F.U.C.K-SD. presentation at NeMe
https://www.neme.org/projects/emap/fucksd
On Monday, 8 June, 2026, at 7:30pm, you are invited to a talk by César Escudero Andaluz (ES/AT) and Charalambos Margaritis (CY) where they will discuss their collaboration for César‘s EMAP residency at NeMe.
César was one of 15 artists selected by 15 EMAP member organisations from its 643 valid submissions, with the proposed artwork Free Universal Cleaning Kit for Satellite Decolonisation (F.U.C.K-SD.). F.U.C.K-SD. proposes artistic tactics to sabotage satellite monopolies and solutions to address space waste issues. The goal is to encourage critical thinking by creating an open source speculative autonomous device powered by solar panels that can sabotage satellites and clean up space debris. The F.U.C.K-SD. project follows the line of a previous artwork by César, F.U.C.K.-ID (Free Universal Cut Kit for Internet Dissidence) an autonomous cutting device powered by marine currents that can cut underwater Internet cables.
César Escudero Andaluz‘s work examines digital culture, the impact of technology on users, and its economic, ecological, social, and political consequences. His research, art, and writing, focuses on issues such as data surveillance, algorithmic governance, the energy and resource waste of AI and blockchain, labour precariousness, techno-solutionism, techno-imperialism, and techno-colonialism. Methodologically, his practice combines interfaces, electronics, diagrams, interactive installations, and robotics with approaches from speculative design, media archaeology, digital humanities, critical interface studies, tactical media, and critical infrastructure studies. To make it possible, he uses artistic tactics such as reverse engineering, DIY practices, and sabotage to challenge established systems and provoke critical reflection in audiences. His artworks have been shown in international electronic-art events, museums and galleries including Ars Electronica (AT); ZKM Center for Art and Media (DE); WRO, Media Art Biennale in Wroclaw (PL); Science Gallery Detroit (US); Hangar (ES); Aksioma Institute for Contemporary Art (SI); Drugo More (HR); Chronus Art Centre (CN). AMRO Art, hacktivism & open culture (AT); Tabakalera International Centre for Contemporary Culture (ES); NODE Forum for Digital Arts (DE); KIKK (BE); ADAF (EL); and the NeMe Arts Centre (CY) and many others.
He is a PhD candidate at Interface Cultures in the University of Arts Linz where he also teaches.
Charalambos Margaritis is a Cypriot visual artist specialising in animated films, printmaking, comics, drawing, and painting. He is a graduate of the National Superior School of Fine Arts of Paris. He is one of the founders of Kimonos Art Center in Paphos, Cyprus, and the founder and artistic director of the international animation festival The Animattikon Project which takes place annually in Paphos. He is a PhD candidate at the Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts of the Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts of the Cyprus University of Technology and a member of the special teaching staff of the Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts of the Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts of the Cyprus University of Technology, where he teaches animation and art history, while conducting his doctoral research on experimental techniques in animated storytelling.
His animated films have been selected for over 50 international festivals and received international awards including Best Animated Short Film award in the 11th Long and Short Film Festival of Santiago, Chile (FELACOS 2025); Norman McLaren Award for Best Animation at the Blow-Up International Arthouse Film Fest in Chicago; Best Sound Effects in an Animated Film at the Tofuzi International Animated Film Festival in Tbilisi; Grand Prix ‘Palm Secateur d’or’ and First Place Diploma at the International (Meta)Kansk Video Festival; Best Animated Short at the Raindance Film Festival in London; Best Documentary Animation at the International Cosmopolitan Film Festival of Tokyo; amongst others.
Venue
NeMe Arts Centre
Corner of Ellados and Enoseos streets
Limassol
Cyprus
