Running from March until September 2017, arebyteLASER programmed ​hotel generation ‘17, which ​aimed to provide a platform for emerging artists to engage with experimental projects and ideas.

With fast paced exhibitions, hotel generation ‘17 endeavoured to encompass established ties with technology and new media work, in addition to promoting juxtapositions with sculpture, installation and performance. Themes of overconsumption, shifting cultural narratives and the means of producing work in an overactive time, were explored throughout the programme and led to a new way of understanding artistic needs and requirements in the form of an artist development programme: hotel generation.