#ALPHALOOP / Adelin Schweitzer (FR)/Photo: tom mesic

JKU MEDCampus Events

The JKU MED Campus of Johannes Kepler University is part of the 2024 Ars Electronica Festival for the first time, where innovative projects showcase the synergy of art and science, including the award-winning Virtual Anatomy room, which sets new standards in the education of medical students.

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Screening: touching thoughts / kicking cancer
JKU MED Campus, JKU medSPACE, First Floor
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#ALPHALOOP
JKU MED Campus, JKU LEH, Ground Floor
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#ALPHALOOP
JKU MED Campus, JKU LEH, Ground Floor
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AI & HUMAN
JKU MED Campus
15:0016:00
#ALPHALOOP
JKU MED Campus, JKU LEH, Ground Floor
15:0016:00
H-O-P-E
JKU MED Campus, JKU medSPACE, First Floor
16:0019:00
Screening: touching thoughts / kicking cancer
JKU MED Campus, JKU medSPACE, First Floor
16:3017:30
#ALPHALOOP
JKU MED Campus, JKU LEH, Ground Floor
11:0011:45
Preview 3D LIVE Anatomy
JKU MED Campus, JKU medSPACE, First Floor
11:0012:00
#ALPHALOOP
JKU MED Campus, JKU LEH, Ground Floor
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#ALPHALOOP
JKU MED Campus, JKU LEH, Ground Floor
13:0014:00
AI & HUMAN
JKU MED Campus
14:0015:00
H-O-P-E
JKU MED Campus, JKU medSPACE, First Floor
15:0015:30
15:0016:00
#ALPHALOOP
JKU MED Campus, JKU LEH, Ground Floor
16:3019:00
Live-Presentation: touching thoughts / kicking cancer
JKU MED Campus, JKU medSPACE, First Floor
16:3017:30
#ALPHALOOP
JKU MED Campus, JKU LEH, Ground Floor
10:0011:00
11:0012:00
#ALPHALOOP
JKU MED Campus, JKU LEH, Ground Floor
11:0012:00
AI & HUMAN
JKU MED Campus
12:0013:00
H-O-P-E
JKU MED Campus, JKU medSPACE, First Floor
12:3013:30
#ALPHALOOP
JKU MED Campus, JKU LEH, Ground Floor
13:0013:30
The Vanish
JKU MED Campus, JKU medSPACE, First Floor
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Water Organoids
JKU MED Campus, JKU medSPACE, First Floor
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Water Organoids
JKU MED Campus, JKU medSPACE, First Floor
15:0016:00
#ALPHALOOP
JKU MED Campus, JKU LEH, Ground Floor
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Meet the Artist: Timothy Thomasson and Jeremy Kamal
JKU MED Campus, JKU medSPACE, First Floor
16:3017:30
#ALPHALOOP
JKU MED Campus, JKU LEH, Ground Floor
16:3017:15
Meet the Artist: Nicolas Gourault
JKU MED Campus, JKU medSPACE, First Floor
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Guest Program: SIGGRAPH
JKU MED Campus, JKU medSPACE, First Floor
10:0011:00
AUSTRIAN PANORAMA
JKU MED Campus, JKU medSPACE, First Floor
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Wastescapes
JKU MED Campus
11:0012:00
#ALPHALOOP
JKU MED Campus, JKU LEH, Ground Floor
11:0012:00
12:3013:30
#ALPHALOOP
JKU MED Campus, JKU LEH, Ground Floor
12:3013:30
AI & HUMAN
JKU MED Campus
13:0014:00
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Guest Program: ISEA
JKU MED Campus
15:0016:00
#ALPHALOOP
JKU MED Campus, JKU LEH, Ground Floor
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16:3017:30
#ALPHALOOP
JKU MED Campus, JKU LEH, Ground Floor
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DATA AND SCIENCE VISUALIZATIONS
JKU MED Campus, JKU medSPACE, First Floor
10:0010:40
Young Animations
JKU MED Campus
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AUSTRIAN PANORAMA
JKU MED Campus, JKU medSPACE, First Floor
11:0012:00
#ALPHALOOP
JKU MED Campus, JKU LEH, Ground Floor
11:4513:00
H-O-P-E
JKU MED Campus, JKU medSPACE, First Floor
11:4512:45
AI & HUMAN
JKU MED Campus
12:3013:30
#ALPHALOOP
JKU MED Campus, JKU LEH, Ground Floor
14:0015:00
14:1514:45
transreal+
JKU MED Campus, JKU medSPACE, First Floor
15:0016:00
#ALPHALOOP
JKU MED Campus, JKU LEH, Ground Floor
16:0018:00
Live-Presentation: touching thoughts / kicking cancer
JKU MED Campus, JKU medSPACE, First Floor
16:3017:30
#ALPHALOOP
JKU MED Campus, JKU LEH, Ground Floor
  • #ALPHALOOP

    #ALPHALOOP

    Adelin Schweitzer (FR)

    #ALPHALOOP is an innovative performance exploring the intersection of nature and technology through techno-shamanism. Inspired by Timothy Leary’s cybernetic shamanism and northern Quebec’s myths, it critiques Extended Reality (XR) technology and spirituality.

