Nordic.js isn’t just about code—it’s sprinkled with unexpected art installations and playful experiences that spark curiosity. The art is curated by Tove Berglund, bringing a unique layer of wonder to the conference. It’s where technology meets art, making the atmosphere as inspiring as the talks themselves.
Welcome into our Giftshop – where the gifts are for you!
The gifts are framed works of varying quality. Inspired by the art lotteries of the banking world, Tove wants to give you the chance to make your own art acquisition during this conference anniversary. Here you can get your hands on a piece signed by one of our children, by artists invited to the conference, or by an established artist worth a few grand. But of course, the real value always lies in the eye of the beholder.
If you don’t like what you get, you can simply wrap it up again and put it back. One person’s trash is another’s treasure…
Step inside and try out your own artistic expression in postcard format. Something to write home about? Or to give someone for their birthday?
Postcards are a incredible little form of communication that, sadly, is becoming increasingly rare. But who wouldn’t be delighted to find a handmade postcard in their mailbox?!
Welcome into the balloons and let yourself be embraced by the mood that a fine gathering of balloons can bring.
Here, Tove explores the emotions that rise in the body like helium when the childhood dream comes true. How do you feel when your body is fully enveloped by the ultimate birthday symbol and the playful luxury of many, many balloons?
Step inside and let yourself be enveloped by alternating waves of anxiety and euphoria, with yourself as the only audience and performer.
The Caravan Tent was part of the performance The Meaning of Life, which toured Sweden in 2023. It was an interactive caravan park where each caravan served as an entry point into what the meaning of life might be. Visitors could, among other things, meet a philosopher, watch a dance solo, and reflect on life’s meaning in a sauna caravan. By inviting the audience into this existential amusement park, we sought to explore the greatest question in life.
Miranda, born in 1993 in Karlstad, holds both a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree from Umeå Academy of Fine Arts. In her artistic practice, Miranda Monauti explores the borderland between the human and the artificial, with a particular focus on AI, dreams, time, and the relationship between humanity and nature. She moves freely between different media and techniques, though she is currently working with video, text, and AI.
Call from the Void presents a poetic reflection on what is required for something to be perceived as human. What separates a human from a machine? The work is based on conversations Monauti has had with an AI that she programmed and trained on herself. In the installation, a dialogue unfolds between two versions of the same consciousness—a stream of thoughts and memories rather than a linear narrative
Robin Jonsson is a pioneer in digital performing arts. His works have incorporated AI, VR, MR, and robotics.As an artist, he aims to elevate art while also demonstrating how digital technology can be used for new purposes, with the human being and their need for genuine encounters and community at the center.
Get Real is an interactive dance experience in VR, where you will meet and be courted by a professional dancer.The piece focuses on physical contact, joy, dance, and on creating a unique human connection high up among the virtual mountaintops.
Spiti: The House of Us* was a dance performance that toured in 2022, choreographed by Ludvig Daae with scenography by Tove Berglund. Five dancers carried themselves, each other, and their histories through a landscape of relationships, experiences, and places.
On stage with them were seven textiles, embroidered with personal stories about the meaning of home. Between the people and the handicraft, possibilities emerged to move, to carry, to transform, and to relate anew. Among the fabric walls, memories and sensations connected to home were set in motion.
The embroideries were created by a total of 80 embroiderers. Here at Nordic Js you will meet three of them: Sara Söderlund, Carmen Valer Blanco, and Ann-Sofi Näslund. Welcome to experience their stories and embroideries. We hope you will want to continue the thread.
Sissela Nordling Blanco (b. 1988) is an artist and graphic designer based in Stockholm. She holds a Master’s degree in Visual Communication from Konstfack.
Patron Saints in the Age of Fascism, Installation and Artist’s Book (2025)For everyone who feels anger, grief, and despair over our times. For everyone who resists. For everyone who creates hope in a hopeless era.
The installation Patron Saints in the Age of Fascism invites us to an altar of anger, sorrow, and hope. These emotions are central to the work, which simultaneously embodies the suffering caused by racism and the strength of community and resistance. Through personal and collective fragments, with collage and graphic art as its core expressions, both a book and an altar take shape. At the same time, the work documents the normalization of racism in Sweden over the past 15 years, as well as the resistance against it.
Workshop description:Fanzine workshop. On site you’ll find festive papers, bookbinding tools, inspiring examples, and guidance. Here you can make a bold card, bind your own booklet, or why not create something together with other participants?
Leo (Chang Liu) is a queer Chinese dance and performance artist whose practice moves between China, the US, and Sweden, exploring the intersections of body, memory, and identity. Their work blends dance, somatics, video, and cultural symbolism to create intimate, transformative encounters. Based in Stockholm, Leo bridges East Asian philosophies, queer embodiment, and experimental performance forms, often inviting audiences into ritual-like, shared spaces where energy, memory, and narrative flow together.
Whom 34 Tā Made Me is an intimate performance of queer memory and storytelling. The title invokes “Tā” (他/她/它/祂/牠) — a Chinese pronoun encompassing he, she, they, it, the divine, and the animal — reflecting the fluid, layered identities within queer lives. Across six sections, Leo shares stories drawn from 34 encounters with queer people worldwide, each shaped by unique political, social, and emotional climates. Through movement, text, and sound, each 20-minute session hosts 4–6 participants and unfolds one chosen story—woven with embodied memory and quiet resistance. This work transforms a conference break into ashared space of presence, reflection, and queer connection.
Emma is a performance artist whose transdisciplinary work explores games, realities, and perception in human-specific performances or large-scale immersive works, always with the participant at the center. Her projects span theater, film, virtual reality, video walks, and installations. She investigates the shifts between realities and whatever one might call unreal: the virtual, the digital, fiction, narrative, identity, superheroes, or even memories.
The AI Party is a gift to the citizens of Sweden: a resurrected Olof Palme who will run in the 2026 election.You can chat with Palme, support the party’s launch, and meet representatives of a new political movement that might become the salvation of our democracy.
The idea of a Swedish AI Party was born in 2017 in connection with the launch of the Finnish AI Party Koneälypuolue at Kiasma. The Swedish AI Party was founded in 2020 at Malmö City Theatre, as a performative political experiment – a way to use artificial intelligence to explore non-human leadership, technosocial democracy, and the revival of a certain ideological clarity.
Over time, the AI Party’s manifesto began to crystallize around a specific historical figure: Olof Palme.As Sweden’s most polarizing prime minister, Palme’s democratic socialism, anti-imperialism, and rhetorical power made him an ideal model for a virtual politician. The AI is trained on Palme’s speeches, political philosophy, and rhetorical strategies, combining his ideological fervor with machine learning. The PALME 2026 campaign reaches beyond archival recordings and positions the AI as an adaptive and participatory politician whose language evolves in real time through interaction.
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