Events, Concerts, Performances

Ludic Sono-Visualisations of Ephemeral Value Changes in XR

Jãnis Garančs (LV)

The project tries to establish a gradual journey between the extremes of design strategies: intended usability/function and sublime “dysfunction” as an aesthetic experience.
Hostile Architectures in Computer-Human Performance

Kevin Blackistone (US)

Within the world of architecture, there is a term known as “hostile” architecture. This refers to design meant to prevent individuals from utilizing a space outside of intended uses.
UniversEye

Yu-Teng Huang (TW), Elena Sofia Bisci (IT), Matteo Cogliandro (IT), Katharina Illnar (AT), Pavel Povrazník (CZ), Nicole Stroh (DE), Pedro Tayette (BR), S. Arthur Sicilia (US), Elisa Lodolini (IT), Ilia Dergousoff (US), Angelica Mattiazzi (IT), Ariathney Coyne (GR/US), Lynn Mayya (SY), Emilia Vogt (DE)

The choreographer Yu-Teng Huang and media artists Ariathney Coyne, Lynn Mayya and Emilia Vogt have jointly developed the performance UniversEye through the fusion of digital images, sound and the movements of the dancers. Starting points are relationships, touches and interactions.
It was

Matteo Cogliandro (IT), Pedro Tayette (BR), Elena Sofia Bisci (IT), Mischa Hall (AU), Yu-Teng Huang (TW), Katharina Illnar (AT), Pavel Povrazník (CZ), Lorenzo Ruta (IT), Nicole Stroh (DE), Hinako Taira (JP), Fleur Wijsman (NL), Alex Villard (MX), Noayama / Affine Records (DE)

The piece It was is about the flow of one’s own individual and collective identity. The title includes a hint of change and movement, a transformation that resembles a metamorphosis. Something was, something is and begins, but both are always mutually dependent.
LIVE, LOVE, BLEED

Enesi M. (BR)

LIVE, LOVE, BLEED is a 30-minute performance by Enesi M. that explores the interplay of opposites through a fusion of Reggaeton, Baile Funk, Dance Music and Heavy Metal.
mukayu

Hinako Taira (JP), Mischa Hall (AU), Lorenzo Ruta (IT), Fleur Wijsman (NL), Carlotta Borcherding (DE), Holunder Heiß (AT)

Mukayu more or less translates to “everything is nothing,” a concept of “richness in the void” inspired by Zen philosophy. In the audiovisual dance performance, choreographer Hinako Taira and media artists Carlotta Borcherding and Holunder Heiß, together with three dancers of the company, dynamically shape the stage space through movements influenced by minimalist light plays.
FOMO Live Performance Program

University of Arts Linz (AT)

Dance and Sound-Performances In cooperation with dancers and performers from the Institute of Dance Arts at Anton Bruckner Private University, a diverse live program of dance and sound performances in combination with the audiovisual forms of expression of the media artists from the Department of Time-based and Interactive Media Arts will be shown. Meeting Point:…
Silent Echoes: Dachstein

Bill Fontana (US)

In 2019, Notre-Dame, the “soul of Paris” and a symbol of European culture, burns down. The bells are spared, but remain silent for years. They silently “listen” to the bustle of the city and the sounds of the construction site. US sound artist Bill Fontana uses vibration sensors to make the bells’ harmonious response audible…
Sound Campus—Sonic Fever

Performances: Daphne X (GR/ES), Eduardo Trviño-Cely (CO), AndinA (CO), Sule (CO), Tudd (RO/AT) b2b Nyunya (PL); ModVue (IR), I-ID (IR/AT), Sandra Muciño (MX), Lai Tsung-Yun & Huang Ya-Nung (TW), Morning Seance (IT/AT), OGDL (TR, LV), LynnMayya (SY) Audiowalk: AmiRali Bashiri (IR/AT), Çağla Gillis (TR/US), I-ID (IR/AT), Mehmet Çolak (TR/AT), Milena Stępień (PL), Sashe Urdovski (MK/AT)

Sound Campus is a sound program presented in collaboration with Ars Electronica and University of Arts Linz, taking place from the 3rd to the 5th of September 2024.
Spatial Entanglements – A Relational Musical Instrument

Florian Goeschke (AT)

Spatial Entanglements combines a periphonic loudspeaker dome and several tangible interfaces that invite an audience to interact playfully with immersive audio. The interfaces, sound processing software and speaker system together form a relational musical instrument that invites participants to temporarily form a spatial audio ensemble.
State of Play: شهر بازی

Tara Habibzadeh (IR), Harriet Davey (GB), Mati Bratkowski (PL)

You will experience art and nothing else. State of Play: شهر بازی is a deconstructed interpretation of seven labors of Rostam, the lonely warrior of Shahnameh (Book of Kings), the long epic poem written between 977-1010 CE by the Persian poet Abul-Qâsem Ferdowsi Tusi. State of Play: شهر بازی deconstructs the conventions of the game…
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,…