  • AI & HUMAN

    AI & HUMAN

    Ethel Lilienfeld (FR), Ines Sieulle (FR), Tomás García (AR), Paul Trillo (US), Ida Kvetny (DK), Glenn Marshall (GB)

    The AI & Human program is an annual celebration of the intersection between Artificial Intelligence and animation art, showcasing recent innovations in the field. This year a remarkable one-third of the submissions to Prix Ars Electronica New Animation Art were projects created using AI tools or centered around AI as a theme—the highest number to…

  • AUSTRIAN PANORAMA

    AUSTRIAN PANORAMA

    Celine Pham (AT), Verena Repar (AT), Kevin Blackistone (US/AT), Sascha Vernik (AT), Rainer Kohlberger (AT/DE), Sophie Gartner & Neo Klinger (AT)

    Austrian Panorama showcases a mix of experimental and humorous animations by Austrian artists or artists who live and work in Austria.

  • DATA AND SCIENCE VISUALIZATIONS

    DATA AND SCIENCE VISUALIZATIONS

    NCSA Advanced Visualization Lab (US), Peter Mindek (SK), Tobias Klein (DE), Alfredo De Biasio (IT), Felicia Brisc (DE) & Nuno Serra (PT), Mark SubbaRao (US), Jullian Young (US), Beatie Wolfe (GB)

    Through animation, scientific concepts become more than just data—they become stories that resonate and inspire. Animation can turn complex scientific concepts into visually comprehensible narratives, making them accessible to a broad audience.

  • Feral Future Forecast with Krater Collective

    Feral Future Forecast with Krater Collective

    Krater Collective (Danica Sretenović, Andrej Koruza, Gaja Mežnarić Osole, Amadeja Smrekar) (SI/YU/INT)

    Engage in future telling for Krater-style fortune by exploring a box of curiosities arriving from the most notorious construction site in the world. During a tea ritual featuring forbidden Japanese knotweed tea, get to know the collective that operates on unstable urban ground. Explore soil archives, unheard soundscapes, inhabitants of untamed nature and images of…

  • Guest Program: ISEA

    Guest Program: ISEA

    The Constellations ISEA 2024 animation program reveals a mix of Indigenous and Western animation concepts, styles and methods. New artistic approaches in expanded animation come to the fore through works by Nirma Madhoo, A. Bill Miller and Gregory Bennett, deploying motion and reality capture technology.

  • Guest Program: Runway’s AI Film Festival

    Guest Program: Runway’s AI Film Festival

    Emeric Leprince (FR), Carlo De Togni & Elena Sparacino (IT), Johans Saldana Guadalupe (PE/US), Katie Luo (US), Junie Lau (CN), Daniel Antebi (MK/US), YZA Voku (ES), Rufus Dye-Montefiore (UK), Luke Dye-Montefiore (UK), Alice Boyd (UK), John Semerad (US) & Dara Semerad (US), Leo Cannone (FR)

    Runway’s AI Film Festival was established in 2022 and welcomes artists embracing new and emerging AI techniques for filmmaking. The selection presented at Ars Electronica features the previous edition’s festival finalists and offers a glimpse into a new creative era.

  • Guest Program: SIGGRAPH

    Guest Program: SIGGRAPH

    SIGGRAPH will be present at Ars Electronica Festival this year with its prestigious annual showcase Electronic Theatre, covering 17 outstanding animations from this year’s edition. The total program duration is 90 minutes.

  • H-O-P-E

    H-O-P-E

    Kennedy+swan (DE), Max Hattler (DE/HK), Jan Bitzer (DE), BORA MURMURE (FR), Alessandro Bavari (IT), Paul Valentin (DE), Inferstudio (AU)

    Hope is a powerful, yet often too ambiguous concept. In a world beset by rampant climate change and societal disruptions, coupled with uncertainty about our ability to influence the future, hope remains crucial.

  • Learning from the Leaders: The Global e-Learning Platform for Surgeons

    Learning from the Leaders: The Global e-Learning Platform for Surgeons

    Matthias Reichl (AT)

    Every human being deserves the best-trained medical professionals to provide state-of-the-art surgical treatment based on the latest available medical knowledge.

