ᵐᵉ· ᵀᵉᶜᵗᵒⁿⁱᶜ ˢʰⁱᶠᵗˢ⠃ ᵐʸ ᵇᵒᵈʸ ᵃⁿ ⁱˢˡᵃⁿᵈ,ᶠʳᵃᶜᵗᵘʳⁱⁿᵍ, ᵈʳⁱᶠᵗⁱⁿᵍ, ᶜᵒˡˡⁱᵈⁱⁿᵍ, ᵐᵉʳᵍⁱⁿᵍ·ᴮᵉᵗʷᵉᵉⁿ ᶠⁱˢˢᵘʳᵉˢ ᵃⁿᵈ ˢᵘʳᵍᵉˢ, ᴵ ˢᵉⁿˢᵉ ᵐʸ ᵒʷⁿ ᵈⁱˢˢᵒˡᵘᵗⁱᵒⁿ ᵃⁿᵈ ʳᵉᵇⁱʳᵗʰ· ᵀʳᵉᵐᵒʳˢ ᵃʳᵉ ᵃⁿ ᵃᵈᵃᵖᵗⁱᵛᵉ ᵉᵛᵒˡᵘᵗⁱᵒⁿ,ᵃ ʳᵉˢᵒⁿᵃⁿᶜᵉ ᵒᶠ ˢʰⁱᶠᵗⁱⁿᵍ ᵖˡᵃᵗᵉˢ·ᴹʸ ᵇᵒᵈʸ ᵐᵒᵛᵉˢ ᵇᵉᵗʷᵉᵉⁿ ᶠʳᵃᵍᵐᵉⁿᵗᵃᵗⁱᵒⁿ ᵃⁿᵈ ʳᵉᶠᵒʳᵐᵃᵗⁱᵒⁿ,ʷᵃⁿᵈᵉʳⁱⁿᵍ ᵗʰᵉ ˢᵖᵃᶜᵉ ᵇᵉᵗʷᵉᵉⁿ ʳᵘᵖᵗᵘʳᵉ ᵃⁿᵈ ʳᵉᶜᵒⁿˢᵗʳᵘᶜᵗⁱᵒⁿ·

This project initially unfolds as a game and remains an ongoing exploration.

When everyday narratives fracture and self-perception is quietly reshaped by external data, the project introduces the concept of “Diagnosis”—not as the labeling of diseases or identities, but as a way to trace how environmental inputs like humidity, heart rate, or pressure shape perception and cause subtle disorientation.

Using diary fragments and sensor data, the project generates a virtual character whose inner world is continuously reorganized by these influences. Players reconstruct the character’s shifting state by piecing together scattered information, engaging in an unfolding process of inference and interpretation.

Beyond its original game mechanics, this project now expands into experiments with spoken storytelling and video, fragmenting the narrative into multiple, fluid paths.

Initiated, written by song xin

Presented at 
.spazio (Milan) for TRX
 (Berlin) 
.zone (London)
Video game collaboration with George ; sound design by ; UI illustrations by .

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