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Fubar ARCHIVE soft launch (rescheduled to APR 01❣️)
Ten Years of International Glitch Art in an interactive database
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
🔴 Due to severe weather conditions and a red weather alert in the region, and for the safety of all participants, we have decided to postpone today’s program to next week. The new date for our Archive launch is WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, from 6pm, at the same venue – club MaMa, Preradovićeva 18, Zagreb. Stay safe and see you soon. ❤️
From its founding in 2015 to its tenth edition in 2024, the Fubar Festival has brought together hundreds of productions and more than a thousand artists, activists, curators and theorists. During 2025, Fubar has undergone a transformation from an annual gathering into a biennial format, and from primarily presential events into an hybrid, permanent platform for our glitch art community. In this process (also inspired by numerous contributions and the sustained support of many glitch art authors) the Fubar Archive is formed as an interactive archival exhibition that brings together more than 1,500 recent artworks and enables the exploration of an entire decade of experimental digital art from around the world. In addition to browsing these archived works, the Fubar Archive also allows the creation of curated collections for research and/or exhibition purposes, while also offering a perspective on sustainable automation of archival work through open protocols and free software.
The Fubar Archive is part of the Fubar Festival, one of the longest-running continuous glitch art programs, held in 2026 under the slogan “Unstable art for unstable times”. After ten years of events, a jubilee tenth edition in 2024, and the preparation of a decade-long archive with thousands of digital artworks during 2025, the Fubar Festival enters a new phase this year and becomes a biennial of variable and glitch art. The first Fubar Biennale is thematically focused on collectivism: collaborative models of creation, knowledge production, and the co-creation of shared spaces in a time of social and technological instability.
Presented by
Irena Borić is an art historian. She works as an independent curator and critic, but she is also working in temporary collectives on projects such as Politics of Feelings. Economies of love, 2012, Shame on you!, 2013/16, and net.cube, 2015/18, Symptoms of the Future, 2020. Curated exhibitions include Politics Within, Center for Contemporary Arts, Celje, 2014, My Land Has Palm Trees, Rijeka, 2014, Pipe Dream, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, 2015, Truth that Lies (with Renata Šparada), Impakt, Utrecht, 2019, Low frequencies of the Earth’s song, Galženica Gallery, 2019, Digital oxymoron, GT22, Maribor/MKC Split 2023/24, 26th Media Mediteranea festival : Networked sea, Pula, 2024, #12 i #13 IZIS festival, Koper, 2024/25, Milica Tomić: On Love Afterwards (with Andreja Hribernik), Kunsthaus, Graz, 2025. She was a member of the biennial collective of the 32nd Graphic Biennale: Birth Criterion, Ljubljana, 2017. She is one of the INCA press editors. She is a member of the Croatian section of AICA.
Dina Gligo (b.1986) is a professional multimedia artist, educator and artisan working with/in experimental visual | digital | net art. Since 2014 she is the cofounder and Artistic Director of Format C (formatc.hr), an artist organization focused on digital art research, experimental multimedia and collaborative creation, running long-term art projects such as Inquiry Inc., Fubar, Pivilion, etc. Active as a volunteer, a curator, producer and an arts union representative in multiple cultural projects and non-profit organizations (HZSU, HDLU, HDLUDU, CTHR, ZKN, SKUPA, …).
https://formatc.hr/j3d1n4
Vedran Gligo (born 1984) – a self-taught DIY hacker/artist/organizer/educator. Strongly applying open source principles in everyday life and practice and working to empower the local community by holding free and open digital workshops through the hacklab01.org project which he co-founded in 2009. Working with Format C Art Org, he is active in the fields of free culture, promotion of the GNU/Linux system, glitch art production, large-scale collaborative online art, independent cultural production, (h)activism, and more. He is one of the curators and founders of Fubar – an annual new media gathering. He is a member of the Croatian Association of Interdisciplinary Artists (HUIU).
https://v3d.space
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Fubar (est. 2015) is a program run by the artistic organization Format C, co-funded by the Kultura Nova Foundation, the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, and the City of Zagreb. The program is carried out in partnership with the Multimedia Institute and numerous associations, collectives, artists, partners from the cultural and media sector.
