The 30th edition of MFRU, the International Festival of Computer Arts, titled *Empty Shelves: Post-Consumer Visions After the End of Business*, explores the role of digital and media art in shaping sustainable and socially conscious economies and trade practices. Against the backdrop of global polycrisis and growing discussions about moving beyond capitalist logic, the festival invites unconventional thinking, experimental approaches, and community-driven processes to imagine how a post-consumer world could be structured and function.
The program intertwines economy, ecology, and intermedia discourse, focusing on key areas such as real estate and urban regeneration, food and basic needs, fashion and beauty, technology and entertainment, as well as nostalgia, rituals, and critiques of wealth-driven lifestyles. Participating artists critically engage with these dimensions, using contradictions within value systems to develop visions and tools for a society centered on more than just consumption.
This year’s edition, *Empty Shelves*, seeks actionable alternatives for low-impact, regenerative, and community-oriented projects that contribute to a radical societal reorganization in the face of extreme climate conditions.
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