Moon landings and a mystery route: Prague's Signal Fest reveals first details

Signal Festival will return to Prague from October 15 to 18, with the first details of this year's paid Signal INSIDE program now announced.

Laurie Anderson will take visitors on an immersive journey to the Moon, Laterna Magika will return with a multimedia performance about water, and a new festival route will lead through a Prague neighborhood Signal has never visited before.

The festival has announced the first four of eight installations planned for Signal INSIDE, the ticketed indoor section of the annual light and digital-art festival.

One of the headline attractions will be To the Moon, an immersive work by American multimedia artist Laurie Anderson and Taiwanese artist Hsin-Chien Huang. Visitors will spend around 15 minutes traveling through a space inspired by mythology, science and science fiction, passing constellations resembling endangered species, DNA landscapes, abandoned technological debris and a fossilized rose drifting through space.

The installation will be presented at Theatre X10.

Anderson, known internationally for her experimental multimedia performances and the 1981 hit O Superman, has exhibited and performed at institutions including New York's Museum of Modern Art and Guggenheim Museum, London's Tate Modern and Paris' Centre Pompidou.

Laterna Magika, the National Theatre's multimedia ensemble, will also return to Signal Festival with Voda (Water), a site-specific production directed by its artistic director Radim Vizváry.

The performance explores water as a source of life, a carrier of memory and a force that shapes both the world around us and human emotions. It will combine non-verbal theatre, video mapping, acrobatics and live singing, with music and sound by Martin Hůla.

The ensemble will be returning to Signal Festival for the fourth time.

Another installation, MIMIC.2, will transform the entrance hall of Prague's Faculty of Law into an illusion of a space that does not exist. International media-art collective Media.tribe will combine lasers, LED screens, light and real-time animation to play with visitors' perception of depth and scale.

The installation will be presented in the building designed by architect Jan Kotěra.

At Kampus Hybernská, Slovak artist Ján Šicko will present an interactive Sound Robot that visitors can operate themselves.

Mechanical systems, digital sounds and robotics can be controlled using handmade wooden toys, folk instruments, acoustic resonators and other objects inspired by traditional forms. The robot's appearance draws on Slovak folk art and modernism, including the work of artists Ľudovít Fulla and Vladimír Kompánek.

The festival has not yet revealed the remaining installations or the locations of its free outdoor program.

However, festival founder and director Martin Pošta said one of this year's routes will lead through a Prague neighborhood that Signal has never visited before. The location will be revealed later.

Signal Festival's main outdoor program is free, while Signal INSIDE requires a ticket. A one-day Signal INSIDE ticket costs CZK 340, while a four-day pass costs CZK 440. A new CZK 740 Signal UNIVERSE ticket also includes six months' admission to the Signal Space digital-art gallery.

The 14th Signal Festival will take place in Prague from Oct. 15 to 18, 2026.