Focus #2 DNA

DN[A] is a festival dedicated to digital arts that takes over public spaces in Grenoble each year, offering everyone a unique and immersive artistic experience. It goes beyond simply exhibiting digital works: it places the viewer at the heart of a journey where creations interact with the city, materials, and technologies, shaping new possibilities for contemporary art in urban spaces.

Designed and led by the ARCAN association, DNA unfolds over several days with hybrid installations that blur the boundaries between disciplines and senses: here, drawing meets 3D; there, textiles merge with sound; elsewhere, video blends into laser projections. Individual artists and collectives reinvent digital art, explore digital materiality, and reinterpret our relationship with reality.

The festival is not limited to an exhibition: it weaves together performances, musical evenings, and mediation activities. A musical “appetizer” often precedes the installations themselves, and key moments punctuate the event, making DNA a collective and sensory experience at the crossroads of art, technology, and public space.

Through its program, DN[A] asserts an open vision of digital creation—an approach that invites audiences to understand and feel digital arts in all their diversity, transforming the street into a laboratory of forms, sounds, and images.