15 years is an eternity in the digital age. YouTube, Twitter, CreativeApplications.Net (CAN)âGenevaâs Mapping Festival precedes them all. Founded in 2005 to rally a prospering VJ scene (after all, Geneva is home to the makers of Modul8), Mapping quickly ascended to become Europeâs foremost summit for anyone interested in audiovisual synthesis and performance. But whereas other festivals came and went, Mapping is still going strong. The secret: as anything that retains relevance over time, the festival never stopped evolving, maturing, and diversifying. Now known for its cross-disciplinary mandate that merges creativity with criticalityââvisual audio + deviant electronicsââMapping has grown into a festival fixture that feels exceedingly current. Its 15th anniversary, for example, coincides with this yearâs 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web; a fact that festival directors Ana Ascencio and Audrey Powell carefully weaved into the program. Under their direction, more than fifty international artists, designers, musicians, and researchers will join the festivities not just to dazzle us with âvisual audioâ (TUNDRA, Freeka Tet, Recent Arts, Grand River & Marco C), but to problematize the âdeviant electronicsâ underpinning the Web (Marc Garret, Joana Moll, Tatiana Bazzichelli, RĂ©gine Debatty). Between the exhibition, the forum, and the performance program, the four-day schedule is dense with opportunities to converse, experience, and to learn hands-on. The latter is were we come in: once again, CAN is proud to contribute Mappingâs educational program. Across twelve workshops, lead by some of our favourite artists, designers, and researchers, participants will examine network infrastructures, prototype post-screen interfaces, build energy-free radio receivers, and transplant scents.