The tradition & historical record
3 min read · 2 sourcesResonate was an annual festival for art and digital culture in Belgrade, Serbia, usually held over five days at the end of April. The first edition was held in 2012. It was the biggest media art festival in Serbia. The festival was part of a collaborative project We Are Europe (funded by the EU) together with festivals in other countries such as Sónar (Barcelona), c/o pop (Cologne), TodaysArt, Elevate, Insomnia, Nuits Sonores, and Reworks. Resonate co-curates at some of these festivals too with independent programs and vice versa c/o pop, TodaysArt, Elevate and Sónar co-curated wing programs at Resonate. The festival has several activities during daytime and in the evening: a conference, varying exhibition formats, a film and video program, performances, and workshops. 1
Non-payment scandal
In the run-up to the 2018 edition of the festival, it emerged that many artists, both local and international, had not been paid, some for years. A group of local artists even set up the Facebook group Still Unpaid At Resonate Festival, where it then emerged that the travel agent was also owed more than €28,000 for flights. As a result, some artists began pulling out in solidarity, leading to cancelled shows. Despite this, the organisers advertised a further iteration in 2019 but owing to the brewing scandal the event was cancelled. As of September 2020, the festival's website is no longer active and the URL is available for sale. 1
Line-up
2012 - Kim Gordon & Ikue Mori, Alva Noto, onedotzero, United Visual Artists, WARP, Karsten Schmidt, Rafaël Rozendaal, Nicholas Felton, Régine Debatty, Josh Nimoy, Blixa Bargeld 2013 - Casey Reas, Joachim Sauter (ART+COM), Zimoun, Moritz Stefaner, Zach Gage, Golan Levin, Raquel Meyers, Anthony Dunne (RCA), Revital Cohen, Karsten Schmidt, Spaces of Play, Memo Akten (MarshmallowLaserFeast), Andreas Müller (Nanikawa), James Bridle, Liam Young (The Unknown Fields Division), Andreas Gysin, Greg J Smith, Kyle McDonald, Peter Kirn, Studio NAND, onedotzero 2014 - Justin Windle, Moritz Stefaner, Jonathan Puckey and Luna Maurer (Moniker), Theodore Spyropoulos (Minimaforms, AADRL), Cyril Diagne (Lab212), Eno Henze, Joshua Noble, Marko Nastic, Matthieu Cherubini, Mark McKeague, Rachel Binx and Sha Hwang, Resonate Concentio, Sasha Gavrilova (Stain), Daito Manabe, Visual Music and the Geometries of the Unseen, Joanie Lemercier, Lanac / The Chain - Simonida Rajcevic, Generative Strategies, Choreographic Coding - Hosted by NODE Forum for Digital Arts, Joe Gerhardt (Semiconductor), Johannes Timpernagel (schnellebuntebilder), Ilija Ludvig, Andrea Cuius, Sunni Pavlovic (That Game Company), Jaume Sánchez, onedotzero_rewind, Andreas Gysin, Manuel Jimenez Garcia (Bartlett), Andreas Schlegel, Elliot Woods and Mimi Son (Kimchi and Chips), Michael Szivos (SOFTlab), Visual Music, Wesley Grubbs (Pitch Interactive), Karsten Schmidt, Julian Adenauer, Aaron Koblin, Yuri Suzuki, Paul Prudence, Monosaccharide, Energy Accreted Ecologies, Ways of Seeing, Pablo Garcia, Richard Banks, Benedikt Groß, Kyle McDonald, Bryan Chapman, Catalysts, Patricia Jones, Transcranial - Klaus Obermaier, Daito Manabe and Kyle McDonald 2015 - Senyawa, Eric Raynaud, Automatic Orchestra, Svetlana Maras, Andrea Cuius, Emika, Wo…