We welcome you to the open call for the 7th edition of #nfcdab (Near-Field Communication Digital Art Biennale). It’s a show travelling through Europe every two years (formerly Amsterdam, Wroclaw, Warszaw, Gol, Valencia, Pedreguer, Berlin, Thessaloniki, Gardony, Dusseldorf, and others). The biennale uses NFC/QR-technology to exhibit online net art in physical, public places. As such it’s a bridge between the digital and the physical and makes it possible to create site-specific, contextual and multi-layered works. #nfcdab keeps a DIY/DIWO (do it with others) open format and protocol: no jury, no fees, no return(!). The focus is on informal experiment with technology with much irreverence and humor. Deadline for submission: 30.08.2026.
Submit here https://noemata.net/nfcdab/2026/ This edition features two/three different platforms for exhibition. You might take part in all of these: – The Amsterdam show – The Amsterdam show will probably take place in and around the Rietveld Pavilion organised by browserbased.org with collaboration from https://dogtime.rietveldacademie.nl/. The call is open for all manners of online works: net- and code focused works, moving or still images, sound, zines, comic strips, etc. how to submit: graphics we ask for: A4 vertical: 21cm x 29,7cm sticker horizontal: 8,5cm x 4,1cm Upload for both format: A qr code + text. Text can be title and author or whatever the author wants. NFC TAG: short text or link – max 100 characters with spaces. – The nfcdb initiative – #nfcdb (NFC database) is one of the platforms in this biennale. If you want to participate, please place a QR- or NFC-tag with (link to) your online work, place it in your local, public environment, then upload the work to the database (see below) where it will be shown on a map and with extended info how and where to access it. We also welcome QR/NFC-works done in the past (preferably still existing). The intention is to provide a global show and register of current and former works of #nfcdab-related activities, i.e. using the technology to exhibit online art in public environments. We keep a DIY/DIWO (do it yourself/ do it with others) open format and protocol: no jury, no fees, no return(!). The focus is on informal experimenting with technology with much irreverence and humor, with a database to back it up and a mapping to show and for the public to explore both online and on the ground. Link to nfcdb and submission to it: https://noemata.net/nfcdb/ – The tagdrop/ app – TagDrop turns small files – text, HTML pages, images, audio, SVGs – into self-contained QR codes that work completely offline. Print one on a sticker or sheet of paper and leave it somewhere; anyone with the TagDrop app (or any QR scanner that follows tagdrop: links) can scan it and view the content immediately, with no internet connection, server, or account required. For more: https://github.com/mofosyne/tagdrop #nfcdab channels: -blog: https://nfcdab.org/ -fb/group: https://web.facebook.com/groups/1nfcdabiennale/ -fb/page: https://www.facebook.com/nfcdab/ -app: https://github.com/mofosyne/tagdrop -data base: https://noemata.net/nfcdb/ ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
