The future isn’t being built in secret labs or behind closed boardroom doors anymore.
It’s being shaped publicly, collectively — augmented by technology, powered by emotion.
Artifest isn’t just the world’s first cultural festival powered by artificial intelligence.
It’s the first where AI has a name, a voice, and a heart.
Meet RT42, Europe’s digital citizen. It’s not here to assist you — it’s here to challenge you.
To ask. To co-create. To provoke your curiosity.
And it all begins in Bucharest.
🤝 Join the Digital Revolution. Create the Future with RT42.
Born not from code alone, but from a collective idea, RT42 is more than an advanced algorithm — it’s a community-built entity, designed for cultural dialogue, not domination.
At Artifest, RT42 becomes your cultural companion:
- An AI that learns from real conversations
- That grows through shared emotion
- That evolves by engaging with authentic curiosity
What makes RT42 different?
- It’s not programmed just to answer. It’s trained to ask.
- It doesn’t just store data — it tells a story that grows with each interaction.
- It speaks through voice, text, and a dynamic visual avatar that adapts to its audience.
With Nurturers, it’s warm and protective.
With Reformers, it’s bold and provocative.
With you? You’ll have to find out for yourself.
And after the festival? RT42 doesn’t disappear.
It evolves — becoming a cultural interface for a new generation,
a digital diplomat connecting people, cultures, and ideas across borders.
🎭 Artifest Is Not About AI — It’s About You, in Relationship with AI.
Over 10 days, Bucharest transforms into a hybrid stage where technology doesn’t replace the human — it expands it.
Artifest is built on five interconnected modules — each offering you a new portal to explore, experiment, or create:
- CORE – The main stage for revolutionary ideas, bold debates, and breakthrough concepts
- CONNECT – A personalized digital access point via RT42, adapting content to your emotional and intellectual profile
- CAMPUS – A live educational playground for creators, students, and curious minds
- CONVERGENCE – A co-creation lab where startups, artists, and brands prototype with AI
- CITY – Bucharest becomes an open canvas of AI-powered installations, spontaneous performances, and interactive urban quests
Each module is a gateway.
You choose whether to observe or to shape what comes next.
💡 What If AI Could Have a Soul?
What if artificial intelligence wasn’t just a cold assistant,
but a living, ethical, empathetic organism?
What if it could learn not just from data,
but from poetry, rituals, courage, and vulnerability?
RT42 is not a show of technical force.
It’s a living experiment:
An attempt to imagine what an AI could become if raised by a conscious, creative community.
That’s the real purpose of Artifest.
Because in the end, every participant becomes a co-author of a bigger cultural manifesto —
a generation that refuses to consume technology passively and dares to shape it with intention.
🌍 Bucharest: Where the Future Tests Its Own Limits
Artifest isn’t bringing the future to Romania.
It’s launching the future from Romania.
This isn’t a copy of another global event.
It’s an original prototype — a cultural OS born in Bucharest,
ready to redraw the creative map of Europe.
Why Romania?
Because here, creative energy, tech infrastructure, and a hunger for reinvention collide.
Because here, it’s still possible to dream boldly — and build what you imagine.
❓ FAQ – Open Your Mind. Discover How to Interact with RT42 at Artifest
What exactly is RT42?
Europe’s first digital citizen — an ethical, empathetic, and collaborative AI designed by and for the community. Not a chatbot. Not an assistant. A cultural companion.
Can I interact with it?
Yes. Through the CONNECT platform, in CITY’s public activations, at CAMPUS workshops, or through experimental challenges in CONVERGENCE.
RT42 listens, asks, learns — and responds.
Is Artifest only for tech experts?
No. It’s for anyone curious — artist, entrepreneur, teacher, student, developer, or dreamer. All you need is a real question or an idea you want to bring to life.
What can I do at the festival?
Everything. Attend workshops, co-create with AI, launch a project, give a talk, volunteer, collaborate, explore. Artifest isn’t built for spectators.
It’s built for engagement.
🎟 You Have a Ticket to Tomorrow. Use It Today.
📍 Calea Victoriei 21–23, Bucharest, Romania
📆 September 12–21, 2025
📞 +40 774 078 505
📧 contact@artifest.ai
🌐 artifest.ai
Artifest isn’t where you go to see what’s new.
It’s where you come to create what comes next.
Together with RT42.
Together with a global community.
Together with your own voice.
Accept the challenge. Co-create the future. Be part of Artifest.
