The Artefact Festival for Art & Media is the annual highlight of the media arts program of STUK arts centre in Leuven. Every year in February, Artefact invites a number of international artists to participate and reflect and question the edition's theme from their different backgrounds and perspectives. This results in a mix of spatial installations, presentations and performances.

Participants to previous editions include: Alfredo Jaar, Sharon Daniel, Haris Epaminonda & Daniel Gustav Cramer, Daniel Knorr, Anita Di Bianco, Jonas Mekas, deepblue, Rafael Lozano-
Hemmer, Elmgreen & Dragset, Yunchul Kim, De Geuzen, Hasan Elahi, Ben Rubin, Antoni Muntadas, Gert Jan Kocken, Taryn Simon, Ines Schaber, Artur Zmijewski, Harun Farocki, Julien Maire, Kurt d'Haeseleer, Christian Capurro, Melik Ohanian, Kristin Lucas, Robert Luxemburg, Peter Weibel, ShiftSpace, Spencer Finch, Christoph Fink, Jim Campbell, Manon De Boer, Akram Zaatari, Irina Botea, Stefaan Decostere, Jonathan Schipper, Wesley Meuris, Michael Snow, Christophe Girardet,Matthias Müller, Herman Asselberghs, John F. Simon, Jr., Vuk Cosic,Zoe Beloff, Victor Kossakovsky, Sam Taylor-Wood, Lawrence Malstaf, Maryanne Amacher, Bernard Parmegiani, Rabih Mroué...