  • Live-Presentation: touching thoughts / kicking cancer

    Live-Presentation: touching thoughts / kicking cancer

    Sabina Köfler (AT), Jan Maximilian Janssen (AT)

    By digitally reconstructing tissue samples and rendering spatial data as 3D objects, we offer visitors a unique glimpse into the microscopic world of human anatomy and pathology. Stimulating interdisciplinary dialogue, the exhibition encourages the public to engage with scientific research in new and meaningful ways, highlighting the potential of art and technology to enhance medical…

  • Meet the Artist: Nicolas Gourault

    Meet the Artist: Nicolas Gourault

    Nicolas Gourault (FR)

    Alongside the rich and diverse screening program of Ars Electronica Animation Festival, we’re thrilled to announce that several artists awarded at Prix 2024 will be joining us at medSPACE and Deep Space 8k to present their work in person.

  • Meet the Artist: Timothy Thomasson and Jeremy Kamal

    Meet the Artist: Timothy Thomasson and Jeremy Kamal

    Landscapes of Memory. Landscapes of Imagination Alongside the rich and diverse screening program of Ars Electronica Animation Festival, we are thrilled to announce that several artists awarded at Prix Ars Electronica 2024 will be joining us at medSPACE and Deep Space 8K to present their work in person.

  • Preview 3D LIVE Anatomy

    Preview 3D LIVE Anatomy

    Franz Fellner (DE), Niels Hammer (DE)

    JKU medSPACE has been showcasing fascinating insights into the human body since 2021 with Preview 3D LIVE Anatomy. New datasets from the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility are installed in JKU medSPACE and shown in 3D on a 14×7-meter projection screen. A cooperation project between the JKU and the Medical University of Graz enables people in…

  • PRIX ARS ELECTRONICA BEST – OF

    PRIX ARS ELECTRONICA BEST – OF

    Beatie Wolfe (GB), Jeremy Kamal (US), Timothy Thomasson (CA), Nicolas Gourault (FR), Los (CN), Jordan Clarke (CA), Kordae Henry (US), Rachel Maclean (GB)

    Prix Ars Electronica Best-Of is a compilation of outstanding animations chosen by the jury from the works submitted to the New Animation Art category of Prix Ars Electronica 2024.

  • Reimagining Fashion: A screening of DUST TO DUST with Yuima Nakazato

    Reimagining Fashion: A screening of DUST TO DUST with Yuima Nakazato

    Yuima Nakazato (JP)

    DUST TO DUST is a documentary offering an intimate look at Japanese haute couture designer Yuima Nakazato. Blending innovative scientific technologies with traditional material techniques, Nakazato is on a mission to shift fashion from mass production toward a more environmentally respectful approach—an urgent task in an industry notorious for waste and harmful environmental practices.

  • Screening: touching thoughts / kicking cancer

    Screening: touching thoughts / kicking cancer

    Sabina Köfler (AT), Jan Maximilian Janssen (AT), Błażej Kotowski (PL), Eva Maria Dreisiebner (AT), Francesco Luzzana (IT), jiawen uffline (CN), Simone C Niquille / technoflesh Studio (CH), Chaeyoung Kim & Francesco Luzzana, Sofia Talanti (IT)

    By digitally reconstructing tissue samples and rendering spatial data as 3D objects, we offer visitors a unique glimpse into the microscopic world of human anatomy and pathology. Stimulating interdisciplinary dialogue, the exhibition encourages the public to engage with scientific research in new and meaningful ways, highlighting the potential of art and technology to enhance medical…

  • The Vanish

    The Vanish

    Linda Maas (DE)

    In the interactive VR experience The Vanish, one of the cruelest human diseases is brought to life: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS for short. What it means to have to watch your own body gradually disappear is conveyed here via the immersive medium of VR.

  • transreal+

    transreal+

    Hannah Wimmer (AT), Maximilian Prag (AT)

    In transreal+, the artists Hannah Wimmer and Maximilian Prag explore how movement and self-experience can be translated into a virtual environment. What parameters can we agree on in our interactions and how do we want to encounter each other in cyberspace? 

  • Wastescapes

    Wastescapes

    Nina Mršnik (SI)

    Wastescapes is a workshop about the beauty of waste plastic. We have been “toasting” waste plastic in plates from which we make furniture and other objects, but are very interested in different applications of waste plastic. Participants will be presented with waste plastic that they will cut into shapes and “toast” into pictures. All the…

  • Water Organoids

    Water Organoids

    Shapes of Emergence: Baudouin Saintyves (FR/US), Severine Atis (FR), Otto Briner (US/FR), Ben Kinsinger (US), Roiel Benitez (PY/FR)

    Water Organoids is a live cinema performance using an “immersive microscope” to film and project an invisible and counter-intuitive reality of self-organizing water structures. Physical experiments are performed alongside improvising musicians in front of the audience, as a puppetry of an emerging, primitive form of life.

  • Young Animations

    Young Animations

    Like every year, the works of talented filmmakers up to the age of 19 are celebrated in the category Young Animations. The program is a selection of short films created by young artists across Austria, who have submitted their projects to the Prix Ars Electronica 2024 in the u19–create your world category.