Techne·Shrines are spaces for technological altars, offerings, and re·wirings. They gather devices, materials, gestures, and protocols that treat technology not as a neutral tool or finished system, but as something relational, situated, and open to care. Here, circuits, code, and objects are arranged as altars – inviting attention, repair, envisioning, and re-orientation.

Rather than producing solutions, Techne·Shrines hold moments of pause and recalibration. Offerings may take the form of modified devices, ritual actions, speculative interfaces, or instructions for use. Through these practices, Techne·Shrines foreground technology as a living assemblage – one that can be tended, reconfigured, and re-wired toward pluriversal understandings of the planet.

Techne·Shrines are small gathering points at corners and niches within the festival space where technologies are approached as living companions with mineral, spiritual, and ecological lineages: spaces for reverence, repair, and recalibration of our relations with technologies. Blurring altar, workshop, and installation, they host practices where circuits, code, and cosmologies are treated with care rather than control. Each shrine foregrounds ritual, maintenance, and devotion – inviting participants to pause, attend, and attune to the spiritual, material, and ecological dimensions of techne. As gathering points within the festival, Techne·Shrines create atmospheres where technological imaginaries are honored not as abstract systems but as living companions.

Each techne·shrine is linked with ritual and offering protocols. . Techne·Shrines contributed by Montika Kham-on, Fan Chon Hoo, and El Alto Aesthetics.