CODE 2025: Technosferatu and V.I.B.E.

Every year CODE brings together artists and non-artists in a five-month process of inspiration, discussion, collaboration, and co-creation. They work together in groups to produce digital art installations, interactive media, performances, immersive experiences, and artistic interventions. All the works, each in their own way, address questions that are central to the CODE project: How can we improve the agency we have over our digital lives? How can we become less dependent on Big Tech? How can governments better protect our digital rights, and how can we convey the urgency to act? What steps can we, as concerned citizens, users, researchers, and artists, take to support the critical process?
This year’s exhibition presents two of the projects produced by the groups that participated in CODE 2025. The Technosferatu project reimagines the immortal vampire through techno-optimism and the pursuit of eternal youth. It asks whether technology can grant eternal life and, if it can, what exploitation would it exact on our bodies? The V.I.B.E project explores the rise of “vibe culture” as a dominant mode of sense-making in the post-truth era, through a speculative electoral campaign and multimedia installation.
CODE 2025 is organized by IMPAKT (NL), Werktank (BE), Privacy Salon (BE) and NØ SCHOOL (FR). The participants who worked together for CODE 2025 are based in Belgium and the Netherlands and have a wide variety of nationalities and cultural backgrounds.