https://www.betafestival.ie/blog-1-copy-1-1 daily 0.75 2026-08-07 https://www.betafestival.ie/blog-1-copy-1-1/digital-art-directory-ha827-8k4mz-t39zw monthly 0.5 2026-06-16 https://www.betafestival.ie/blog-1-copy-1-1/artist-open-calls-wb4jp-hpecy-hbsby monthly 0.5 2026-06-16 https://www.betafestival.ie/blog-1-copy-1-1/blog-post-title-three-y3peb-4lwnz-5pkhf-mry4w-rryle-rs4dn-nfjlr monthly 0.5 2025-08-22 https://www.betafestival.ie/blog-1-copy-1-1/blog-post-title-four-lr658-tcthp-wf5mw-c2nxd-h4l7f-rbehx-lwpxc monthly 0.5 2025-09-09 https://www.betafestival.ie/the-f-word-youth-advisory daily 0.75 2026-08-07 https://www.betafestival.ie/the-f-word-youth-advisory/martin-gruber-2hpbm monthly 0.5 2026-07-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a75e2458e743f617ba20ee7/1786110546309-4ZY0YLOLIFLBSMGISNR8/15.png The F Word Youth Advisory - MARTIN GRUBER - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.betafestival.ie/the-f-word-youth-advisory/ndakht-diouf-hwm5l monthly 0.5 2026-07-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a75e2458e743f617ba20ee7/1786110546326-4URFLC5BC8JZCW8GYP1J/11.png The F Word Youth Advisory - NDAKHTÉ DIOUF - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.betafestival.ie/the-f-word-youth-advisory/marie-renaud-3chya monthly 0.5 2026-07-24 https://www.betafestival.ie/the-f-word-youth-advisory/tag/Artist+Directory monthly 0.5 https://www.betafestival.ie/the-f-word-youth-advisory/tag/The+F+Word+Youth+Advisory+Board monthly 0.5 https://www.betafestival.ie/the-f-word-youth-advisory/tag/The+F+Word monthly 0.5 https://www.betafestival.ie/eu-projects daily 0.75 2026-08-21 https://www.betafestival.ie/eu-projects/starts4waterii monthly 0.5 2026-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a75e2458e743f617ba20ee7/1876b35a-4583-4c1c-a3f5-890698462710/1712936389697-500x500.webp EU Projects - S+T+ARTS4WaterII - (2024 - 2025) STARTS4waterII was the second edition of the S+T+ARTS Residency Programme, which was dedicated to Water Sustainability and innovation at the nexus of Science, Technology, and the arts. This time, the programme specifically focused on the environmental challenges of ports, port cities, coastal areas, and waterways. Through nine-month residencies, STARTS4waterII enhanced collaborative artistic research, creation, and innovation in different port cities and their related ecosystems and industries across eight countries: Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, France, Ireland, Austria, Croatia, and Slovenia. Kat Austen, Lauren Moffatt and Siobhán McDonald were the Beta Festival selected artists in residence in Galway, Belfast and Dublin port. The projects explored and reflected on ports as interdisciplinary liminal spaces for reimagining our entanglements with water, technology, and ecology. Together, these works transform ports and oceans into sites of imagination and repair, using art and technology to question how we might live with, listen to, and learn from water in an age of crisis and change These works were developed within the S+T+ARTS framework programme delivered by ADAPT Centre at Dublin City University and Beta Festival with the support from Belfast Harbour, Maritime Mile, Belfast City Council, Digital Arts Studios (DAS) Belfast, Port of Galway, Galway Culture Company, Galway City Council, Culture Works, iii instrumentinventors.org, Waves of Change (ATU / Marine Institute), Dublin Port, Dublin City Council, Smart Dublin, Waterways Ireland, Irish Maritime Development Office and the S+T+ARTS programme of the European Union. S+T+ARTS4Water II – S+T+ARTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a75e2458e743f617ba20ee7/e5726dbe-c6b5-4044-bc83-43b88c374b0c/Not_Breaking_GAF-5-TomFlanagan-1024x683.jpg EU Projects - S+T+ARTS4WaterII - Kat Austen Kat Austen’s ~~ Not Breaking ~~ ~~ This Wave Drowns Hate ~~ listens to the ocean through microplastics and community-created AI, offering visions of symbiotic futures. Read more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a75e2458e743f617ba20ee7/d959489c-edea-4504-9742-c9faafca1ef9/Chorcorallium_PrototypeStill_2%40LaurenMoffatt-1024x576.jpg EU Projects - S+T+ARTS4WaterII - Lauren Moffatt Lauren Moffatt’s Chorcorallium immerses visitors in speculative reef ecologies where industrial debris becomes the foundation for imagined coral life, shaped by collective voices and artificial intelligence. Read