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This year’s PACE Festival once again transformed the heart of Potsdam into a vibrant playground for art, technology and collective experience. Located in the former administrative building turned creative hub at the Rechenzentrum Potsdam, the festival spanned three days of exhibitions, performances and immersive installations.
PACE Festival Artists, media-makers and participants converged to explore intersections of human, machine, material and imagination — a space where difference and connection co-exist. Walking into the festival grounds, the energy was immediately palpable: digital projections danced across walls, sound pulses seems to ripple through architecture, and conversations sparked between strangers around installations that challenged our sense of what technology can be. In short: it felt alive.
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Why this year felt special
What made this edition of PACE particularly meaningful was the sense that technology isn’t just a tool, but a collaborator. The festival programming emphasised not only performances and installations, but also that meeting-space of human. As the festival website puts it: “Here musicians meet painters, media-artists meet performers — humans meet organic networks, artificial beings and vital materials.” PACE Festival That phrasing captures the rich hybridity that we felt on the ground.
In addition, the site of the Rechenzentrum (well-connected, repurposed industrial space) provided an ideal environment for experiments like ours — a kind of architectural canvas in itself. Walking through transitional corridors and large halls, the energy of the festival felt permeable.
