Short Description
The Mapping Festival is organized by PPING, a non-profit cultural organization based in Geneva, which counts about 30 members in 2025, including many active artists in their field.
One’s goal is to promote audiovisual, technological and trans disciplinary arts on the French-speaking part of Switzerland and to promote them internationally.
PPING organizes several events per year, collaborating with numerous cultural partners, organizations and institutions and created the Mapping Festival in 2005. The festival takes place every year in May presenting exhibitions, installations, performances as well as conferences and workshops.
The must-attend event for audiovisual, technological, and transdisciplinary arts, and one of the leading festivals of its domain in Europe is back in May 2026. As a pioneer, the festival has pushed the careers of several young artists who are now renowned internationally.
In line with its aim of exploring contemporary technological creativity—particularly real-time audiovisual systems and proposals, transdisciplinary performances (including live arts), and immersive experiences—the organization continues to delve deeper into the intersection between art and science.
Eligibility
PPING regularly invites artists from all over the world to present their work in Geneva and to lead workshops. Regional artists as well as students from local art schools are also regularly invited in order to create synergies, aiming to position PPING as a true platform for exchange and transmission of knowledge. Productions, co-productions and residencies are regularly organized to encourage technological and transdisciplinary arts creation.
The artistic direction is specialized yet accessible, in order to reach an increasingly large public, should they be initiated or amateur, both local and international. The audience and participants are invited to discover, experiment and feel work pieces that offers new modalities of reception. With digital and technological art, the public becomes an actor, player and instigator.
How to Apply
Online Application
Entry Fee
None
Location
Geneva, City in Switzerland
Timeline
- Application Deadline: 2 November 2025
Website Link: https://www.mappingfestival.com/en/call-for-projects