more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a75e2458e743f617ba20ee7/60061efc-f0e1-4e5c-818f-581bce3a9ec3/CREDIT-Jose-Miguel-Jimenez-1024x578.png EU Projects - S+T+ARTS4WaterII - Siobhán McDonald Siobhán McDonald’s SHAPESHIFTER traces Dublin Port’s shifting identities, from wetlands to rising seas, layering scientific data with film, painting, and sculpture to reveal unseen histories and fragile futures. Read more https://www.betafestival.ie/eu-projects/studiotopia monthly 0.5 2026-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a75e2458e743f617ba20ee7/1926ebb8-1b33-43aa-97b7-5454aa6a0aba/1.png EU Projects - Studiotopia - (2023 - 2026) Studiotopia is a Creative Europe project that aims to explore the intersection of art and science, delving into the symbiotic relationship between these two disciplines to shed light on the pressing issues of our time. The consortium is comprised of 11 prominent European cultural and science organisations including: Beta Festival / The Digital Hub (IE), Cyens (CY), Hexagone (FR), Gluon (BE), Laboral (ES), Centre for Contemporary Art Laznia (PL), Kersnikova (SI), MEET (IT), Bozar (BE), Ars Electronica (AT), Cluj Cultural Centre (RO). Studiotopia x Beta Festival residency: Over the course of 2025, Cezar Mocan and Hung Lu Chan will work closely with Irish researchers in AI and ethics, guided by the mentorship of Dr. Nora O’Murchú (University of Limerick), an internationally recognised curator and academic working at the intersection of art, design, and technology. Their projects will premiere at Beta Festival 2026. Stay tuned as their residencies unfold - through workshops, talks, and prototypes - leading to the unveiling of two major new works at Beta Festival 2026. Studiotopia – art, science, symbiocene https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a75e2458e743f617ba20ee7/08940d55-43bc-40d8-a5c7-28b8d0e7a809/cm_portrait-scaled.jpg EU Projects - Studiotopia - Cezar Mocan Cezar Mocan is a Romanian artist and technologist whose practice explores what happens when technological systems begin to develop forms of awareness and affect. His past works, such as Arcadia Inc. and World Upstream, look at landscapes shaped by infrastructure, and at the ghosts of what is erased in the name of progress. For his Beta residency, Cezar is investigating satellite networks as more than instruments of surveillance or monitoring: what if these orbital technologies develop their own environmental consciousness? What if satellites could grieve ice loss in Greenland, or obscure landscapes out of a refusal to see? Through speculative narratives, real-time cartographies, and immersive installations, he is asking how our “extended nervous system” of planetary sensors might learn to feel, and what this means for how we see and know the Earth in a time of climate collapse. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a75e2458e743f617ba20ee7/3329fd17-7d8e-4d43-a6d4-a6a1602d0522/%E8%A9%B9%E5%AE%8F%E7%A5%BF.jpg EU Projects - Studiotopia - Hung Lu Chan Hung Lu Chan Hung Lu Chan, based in the Netherlands, works with imagination and science to dismantle anthropocentric views of the world. His practice often explores “aliens” not as extraterrestrials but as any form of otherness - plants, dust, AI, or climate systems - that reveals new ways of perceiving the self. During the residency, Hung Lu will develop an immersive installation that merges participants’ biosignals - like heartbeat and breathing - with real-time environmental data. Instead of seeing nature as numbers on a graph, audiences will feel environmental change through sound, touch, and guided imagery. By embodying the rhythms of the climate, the work invites participants to experience AI not as an abstract machine, but as part of a shared ecosystem. This layered approach imagines a new form of collaboration between humans, machines, and the environment—an artistic step towards the “symbiocene.” The Studiotopia programme at Beta asks what it means to move from a data-driven, extractive view of the world to one that embraces ecological complexity. Both Cezar and Hung Lu push us to imagine technologies that are not only smarter, but also more empathetic, more entangled with the rhythms of the planet. https://www.betafestival.ie/eu-projects/realities-in-transition monthly 0.5 2026-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a75e2458e743f617ba20ee7/1786110547812-W75HF1DC7FNB1G4OHGNB/3.png