Lecture Stage

  • Artists at Risk (AR) and Ecologists at Risk (ER) as Peer Movements Standing for Resistance and Change

    Artists at Risk (AR) and Ecologists at Risk (ER) as Peer Movements Standing for Resistance and Change

    Marita Muukkonen (FI)

    Autocratic leaders are increasingly gaining power—and weakening human rights—around the world. The world is losing its way. Conflicts are raging. Inequalities are deepening. Civic space is shrinking and the media is under attack from all sides. Authoritarian countries also sense that democratic nations are not prioritising the international human rights system.

  • Good Enough Ethics

    Good Enough Ethics

    Kathleen Richardson (GB/IE)

    “Ethics by Design” (EbD) is a proactive approach that integrates ethical considerations into every stage of the development process to minimize potential harm to humans, animals, and the environment.

  • Pecha Kucha

    Pecha Kucha

    Mar Canet (ES/EE), Ioan Cernei (RO), Vesela Vladimirova (BG/AT), Vanessa Vozzo (IT), Qian Ye (CN), Maša Jazbec (SI), Kristina Tica (RS), Ivan Petkov (BG/AT), Hannah Perner-Wilson (AT/GB/US), Ricardo O‘Nascimento (BR), David Wolkerstorfer (AT), Mihaela Kavdanska (BG/RO/AT), Martín Nadal (ES), Christa Sommerer (AT), Laurent Mignonneau (FR/AT), Manuela Naveau (AT), Alexander Wöran (AT)

    Pecha Kucha is an event celebrating the 20th anniversary of interface cultures (IC) at the University of Arts Linz. Select alumni will give short Pecha Kucha-style talks, discussing their artistic and career evolution since earning their degrees and presenting current works in progress.

  • Creative Resilience in Challenging Times

    Creative Resilience in Challenging Times

    Rafiul Alom Rahman (IN), Nina Bulgakova (UA), Kamya Ramachandran (IN), Maryam Sehhat (IR), Christoph Thun-Hohenstein (AT)

    This panel will explore how artists articulate the scope and conditions of our existence through their work. It will address key questions: What should we fight against, and what should we protect in times of war and social conflicts?

  • Rise Up, Data Peasants: Opportunities for International Co-production and Corporate Synergy

    Rise Up, Data Peasants: Opportunities for International Co-production and Corporate Synergy

    Chih-Yung Aaron Chiu (TW), Escher Tsai (TW), Wen Ying Chang (TW), Ted Chang (TW), Helin Luo (TW), Chun-Cheng Hsu (TW), Yi-Bing Lin (TW), Chia-Shan Chang (TW)

    As creators in an era of Technofeudalism, how can we challenge the status quo by introducing innovations in technological applications while maintaining cultural diversity? In Taiwan, the cultural content industry collaborates with technology companies, integrating soft power with hardware to foster creativity. Creators, enterprises and the public sector attempt to come up with a human-centered,…

  • How to Increase the Economic Resilience of Digital Art Organizations?

    How to Increase the Economic Resilience of Digital Art Organizations?

    AC Coppens (FR), Anna Desponds (PL), Marie du Chastel (BE)

    This session provides an exclusive overview of the Digital Inter/Section (DI/S) outcomes, a pan-European project exploring new business models for digital art organizations. Over the past few years, DI/S stakeholders have gathered extensive industry insights, published comprehensive reports, developed sustainability guidelines, and experimented with prototyping business models. The session will preview some innovative tools and…

  • Frischer Wind

    Frischer Wind

    Mary Mayrhofer (AT), Konstantin Redl (AT), Emma Gruber (AT), Linda Michelitsch (AT)

    Young people face great uncertainty. In our state of permanent crisis, people discuss, argue, and some resign themselves to the situation. In the twilight of democracy, however, the debate about change is conspicuously silent. Yet this is what must take place now. Do we need change? Is change possible? And if so, how? The audience…

  • State of the Archive: Current Approaches to Digital Archives and Archives for Digital [Art]

    State of the Archive: Current Approaches to Digital Archives and Archives for Digital [Art]

    Alessandro Ludovico (IT), Katharina Pektor (AT), Sandra Sonnleitner (AT), Chiara Zuanni (IT), Vanessa Hannesschläger (EU)

    This panel presents current approaches to digitizing, preserving and (subsequently) presenting cultural heritage. The topics discussed will range from high-quality digitization methods to data design and modelling.

  • NeXus Forum: Towards Future-oriented XR

    NeXus Forum: Towards Future-oriented XR

    Dai Nippon Printing (DNP) (JP) and Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)

    NeXus Forum: Towards Future-Oriented XR is a dynamic panel discussion organized by DNP and Ars Electronica Futurelab. The event brings together experts to explore the current applications and future developments of XR technology.

  • Artistic Exploration in Shared Hybrid Spaces

    Artistic Exploration in Shared Hybrid Spaces

    Harriet Davey (GB), Tara Habibzadeh (IR), Mati Bratkowski (PL), Johannes Pöll (AT), Patrick Berger (AT)

    Five artists have been collaborating with SHARESPACE to engage in artistic explorations of the project’s technology and concepts in the past two years. Their work resulted in the creation of three artworks shown at the Deep Space 8K.

  • Encounters: Art, Technology and Society in Dialog

    Encounters: Art, Technology and Society in Dialog

    Upper Austrian Chamber of Labor (AT), University of Education Upper Austria (AT), Ars Electronica (AT)

    How do I act when I meet a stranger? What fears and insecurities are triggered and why? What happens when I encounter new technologies for the first time? What is the attraction of the unknown?