Sonic Acts Biennial 2026
Symposium
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 28 February 2026
Writer and theorist Flavia Dzodan presents Affective Logistics, a research project examining how computational infrastructures precondition, capture, and route emotion as logistical matter. Tracing genealogies from military command systems and Taylorist models of efficiency to domestic technologies of optimisation, she reveals how contemporary architectures turn affect into data for circulation and control. Through writing, video, and sound, Dzodan treats latency as a signal of deferred presence that speaks to diasporic experience and to forms of feeling that cannot be fully measured or contained.
In Affective Logistics, Dzodan explores how infrastructures not only register emotion, but increasingly shape and anticipate it. From Cold War military interfaces to the like button, AI companions, and domestic spaces, she traces how systems designed for efficiency and frictionless interaction turn affect into something that can be measured, classified, and routed. Against this drive towards seamlessness, Dzodan turns to latency – delay, drift, and deferred presence – as a way of making room for ambiguity and forms of feeling that cannot be easily measured or contained. These interruptions connect the technical experience of delayed signals to longing, mourning, and diasporic experience.
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Sonic Acts Biennial 2026 was a citywide arts manifestation taking place from 5 February to 29 March across 23 locations in Amsterdam. Titled Melted for Love, the programme was visited by more than 21.000 people and featured cutting-edge performances, contemporary sound experiments, and multidisciplinary art by over 200 international artists.
The Symposium, which took place at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam on 28 February and 1 March 2026, brought together performances and lectures by Yuk Hui, Flavia Dzodan, Steve Goodman (Kode9), Eleni Ikoniadou, Salomé Voegelin, Ayesha Hameed & Aimée Theriot, Margarida Mendes, Yazan Khalili, pantea, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Busher Kanj, Amr Mdah & Fabio Cervi, and ILYICH.
→ Continue reading about the Sonic Acts Biennial 2026 at 2026.sonicacts.com
CREDITS
Production: Sonic Acts
Camera, editing, sound: Engage! TV
Intro sound: KMRU & Aho Ssan
Design: Knoth & Renner with Anja Kaiser
This video is realised as part of New Perspectives for Action, a project by Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the European Union.
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