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Ars Electronica Campus Events

The Campus format highlights diverse educational philosophies and artistic methodologies, providing a unique opportunity to explore the identities, historical contexts and contemporary practices of participating institutions. Several events will also be held to accompany the campus exhibition this time.

11:0022:00
Sound Campus—Sonic Fever
University of Arts Linz, Hauptplatz 6, Courtyard
15:0015:40
Sioscadh
POSTCITY, First Floor, Campus
16:0017:00
The Brainless Dancer
POSTCITY, First Floor, Campus
17:0017:30
WishWhoosh
POSTCITY, First Floor, Campus
17:3018:00
Homeostat
POSTCITY, First Floor, Campus
18:0018:30
WishWhoosh
POSTCITY, First Floor, Campus
11:0022:00
Sound Campus—Sonic Fever
University of Arts Linz, Hauptplatz 6, Courtyard
11:3012:00
There always will have been worlds
POSTCITY, First Floor, Campus
14:3015:00
There always will have been worlds
POSTCITY, First Floor, Campus
15:0016:00
FOMO Exhibition
University of Arts Linz, Hauptplatz 8
15:0015:40
Sioscadh
POSTCITY, First Floor, Campus
16:0017:00
17:0017:30
There always will have been worlds
POSTCITY, First Floor, Campus
17:3018:00
Homeostat
POSTCITY, First Floor, Campus
10:0012:30
Pecha Kucha
POSTCITY, First Floor, Lecture Stage
11:0018:00
Leonardo LASER talks: Lab Songs Vol.1
River bank around Salonschiff Florentine & Kunsthalle Linz
12:0012:30
Homeostat
POSTCITY, First Floor, Campus
15:0016:00
FOMO Exhibition
University of Arts Linz, Hauptplatz 8
15:0015:40
Sioscadh
POSTCITY, First Floor, Campus
16:0017:00
The Brainless Dancer
POSTCITY, First Floor, Campus
17:0017:30
WishWhoosh
POSTCITY, First Floor, Campus
18:0018:30
WishWhoosh
POSTCITY, First Floor, Campus
11:3012:00
There always will have been worlds
POSTCITY, First Floor, Campus
12:0012:30
Homeostat
POSTCITY, First Floor, Campus
14:0015:00
Metacreation Lab Artists Meet-and-Greet
University of Arts Linz, Hauptplatz 8
14:0014:30
The Elastic Umwelten
POSTCITY, First Floor, Campus
14:3015:00
There always will have been worlds
POSTCITY, First Floor, Campus
15:0016:00
FOMO Exhibition
University of Arts Linz, Hauptplatz 8
15:0015:40
Sioscadh
POSTCITY, First Floor, Campus
17:0017:30
There always will have been worlds
POSTCITY, First Floor, Campus
17:3019:00
Campus Award Ceremony
POSTCITY, First Floor, Conference Hall
15:0015:40
Sioscadh
POSTCITY, First Floor, Campus
16:0016:30
WishWhoosh
POSTCITY, First Floor, Campus
16:3017:00
Homeostat
POSTCITY, First Floor, Campus
17:0017:30
WishWhoosh
POSTCITY, First Floor, Campus
  • (re)understanding media: extension of agency in the global village

    (re)understanding media: extension of agency in the global village

    Gordon Fung (US), Sam Anthem (US), Benjamin Glass (US), Patrick Glennon (US), Yuwen Huang (CN), Liang He (CN)

    Counteracting the dystopian media injustice, artists challenge the status quo to regain agency for users of media tools. Through interactive multimedia installations, artists invite visitors to explore regained agency through arts and technology.

  • Campus Award Ceremony

    Campus Award Ceremony

    For the first time, this year, Ars Electronica Festival 2024 will reward the best exhibited project within the Ars Electronica Campus Exhibition with the Ars Electronica Campus Award. This occasion highlights emerging talents and the educational institutions that support them, providing a platform to recognize and celebrate excellence in media arts and design.

  • Crafting Futures Conversation with: Noor Stenfert Kroese. The Dynamics of Living Systems in Art and Design

    Crafting Futures Conversation with: Noor Stenfert Kroese. The Dynamics of Living Systems in Art and Design

    Noor Stenfert Kroese (NL)

    A conversation about the future of craft, the craft of the future and the crafting of futures.

