Esoteric Algorithms and Re-Enchanted Technologies

Tuesday, 21 October

7:30–9 pm

Esoteric Algorithms and Re-Enchanted Technologies Reading Group

with artist Dasha Ilina

Sunday, 26 October

1:30–4 pm

AICON: Collective Icon-Making in the Algorithmic Age

Workshop by Tommaso Cappelletti & Jumoke Fernandez

Tuesday, 4 November

7–9 pm

A Practical Guide to Ecological Divination

Performative Lecture by Crawlers

Rybn.org is an extradisciplinary artist collective, created in 1999, and based in Paris and Marseille. The project ADM XI exhibited at panke.gallery is a collaboration with b01, Femke Herregraven, Brendan Howell, Martin Howse, Nicolas Montgermont, Horia Cosmin Samoila, Antoine Schmitt, Marc Swynghedauw & Suzanne Treister.

Danae Tapia is a multimedia artist specialized in autonomous digital technologies born in the Chilean working class and based in Rotterdam, Netherlands. In 2018 she founded the Digital Witchcraft Studio, an arts organization that conducts artistic research to explore innovative and non-conformist applications of computational technology. With her extensive experience in multimedia art, open-source software, and as a speaker, she has presented her work worldwide and contributed to both social initiatives and creative projects. An alumna of the Rijksakademie and recipient of the Mozilla Fellowship, she has received numerous awards for her work.

Margarita Athanasiou is an artist and organiser based in Athens, Greece. Her practice is text-based, utilises collage techniques and brings together autobiography and history to create multi-layered narratives in the form of publications, video essays, prints, memes and digital images.

Ginevra Petrozzi is an interdisciplinary designer and artist from Rome, Italy currently living and working in The Netherlands. Her work explores contemporary issues around care, futurity and algorithmic governance. Through critical research, writing and creative production she aims to make space for other ideas and forms of intelligence, knowledge and wisdom, both human and non-human. Currently, she is exploring the possibilities of mysticism and the occult within the landscape of contemporary techno-politics. In this framework, she took the role of a “digital witch”, reclaiming the archetypal role of the sorceress as a healer, and as a political rebel.
The artist is represented by C+N Gallery CANEPANERI

Dasha Ilina is a Russian techno-critical artist based in Paris. Through the employment of low-tech and DIY approaches, her work questions the desire to incorporate modern technology into our daily lives by highlighting the implications of actually doing so. Her practice engages the public in order to facilitate a space for the development of critical thought regarding social imperatives for care, privacy in the digital age, and the contemporary urge to turn to technology for answers.

Tega Brain is an Australian artist and environmental engineer, born when atmospheric CO2 was below 350ppm. Her work addresses issues of ecology, data, automation, and infrastructure. She is an Industry Associate Professor of Integrated Design and Media at New York University and her first book, Code as Creative Medium, is coauthored with Golan Levin and published with MIT Press. She lives and works in New York.

Crawlers is a feral creative collaboration between symbionts Lyndsey Walsh and Jess Cockerill. Crawlers is also a writhing, tangled cluster of biological science, visual art, horror cinema, wild technology, new-age mythology and a morbid fascination with the afterlife. 

Tommaso Cappelletti is an UX Designer and Researcher exploring the intersection of design, internet culture, and emerging technologies based in Berlin. Drawing from UX/UI, branding, and art direction, he crafts solutions that balance functionality with visual delight.

Jumoke Fernandez is a self-taught Art Director and Synthographer, driven by a passion for merging creativity with cutting-edge technology based in Paris. With a diverse background encompassing gaming, AR, blockchain, and entertainment, she brings a unique perspective to her work. Alongside her creative pursuits, Jumoke is dedicated to sharing her knowledge, lecturing at institutions and developing educational platforms to empower aspiring creatives.

REINCANTAMENTO is a Research and Publishing Group exploring Technology, Radical Imagination and Rituality. Based across Berlin, Venice, and Turin, we run independent publishing practices, develop playful interventions and ritual practices, and host gatherings that rethink our relationship with technology. REINCANTAMENTO channels Mediterranean magical knowledge and speculative hope into experiments with cooperative economics and situated software to create sites of collective inquiry.
As a collective force, REINCANTAMENTO refuses the art world's fixation on identity, working instead within wider networks of transformation.
For this project, REINCANTAMENTO is Anna Fasolato, Giorgio Craparo, Alessandro Y. Longo, and Simone Robutti.

Arianna Forte is an independent curator, researcher, and cultural producer based in Rome. Her research investigates the political and aesthetic potential of artistic practices that challenge the structures of technoscientific knowledge, delving into phenomena such as computational rituals and cyberwitchcraft. These inquiries are framed within an interdisciplinary methodology, blending magical materialism, critiques of platform capitalism, and digital cultures. Through this approach, she activates alternative readings of technology, questioning its social, affective, and political implications. Her curatorial work has earned recognition, including the Italian Council – XII edition research grant for her project Casting a spell in computational regimes: ritual practices for a trans-feminist “counter-apocalypse”.

Noemi Garay is a curator and cultural producer based in Berlin. She is the co-managing director of Error 417 Expectation Failed, an independent foundation that supports contemporary Internet art and net-based artistic practices. Since 2020, she has been regularly curating exhibitions at panke.gallery. She has also co-founded the project space /rosa in Berlin. Noemi studied culture and aesthetics of digital media in Frankfurt and Lüneburg, and her work focuses on art that explores the possibilities of contemporary networked technologies. She is enthusiastic about facilitating spaces where people can collectively experience, discuss, and strengthen communities around critical and socially engaged net-based arts.