Rupert Huber is a composer who is best known for his piano music and music installations. He has been travelling the world with his electronic music project TOSCA for the last 25 years. Numerous collaborations with Ars Electronica have made him well known in the realm of Media Art. For Huber, music is communication, as…
Klaus Dieterstorfer is a technical manager with a diverse field of activity. He completed his studies in Energy and Environmental Engineering and Sustainable Energy Systems. The desire to combine technology, art and social issues led him to Ars Electronica in 2008, where he was able to realize numerous exhibitions as a technical project manager. Since…
Bettina Kames is the CEO and Co-Founder of LAS Art Foundation, Berlin. She leads LAS’s artistic direction and shapes its mission to be a foundation about the future and illuminate the intersections between art, science and the latest technology. Under her leadership LAS has commissioned immersive new installations and performances by Refik Anadol, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Ian Cheng,…
Andrea Corradi is an Italian new-media artist who is currently based in Linz, where he is pursuing a master’s degree in the Interface Cultures department. His work explores performative and installation-related aspects of sound art while using a multimedia approach.
Born in Romania, Anca Boeriu completed a PhD in Visual and Graphic Arts from Nicolae Grigorescu Institute of Fine Arts in 1982. She is currently a visual artist, curator, project manager and lecturer at the Graphic Department at the National University of Arts in Bucharest. She is the president of the UAP Graphic Branch in…
Structured in three parts, with a focus on memory and counter-narrative perspectives, the audio walk will present an altered environment where the gaze shifts to more-than-human agencies, and history is presented through a shared collective view. The city will be perceived collectively, offering alternative perspectives on seeing and understanding the city—a city that is reappropriated…
Interactive media artist based in Vienna. Worked on major productions like the 2011 Pan-American Games and created content for projection mapping events and then moved into interactive experiences. Experienced video production manager in creative agencies working for artists like Dj Test, Alanis Morissette, Lenny Kravitz and others, and currently finishing a bachelor’s degree in Time-based…
Aka Niviâna is an Inuk writer and this is her on-screen debut. Niviâna started doing poetry with a wish to create nuanced conversations not only about climate change, but also colonialism and indigenous peoples’ rights. She believes in the importance of representation and the People of Color and indigenous peoples.
Silke Grabinger’s works and concepts combine urban and contemporary dance with performative art and robotics. Her focus is on the critical examination of social phenomena, artistic paradigms and the function and role of the audience.
Hans Peter Falkner, born in 1967 in Linz, Upper Austria, is a musician and producer. In 1990, he co-founded the highly successful and innovative band Attwenger with Markus Binder, as well as the acoustic side project die goas. Attwenger combines folk music with punk rock, hip-hop, techno, house, dub, and rockabilly. Since the beginning of…
Blonder Engel stands for contemplative music with sophisticated lyrics, excellent guitar skills, mischievous self-irony and an unstoppable talent for improvisation. A bare chest, golden leggings, angel wings and a bass voice that would make any Hollywood villain jealous are the trademarks of this award-winning artist from Linz. Between his cheeky songs, he often drifts off…
Monja Hirscher is designer, PhD student and assistant at the Crafting Futures Lab of the University of Arts Linz. She researches the production of knowledge, values and mutual imaginations through human-material interactions.