  • FOMO Exhibition

    FOMO Exhibition

    Time-based and Interactive Media Arts

  • Homeostat

    Homeostat

    Emil Torp (DE)

    Homeostat represents a system whose altering parameters perpetually grapple with achieving stability while guarding against chaos. This ongoing struggle is sonically manifested in this performance, inviting listeners to immerse themselves in the constant evolving through the self-playing Tam Tam. This echoes the relentless pursuit of equilibrium, while exploring the distinction between moment and interval, emancipating…

  • Leonardo LASER talks: Lab Songs Vol.1

    Leonardo LASER talks: Lab Songs Vol.1

    Hosts: Fabricio Lamoncha (ES), Christa Sommerer (AT); Speakers: Laura Benítez Valero (ES), Vanessa Lorenzo (ES), Irene Lucas (ES); Artist: Volkan Dinçer (TR)

    We welcome you to the Leonardo LASER Linz event, to learn together with others and enjoy our Solar Cooking pop-up workshop, pop-up exhibition and series of talks and discussions about ways of rethinking and experiencing new laboratory formats.

  • Metacreation Lab Artists Meet-and-Greet

    Metacreation Lab Artists Meet-and-Greet

    Erica Lapadat-Janzen (CA), Arshia Sobhan (IR), Matt Gingold (AU), Thecla Schiphorst (CA), Philippe Pasquier (CA/FR)

    Short introductions of the artworks presented by the Metacreation Lab in the presence of the contributing artists.

  • Pecha Kucha

    Pecha Kucha

    Mar Canet (ES/EE), Ioan Cernei (RO), Vesela Vladimirova (BG/AT), Vanessa Vozzo (IT), Qian Ye (CN), Maša 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), Martín Nadal (ES), Christa Sommerer (AT), Laurent Mignonneau (FR/AT), Manuela Naveau (AT), Alexander Wöran (AT)

    Pecha Kucha is an event celebrating the 20th anniversary of interface cultures (IC) at the University of Arts Linz. Select alumni will give short Pecha Kucha-style talks, discussing their artistic and career evolution since earning their degrees and presenting current works in progress.

  • Sioscadh

    Sioscadh

    Matt Lewis (GB)

    ‘Sioscadh’ is part of a broader project focusing on collective sonic intelligence. The performance will involve live improvization of the human, machine and plant, exploring alternative histories of botanical nomenclature.

  • Sound Campus—Sonic Fever

    Sound Campus—Sonic Fever

    Performances: Daphne X (GR/ES), Eduardo Trviño-Cely (CO), AndinA (CO), Sule (CO), Tudd (RO/AT) b2b Nyunya (PL); ModVue (IR), I-ID (IR/AT), Sandra Muciño (MX), Lai Tsung-Yun & Huang Ya-Nung (TW), Morning Seance (IT/AT), OGDL (TR, LV), LynnMayya (SY) Audiowalk: AmiRali Bashiri (IR/AT), Çağla Gillis (TR/US), I-ID (IR/AT), Mehmet Çolak (TR/AT), Milena Stępień (PL), Sashe Urdovski (MK/AT)

    Sound Campus is a sound program presented in collaboration with Ars Electronica and University of Arts Linz, taking place from the 3rd to the 5th of September 2024.

  • The Brainless Dancer

    The Brainless Dancer

    Passion Asasu (TH)

    An interactive performance explores the complex dynamics of female bodies under patriarchy and capitalism. The Brainless Dancer highlights invisible social forces symbolized by elements of air and distance, representing influential factors transcending physical space. The artist’s body, serving as both medium and protagonist, invites active participation.

  • The Elastic Umwelten

    The Elastic Umwelten

    Stavros Didakis (GR)

    In this event, Prof. Stavros Didakis (Interactive Media Arts, NYU Shanghai) will provide an overview of the exhibition The Elastic Umwelten. He will offer an in-depth analysis of the exhibited works and discuss the main aims and motivations behind them. The event will also cover the program’s strategic vision and its art and technology-related pedagogy,…

  • There always will have been worlds

    There always will have been worlds

    Friedel Hänsel (DE), Leonie Kopineck (DE), Vero Roza Risnovska (SK)

    Everything that breathes cares and is cared for. You enter a world and merge with it — a society shaped through care, through action but also inaction. Simple acts of collective and individual efforts can change the world. There always will have been worlds is a participatory theater piece that explores the thin lines and…

  • WishWhoosh

    WishWhoosh

    Mari Hakopyan (UA)

    In the fabric of existence, woven with threads of intention, lies the profound influence of wishes. Yet the journey of a wish is not in one direction alone. Just as wishes shape matter, so does matter reciprocally mold wishes. Harness the transformative power of loose sand to build and destroy everything your world should consist…