Kunstuniversität Linz Campus
Gallery Performances I
Alejandro Quiñones Roa, Razieh Kooshki & Vahid Qaderi, Afra Sönmez & Nursinem Aslan
Cascada, Vivid Q, Onisma - Livestream
SOUND CAMPUS
Examining the State of Electronic Music and Sound Practice at Academic Institutions
Sound Campus” is a new program oriented towards examining the state of experimental sound practices at universities and research centers. It opens a possibility for students and researchers to present new forms of understanding sonic art to the audience of Ars Electronica Festival. This year's program, curated by Enrique Tomás, presents uneasy sound performances resonating in the face of a critical present; intrusive music, touching us despite lockdowns.
INTERFACING HAUPTPLATZ
In this unique location, the facade of Hauptplatz 8 turns into a virtual window that opens to show the world beyond the square. On several evenings during the Ars Electronica Festival, after the sun has set, different audiovisual projects are projected onto the media facade, inviting festival visitors and passers-by to enjoy and interact with them from near and far. And though originally conceived as an installation planned solely for THE WILD STATE during Ars Electronica, we might see it again in the future.
Meter machen
Maria Anna Eckerstorfer (AT), Sabine Touzimsky-Köstler (AT), Lisa Wieder (AT), Wolfgang Schreibelmayr (AT) / Department of Art Education / Bildnerische Erziehung
Keeping a distance is a very important rule. But as we humans are, situations arise that are hilarious, super funny or totally confusing. At this year's Ars Electronica Festival we want to collect exactly such scenes. Send us a self-produced photo or a very short text about your experience by mail and follow us on Instagram on @kunstuni.linz.metermachen. So until then - let the penguins dance!
Symposium "Unheimliche Freunde"
Around 1978, a metaphor found its way into English android research that the roboticist Masahiro Mori had defined in 1970: the "uncanny valley". Robots that resemble humans too much instill fear and terror. Like us, but never familiar, they inhabit the "uncanny valley." But today, the uncanny valley has almost disappeared. Thanks to RFID chips, GPS and a wide variety of body sensors, our bodies and identities have themselves become interfaces, mouse pointers and prosthetic hands with which algorithms trace and continue to write our profiles. The valley that Mori dug out between the industrial robot and the Nō mask is now levelled. What remains is a suspicion: that the ghosts and the undead are not only the robots, but ourselves as well..
Fashion & Technology presents IN THE LAB
Liquid Objects, Disobedient Materials
The exhibition takes a surprising look at the sustainable, inclusive and democratic future of fashion. Waiting to be discovered are the inner life of virtual bodies, seamless garments made from experimental jacquard fabrics and second-hand clothing that dissolves and reconfigures. IN THE LAB makes innovative processes visible and invites visitors to observe new shapes and materials as they grow.
Latency Now, Telematic Improv Workshop
Theatre of Making #4
The interdisciplinary workshop series Theatre of Making (TOM) focuses on real-time audiovisual improvisation by exploring how continually evolving artistic methods, media and processes overlap and are reconfigured to unfold a constant flow of visible, audible, and experiential events. These cross-media jam sessions engage all senses and abilities, synthesizing processes and outcomes into a live, durational, closely-knit total work of art.
CRAFTING FUTURES
Growing Together
Crafting Futures shows works by students of the bachelor course Design: Tech.Tex, teachers training for technical and textile works, which were created during the last year. Its focus is on the active examination of questions concerning the future of craft, the craft of the future and the crafting of futures.
The Internet Yami-Ichi
Sofia Braga (IT), IDPW (JP)
Shut down your computer and join the third edition of The Internet Yami-Ichi in Linz! The Internet Yami-Ichi derives from the Japanese for "Internet Black Market," but also for "sickness" and "addiction." It is a flea market where people consumed by the Internet can share and buy Internet-related things in real life.
Agora Digitalis
Agora Digitalis is the Interface Cultures’ meeting point during the 2020 Campus Exhibition. The general idea behind it is to create an informal setting where students, (future) makers and future students can meet and become acquainted with Interface Cultures. Agora Digitalis is a physical and virtual place where everyone should be able to share and express their ideas
State of Intimacy
Interface Cultures, University of Art and Design Linz
In the field of media art and technology we often discussed, until recently, how to design intimate technology. And the desire to be departing, like Harry Potter, from Platform 9 ¾ seemed to be a major incentive for augmenting and mixing realities. Until last spring, when the University of Art and Design in Linz had to close and a lockdown immersed us all, unwillingly, in a virtual world whilst the physical world seemed to be replaced by daily statistics. This is the context for the Interface Cultures students who worked, for the full 2020 summer semester, in confinement on their projects for this exhibition.
The Wild State: Networked
Exhibition by partner universities of the University of Art and Design Linz
The Wild State: Networked exhibition seeks to leave the state of uncertainty behind us by bringing some of the most recent and compelling contributions to the Hauptplatz in Linz. We are delighted to present works by Master and PhD-students touching on topics related to the truly “Wild State” we are currently in, and the natural processes related to it.