EU Projects - Realities in Transition (RiT2) - 2026-2028 Realities in Transition pushes the boundaries of XR as an artistic medium while addressing key sectoral challenges such as distribution, sustainability, diversity and ecosystem development. Through a collaborative residency and mentoring programme, four international XR CAMPS, the creation of practical resources, and the development of a European XR network, the project equips cultural and creative professionals with the entrepreneurial and digital skills needed for economic sustainability. Partners include: Seconde Nature (FR), MEET (IT), LEV (ES), Dark Euphoria (FR), V2 Institute for Unstable Media (NL), Nova Iskra (RS), Beta Festival/Project Arts Centre (IE). Over two and a half years each partner will facilitate a collaborative residency, in Ireland Beta has partnered with Project Arts Centre to deliver this programme and an open call will open in October with the residency taking place in 2027. Realities in transition https://www.betafestival.ie/conference-speakers daily 0.75 2026-08-21 https://www.betafestival.ie/conference-speakers/hnjm0bynqaj2v6st4tzp6dlzbbot2f monthly 0.5 2026-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a75e2458e743f617ba20ee7/d389d6ec-6635-4d07-bbbe-094e3590785b/images.jpeg Conference Speakers - Rudy Reichstadt - Rudy Reichstadt Rudy Reichstadt (FR) Director of Conspiracy Watch, Rudy Reichstadt is an associate expert at the Fondation Jean-Jaurès and a columnist for the weekly publication Franc-Tireur. Co-author of the documentary film Complotisme : les alibis de la terreur (Conspiracy: The Alibis of Terror), he authored L'Opium des imbéciles. Essai sur la question complotiste (2019) and Au cœur du complot (2023), published by Grasset. He also co-edited Histoire politique de l'antisémitisme en France. De 1967 à nos jours (Robert Laffont, 2024). Additionally, he contributed to the report 'Enlightenment in the Digital Age' as part of the Bronner Commission (2022). Since 2021, he has co-hosted the podcast Complorama on France Info alongside Tristan Mendès France. https://www.betafestival.ie/conference-speakers/marie-mcpartlin monthly 0.5 2026-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a75e2458e743f617ba20ee7/40b5818d-91de-4063-9c04-b3600cbb7c18/4d72b1_7f0fe5b29e284b21929e384bc240acd3%7Emv2.png Conference Speakers - Marie McPartlin - Marie McPartlin Marie McPartlin is a Director and Artistic Programmer commissioning and developing cutting-edge cross-disciplinary projects across music, visual art, performance and new technologies. A recipient of a Paul Hamlyn Breakthrough Award for exceptional cultural entrepreneurship in 2009, she has twice served as a festival director, and under ACE’s Cultural Leadership Programme, was appointed Associate Programmer, Contemporary Music at the Barbican. She is the inaugural Director of Somerset House Studios, London, which she has shaped and led since 2015, and a Trustee of the Whitechapel Gallery. https://www.betafestival.ie/conference-speakers/stephanie-hankey monthly 0.5 2026-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a75e2458e743f617ba20ee7/26ef3e6e-c123-400d-bde5-042a06da94ed/D4S_Team_Shankey_portrait_72dpi-e1614855932155.jpg Conference Speakers - Stephanie Hankey - Stephanie Hankey Stephanie Hankey is a designer, technologist and social entrepreneur with 20 years experience exploring the social and political impact of technology on society. Currently she is a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She co-founded Tactical Tech in 2003 which undertook pioneering work on digital security and privacy and is now the largest international NGO at the forefront of capacity building and public education on technology and civil society. Stephanie co-curated the ground breaking touring exhibition, the Glass Room; enabling over 200,000 people worldwide to reflect on their relationship with technology and its impact on their environment. In parallel, she now trains, teaches and consults on technology and design ethics. Stephanie was an Affiliate at Berkman Klein Centre for Internet and Society, Harvard University; a Visiting Industry Associate the Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University; and awarded an Ashoka fellowship for her work as a social entrepreneur. Stephanie has a degree in History of Design from Manchester Metropolitan