‘Sankt Interface’ is an artistic project organized by Interface Cultures which serves also as the annual celebration of our department. It is not a coincidence that it is celebrated around every ninth of December, the same day of 1968 when Douglas Engelbart did his ultra-famous conference, known today as “The Mother of All Demos”. At Sankt Interface, academic conferences, artistic performances, exhibitions, concerts and a “Computer Mouse Award” conform a celebration transforming into a happening in which students, professors, and friends of Interface Cultures participate at the same level.

This year’s event includes the keynote “Beyond Resolution” by Rosa Menkman an art theorist, curator, and visual artist specialising in glitch art and resolution theory, who wrote the Glitch Studies Manifesto in 2009. And the keynote “Map as an Interface” by the artist Vladan Joler, a researcher and artist whose work blends data investigations, critical cartography, investigative journalism, critical design, and visual storytelling, was recently awarded the Golden Nica for his collaboration with Kate Crawford, “Calculating Empires”.

This year’s event includes the highly anticipated keynote “On bros, tradwives and their contrarians” by Regine Debatty, a renowned curator who specializes in the fascinating intersection of art and technology. As the editor of the influential blog “We Make Money Not Art,” Regine brings a wealth of knowledge and insight into contemporary cultural discussions. Attendees can expect a deep dive into the nuanced dynamics of gender roles and their representation in modern society. Additionally, there will be another thought-provoking keynote titled “Cars, Goats and Toasters: Exploring Guilt, Failure and Doom” presented by the innovative artist Thomas Thwaites. Known for his trailblazing work on “The Toaster Project,” Thomas challenges conventional notions of consumerism and production in his exploration of everyday objects. His lecture promises to be a compelling examination of the emotional complexities tied to our interactions with technology and the underlying sense of guilt that often accompanies these relationships.

This year’s event includes the keynote “Platform Capitalism 4.0” By Marta Peirano, a journalist specialized in technology and power. Among her activities she has founded newspapers, organised cryptoparties, curated biennials and published books such as “El pequeño Libro Rojo del activista en la Red” (The Little Red Book of Online Activism), an essay on cryptography with a foreword by Edward Snowden, “The Enemy Knows the System”, a text discussing online digital feudalism and political manipulation and her latest book “Against the Future: Citizen resistance to climate feudalism”. She is a well-known public speaker and long-time advocate of free software, digital privacy and the radical decentralization of the critical infrastructure.

This year’s event includes the keynote “Très(h)chic” By Sašo Sedlaček, Professor at ALUO University, one of the most prominent Slovenian artists, whose work explores various social phenomena particularly the practice of recycling. For Sedlaček, poverty and waste are the key issues, which are of great significance to our future. Sašo has exhibited extensively around the world including 6 Taipei Biennial, Taiwan, Land(e)scape, Kunstlerhaus Graz, Institute for Advanced Media Art and Science, Ogaki, Japan, Public Turbulence, ISOLA Art Center, Milano, Museum In The Street, Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana, ISCP Open Studio, New York, Future Nomad, Vox Populi, Philadelphia etc. Keynote in collaboration with Aksioma, institute of contemporary art. Supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Ljubljana.

This year’s event includes the keynote “Eco-Visionaries” By Karin Ohlenschläger curator, art critic and previous artistic director at LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial in Gijón and Media Lab Prado.
And the keynote “A Pandemic Crisis Seen from the Screen: Digital art and electronic literature as reflection on pandemic platform culture.” by Søren Pold, PhD and Associate Professor of digital aesthetics at Aarhus university. Expert on electronic literature, net art, software art, creative software, urban interfaces and digital culture.

This year’s event includes the keynotes by art historian, curator and lecture Valentina Tanni. Her research focuses on the relationship between art and technology, with a particular focus on internet culture. She is adjunct professor of Digital Art at Politecnico University in Milan and lecturer of the course Culture Digitali (Digital Cultures) at NABA. URL: http://www.valentinatanni.com/
The second speaker is Benjamin Grosser, Associate Professor of New Media in the School of Art + Design, co-founder of the Critical Technology Studies Lab at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), and a faculty affiliate in the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory and the School of Information Sciences, all at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is an artist focusing on the cultural, social, and political effects of software; URL: https://bengrosser.com/

This year the keynote by the Net artist, curator, theorist, and musician Alexei Shulgin. He launched the first online desktop exhibition in 1997 and co-edited the “Desktop is Manifesto. He has also produced interactive works, such as Form art, 1997. Nowadays, Shulgin is developing tangible objects, and high-tech artworks in the project Electroboutique, in collaboration with Aristarkh Chernyshev, both run the Elektromuseum in Moscow.

This year’s event includes the keynote “Techno-political interfaces. Collective agents and multiple transitions” by Laura Benitez, PhD in Philosophy Currently coordinates research programs at Hangar.org ). Proposing a critical analysis of the emancipatory potential of (bio)technology through interfaces in the context of artistic practices.
The keynote NAME Readymade By Janez Janša®: In this talk the Janšas will touch upon the function of the proper name as an interface reflecting on how, in western society, the concept of personal name might coincide with (or differs from) the question of personal identity. : http://www.janezjansa.si
With especial introduction by Robert Pfaller about his collaboration in the book “Janez Janša and beyond.” Contribution with Mladen Dolar, Jela Krečič,, Slavoj Žižek,