POSTCITY, First Floor, Lecture Stage
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State of the ART(ist) Talks
Christl Baur (DE), Simon Mraz (AT), Marita Muukkonen (FI), Rafiul Alom Rahman (IN), Nina Bulgakova (UA), Kamya Ramachandran (IN), Maryam Sehhat (IR), Christoph Thun-Hohenstein (AT)
State of the ART(ist), a collaboration between Ars Electronica and the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, focuses on artists who face threats to their existence, whether in the form of political persecution or environmental disasters.
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Opening comments
Christl Baur (DE), Simon Mraz (AT)
Treffpunkt: POSTCITY, Erster Stock Bios Credits State of the ART(ist) is a collaboration between Ars Electronica and the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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Artists at Risk (AR) and Ecologists at Risk (ER) as Peer Movements Standing for Resistance and Change
Marita Muukkonen (FI)
Autocratic leaders are increasingly gaining power—and weakening human rights—around the world. The world is losing its way. Conflicts are raging. Inequalities are deepening. Civic space is shrinking and the media is under attack from all sides. Authoritarian countries also sense that democratic nations are not prioritising the international human rights system.
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Good Enough Ethics
Kathleen Richardson (GB/IE)
„Ethics by Design“ (EbD) is a proactive approach that integrates ethical considerations into every stage of the development process to minimize potential harm to humans, animals, and the environment.
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Welcome and Introduction to Keynote
Bradly Klerks (BE)
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GET.Inspired: Digital Innovation—An EDIH AI5production event
GET.Inspired: Digital Innovation spotlights promising projects in the field of Artificial Intelligence and presents a broad range of initiatives that offer skill-building and training measures in selected digitalization topics and technologies. Organized as part of „AI5production,“ the largest of four Austrian European Digital Innovation Hubs, we have invited academics, artists, educators, and researchers to provide…
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Pecha Kucha
Mar Canet (ES/EE), Ioan Cernei (RO), Vesela Vladimirova (BG/AT), Vanessa Vozzo (IT), Qian Ye (CN), MaÅ¡a Jazbec (SI), Kristina Tica (RS), Ivan Petkov (BG/AT), Hannah Perner-Wilson (AT/GB/US), Ricardo O‘Nascimento (BR), David Wolkerstorfer (AT), Mihaela Kavdanska (BG/RO/AT), MartÃn Nadal (ES), Christa Sommerer (AT), Laurent Mignonneau (FR/AT), Manuela Naveau (AT), Alexander Wöran (AT)
Pecha Kucha ist eine Veranstaltung zum 20-jährigen Bestehen von Interface Cultures (IC) an der Kunstuniversität Linz. Ausgewählte Alumni halten kurze Pecha Kucha-Vorträge, in denen sie über ihre künstlerische und berufliche Entwicklung seit Abschluss ihres Studiums sprechen und aktuelle Arbeiten im Entstehungsprozess präsentieren.
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GET.Inspired: Digital Innovation Practices
Bernhard Freudenthaler (AT), Sok Kheng Taing (AT), Bernhard Krabina (AT), Tomo Kihara (JP), Daniel Coppen (GB), Johannes Braumann (AT), Sabine Leidlmair (AT), Stefan Czerny (AT), Bradly Klerks (BE), Rainer Stropek (AT)
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Creative Resilience in Challenging Times
Rafiul Alom Rahman (IN), Nina Bulgakova (UA), Kamya Ramachandran (IN), Maryam Sehhat (IR), Christoph Thun-Hohenstein (AT)
This panel will explore how artists articulate the scope and conditions of our existence through their work. It will address key questions: What should we fight against, and what should we protect in times of war and social conflicts?
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Beyond Human Knowledge
David Vivancos (ES)
As the lines between human evolution and technology blur, the concept of Techno-Anthropology has never been more relevant. Knowledge, in its many forms, has always defined who we are—from cave paintings to large language models.
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Rise Up, Data Peasants: Opportunities for International Co-production and Corporate Synergy
Chih-Yung Aaron Chiu (TW), Escher Tsai (TW), Wen Ying Chang (TW), Ted Chang (TW), Helin Luo (TW), Chun-Cheng Hsu (TW), Yi-Bing Lin (TW), Chia-Shan Chang (TW)
As creators in an era of Technofeudalism, how can we challenge the status quo by introducing innovations in technological applications while maintaining cultural diversity? In Taiwan, the cultural content industry collaborates with technology companies, integrating soft power with hardware to foster creativity. Creators, enterprises and the public sector attempt to come up with a human-centered,…
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How to Increase the Economic Resilience of Digital Art Organizations?
AC Coppens (FR), Anna Desponds (PL), Marie du Chastel (BE)
This session provides an exclusive overview of the Digital Inter/Section (DI/S) outcomes, a pan-European project exploring new business models for digital art organizations. Over the past few years, DI/S stakeholders have gathered extensive industry insights, published comprehensive reports, developed sustainability guidelines, and experimented with prototyping business models. The session will preview some innovative tools and…