University and a Masters degree in Computer Related Design from the Royal College of Art, London. https://tacticaltech.org/team-and-board/stephanie-hankey/ https://tacticaltech.org/ https://www.betafestival.ie/team daily 0.75 2026-08-26 https://www.betafestival.ie/team/aisling-murray monthly 0.5 2026-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a75e2458e743f617ba20ee7/d649d11c-9fe7-4882-b340-cf01387ab636/Aisling-Murray-edited.webp Team - Aisling Murray - Founder and Director Aisling Murray is founder and director of Beta digital arts festival. A curator and creative producer with 15 years’ experience across exhibitions, festivals, literature, spoken word, theatre and dance, Murray has worked with the Goethe-Institut Irland in developing their Quantum Technology Art residency, as curatorial producer for the Ireland pavilion at the World Expo Osaka 2025 and was Head of Programming at Science Gallery Dublin (the founding Science Gallery in the international network) up until its closure. Murray is interested in work at the intersection of art, society and technology with specific interest in immersive technologies, artificial intelligence, industry collaboration and socially engaged work. She was a mentor for Arebyte’s Hotel Generation programme 2025 for the next generation of digital artists in the UK and is one of the jury members for the Prix Ars Award in Interactive Art+ in 2026. Aisling was recently recognised in Ireland in the Top 100 list for her significant contributions to the tech and cultural sectors in Ireland. aisling@betafestival.ie https://www.betafestival.ie/team/sophie-delaney monthly 0.5 2026-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a75e2458e743f617ba20ee7/44beff38-1bbf-474e-83dd-06c59189fe61/DELANEY_Headshot.jpeg Team - Sophie Delaney - Creative Producer Sophie Delaney is an Australian-Irish Creative Producer and Curator working across contemporary art, digital practice, and public programming. Her work centres on the development of ambitious, interdisciplinary projects and sustained collaborations with artists. She is the Creative Producer of Beta Festival, where she produces large-scale immersive commissions and site-responsive works. Read more here: https://sophiedelaney.com/sophie-delaney/ sophie@betafestival.ie https://www.betafestival.ie/team/evan-wilson monthly 0.5 2026-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a75e2458e743f617ba20ee7/8188d0b0-4963-4126-9e9b-ad9f0fa50ec3/HeX0M6S4_400x400.jpg Team - Evan Wilson - Production Manager evan@betafestival.ie https://www.betafestival.ie/team/anne-marie-hickey monthly 0.5 2026-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a75e2458e743f617ba20ee7/8188d0b0-4963-4126-9e9b-ad9f0fa50ec3/HeX0M6S4_400x400.jpg Team - Anne Marie Hickey - Development and Finance assistant Anne Marie Hickey is a Dublin-based artist in her third year of Fine Art Media at NCAD. After a successful career as a chartered accountant and two decades living in Barbados, she returned to Ireland to pursue her long-standing creative interests, particularly photography. Her practice explores how people situate themselves between memory, history, and an increasingly automated future shaped by Al. Known for her reliability, organisation, and calm problem-solving approach, Anne Marie excels in support roles that strengthen collaborative projects. This was evident during her recent internship with Beta Festival, where she contributed across coordination, photography, documentation, merchandise sourcing, and website maintenance. annemarie@betafestival.ie https://www.betafestival.ie/festival-programme daily 0.75 2026-09-24 https://www.betafestival.ie/festival-programme/seed monthly 0.5 2026-09-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a75e2458e743f617ba20ee7/35654e59-6f96-418d-a467-40a93a6818d3/Screenshot+2026-09-24+at+15.15.46.png Beta Festival Programme - SEED - Sensory Experiences of Environmental Data - SEED - Sensory Experiences of Environmental Data Exhibition Project Title: SEED - Sensory Experiences of Environmental Data Collaborators: Dr Trish Morgan - Assistant Professor, School of Communications, Dublin City University (DCU). Her research focuses on environmental crisis communication, interdisciplinary engagements between geography and media, and developing creative practices to make environmental knowledge meaningful. Dr István László - Researcher and creative