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EyeMyth x Mapping Festival: An Indo-Swiss Media Arts Exchange in Geneva

Mapping Festival 2026, Geneva

An Indian media arts delegation showcased immersive audiovisual work and live performance at the 2026 edition of Mapping Festival in Geneva, Switzerland, as part of a new multi-year partnership between EyeMyth Media Arts Festival (New Delhi) and Mapping Festival (Geneva). The exchange was supported by Pro Helvetia’s Synergies grant, which funds international collaborations at the intersection of art, science, and technology.

The 2026 edition marks the first year of the platform, laying groundwork for a deeper Indo–Swiss exchange: a second year in 2027 will introduce month-long residencies for artists from both countries, culminating in showcases at both Mapping Festival and EyeMyth. skip-a-beat’s own roster featured prominently across the programme, spanning live coding, wearable projection, and large-format immersive performance.

The Delegation

Across a week of programming at Mapping Festival, the Indian delegation presented four distinct works spanning generative visuals, live coding, wearable technology, and immersive 360° performance — each pairing Indian practitioners with Swiss collaborators and institutions.

A Passage to India (2084)

An immersive audiovisual show created by digital artists Murthovic and Thiruda, imagining a speculative future India rendered through generative visuals and sound.

Algorave Performance — Abhinay Khoparzi

A live coding set from Abhinay Khoparzi, co-founder of Algorave India and a key figure in the country’s experimental electronic music scene, performing as part of Mapping Festival’s Algorave & Live Coding Night at Le Groove.

Wear is My LED

A collaborative project and workshop between MadMapper creator Boris Edelstein and Goa-based multidisciplinary artist Upasana Nattoji Roy, integrating LEDs into wearable costume pieces controlled live through projection-mapping software.

WAVY RGB

A 360° interactive audiovisual performance by Spryk and Floating Point Studio (Lausanne), staged inside the immersive Syllepse dome at Jardin des Nations — a continuously evolving visual and sonic environment built around Spryk’s music.

A Sustainable Bridge

The EyeMyth x Mapping Festival platform is the result of several years of organic collaboration between the Indian and Swiss media arts communities. Backed by Pro Helvetia’s Synergies programme, the partnership is designed to explore new hybrid forms combining technology and cultural heritage while strengthening artistic and institutional networks between the two countries.

For skip-a-beat, the Geneva showcase extends a curatorial thread that runs through much of the label’s work: placing Indian AV and electronic practice in direct conversation with international festival contexts, rather than as a footnote to them.

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