FIBER Festival 2026

Fragile Forces

28 - 31 MAY
Amsterdam

Festival for audiovisual art, digital culture, daring conversations and experimental music.

ABOUT FIBER FESTIVAL

FIBER Festival is an Amsterdam based meeting place for everyone interested in contemporary audiovisual art, experimental electronic music, and daring conversations in relation to technological developments and societal issues.

Following a successful 10th anniversary edition, the FIBER Festival returns for its 11th edition from 28 to 31 May 2026 at various locations in Amsterdam. In recent years, the annual festival has grown into a dynamic meeting and presentation place for groundbreaking crossovers between multisensory, audiovisual performing arts, media art and advanced digital art.

The programme offers you a wide range of artistic experiences and research-based conversations, including A/V performances, club nights, installation art, sound art concerts and in-depth artist talks highlighting contemporary art practices and desired stories and realities.

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THEME: Fragile Forces

For the 2026 festival, we will explore the theme Fragile Forces as a source of fragile and collective strength. What does it mean to listen, perform, and play in relation to fragility? And even if something seems beyond repair, are there still forces of resilience that return? Following last year’s theme Wildness, which co-adapted the acceleration and the need for artistic and social rewilding, this edition invites visitors to catch their breath, slow down, drop-out and focus on forms of vulnerable resistance.

Fragile Forces directly responds to the widespread fusing of hard power, colonial and imperial violence, genocide, the growing links between militarisation and culture, ecological extraction and weaponisation of AI and information networks. What are meaningful responses, and how can we find common ground on this? Can art help us with this? Are there resilience skills that we can share with one another?

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