What if rewilding wasn’t about going back – but going beyond?

For its second iteration, our Artistic Research Exhibition (ARE) takes place alongside the WIRE Summit. This exhibition is an important opportunity to share outcomes of artistic research from FilmEU and beyond. It highlights and showcases the impact of artistic research on cultural industries and society. Participating works have been selected through an open international call.

This exhibition invites you to delve into a nexus of artworks that explore the evolving relationships between living and synthetic systems – where nature and machine co-compose, rewire, and transform each other. Among others, the exhibition features an entanglement of human and non-human forms of life, exploration of death ecologies and urban nights, convergences of fictional narratives and documentary techniques. Across five experiential zones – Awareness → Immersion → Speculation → Collapse → Reflection – you are invited to drift, sense, and question. The veils, projections, and sonic textures throughout space are not walls but membranes – semi-permeable interfaces between bodies and data, memory and simulation, silence and signal. From endangered plants to algorithmic landscapes, from speculative ruins to glitching skies, Synthetic Rewilding reveals what it means to be alive, aware, and entangled.

Participants:

Xiaoyu Yang, Carlo de Gaetano, James Irwin, Hugo Barata and Ricardo Nunes, Paolo Patelli, Constanza Julia Bani, Marta Amorim, Ziyao Lin, Josh Wagner, Alexander Walmsley, Vincent Simon Thornhill, Gurkan Mihci, Iram Ghufran, Andrew Stiff, Agnes Meng, David Serra Navaro and Victor Flores