ArtRebels designs the festival space

This year we are teaming up with the curious and creative studio ArtRebels to design our festival area. Copenhagen’s best set designers are creating the festival space in the Meatpacking District in order to make it a great place for people to meet, share thoughts and discuss the future of technology.

ArtRebels is devoted to collaboration across all fields of art and creativity and is working with a global community of talents and frontrunners. Since 2007, they have built and designed festivals, innovative installations, art collaborations, parties and many more projects born out of the studio’s passion for pushing boundaries and creating engagement.

For Techfestival, ArtRebels have created the set design for the festival space, including look and feel of our two stages and the containers that will host three thought provoking art installations. Created out of the concept of humans meet technology, the entire space will enable you to get a real human experience while enjoying the festival.

The main stage is shaped as a circle and symbolises how different entities can create a greater context when put together. During this stage will host a number of world class speakers, leaders and innovators. Like James Bridle, artist and author of New Dark Age, who will invite festival goers to take a closer look at consequences of the technical revolution.

The second stage is covered by green plants which symbolise how the talks can inspire to new ideas are growing out of the Techfestival’s conversations and program.

Three containers at the festival center will become home to art installations exploring different aspects of the human relation to technology. With your festival wristband you will be able to experience all of them.

One of them is Jaywalking by Dries Depoorter, an installation that automatically catches jaywalkers using live surveillance webcams and gives visitors the choice to report them to the police. Read more about the piece here.

Another one is Reflections by Andrey Vrady, an artwork that shows the dialogue between people and technology. His piece exhibits how technology perceives human beings and how we as human might look as art through the lens of the artist’s computational code.

We can’t wait to experience it together with you! Get your wristband here.