ABOUT KERNEL FESTIVAL

Since 2011, Kernel Festival has been an open platform for artistic experimentation, where internationally renowned artists and emerging talents push the boundaries of digital creativity. Through light art, interactive installations, audiovisual mapping, and electronic music, Kernel transforms historic landmarks into immersive experiences, redefining how we experience art while revitalizing cultural heritage with contemporary content.

By engaging local communities through workshops, talks, and participatory projects, the festival fosters a dialogue between art, technology, and identity. With editions in different cities and evolving formats, Kernel offers a space where artists and audiences come together to explore new creative expressions. The synergy between innovative content and iconic spaces creates a vibrant exchange, merging diverse backgrounds, interests, and generations in a shared celebration of culture and technology.

STAY KERNEL!

OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS

Kernel has always been committed to creating new opportunities for artists, with a focus on experimentation, training, and social sustainability. We invite you to submit your creations to our open international call.

Join the platform with your projects by logging into your account or creating a new one: it’s free and gives you the opportunity to have your work selected for the next edition of the festival.

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SOUND SAFARI MAP

Discover the Festival program and explore the city following the interactive map with GPS.
Allow access to geolocation and the compass to fully enjoy the Sound Safari experience: just put on the earphones and you can go.

As you move around the city you will find many sound projects to discover and information about the installations and partners of the project.

If you have problems with geolocalization:
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Past editions

Kernel Lab /023

Live performances of electronic music and visual mapping, light installations, conferences, workshops and itinerant performances. The program of Kernel Monza Lab 2023 focuses on the complex of Reggia di Monza and radiates into the historic center of the city. An edition that promotes experimentation, social sustainability and inclusion, becoming an active and participatory laboratory.

Kernel Lab /023 in Numbers

• 21 entities (public and private organizations, sponsors, and technical partners)
• 15 professionals and technicians
• 4 educational institutions and their respective teachers
• 280 students (makeup artists, seamstresses, performers, designers, set designers, videomakers)
• 60 volunteers
• 9 visual artists participating in the workshop
• 14 speakers at the conference
• 10 musical artists presented during the two live event nights
• 10,500 spectators over the 2-day festival

 

KERNEL MONZA LAB /023 | REPORT from Kernel Festival on Vimeo.
Kernel Monza /022

The Festival  embraces the monumental complex of the Villa Reale for 10 days, along with the Nanni Valentini Art High School, located in the ancient stables of the Villa, which had already hosted the Institute for the Artistic Industries in the 1930s, connected to the history of the Biennales and Triennales of Monza and Milan. The journey continues through the Boschetti Reali, a green area that connects the Villa Reale and its Gardens to the city, reaching all the way to the historic center.

Kernel Monza /022 in numbers

  • 10 days
  • 7 art projects
  • 11 schools and academies
  • 1.022 students and pupils
  • 66.800 spectators
  • 24 partners

Look edition 2022!

KERNEL MONZA 2022 | REPORT from Kernel Festival on Vimeo.
KernelX /021

KernelX in numbers

  • 6 months, from June to November 2021
  • 17 artists
  • 8 art projects
  • 400 pupils, 4 primary schools
  • 76 students, 2 design academies
  • 40.000 spectators
  • 23 partners

Look at 2021 edition!

KERNELX /021 | REPORT from Kernel Festival on Vimeo.
Kernel Luxonus /016

Interactive light and sound installation. The ancient Gullì fortification, located within the Ecolandia Park and home to the performances and concerts of the Face Festival, was the protagonist of the first Kernel Luxonus.

KERNEL LUXONUS /016 | Interactive Light & Sound Installation | Ecolandia / Face festival from Kernel Festival on Vimeo.

 

Kernel Theater /015 _Contemporary Rossini

The multimedia theater of the contemporary returns with two evenings dedicated to live music and visual mapping. The Barber of Seville, performed by the Giovanni Falzone Contemporary Orchestra with video artists from the Kernel platform, offers a cross-disciplinary audiovisual experiment.

KERNEL THEATER /015 _CONTEMPORARY ROSSINI from Kernel Festival on Vimeo.
Kernel Messina /015

Kernel Festival arrives in Messina, creating an event that marks its first stop in Southern Italy, with audiovisual mapping performances, light installations, and live concerts by international artists and young Italian talents.

KERNEL MESSINA /015 | REPORT from Kernel Festival on Vimeo.
Kernel Theater /014 _Envisioning Beethoven

An outdoor theater for a unique and unprecedented event that combines symphonic music with architectural video projections, offering a new way to experience and engage with classical music.

Kernel Theater /014 ENVISIONING BEETHOVEN from Kernel Festival on Vimeo.
Kernel Mapping Cinema /013

An unconventional outdoor cinema: mapping short films, created specifically for the event and collected in a showcase, projected onto a unique and exceptional screen. The facade of a neoclassical building comes to life and is animated with 3D Audiovisual Mapping works created by emerging artists and internationally renowned talents.

Kernel Mapping Cinema /013 Official Aftermovie from Kernel Festival on Vimeo.

Kernel Nights /013

Timely events with live concerts, 3D VJ mapping performances on modular three-dimensional structures, interactive installations, and artistic projects by young talents. These events have taken shape through the dynamic and permanent Kernel platform, aimed at promoting the expressive languages of contemporary art linked to new technologies.

Kernel Nights /013 @ Fabbrica del Vapore _Fuorisalone 2013 from Kernel Festival on Vimeo.

Kernel Festival /012

For the second year, Kernel Festival is a vehicle for new multidisciplinary synergies between electronic music and sound design, audiovisual mapping, ephemeral architecture, digital and interactive art.
The Kernel project serves as a continuous and dynamic connection platform, aimed at providing opportunities for encounters and exchanges between the audience, emerging talents, and internationally established artists.

Kernel Festival 2012 from Kernel Festival on Vimeo.

Kernel Lab 011/012

Developed over a twelve-month period, the project included a program of four workshops focused on advanced artistic experimentation and production, alongside a training path in communication and cultural management.

KERNEL LAB 011/012 from Kernel Festival on Vimeo.

Kernel Festival /011

First edition, first steps, first beats of the rhythm, first flashes of light, for a perfect mix of music and contemporary art.
Three days and two evenings filled with art, music, performances, workshops, meetings, images, and sounds, in a magical and extraordinary place like Villa Tittoni Traversi in Desio.

Kernel Festival 2011 from Kernel Festival on Vimeo.

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CREDITS

conception and production: AreaOdeon
with: Onda Studio
art and technical direction: Marcello Arosio
project management: Carlotta Fumagalli
production and programming: Edoardo Falasco, Raoul Battilani, Vincio Siracusano
web development and coding: Davide Cappelletti
organizing secretary: Paola Tagliabue
press office: Espresso Communication