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English below lab leaders: Bernd Gutmannsbauer, Julia Eckstein, Karl Stocker Bernd Gutmannsbauer, Schallplattenunterhalter und Künstlerischer Leiter von accomplices – Verein zur Erkundung multimedialer Ausdrucksformen, legt bei der Schmiede 2026 den Fokus auf die Kunst des Djing. Wir nähern uns dem Thema in theoretischer, praktischer und anekdotischer Weise an. 1.     Im philosophischen Lesekreis erörtern […]

This year TeleAgriCulture returns to Schmiede to host a  living lab that intersects fermenting ideas, cultures (and locally sourced food) with digital sensing and machine learning. We are back bigger and better, ready to hack and disrupt infrastructures of control over environmental data, sensing and networking architectures, and personal food practices, to co-create better ways […]

 Stephanie Meisl will return and focus on genJAM Whether your background is in film, design, music, games, or brand storytelling, Machine Cinema’s GenJAM offers a structured space to experiment, learn new workflows, and connect with fellow collaborators. Expect a fast-paced, welcoming environment for both beginners and advanced creators.   An intensive, collaborative GenJAM, where participants […]

Animation is boring and difficult!  Maybe at Schmiede things are different?! NO! We want to explore analogue techniques, and torture ourselves. There might be salt, sand or pain(t) involved, maybe other stuff we find on the way. AI can do a quicker job, but that would be too easy for us suffering artists, and feed […]

In Douglas Adams’ Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, the Electric Monk is a labor-saving device designed to believe things instead of and for you… Welcome to The Electric Monk Lab! – a sonic playground where machines don’t only create sounds; they listen, feel, react, or maybe groove along. In this lab, we’ll craft a series of […]