technologist working in sensory media and embodied data practices as part of the SEED research team. What is SEED: SEED (Sensory Experiences of Environmental Data) explores new ways of communicating environmental information using all five senses (sight, sound, touch, smell and taste) instead of relying solely on visual or textual data formats. The project aims to make environmental data accessible, visceral and personally meaningful for diverse audiences by designing open-access toolkits, resources, and experiential methods that translate data into sensory engagement. https://www.betafestival.ie/festival-programme/template-72pyf monthly 0.5 2026-09-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a75e2458e743f617ba20ee7/7a73bd0c-e41d-40ae-b152-971db9f4a4eb/Screenshot+2026-09-24+at+15.10.49.png Beta Festival Programme - 1iing Exhibition - 1iing Pronouns: They/Them Medium: Computer-generated imagery (CGI), 3D scanning and animation Overview: 1iing Heaney is an Irish digital and visual artist whose practice uses CGI, 3D scanning, animation, sound and sculpture to explore the liminal spaces between data, technology and the geological world. Their work probes how nature and digital mediation intersect; examining disconnection from the physical earth while imagining speculative forms of “uncanny nature” within virtual environments. Notable Commissions/Projects: Mermaid Arts Centre, Pallas Projects, Ballina Arts Centre, iCRAG (Science Foundation Ireland) About the work: As part of the Beta Festival 2026, Liing will be presenting a new body of work that is currently in development as part of their practice-led Masters by Research study in IADT. Focusing on the Bog of Allen in the Midlands, Liing is considering this post-industrial landscape as a site where multiple energies converge through human, animal, plant, cosmic, and technologic interactions. This research has been developed through fieldwork, 3D scanning and CGI studies, and framed through the lens of experimental geography, new materialism, and a critique of eco-modernity. Currently, Liing is working with a 3D scanned Irish Elk from the Vienna Museum of Natural History found online. Inspired by Barrie Cooke’s painting Megaceros Hibernicus depicting an Irish Elk emerging from fog, its antlers as ‘massive antennae transmitting… a message from the past’, Liing asked the question ‘how does this transmission from the past manifest in its new digital environment?’ Using 3D animation combined with Machine & Reinforcement Learning in the robotics software Isaac Lab, Liing has been teaching this 3D scan how to walk, with the aim of it learning how to navigate in the digital space it exists in. Though this work is still in its development phase, Liing is aiming to display the live Reinforcement Learning of this 3D scan as part of the festival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a75e2458e743f617ba20ee7/1790259147901-P5SS1UGVCNEZU33MVWUJ/Screenshot+2026-09-24+at+15.12.17.png Beta Festival Programme - 1iing Exhibition https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a75e2458e743f617ba20ee7/1790259147957-A6WQVCMCSJ1W2BQ8P9XF/Screenshot+2026-09-24+at+15.12.13.png Beta Festival Programme - 1iing Exhibition https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a75e2458e743f617ba20ee7/1790259149092-PKH8BLTP862CH8JQV77T/Screenshot+2026-09-24+at+15.10.49.png Beta Festival Programme - 1iing Exhibition https://www.betafestival.ie/festival-programme/serena-devereux monthly 0.5 2026-09-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a75e2458e743f617ba20ee7/a78702a4-80a1-48a5-929e-aaa8290e3777/Screenshot+2026-09-24+at+15.09.25.png Beta Festival Programme - Serena Devereux Exhibition - Serena Devereux Pronouns: Medium: Digital media & computational art, interactive and networked systems, generative visuals and synthetic artefacts, video, code-based processes and digital ecology exploration Overview: Serena Ply is a multidisciplinary visual and digital artist whose practice emerges at the intersection of digital ecosystems, networked spaces, and media ecology. Their work engages with synthetic media, computational processes and digital environments, exploring how technology shapes perception, identity and relational frameworks between humans and systems. Serena’s practice balances critical inquiry with experimental media, situating generative and networked forms within broader