BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer)

This special BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer) event has been curated from an open call responding to arebyte’s 2026–28 theme, REBOOT: Recoding Reality, a programme that reimagines more equitable worlds where humans have agency over technology and foster deeper connections with, and care for, their environments.

Originally conceived by digital artist Rafaël Rozendaal, BYOB is a community focused one night exhibition format that encourages experimentation, collaboration, and peer exchange. In this ephemeral setup, digital, video, and moving-image works are projected directly onto walls, floors, and other surfaces, transforming the exhibition space into an immersive environment that challenges the conventions of traditional gallery display.

Shortlisted submissions from the open call will be showcased as curated short reels, projected across multiple walls using arebyte’s equipment. A limited number of artists will also have the opportunity to participate as walk-ins on the night by bringing their own projectors, subject to available space and capacity. In addition to this programme, we are thrilled to present a selection of works from the V&A’s Immersive Design Course cohort during the event. 

Two artworks selected from the open call will be showcased at scheduled times for one month on arebyte Digital Art Centre’s media wall and website. Each selected artist will nominate a second artist to form a pair. The two featured artists will be announced during the event on 28 March.

Theme: ‘REBOOT: Recoding Reality’

‘REBOOT: Recoding Reality’ (2026–2028) reimagines more equitable worlds where humans have agency over technology and connect with and care for their environments. Responding to social, political, economic and ecological crises that increasingly shape contemporary life, the programme addresses how people might reorganise into more sustainable ways of living, learning from alternative modes of existence and achieving technological agency. The programme will showcase digital artists and thinkers developing decentralised technological tools, approaching ecology through a planetary perspective and drawing on cross-cultural heritage. Rather than fixating on the damage done by capitalism, ‘REBOOT’ invites audiences to imagine alternative lifestyles and injects London’s cultural scene with positive perspectives on navigating contemporary society. Recognising Camden’s history as a centre for experimental art and technology labs in the 1960s, arebyte is reframed as an incubator and catalyst.

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