Contributors

  • Sam Anthem

    US

    Sam Anthem is an interdisciplinary sound, performance and media artist who seeks to illuminate and animate socially-embedded status quos and often invisible material relations. Weaving conceptual threads across archives, bodies, species and social lives, their work addresses power and knowledge systems through sonic and technological encounters.

  • Sample As That

    Sample As That

    AT

    A community event in Linz that focuses on the method and art form of sampling. It offers producers a curated musical piece and two hours to create something new with it. The Stadtwerkstatt has provided a shared space for the gathering, Eliot (Backlab) acts as mastermind and Dorf TV turned it into a TV show.…

  • Philippe Pasquier

    CA

    Philippe Pasquier has been a professor at the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University since January 2008. He conducts both scientific and artistic research. Pasquier’s research focuses on building deeper theories for endowing machines with autonomous behaviours, with a focus on creative and artistic applications.

  • Matt Gingold

    AU

    Matt Gingold is a creative producer and transdisciplinary artist who weaves together critical theory, media installation and audiovisual performance. Their practice focuses on creating intimate experiences of—and with—technology, and is inspired by critical research into the ai/aes/ethics of digital cultures and non/human complexity.

  • Matt Lewis

    GB

    Matt Lewis is a sound artist, activist and musician. His practice is centered around the concept of sonic justice. His projects seek to test the potential for sound and listening to confront sociopolitical issues by using the sonic to provoke, heal and transcend.

  • Thecla Schiphorst

    CA

    Thecla Schiphorst researches embodied interaction and integrates movement knowledge, tangible and wearable technologies, media and digital art, and interaction aesthetics. She is a professor at and director of the School for Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University.

  • Marko Damiš

    Marko Damiš

    SI

    Marko Damiš (1992, Maribor) ist ein interdisziplinärer Künstler, der an der Schnittstelle von Technologie, Kunst und Design arbeitet. In seiner Praxis erforscht er die Beziehung zwischen Technologie und Benutzerinnen, Künstliche Intelligenz und den Einfluss von Geräten auf die menschliche Wahrnehmung. Seine intermedialen Arbeiten, die auf künstlerischer Forschung und Kollaboration basieren, zeichnen sich durch generatives Geschichtenerzählen…

  • Jurij Krpan

    Jurij Krpan

    SI

    Jurij Krpan gründete 1995 die Galerie Kapelica für zeitgenössische investigative Kunst. Als Kurator hat er zu zahlreichen nationalen und internationalen Ausstellungen beigetragen. Als künstlerischer Leiter des Kersnikova Instituts betreut er Forschungs- und Entwicklungslabors und integriert künstlerische Ideen in das Innovationsdesign. Er war Mitglied der Jury des Prix Ars Electronica, wurde zum Botschafter für intelligente Spezialisierung…

  • Hideaki Ogawa

    Hideaki Ogawa

    JP/AT

    Hideaki Ogawa is a creative catalyst, artist, educator, curator and researcher in the field of art, technology and society. He is currently a Co-Director of Ars Electronica Futurelab as well as a Director of Ars Electronica Japan. His special research focus is Art Thinking and he has conducted many innovation projects in Art and Science,…

  • Erica Lapadat-Janzen

    CA

    Erica Lapadat-Janzen creates media art, performances, and installations. By emphasizing aesthetics, she seduces the viewer into a world of ongoing equilibrium and the interval that articulates daily events. Moments are depicted that only exist to punctuate the human drama to clarify our existence and to find poetic meaning in everyday life.

  • Tamiko Thiel

    Tamiko Thiel

    US

    Tamiko Thiel creates socially critical media artworks exploring place, space, the body and cultural identity. Her honors include the 2024 SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Lifetime Achievement Award in Digital Arts, the 2018 SAT Montreal Visionary Pioneer award, the 2009 IBM Innovation Award in Art and Technology and an induction into the AWE XR Hall of Fame.…

  • Franz Fellner

    Franz Fellner

    DE

    Univ.-Prof. Dr. Franz Fellner wurde am 15. Juli 1966 in Passau geboren. Promoviert hat Fellner 1996 an der TU München mit der Bewertung „magna cum laude“. Die Habilitation für das Fach Diagnostische Radiologie erfolgte 2001. Seit 2005 ist er Vorstand des Zentralen Radiologie Institutes des Allgemeinen Krankenhauses (AKH) der Stadt Linz, seit 1. Jänner 2016…