VIDEOMEDEJA
Artificial Intuition
Thirty years between human intuition and algorithmic decision-making
Oct. 15 - 17 2026.
Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina
Dunavska 37
Novi Sad
Serbia
The theme “Artificial Intuition” focuses on the transformation of human perception in the age of algorithmic systems, machine learning, and digital surveillance. From the perspective of a festival that has been observing and contextualizing new media practices for thirty years, intuition no longer exists outside of technology, yet it cannot be reduced to its logic alone. Videomedeja explores how human capacities for anticipation, reaction, and emotional understanding intersect with artificial intelligence and predictive models.
The festival invites artists to use video, interactive, and extended media to question the boundaries between human and machine perception, individual experience, and collectively shaped perception. In the context of contemporary global challenges, “Artificial Intuition” raises questions of trust, autonomy, and responsibility in a world that is simultaneously human and algorithmically structured.
Videomedeja is an international festival of contemporary art and new media exploring video, animation, interactive and extended forms at the intersection of art and technology. It is a meeting point of screens, sound, code, and movement—a space where the contemporary world is questioned through artistic experimentation.
Held in Novi Sad, the festival brings together artists from around the globe whose works push the boundaries of media, genre, and perception. Videomedeja is at once a gallery, a cinema, and a laboratory—a place where art meets the future.
Videomedeja Medialab represents a significant step in expanding video art on an international level. This new platform provides free access to a rich collection of video art, including experimental films, animations, digital artworks, interactive projects, and documentaries exploring the evolution of video art and new media.
"VIDEOMEDEJA - a quarter of a century - from video to media transformations"
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This monograph, dedicated to the 25th anniversary of Videomedeja—an international festival of media arts—offers readers not only essential information about the festival, but also insight into the historical development of video art.
Contributors to the publication include Aleksandar Davić, Želimir Žilnik, Čedomir Vasić, Mileta Poštić, Zoran Naskovski, Kathy Rae Huffman, Damon Moll, Veldhuin Martijn, Piotr Krajewski, Katrin Becker, Robert Arnold, Jean-Gabriel Périot, Anouk De Clercq, Silvia Winkler and Stefan Keperl, as well as Christl Baur with the authorial text “Ars Electronica and the Evolution of Expanded Animation”, among others.
The 30-minute documentary film Video restArt, directed by Ivana Sremčević Matijević, explores five decades of video art in relation to the quarter-century history of Videomedeja.
This Videomedeja production presents a diverse range of reflections on video art and its development through conversations with prominent figures from the fields of art and theory.
