SHINY TOYS is a festival for time-based experimental culture in the Ruhr region. It combines experimental music, performance, light art and expanded cinema to create an interdisciplinary panopticon of the avant-garde art scene. Local and international musicians and artists are invited to animate, play with and transform the beat and rhythm of our time with their performances, installations and audiovisual concerts. In doing so, they experiment at the interfaces of analog and digital technologies and explore their principles of representation.