The Blended Intensive Program (BIP) on Critical Data is a collaborative effort with partner universities in Sevilla (Spain) and Limassol (Cyprus) together with the University of Arts Linz (Austria). It was established to address issues, challenges, and perspectives in a technology-dominated world. Students and professors of the three institutions engage in regular knowledge transfer sessions…
People can encapsulate intimate memories, emotional phrases and posts that had to be removed into barcode stickers, concealing them in the tapestry of everyday life. Through this project, we aim to evade the “textual prison” imposed in the digital age.
The artificial earthquake refers to seismic events caused by human activities rather than natural occurrences. As the human population increases, unintentional artificial earthquakes also begin to be created, with even the simple act of human movement contributing inadvertently.
As humans began using tools, technology expanded our individual boundaries, yet our consciousness remains confined within our bodies, highlighting loneliness.
Dodder, a plant that thrives in Taiwan, was first documented in Shennong Bencaojing. Dodder cannot photosynthesize or absorb water from the soil. To survive, it parasitizes other plants, using unique suction structures to penetrate the host to gain nutrients, causing the plant to wither.
Im Lot was originally an installation by Josef Hamberger, featuring hundreds of sheets marked by Rosa Still, an Alzheimer’s patient. Rosa, now deceased, wrote nearly all her thoughts, from basic needs like “I’m hungry” to expressions of her fear of death.
A public 24-hour act of doing nothing: non-action is contrasted with external influences, reversing the roles within the context of art. InILLUMINATED NOTHING, performer Emilia Vogt spends 24 hours in a publicly visible room doing nothing except basic life-sustaining needs like sitting, standing, drinking, using the toilet, etc.
Human Breeder: Prototype: 01 is a sculpture made of metal, paper and bio-foil. Recordings of breath are implemented inside a sound system to give the artefact mechanical lungs and the association of life, which also grows within.
Representing an oasis filled with freedom. Here we find that technology has gradually stripped away human rights, confining humanity to a cage devoid of privacy, surrounded by invisible jailers and watched by billions of eyes.
This animated short aims to experiment with an abstract way of storytelling – reminiscent of poetry – in animation. In the story we are transported to a foreign, drab world made up only of grayscales, where its inhabitants strive for a way to turn their world colorful.
Entre deux mots is an audiovisual and immersive dance piece developed for the deep space environment. Fragmented words and past conversations echo in the visualization in an abstract manner while performers navigate between the seen and the unseen, the spoken and the unspoken.
An arm raises dust, shaping it into a drip-like form before allowing it to settle back into its original state. It is a cyclic procedure of chance, existing somewhere between control and chaos. The mechanism remains constant, yet each outcome is distinct and unique.