Led by dancer couples Claire Rüfenacht and Pedro Ratto, and Marthe Krummenacher and Adrian Ciancio, these introductory evenings guide participants from stage to floor through posture, walking, connection and initial sequences. The sessions are welcoming and accessible to all levels, focusing on practical techniques, partner communication and musical phrasing. Participants will practice foundational steps and simple combinations to build confidence and group connection.
In French.
Founded in 1995, the Geneva International Film Festival (GIFF) is one of Geneva’s longest-standing cinema festivals and among the first in the world to integrate television into its programming. A hub for experimentation, encounters, and celebration, the ten-day festival presents films, series, and immersive audiovisual experiences to some 35,000 visitors each year. GIFF also hosts the Geneva Digital Market, Switzerland’s only meeting point for professionals in innovation and audiovisual content, and maintains year-round activities including school programmes and GIFF UNLIMITED events. Recognized as a key driver of Switzerland’s audiovisual sector, GIFF combines artistic ambition with international reach.
This interactive memory challenge invites participants to test their memory while exploring practical ways to preserve biodiversity based on Geneva’s municipal strategy. Players match “before-and-after” images that illustrate individual and institutional actions, and each correct pair reveals concise information explaining the measure. The activity examines themes such as habitat restoration, species-friendly practices, urban greening and policy responses, helping participants understand the impact and rationale behind everyday and organisational conservation choices.
Front Row, founded in 2023 by Tara Mabiala and Camille Farrah Buhler, develops a curatorial and editorial practice around fashion, producing events, interviews and archival projects and was awarded the 2024 Swiss Design Award.
This two-part workshop invites participants to bring an emotionally significant garment and to document its traces—wear, stains, labels, memories—through image, text, drawing, video, collage and movement. The group then reflects on collective archiving and devises forms of public restitution based on participants’ intentions.
In French.
Veronika Liebl and Jenny Thibault take part in this discussion marking 30 years of collaboration between Ars Electronica and the Société des arts technologiques (SAT). Their perspectives connect artistic experimentation, cultural innovation, and the evolving role of technology in creative practice.
The session examines how AI and digital tools are reshaping the conditions for artistic production, and asks how institutions can continue to support experimentation while anticipating the next decades of extended realities.
The Department of Ancient Studies at the Faculty of Humanities (UNIGE) is offering a series of public lectures dedicated to interactions, exchanges, and cultural dynamics in the ancient world. Faculty members and researchers will explore diplomatic relations, the movement of objects, religious and linguistic influences, and issues of identity at the crossroads of the Mediterranean and the ancient Near East.
In French.
This roundtable examines how science and technology helped shape modern Switzerland’s political and technical development, while also defining its role in international relations and the global economy. It traces the importance of scientific and industrial projects from the nineteenth century onward, including the building of the federal state, the rise of industrial research, and the strengthening of Switzerland’s international standing through institutions such as CERN. The discussion also highlights how these developments informed scholarship in science and technology studies and the history of science.
Discussion in English and French.
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