“Periphery Noise” is a lecture-performance. In today’s digital culture, technical design often turns individuals’ voices into noise, whether under totalitarian rule or within the surveillance capitalism of digital giants. These are different political structures, but both use technology to control society in powerful ways. Is this becoming a new norm we will have to live with in the digital age, wherever we are on Earth?

About the festival
*ūmėdė [uːmeədeə] is a Lithuanian word for mushroom species (Russula). It phonetically resonates with the word “media”. This mushroom is ectomycorrhizal which means a form of symbiotic relationship that occurs between a fungal symbiont, or mycobiont, and the roots of various plant species. Therefore metaphorically speaking we suppose that participants of the symposium will form a symbiotic relationship with media, art, research, the actual venue and themselves. x⬳disciplinary festival for emerging art & related matters What happened after the meteorite of the anthropocene has hit contemporary art, and bioactivists together with AI and XR* have exploded the discourse formerly known as media art?

Festival website: https://umede.lt/