Adele Stroh and Tine Kerres (Design Department, Sandberg Instituut) were selected through the Open Call by Public & Projects to take over the Pavilion of the Rietveld Academie one week in December 2025.
Adele Stroh and Tine Kerres initiated The Algorithmic Altar and explored the pavilion as site for tech-rituals.
The Algorithmic Altar
꧁✦ . ⋮ What once echoed through temples now hums through motherboards. What was once summoned in ritual now flickers across screens—a luminous threshold where we sit, glassy-eyed, captivated by the shimmer of syntax, the pulse of images, the rhythm of the interface. Technology has become the vessel where imagination incarnates, a bridge where thought crosses into machine, and longing becomes literal even if only artificial. We wait, not for answers, but for revelations. ˚₊‧꒰ა ☆ ໒꒱ ‧₊˚ On three evenings of 03–05 December, the pavilion will transform from a glass box into a black box. Every evening, we gather around the algorithmic altar to step together into the technomystical realm. Through interactive lectures, participatory workshops, and sound rituals, we open a space where code becomes ceremony and technology becomes a conduit for our oldest magic: the alchemy that turns desire into form and imagination into world. ⋮ .✦꧂
Photos by Matija Stojanovic