3–5 September 2026, Podgorica, Montenegro
APO33 is pleased to announce the Toolkit of Care Conference: Vectors of Care in Experimental Arts, taking place in Podgorica, Montenegro, from Thursday 3 to Saturday 5 September 2026.
The conference brings together artists, researchers, creative technologists, curators, activists and cultural practitioners to explore care as an ethical, political and artistic practice across experimental arts, technologies, sciences and collective life.
Over three days, the programme will include forums, panels, workshops, talks, performances, installations, screenings, concerts and collective discussions, with a focus on experimental practices, collective knowledge, technological imagination, ecological responsibility and the politics of care.
Practical Information
Dates: 3–5 September 2026
City: Podgorica, Montenegro
Main venue: M:tel digitalna fabrika
Evening venue: Pomorandža DKC
Participation: Free
More information: www.toolkitof.care
Programme
Thursday 3 September 2026
Orientation / Toolkit of Care
Venue: M:tel digitalna fabrika
10:00–10:15
Opening Remarks
Location: M:tel digitalna fabrika, Meet-up Zone
With: M. Koutsomichalis, J. Pickett, A. Šašić
10:15–11:00
Toolkit of Care
Format: Demo
Location: M:tel digitalna fabrika, Meet-up Zone
With: M. Koutsomichalis, A. Ludovico, O. Panayides
11:00–12:00
Atlas of Care
Format: Workshop
Location: M:tel digitalna fabrika, Coworking Space
With: A. Ludovico, J. Pickett, M. Koutsomichalis
12:00–13:00
Lunch Break
13:00–13:40
Publishing Care
Format: Forum
Location: M:tel digitalna fabrika, Meet-up Zone
With: A. Ludovico, O. Panayides, M. Gaspevicius, J. Pickett
13:40–14:00
Espoo Accord
Format: Panel
Location: M:tel digitalna fabrika, Meet-up Zone
With: M. Koutsomichalis, M. Mayas, Y. Nishiki, A. Caddy
14:00–15:00
Breathing Together: Voice, Care, and Collective Attunement
Format: Lecture / Performance
Location: M:tel digitalna fabrika, Meet-up Zone
With: I. Cipollari
15:00–15:30
Coffee Break
Location: M:tel digitalna fabrika, Relaxation Zone
15:30–16:10
FORUM: Radical Thinking & Thinging
Location: M:tel digitalna fabrika, Meet-up Zone
With: M. Gaspevicius, J. Pickett, J. Ottavi, M. Koutsomichalis
16:10–17:00
Solar4Rain, an Atmospheric PUNK Symbiosis
Format: Panel / Performance
Location: M:tel digitalna fabrika, Meet-up Zone
With: M. Cajaraville, G. Frøysland
Friday 4 September 2026
Off-Sites / Buffer Zones / Anomalies
Venues: M:tel digitalna fabrika and Pomorandža DKC
10:00–11:15
From the Mountains of Madness: Art & Culture & Montenegro
Format: Panel / Talks
Location: M:tel digitalna fabrika, Meet-up Zone
With: To be confirmed
11:00–13:00
Collective Voices: Building Responsive Typography Together
Format: Workshop
Location: M:tel digitalna fabrika, Classroom
With: A. Melandinou
11:15–12:00
All We Need Is Love? Caring for Relational Vulnerabilities in Interaction with Human and Artificial Others
Format: Panel
Location: M:tel digitalna fabrika, Meet-up Zone
With: E. Stoica, A.M. Cetățean, M. Constantinescu
12:00–13:00
Lunch Break
Own arrangements
13:00–17:00
Brostein for (de)konstruksjion / Adoquines del Guadiana
Format: Installation
Location: M:tel digitalna fabrika, Relaxation Zone
With: M. Cajaraville, G. Frøysland
13:00–13:30
DA DA DA: Curating Experimental Arts in Bulgaria
Format: Presentation
Location: M:tel digitalna fabrika, Meet-up Zone
With: G. Dimitrova-Dimova
13:00–15:00
Creative AI for Visual Programming
Format: Workshop
Location: M:tel digitalna fabrika, Classroom
With: A. Drymonitis
13:00–15:00
