A glitch biennale is archiving the tools that break images
fubar's online lab convenes Saturday, Oct. 31: a free, open session testing and cataloging the misbehaving software the scene runs on.
- When
- Oct. 31, 2026, 1 to 3 p.m. Irish time
- Where
- Online, via fubar.space
- Cost
- Free
This Saturday, Oct. 31, from 1 to 3 p.m. Irish time (2 to 4 p.m. in Croatia), glitchLAB holds an open online session: free, and joinable by anyone through fubar.space. The invitation comes from the “glitchLABs sleuth sloths” and describes the mission as tracking “any software that can make images misbehave.”
glitchLAB is a series of free workshops run on DIWO (“Do It With Others”) and hacktivist principles by Format C, the Zagreb artist organization behind the /'fu:bar/ glitch art biennale. Since March, the group has met online on the last Saturday of every month to collect, test and archive the free software and scripts that built the international glitch art scene, down to restoring obsolete tools, with mentors Dina Gligo, Vedran Gligo and Ian Keaveny and the programmer Ramiro Polla.
fubar has run from Zagreb since 2015 and now calls itself the first biennial dedicated to variable glitch art. Its Zagreb program ran Oct. 3 to 9 at the Multimedia Institute's MaMa, the week Chicago's Glitch'N'Games streamed its talks into, and Daniel Temkin, whose esolangs sit in the same tradition of software bent sideways, taught a workshop there. The lab is the year-round version: same scene, door open.
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