Digital Art & Music Festival
6-7 December 2025, Almada, Portugal
Photo of the Inércia Party hall

Source: Jaerder Sousa

Location

Incrível Almadense

In the heart of Almada, with room for over 120 visitors.

The centenary hall will be equipped with tables, chairs, lighting, Full HD projection and a suitable sound system to showcase your productions.

Theme

Bridges

The theme for Inércia 2025 is bridges. Those small and large systems carefully engineered to bring and maintain connectivity.

Technological bridges, cultural bridges, circuit board bridges, real size bridges, we have a pretty iconic bridge here in Almada that you can also reference if you’d like. Get inspired by bridges and show us what you came up with.

It’s not mandatory to follow this year’s theme but you get extra karma points if you do.

Inércia 2025 by harvest

Inércia 2025 by harvest

Photo of the Inércia Party hall

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Participate!

Competitions & Showcases

Do you create art with computers? We want you at Inércia presenting it! There are several formats for participation:

  • Demo Competition, the classical demoscene event where public voting determines the winner.
  • Showcase sessions, our special formats where you can premiere your works without voting scrutiny.
  • Lightning talks, present under 15 minutes something interesting about your creative process.
  • Livecoding and live music jam events, where you can have fun with others.
  • Talks and installations, also open for proposal submissions, send us an email.

Explore

Retro Corner

Explore our retro corner filled with vintage computers where you can learn about the old machines you used to have (or never did), learn more about their limitations, watch some demos, play some games and chat with people that can help you get your old machine working again.
Retro Corner

Source: Jaerder Sousa

Shader Royale

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Witness

Shader Royale

Experience the world’s largest simultaneous online shader programming event, with over 30 live participants from all corners of the world participating live! Hosted at Inércia for the 5th year since it’s inception.

Experience

Seminars and Installations

Join us for several talks, roundtables and workshops during the event. Covering a range of topics related to the demoscene, electronic tinkering, retro computing and the digital arts. Would you like to present something? Get in touch and tell us what you have in mind and we’ll try to accomodate within reason.
Seminars and Installations

Source: Jaerder Sousa