Flux Festival

​​Flux Festival

A snapshot of the global creative zeitgeist, across a full day of talks, sensory exhibits, and performances with artists and filmmakers experimenting at the very edge of what's possible in moving image and sound.

Featuring a Grammy-nominated filmmaker, an Emmy-winning choreographer, a SXSW XR Experience Jury Award winner, a Google Creative Lab technologist, and artists flying in from Berlin, Seoul, and New York to share a full day of talks, performances, artworks, and installations.

​The 2026 Flux Festival Lineup

​Andrew Thomas Huang
Angus Oakes
Cardin Chung
Casey Reas
Daito Manabe
Eli Joteva
Esteban Arellano
Geller
Hugo Shiboski
Jona Bechtolt
Kordae Jatafa Henry
Kyle McDonald
Lachlan Turczan
Lauren Lee McCarthy
LILLETH
Michael Naffier
mots
Nabiha Syed
Portrait XO
Rory Mitchell
Roxanne Harris
Samantha Gorman
Sara Silkin
Spectra Studio
Steve Anderson
Tender Claws
Tina Tarighian
Will Wharton
Yaloo

​About Flux Festival

​​Flux Festival is curated by Meg Grey Wells and Jonathan Wells, directors of Flux, an LA-based creative studio, along with Holly Willis, co-director of AIMS, a research studio at USC exploring AI and storytelling. The 2026 festival is convened in partnership with Mozilla Foundation.

​​The 2026 Flux Festival is presented in collaboration with Mozilla Foundation, alongside AIMS (AI for Media & Storytelling), a collaboration between the School of Cinematic Arts and the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at USC, and the Center for Sports, Entertainment, Media & Technology Law (SEMT) at the USC Gould School of Law.