Resonant Territories: Technologies of Care Through Experimental Sound Practices
Format: Workshop
Location: M:tel digitalna fabrika, Coworking Space
With: D. Kousteridou
13:30–14:45
Centre–Periphery Dynamics in Experimental Arts
Format: Roundtable
Location: M:tel digitalna fabrika, Meet-up Zone
With: N. Rodousakis, M. Constantinescu, G. Dimitrova-Dimova, ME Speaker to be confirmed, ME Speaker to be confirmed, D. Savva
14:45–15:15
Radical Hammers For Radical Folds
Format: Demo
With: M. Koutsomichalis
15:15–15:45
Coffee Break
15:45–16:15
Deep Media Mess
Format: Panel
With: J. Pickett, J. Ottavi, M. Koutsomichalis, D. Kousteridou, M. Cajaraville, G. Frøysland
16:15–17:00
Care on Air: Community Radio as Infrastructures of Care
Format: Panel
With: J. Ottavi, A. Ludovico, J. Pickett
16:00–18:00
Home v2.0
Format: Installation
Location: M:tel digitalna fabrika, Classroom
With: E. Aslanidis
18:00–20:00
Dinner Break
20:00–23:00
Radical Electronic Music from Planet Earth
Format: Concerts
Location: Pomorandža DKC, C7G6+9QC, 4. Jul
With: S. Bihakis, E. Žuđelović, M. Koutsomichalis, Solar Return, J. Pickett & J. Ottavi, M. Hedayati
Saturday 5 September 2026
Future(s) / Visions
Venues: M:tel digitalna fabrika and Pomorandža DKC
09:00–10:00
TOC Core Group Meeting
Format: Private Roundtable
Location: M:tel digitalna fabrika, Relaxation Zone
With: TOC Core Group
10:00–17:00
Imagined Islands
Format: Installation
Location: M:tel digitalna fabrika, Classroom
With: L. Buttler
10:00–11:15
Antidefuturing: Exposing Interfaces and Infrastructuring Preferable Futures through Experimental Art
Format: Panel
Location: M:tel digitalna fabrika, Meet-up Zone
With: R. Collins, R. Butler, A. Caddy, A. Ludovico, P. O’Neill, A. Phelan
11:15–12:30
It Is the Business of the Future to Be Dangerous
Format: Short Talks & Roundtable
Location: M:tel digitalna fabrika, Meet-up Zone
With: Y. Nishiki, X. Wang, M. Hedayati, M. Gallo, S. Fachouridou
Talks include:
Beyond Handmade and Machine-Made: The Emergence of (un)made
Y. Nishiki
Refusing to “Fix” Women: Designing Conversational AI as a Practice of Care
X. Wang
Doing AI Otherwise: Community Practices in the Undercommons
M. Hedayati
From Conference to Collective Practice? Care and the Politics of Academic Formats
M. Gallo
The Boy in the Map: Delivery Labour, Care and Surveillance in Platform Food Economies
S. Fachouridou
12:30–13:30
Lunch Break
13:30–14:00
Speculative Disaster and Hallucinatory Poetics as Planetary Care: 1 ola majestic en mi balconee / 1 majestik wave en mi balco-knee
Format: Screening / Discussion
Location: M:tel digitalna fabrika, Meet-up Zone
With: P. Pérez-Rodríguez
14:00–14:15
Non-Machines
Format: Demo
Location: M:tel digitalna fabrika, Meet-up Zone
With: M. Gaspevicius, L. Giannakou
14:15–15:00
Future of the TOC Network
Format: Roundtable
Location: M:tel digitalna fabrika, Relaxation Zone
With: All prospective Toolkit of Care members
15:00–19:00
Coffee Break & Dinner
Own arrangements
21:00–23:00
Reflections & Vibrations
Format: Concerts
Location: Pomorandža DKC
With: D. Savva, J. Teller, N. Rodousakis, A. Drymonitis, D. Kousteridou, A. Kattou & A. Melandinou
23:00
DJ Set & Party
Location: Pomorandža DKC
About Toolkit of Care
The Toolkit of Care Conference is organised in the context of COST Action CA21102 Toolkit of Care, supported by COST, European Cooperation in Science and Technology.
The project has worked to establish a critical network of care in the creative arts, sharing knowledge and expertise across different contexts, regions and social groups.
More information: www.toolkitof.care