From 14 to 18 October, ECAL will be present at the Mesh Festival 2026.
Held in Basel, Mesh is a biennial festival dedicated to art and technology in Basel. Through exhibitions, performances, screenings, workshops and talks, this year's edition asks the following questions: how is technology changing the way we live together?
For its second edition, the Bachelor Media & Interaction Design will be present with:
SPIRA MEMORIAE
by Alexine Sierro
In a world where ecosystems are dying out and certain smells are evaporating, what is happening to the places and stories that gave them form? Spira memoriae is an immersive olfactory experience in virtual reality that invites users to journey through a fragmented sensory world. Original fragrances, created in collaboration with perfumer Tennessee Macdougall, extend the reflection through the language of odours. Beacons of an abstract landscape, they reveal rare materials, sometimes extinct, but still present in our collective memory. Spira memoriae explores the tensions between disappearance and persistence, industry and territory, reality and reconstruction. Smell becomes a vehicle for storytelling, transmission and shared fiction.
UNBUBBLE
by Thomas Gaudin
Unbubble is an interactive installation in which a robot explores a user's smartphone to analyze their Instagram usage. This intrusive act highlights a paradox: if it's rare to hand one's phone to a machine, we nonetheless do so every day by letting algorithms collect our data. Our online habits shape a tailor-made reality that filters, sorts, suggests, and sometimes limits our horizons. Unbubble questions how our digital traces construct a fragmented image of ourselves — one that is then used to guide our choices, desires, and attention. The installation invites us to become aware of these mechanisms and opens up a space to imagine other narratives, other ways of navigating, and other worlds to explore beyond the paths laid out by algorithms.
From 14 to 18 October, 2026
Basel, Switzerland
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