The eighth edition of the international Device_art festival, titled Transfer + Resistor (Poetic Devices / Device Poetics), opens on 29 September at 7 pm at the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb with a major group exhibition featuring twenty-seven Croatian and Korean artists and artistic collaborations. The festival programme also includes performances, artist talks, workshops, and a discursive programme that will take place throughout the duration of the exhibition, which remains open until 27 October.
Since its founding in 2004, Device_art festival has explored the intersections of art, technology, and science. In this edition, the festival establishes its first extensive dialogue with South Korea, a country whose artistic and cultural landscape has been profoundly shaped by accelerated technological development as well as a long history of experimentation in media art. The festival is developed through a collaboration between KONTEJNER and the Korean curatorial collective Vestige, whose members include artist and curator Yunchul Kim and curator Jungyeon Park.
Throughout its editions, Device_art has continuously re-examined the device and the machine and their changing roles within human, technological, and environmental contexts. With the 2026 edition, this inquiry takes a new direction. Without abandoning its critical perspective, it opens itself to other modes of engagement with technology. The Croatian and Korean artists brought together in the festival approach devices as materials and active systems through which imagination, curiosity, and transformation unfold. Technology is not only something we use—it is something we are in relationship with. Art therefore does not merely question this relationship; it explores what else it might become.
