Contributors

  • Rupert Huber

    Rupert Huber

    AT

    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

    Klaus Dieterstorfer

    AT

    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

    Bettina Kames

    DE

    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

    Andrea Corradi

    IT

    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.

  • Anca Boeriu

    RO

    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…

  • AmiRali Bashiri (IR/AT), ÇaÄŸla Gillis (TR/US), I-ID (IR/AT), Mehmet Çolak (TR/AT), Milena StÄ™pieÅ„ (PL), Sashe Urdovski (MK/AT)

    AmiRali Bashiri (IR/AT), Çağla Gillis (TR/US), I-ID (IR/AT), Mehmet Çolak (TR/AT), Milena Stępień (PL), Sashe Urdovski (MK/AT)

    IR/TR/PL/MK

    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…

  • Alex Villard

    Alex Villard

    MX

    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

    GL

    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

    Silke Grabinger

    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.

  • HP Falkner

    HP Falkner

    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

    Blonder Engel

    AT

    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

    DE

    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.