Arse Elektronika Athens 2026 - Excess Denied
Locations:
HGW std. Mavromichali 138, Athens, Greece. Exhibition
Suzie Q Skopelou 22–24 / Corner Spetson, Athens, Greece. Workshops and other activities
Romantso Anaxagora 3–5, Athens, Greece. Talks, lectures and presentations
Schedule
| THURSDAY, October 15, 2026 |
HGW std.
Mavromichali 138, Athens, Greece.
17:00–22:00
Exhibition open
19:00–19:45
Johannes Grenzfurthner
Arse Elektronika - Excess Denied
20:00–20:20
Maria Papoutsaki
Bulgaria 2025
Performance
20:20–20:40
Lilith-Isa Samer & Sandra Muciño
Saying not Saying
Performance
20:40–21:00
Lars* Kollros
Move Your Ass – Your Body is an Instrument
Exhibition featuring works by:
AnimaeNoctis · ALFRED BOW feat. Maximilian Atteneder · Hidéo SNES · Eric Singer · Erin Robinson · Eric Coombs Esmail & Edem Dotse · Saumil Bhandari · Sabrina Verhage · Stefan Lutschinger · ANONYMOUS ARTIST · Evelio Moreno · Maxin Krippner · Rica Fuentes Martinez · Cornpop Bright and Squareheart · Offerus Ablinger · Federico Niccolai · Aleksandr Smetanka · Carina Papouschek · Alessandro Amaducci · Laura Schlagintweit · Matthias Jaklitsch
| FRIDAY, October 16, 2026 |
HGW std.
Mavromichali 138, Athens, Greece.
17:00–22:00
Exhibition open
SUZIE Q
Skopelou 22–24 / Corner Spetson, Athens, Greece.
18:00–22:30
Workshops and other activities
18:00–19:00
Sabrina Verhage
Prompt Denied
Workshop
19:00–20:30
Anna Ivanova
Softness-as-a-Service: Writing the Standards for Intimate Technology
Workshop
20:30–21:30
Lou Liska
Tactile Pornography: An Analog Porn Network
Workshop
21:30–22:30
Lars* Kollros
Move Your Ass – Your Body is an Instrument
Talk & Workshop
| SATURDAY, October 17, 2026 |
ROMANTSO
Anaxagora 3–5, Athens, Greece.
11:00
Doors
11:20–12:00
Deniz Yenimazman
My Body Is a Desiring Machine and It Violates Community Guidelines: Acker, Wark, and Erotic Infrastructure
Live talk via Zoom plus Q&A planned
12:00–12:40
Philipp Blab
You Cannot Remove an Idea from the Market Without Changing the Market: Censorship and the Architecture of Consent
12:40–13:20
Aphrodite
Agents of Re-creation (Παράγοντες Αναδημιουργίας)
13:20–14:00
Michal Kabát
UNFORBIDDEN PLAY - What the Unregulated Era of Adult Games Teaches Us About Erotic Autonomy
14:00–14:30
BREAK
14:30–15:10
Anna Ivanova
Proving Humanness: Digital Sex Work Under the Verification Regime
15:10–15:50
Jean Ketterling
Payment Processors, Platform Policy and Pornographic Games
15:50–16:30
Eric Coombs Esmail & Edem Dotse
Documentary Fetish
16:30–16:50
Viola V
What's yr real name?
16:50–17:30
Erin Robinson
XXX Machina
17:30–18:10
Maya Magnat
Explaining Loneliness to an AI
18:10–18:50
Stefan Lutschinger
Ω♥ — The Erotic Feedback Constant
18:50–19:30
Eric Singer
StimSuit
19:30–19:50
Kevin Blackistone
BlackistoneÁlgosrythmic Deviations
Performance
19:50
Conference program ends
21:00
Party
HGW std.
Mavromichali 138, Athens, Greece.
15:00–18:00
Exhibition open
| SUNDAY, October 18, 2026 |
HGW std.
Mavromichali 138, Athens, Greece.
14:00–18:00
Final exhibition day
15:00
Saumil Bhandari
Speculative Orgasms
Workshop & Talk
Additional workshops and performances may be announced.