NFC Summit, a three-day digital art festival in Lisbon

The program brings together over 200 artists, galleries, and international communities across a four-floor art journey, an outdoor central plaza, permanent murals, and a fully immersive AI experience in the basement.

A key presence at this year’s event is ETERNO, the Lisbon-based gallery founded by street artist Vhils as part of the Cultural Affairs structure, which has established itself as one of Portugal’s most active platforms exploring the relationship between digital art, generative systems, artificial intelligence and immersive experiences. At NFC Summit, ETERNO presents two solo exhibitions. The first is a new presentation of Vhils’ explosions, shown in a way never seen before and the other is BOLDTRON’s AI creatures interacting with the flour mill machinery. BOLDTRON is an artist duo from Barcelona known for pioneering a distinctive visual language across CGI, AI art, and motion design, with work presented at art fairs and festivals like OFFF and Sónar+D. DANAE, the Parisian gallery with a new presence in Milan, Italy will release Eko33’s new project around algorithmic control and cultural infrastructure with an unexpected display method. Marlene Corbun, the curator, says “The collector has spent the last decade using algorithmic feeds, from Instagram’s engagement optimization to Spotify’s mood detection and has forgotten what unmediated choice feels like. This exhibition corrects this.”

The festival also features talks, late-night events, and encounters between artists and collectors in a deliberately experimental format, built by and for the community.