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.
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 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 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 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 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 (b. 1992, Maribor) is an interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of technology, art and design. His practice explores the relationship between technology and users, artificial intelligence and the influence of devices on human perception. Grounded in artistic research and collaboration, his intermedia works feature generative storytelling and interactive approaches, bridging the gaps…
Jurij Krpan founded the Kapelica Gallery for contemporary investigative art in 1995. As a curator, he has contributed to numerous national and international exhibitions. As the artistic director of Kersnikova Institute, he oversees R&D laboratories and integrates artistic ideations into innovation design. He has served on the Prix Ars Electronica jury, and was named Ambassador…
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 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 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.…
Prof. Dr. Franz Fellner was born on July 15, 1966 in Passau. Fellner completed his doctorate at the Technical University of Munich in 1996 with the grade “magna cum laude”. He completed his habilitation in diagnostic radiology in 2001 and has been Head of the Central Radiology Institute of the General Hospital (AKH) of the…