cultural narratives. Notable Commissions/Projects: FLUX collaboration, The Complex ‘Synthetic Artefacts’ exhibition. About the work: Cybernetic Ecologies is a data driven, hybrid installation, utilising real-time local weather data, feedback loops and interactive technologies in order to recontextualise posthumanist ideologies through a cybernetic lens within the digital era. Primarily this line of inquiry is concerned with embodiment and the hybridisation or dissolution of otherness dividing the digital, the self and the environment, by means of understanding surfaces, specifically our landscapes, as informational patterns and positioning the skin as a membrane where data resides. In a rigorous exploration of rhizomatic networks, this work explores the fluidity and interconnectedness existing between human and non-human systems, drawing parallels between data infrastructures and invasive plant species; contextualising the relationship between them and their surrounding environments as a cybernetic system in itself. Developing upon this speculative approach in reconciling cybernetics and posthumanism, Cybernetic Ecologies examines the landscape as a prosthesis of memory, extending both human and machine consciousness to become embedded within the natural environment, facilitating the emergence of one larger ecosystem, a networked reality produced by ubiquitous data flows. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a75e2458e743f617ba20ee7/1790259014725-SA238WW43OVNR85D17HM/Screenshot+2026-09-24+at+15.10.04.png Beta Festival Programme - Serena Devereux Exhibition https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a75e2458e743f617ba20ee7/1790259014676-2GX9VCM36R1TIX52EW2Y/Screenshot+2026-09-24+at+15.09.59.png Beta Festival Programme - Serena Devereux Exhibition https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a75e2458e743f617ba20ee7/1790259015862-QW5TM1G66AGX6BF828PN/Screenshot+2026-09-24+at+15.09.55.png Beta Festival Programme - Serena Devereux Exhibition https://www.betafestival.ie/festival-programme/alanjamesburns monthly 0.5 2026-09-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a75e2458e743f617ba20ee7/3cde83df-0dac-4aad-9a29-cecfaa4a368c/Screenshot+2026-09-24+at+15.01.13.png Beta Festival Programme - Alan James Burns Solo Exhibition - Alan James Burns Pronouns: They/Them Medium: Interactive, sensor-driven installations, audio-visual performance, sound art and spatialised environments Overview: AlanJames Burns is a neurodivergent, environmental and audio-visual artist, curator, festival maker and researcher whose practice is rooted in interactive, socially engaged, site-specific and sensory experiences. Their work explores the intersections of neurodiversity, climate change, disability justice and embodied perception, often centring collaborative processes with diverse communities. Notable Commissions/Projects: Unmasking Nature - A guided sensory experience co-created with neurodivergent collaborators at Cavan Burren Park, exploring joyful and intuitive engagement with natural environments through sensory cues, foraging and more-than-human communication. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a75e2458e743f617ba20ee7/1790258542031-G188JG3CYHRNYJNB2WOC/Screenshot+2026-09-24+at+15.02.08.png Beta Festival Programme - Alan James Burns Solo Exhibition https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a75e2458e743f617ba20ee7/1790258542088-3OI6XRGSOCAKM07JUY5Q/Screenshot+2026-09-24+at+15.02.04.png Beta Festival Programme - Alan James Burns Solo Exhibition https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a75e2458e743f617ba20ee7/1790258543322-A28S83CNZHF3O18QYCYP/Screenshot+2026-09-24+at+15.01.13.png Beta Festival Programme - Alan James Burns Solo Exhibition https://www.betafestival.ie/festival-programme/colmoneill monthly 0.5 2026-09-24 https://www.betafestival.ie/festival-programme/synthesizeher monthly 0.5 2026-09-24 https://www.betafestival.ie/festival-programme/ubeboobey monthly 0.5 2026-09-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a75e2458e743f617ba20ee7/edd23ec5-ed76-42bc-af84-cb292c9a6256/Screenshot+2026-09-24+at+14.53.09.png Beta Festival Programme - UbeBoobey Workshop - UbeBoobey (UK) UbeBoobey (Annike Tan) is a 22-year-old London-based creator who went viral on TikTok for building whimsical, sci-fi-inspired DIY computers known as "cyberdecks". Her