Oscillations – Digital Media Graduation Festival
Oscillations, the Digital Media Graduation Festival, presents current graduation projects from both Bachelor’s and Master’s tracks of Digital Media program at HfK Bremen. Taking place from 11–13 June, the festival creates a shared platform to present their artistic, research-based, experimental and interdisciplinary practices through exhibitions, lectures and performances.
By presenting different formats alongside one another, the festival reflects interdisciplinary and diverse approaches of the program and creates connections between the presented formats and topics, where audiences can move between different forms of presentation and engage with a wide spectrum of contemporary media practices.
The festival brings together students, alumni, researchers, and artists from the Digital Media and HfK community, as well as those from other art schools and individuals in the fields of media art and media design. It invites everyone interested to participate, creating a space for exchange and discussion around contemporary artistic practices and offering a critical perspective on the current developments in media technologies. Alongside the presentations, an international jury of experts in the fields of art, design, media and theory will accompany the festival and award selected projects.
Programme
Exhibition Opening
11 June 2026, 5:00 p.m., Halle 1 and Speicherpassage
Festival Opening
11 June 2026, 7:00 p.m., Halle 1
Welcome Adress, Speeches, lntroduction of Jury Members Constanza Pina Pardo, Natalia Fedorova, Martin Hesselmeier, Bruno Moreschi and Performances:
8:50 p.m. Tape Echoes [Timo Johannes]
9:10 p.m. Unreliable storyteller performance part of Homecoming project [Nilufer Musaeva]
Exhibition
12 June 2026, 11:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m., Speicherpassage
Lectures and Performances
12 June 2026, 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m., Halle 1
10:00 a.m. Welcome Adress
10:20 a.m. DRAWING MATTERS [Gabriella Gonçalles]
10:40 a.m. Birds aren’t real, but neither are you [Mohar Kalra]
11:00 a.m. Memory Trace [Seoyeon Lee]
11:20 a.m. Break
11:40 a.m. The cord that feeds is the cord that binds: Asymmetrical dependencies in network infrastructures [Pepe Şen]
midday In the digital shadow: What Remains of Creative Practice [slava romanov]
12:20 p.m. Terras raras: from habitable zones to computational zones [Zenobio de Almeida]
12:40 Lunch
14:00 Prometheus Bound—on Algae and Energy [Clemens Hornemann]
14:20 Talking to others(--- - .... .. -. ... ) [Hiuyan Lee]
15:00 Terra lnscrita (Topography Scars / Sedimenting Memories) [Alberte Salgado Harres]
4:00 p.m. Narrative of Matter [Hsun-Hsiang Hsu]
4:20 p.m. RAUSCHEN [Lucca Vitters]
4:40 p.m. Remaining Where Light Falls [Boeun Kim]
Brunch with alumni and awarding ceremony
13 June 2026, 11:00 a.m., Halle 1
Exhibition
13 June 2026, midday – 6:00 p.m., Speicherpassage
With works by
Dario Catena, Hiuyan Lee, Mohar Kalra, Zenobio de Almeida, Gabriella Gonçalles, Clemens Hornemann, slava romanov, Seoyeon Lee, Boeun Kim, Ko Kazu, Joshua Dantz, Julia Vollmer, Luca Alexandridis, Vera Tolmatšova, Femke Wöhler, Juan Camilo Luque Valbuena, Alina Bardavid, Alethia Pinzón-Rodríguez, Nicolás Sánchez Noa, Timm Albers, Pepe Şen, Jimi Liu, Sangbong Lee, Aleksandra Mitrović, Salma Elkafrawy, Francesco Scheffczyk, Aditi Chauhan, Alberto Salgado Harres, Hsun-Hsiang Hsu, Nilufer Musaeva, Valentina Gaete Urritia, Preben Hennemann, Lucca Vitters, Timo Johannes and Lisa Spetzler