Hiperorgânicos is an international event dedicated to research and experimentation in the fields of art, science, technology and nature. Held by NANO — Center for Art and New Organisms, of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, the event brings together artists, researchers, scientists, students and thinkers interested in the creation of transdisciplinary practices and in new forms of relationship between organisms, environments, communities and technologies.
In its 13th edition, Hiperorgânicos will be held at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Niterói – MAC, bringing together an Open Laboratory, research presentations, artistic processes, workshops, meetings, performances and a symposium. More than presenting completed works, the event seeks to constitute a temporary environment for collaboration, investigation and knowledge sharing.
The 2026 edition has the theme "Subtle Entanglements: Community, Belonging, Memory. The proposal is based on the understanding that bodies, organisms, technologies, territories and communities do not exist in isolation, but are constituted by relationships, exchanges, memories and processes of transformation. The notion of entanglement allows us to think about connections between different systems, while the term subtle draws attention to bonds that are not always immediately visible, but that participate in the production of experiences, affections, identities and modes of existence.
The theme invites the investigation of artistic practices related to collective memory, belonging, human and more than human communities, socio-ecological sensibilities and forms of communication established between organisms, machines and environments. Hyperorganics is interested in exploring the relationships between the biological and the digital, the human and the non-human, the material and the immaterial, the visible and the imperceptible, considering the presence of organic, telematic and subtle networks in the constitution of contemporary experience.
OpenLab of Hyperorganics 12. Source: NANO Collection (2025)
The event will take place between November 10th and 14th, 2026, in person and remotely. We reinforce that not all activities can be remote.
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SCHEDULEWill be updated as it progresses.
- 31/07 to 30/08 Submission of proposals to OpenLab.
- 18/09 Announcement of those selected for OpenLab.
- 28/09 and 19/10 at 9am Meetings with selected people.
Hiperorgânicos 13 is carried out by NANO — Núcleo de Arte e Novos Organismos, linked to the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, through the Center for Letters and Arts, the School of Fine Arts and the Graduate Program in Visual Arts.
This edition has the institutional and logistical support of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Niterói – MAC Niterói, which will host the event''''s activities, and the Fundação Itaú. It also has the support of research and academic training funding agencies, including CNPq, CAPES and FAPERJ, as well as the Bunge y Born and Williams Foundations, partners of NANO in the development of an artistic residency linked to Hiperorgânicos. The event also brings together the collaboration of artists, researchers, students and partner institutions.
Subtle Entanglements: Community, Belonging, Memory
About the theme of this edition
We live in a time marked by the intensification of social fragmentation, the crisis of community bonds, and the advance of authoritarian forces on a global scale. The capture of life by neoliberal logics, added to the growing mediation of relations by technical systems and digital platforms, produces not only political conflicts, but a deeper crisis: a crisis of the ways of being together, of sharing the sensible and of producing collective meaning.
Hiperorgânicos 13 is configured as a territory for problematizing and experimenting with these issues, bringing together artistic, collective, and transdisciplinary practices that investigate belonging, community, and memory as central dimensions of contemporary life. More than thematizing technologies or responding to specific conjunctures, the project seeks to activate spaces for reflection and experience where different modes of organization of the common can be tensioned and reinvented.
In this context, the community is understood not as a fixed identity or idealized form of the past, but as a living, situated, and relational practice. Inspired by the thought of Nêgo Bispo, who understands the community as confluence — a meeting between worlds that coexist without canceling each other out — and by the notion of cosmotechnics formulated by Yuk Hui, according to which every technique expresses a vision of the world, Hiperorgânicos affirms confluence as an ethical and political principle. Belonging, here, means participating in a web of relationships sustained by care, listening and reciprocity. Therefore, memory plays a fundamental role. Not only as a record of the past, but as an active force of transmission, recognition and continuity. Reactivating memory implies recognizing deep layers of human experience, where ancestral knowledge, collective practices, and diverse cosmologies continue to operate as forms of orientation in the world.
Subtle entanglements designate forms of connection and co-affectation that cross bodies, territories, memories, technologies, and ecologies, often operating outside the dominant regimes of visibility. Hyperorganics 13 proposes to think of such relationships as a condition for the reconstruction of belonging and for the emergence of ways of life based on reciprocity, listening and shared experience.
Contemporary artistic production is understood as inseparable from the territories, the available materialities, local knowledge and the affective relationships that artists build with the contexts where they live and work. Belonging is not treated as a fixed identity, but as a relational process, built in the coexistence with human and non-human communities. In this sense, memory also manifests itself as a practice of reconnection: remembering is reactivating bonds, recovering narratives and re-inscribing the human experience in a broader web of relationships. The absence of these links tends to produce extractive practices, in which territory and culture are consumed without compromise – a direct reproduction of colonial logics.
By articulating technologies of the common with contemporary artistic practices, Hiperorgânicos proposes art as a poetic field of mediation and recomposition of the sensible. Art is understood as a practice capable of creating situations of encounter, presence and listening, opening spaces where the collective body can reorganize itself. The poetic dimension, in this sense, is not ancillary, but structural: it operates as a form of care, symbolic elaboration and reintegration of what has been fragmented. In this process, art also acts as a memory device — a way of collectively remembering what sustains life in common.
Hiperorgânicos 13 invites artists, collectives, researchers, and practitioners to propose works, processes, and experiences that dialogue with these axes, contributing to the construction of shared spaces for reflection, sensitivity, and collective creation, where different cosmotechniques can coexist and produce fairer and more livable ways of life.
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