Infecting The City Festival is a twoweeklong public art festival held in Cape Town that features music, dance, video, and visual art, transforming urban spaces into audiovisual spectacles. The festival aims to challenge the idea of a smart city as a stronghold of creative expression, and to serve as a soundboard for universal rights, intensifying the voice of the city and its inhabitants. Completely free of charge and accessible to all, the festival is a key instrument that connects the personal, public, and private domains in Cape Town.