Noise Traffic is a platform producing interdisciplinary art and research projects in Europe.

Noise Traffic is a creative initiative for research, exhibitions, podcasts, sound art, community projects, and performances engaging a diverse audience beyond the artistic community. Through creative methodologies, art and research, it aims to map out the performativity of social systems and examine the role of noise as a critical necessity in today’s contemporary society. It seeks to address the realities of the impacted people as well as to amplify voices that often remained unheard.

Drawing from the avant-gardists’ tradition who dreamed of freedom, collectivism, and community, Noise Traffic aims to become a site of reflection, a living archive where one can find the reality which exists in sites of ontological and performative nature.

Noise Traffic was founded in 2023 by Nicolina Stylianou and initiated a cultural exchange between Cyprus and Finland. It emerged as a counterculture underground do-it-yourself event held on 14 January 2023 at Vapaan Taiteen Tila in Helsinki held in collaboration with Station of Commons, and was supported by the Cyprus Deputy Ministry of Culture and Vapaan Taiteen Tila.

2025 N.O.T Team
Nicolina Stylianou | Founder, Producer, Curator
Olga Spyropoulou | Catalysti ry representative
Chih-Tung Lin | communication and social media
Stella Tähtinen & Emīlija Rozenšteina | Cello Fest collaboration
Konstantinos Kostas | PR and outreach
Paloma Bautista | production assistance, Catalysti ry
niko wearden | production assistance
Gesa Piper | TIAN coordination
Rong-Ci Zhang | artist interviews and podcasts, TIAN
Jonathan Mayhew | technical assistance
Karolina Korvuo | invigilation and hospitality, Vapaan Taiteen Tila
Aman Askarizad | photographer, Catalysti ry

Catalysti was a supporter of the 2025 programme in October. See more on the Noise Traffic Website!

Images from the festival. ©Aman Askarizad