GOGBOT

About the Festival 

GOGBOT is back in Enschede presenting a mind-blowing journey into the chaotic rhythms of the digital age. With SCROLL PANIC REPEAT we slice open the black mirror of your dopamine-scorched brain, diving deep into infinite internet feeds, algorithmic anxiety, doomscrolling, media manipulation, and online fatigue.
Since the creation of radio and television, humanity’s appetite for media content has grown into something monstrous and uncontrollable. Today, the world is nothing but an endless cycle of scrolls and swipes, breaking news, mindless madness, and systematic disinformation. We crave voyeuristic peaks of hot celebrity shit, cute cat videos and depictions of dictatorial violence all at the same time. We don’t just passively watch the world burn, we livestream it, like it, and sell ad space on it. We participate to forget. But what exactly are we forgetting?
During the four-day festival, Enschede's Oude Markt will be transformed into Neo Enschede, a techno-dystopian city driven by consumption and information overload. Dozens of screens will blast with everything from seductive brainrot reels to political propaganda, hyper-capitalist commercials and slacktivist memes. 
The chaos spreads across the Grote Kerk and eight other festival locations, where more than sixty artists, musicians, hackers, freaks, and freethinkers will expose the systems that keep you scrolling. Hopefully they will also inspire you to break the cycle. Expect art installations and performances that invoke glitchy dreams of digital freedom, hacked interfaces and media frameworks turned upside down. 
 

Practical

Date: 18 to 21 of September
@ Enschede City Center, Free entrance

Opening hours:

Thu 18 Sep — 20:00–23:00

Fri 19 Sep — 12:00–00:00

Sat 20 Sep — 12:00–00:00

Sun 21 Sep — 12:00–17:00

GOGBOT x METROPOOL BY NIGHT

Saturday 20, 23:00 at Metropool, Enschede

Locations:


Oude Markt

Grote Kerk

Vestzak
BlackBrick

Concordia Cinema

Metropool

Rijksmuseum Twenthe

Tetem