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At the 12th Annual SPA Conference, Vanishing Acts: AI, Performative Knowledge & Sustainable Memory (University of Malta, 25–28 March 2026), Posthuman Music researcher Adam Łukawski presented "Performative Transactions: Worlding Compositional Ecosystems."

The talk outlined how compositional ecosystems can be understood as performative infrastructures, focusing on process, relations, and the distributed conditions of digital music-making.

We thank the organizers and participants for the excellent exchange and discussion during the conference.

On Monday, 23 March 2026 (12:00–13:00, online), Adam Łukawski presented "Performative Transactions: Worlding Compositional Ecosystems" in the SAILS Lunch Time Seminar at Leiden University.

This seminar-format presentation focused on current Posthuman Music research and discussed how performative transactions can frame compositional practice across computational, social, and technical layers.

SAILS stands for Society, Artificial Intelligence and Life Sciences, a Leiden University department dedicated to interdisciplinary work across these fields.

Thank you to everyone who joined Decentralised Creativity and Agential Systems in Music at Orpheus Institute in Ghent on 17–18 November 2025.

Across two packed days, we shared research and artistic work on decentralised creativity in contemporary music and sound art—bringing together perspectives on agency, synthetic media, AI and machine learning in performance, and the infrastructures and governance questions that sit behind these systems (including blockchain and related approaches).

A special thanks to our keynote speakers—Victoria Ivanova & Eva Jäger, Timothy Morton, Artemi-Maria Gioti, and Primavera De Filippi—for opening up the field and setting the tone for rich discussion.

We’re also grateful to every presenter and participant who contributed talks, sessions, and performance-presentations that kept the conversation grounded in practice.

Finally, thank you to the Orpheus Institute team for making the event run so smoothly, and to everyone who travelled, listened closely, and asked hard questions.