distinct, aesthetic-driven creations—like the pearl-encrusted "mermaid cyberdeck"—have brought mainstream attention to a niche tech subculture https://www.betafestival.ie/seed-artists daily 0.75 2026-09-24 https://www.betafestival.ie/seed-artists/istvan-laszlo monthly 0.5 2026-09-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a75e2458e743f617ba20ee7/80284eca-6dfe-48c1-9551-a6a81a94a0f1/Screenshot+2026-09-24+at+15.23.18.png SEED ARTISTS - István László - István László Bio: István László is an interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of sculpture, extended reality XR, and archival data. His practice examines how digital objects, once embedded in networks of extraction, infrastructure, and computation, can be reconfigured as sites of reflection and public engagement. Through 3D modelling, game engines, and participatory interfaces, he creates data-driven artworks that translate environmental processes into spatial and embodied experiences. Rather than presenting data as abstract information, he treats it as material: sculptural, relational, and responsive. Biodiversity records, atmospheric measurements, and ecological signals become dynamic forms that unfold through proximity, interaction, and temporal change. Title: Signal Ecologies Project Description: His current work explores the entanglement between technological systems and living organisms. By placing digitally reconstructed insects drawn from open-source biodiversity data alongside plant structures and environmental flows within the architecture of consumer devices and media infrastructures, he reveals the ecological dependencies embedded within contemporary digital life. The work stages a tension between micro-ecologies and technological enclosures, inviting reflection on attention, extraction, and care. Within the SEED project, he is developing a framework for sensory engagement with environmental data—an evolving toolkit that supports artists in translating datasets into multisensory, participatory experiences and encourages ecological attunement rather than distant representation. https://www.betafestival.ie/seed-artists/fiona-mcdonald monthly 0.5 2026-09-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a75e2458e743f617ba20ee7/65d79e41-f3dc-4ba9-be24-7929043804a1/Screenshot+2026-09-24+at+15.21.39.png SEED ARTISTS - Fiona McDonald - Fiona McDonald Bio: Fiona McDonald is a Dublin-based interdisciplinary artist operating at the intersection of art, science, and technology. Using sculpture, installation, coding, and data, her work explores environmental themes like bog restoration, carbon flux, and ecological fragility. She often collaborates with scientists to visualise ecological data, such as in her exhibition Inhale Exhale (2026). She holds a BSc in Biological Chemistry from University of Ulster a BA & MA in Fine Art from NCAD & a MSc in Multimedia Systems TCD. She is a current Artist in Residence AIR at RHA Gallery Studios and recipient of Arts Council of Ireland Project Award 2023. Title: Inhale Exhale - Cloud Chambers fluxing performance Project Description: The work is an onsite and gallery-based, data-driven performance exploring greenhouse gas emissions from rewetted peatland ecosystems. Floating and ground chambers measure CO₂ flux from water and peatland ecology, transmitting live data via a LoRa network to performers who respond in real time. In the gallery, a transparent chamber houses a living sphagnum moss ecosystem under grow lights, actively sequestering carbon dioxide. Performers unfold rectangles of origami cloth of white, transparent black, and dark black over the chamber, referencing climate-science protocols for simulating cloud cover and calculating carbon balance. Alongside this, the artist experiments with weaving Typha latifolia leaves harvested from the site, integrating local plant material into the work’s sculptural and performative language. https://www.betafestival.ie/seed-artists/cliona-harmey monthly 0.5 2026-09-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a75e2458e743f617ba20ee7/84c57942-f7af-467c-80a8-0a62bbaf2080/Screenshot+2026-09-24+at+15.21.00.png SEED ARTISTS - Cliona Harmey - Cliona Harmey Bio: Cliona Harmey is an artist and educator who works primarily with media technologies and sculpture. In her artwork she works with technologies at a range of different scales, going from large scale public art works using live data (Dublin Ships) to much smaller ephemeral/modular system based works for galleries or other contexts. In her most recent practice she has made work which responds to contexts and situations where the global and local intersect (climate, borders, transit, maps). She is currently a lecturer in the Media Department at NCAD. Title: Gnomon 1 Project Description: The work explores ecological awareness through solar-powered, low-energy modular media devices that foreground intermittency, frugality, and care, emphasising human observation rather than seamless automation. Reflecting on scale (from hyperlocal to global) and time (diurnal and seasonal cycles), it engages historical and contemporary Met Éireann datasets while recalling the human observers once positioned behind meteorological instruments. By contrasting embodied perception with machine sensing, the project re-situates weather as a lived experience. Technically, it employs a solar-powered ESP32 “gnoman” device that records daily shadow data to produce long-term visual traces, alongside analogue and digital prompt objects that invite collaborative climate reflection and writing. An additional small-scale work may incorporate a tipping bucket rain gauge, activated only when rainfall is detected. https://www.betafestival.ie/seed-artists/shane-finan monthly 0.5 2026-09-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a75e2458e743f617ba20ee7/f7c37a9b-8dbe-423a-aab6-5b59bbb49dba/Screenshot+2026-09-24+at+15.20.10.png SEED ARTISTS - Shane Finan - Shane Finan Bio: Shane Finan assembles artworks from interactive contemporary technologies, found objects, and traditional artistic media. His practice is rooted in rural environments and examines the entanglements between human and nonhuman technologies. Title: CPR Project Description: 'CPR' by Shane Finan (he/them) is an artwork that considers the entanglement of life and technology in the ocean, drawing from the experiences of plankton. The Continuous Plankton Recorder is a data sensor that has been counting plankton numbers across the world since 1931. 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Project Description: ‘For the Republic?’ will interrogate the intersection of Ireland’s energy landscapes and the burgeoning demands of AI-driven technological infrastructure. Through this lens, the work aims to demystify the “Cloud”; materialised as a resource-intensive entity supported by an exponential requirement for energy, water, labour, and other finite resources. From early GOFAI to modern LLMs, these systems are revealed as vast engines of knowledge extraction, that are fundamentally reliant on human-generated symbols, categories, and labour. In materialising these hidden pipelines, the work connects historical colonial “improvements” of the boglands to the contemporary enclosure of the digital commons, highlighting a persistent legacy of ecological and intellectual dispossession. https://www.betafestival.ie/seed-artists/adam-gibney monthly 0.5 2026-09-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a75e2458e743f617ba20ee7/c4992a14-9110-42b1-ac33-0d76181581f3/Screenshot+2026-09-24+at+15.17.31.png SEED ARTISTS - Adam Gibney - Adam Gibney Bio: Through his transdisciplinary practice, Adam Gibney utilises a range of media, including electronics, coding, sound, and digital fabrication methods, to critically examine the production and consumption of knowledge across multiple epistemological frameworks. His work engages scientific, philosophical, spiritual, and esoteric approaches to understanding reality, employing live computational processes to create intra-active artworks that question and destabilise the assumptions underpinning these systems. Title: Poem 8: Trust We Project Description: The work is a distributed network of electro-fitted domestic objects reflecting on the post-truth era, climate change, and climate denial. Presented as a DIY assembly kit and manual, each kit—or “verse”—transforms an unused vase, inspired by those found in Dublin charity shops, into a telematic artwork. Placed on a windowsill, a sensor compares the outside temperature to historical records; when three vases in the network independently confirm a record-breaking temperature, the work activates, releasing a mist scented like rotting flowers while a verse from a poem plays through a small speaker. 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