Victor Sardenberg

Held at the FIESP Cultural Center in São Paulo, the 2026 edition of FILE (Electronic Language International Festival) investigated the concept of "inter-creativity"—a space where humans and machines cease to occupy opposing positions to constitute new forms of coexistence and discovery. Bringing together around 160 works from 48 countries across interactive installations, virtual and augmented reality, generative systems, and the Random Dimension exhibition, the festival approached technology not merely as an instrumental tool, but as an active agent in creative, perceptual, and relational processes. Rather than reducing imagination to algorithmic calculation, the exhibition highlighted what remains irreducibly open, emergent, and unpredictable in the ongoing negotiation between biological and artificial intelligences.

Joining co-founders Ricardo Barreto and Paula Perissinotto alongside Clarissa Vidotto on the curatorial team, I served as co-curator and exhibition designer, as well as graphic designer and AR software developer. In addition to shaping the curatorial discourse and artwork selection—launched with an opening keynote by mathematician Gregory Chaitin and epistemologist Virginia Chaitin on intuition and incomputability—I was responsible for the overall architectural layout, scenography, and visual identity of the exhibition, articulating a cohesive spatial and graphic environment designed to invite the public to inhabit uncertainty and experience human–machine co-creation across multiple scales.