POSTCITY, First Floor, Campus
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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,…
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Ars Electronica Campus Exhibition
Since its inception in 2002, the collaboration between Ars Electronica and the University of Arts Linz has celebrated exploration in media art and culture. The Campus Exhibition is a vital platform, showcasing talents from international higher-education institutions that take unique approaches to teaching and creative practice. Each year, this program invites universities from around the…
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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…
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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…
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(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.
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Pre-Opening Walk
Six festival locations and just as many exhibition openings, excellent research, award-winning media art, gaming, immersive art treasures, a critically lapidary NOPE – there are many good reasons to mark the pre-opening walk on your calendar.