Linz

Sounding Linz: Performing Architecture

As a foretaste of this event, the two artists Sam Auinger and Wolfgang "Fadi" Dorninger will set off in the direction of Klangwolke with their "Performing Architecture".

VALIE EXPORT. Collection Care - Exhibition

On the occasion of the artist's 80th birthday, the Landesgalerie Linz honors the Austrian artist VALIE EXPORT with a comprehensive exhibition from its own collection.

sounding garments & sound-gardens: emotional interface zones as auditory spaces

Hana Zeqa, Laura Thaçi, Elisabeth Mirnig & Werner Jauk

the transparency of envelopes of the body as social interfaces amplifying the hedonic body

Tribute to VALIE EXPORT

Crossing Europe, VALIE EXPORT Center

This year, CROSSING EUROPE will dedicate its Tribute section to one of the most important representatives of international media, film, and performance art: VALIE EXPORT. She was born in Linz in 1940, where she also grew up. On the occasion of her 80th birthday, and on the initiative of the VALIE EXPORT Centre Linz in cooperation with CROSSING EUROPE and sixpackfilm, a comprehensive program of VALIE EXPORT’s films and videos will be shown for the first time in her place of birth at this year’s edition of CROSSING EUROPE.

Magister Raffaello 2020 - Talk

Magister Art (IT), Jelena Jovanovic (IT)

Conceived to celebrate the 500th death anniversary of the renaissance artist Raphael, Magister Raffaello is a new cultural project by Magister Art, digital innovators in cultural heritage content creation, production and promotion. It combines the high scientific value with the constant experimentation of new languages and media, to create an ‘augmented narration’ and a ‘total’ cognitive experience. Magister Raffaello is shown in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in Vienna.

Immersify: The Translucent St. Stephen’s Cathedral – Artist Presentation

ScanLAB Projects (UK), RIEGL Laser Measurement Systems (AT), Dombauhütte St. Stephan zu Wien (AT), Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)

The Translucent St. Stephen’s Cathedral invites Deep Space 8K visitors to an interactive 3D-journey through high-resolution 360° images of the Viennese St. Stephen’s Cathedral. The images, consisting of more than 21 billion laser points, together make up the multiple layers of transparency of the beautiful sacred building.

Leonardo Publishing & Mentoring Workshop

Danielle Siembieda, Erica Hruby, Sheila Pinkel

Leonardo/the International Society for Arts, Sciences and Technology (Leonardo/ISAST) is a global enterprise think-tank creating inroads to imagine a better world, regenerate hope for humanity and achieve breakthrough solutions to our most complex problems. 

The Post-Pandemic City: a Provisional Profile

Various

Specialists from different design and architecture faculties as the Politecnico di Milano and The University of Art and Design Linz will give a short presentation of their recent research on interventions and strategies for urban spaces in times of a pandemic followed by a discussion about provisional profiles for post-pandemic cities. Moderated by Anne Nigten.

Gallery Performances III

Jaskaran Anand, Vicky Michalopoulou, Razieh Kooshki & Vahid Qaderi, Afra Sönmez & Nursinem Aslan

In-between Privacy, Happy 365, Vivid Q, Onisma - Livestream.

Gallery Performances II

Jaskaran Anand, Alejandro Quiñones Roa, Octavian Albu

In-between Privacy, Cascada, Reconnect

Portrait of a Generative Memory

Indiara Di Benedetto (IT)

In this demonstrative performance the artist is demonstrating the project "Portrait of a Generative Memory", that focuses on the subjective interpretation of personal memories about a human face.

Intimacy, Embodiment & Technology

Jaskaran Anand, Indiara di Benedetto, Nomi Sasaki, Octavian Albu, Gabriele Ragusa

In-between Privacy, Track-track: Let’s Follow the cat!, Reconnect, Untitled at the Strafsachengallery - Livestream.

Gallery Performances I

Alejandro Quiñones Roa, Razieh Kooshki & Vahid Qaderi, Afra Sönmez & Nursinem Aslan

Cascada, Vivid Q, Onisma - Livestream

Guided Tour with Ticket - Kepler's Garden on JKU Campus

Visitor Slot - Kepler's Garden on JKU Campus

Creative Harmony

Julien Lomet (FR), Bastien Daniel (FR), Timothée Durgeaud (FR), Johan Julien (FR), Pierre Huyghe (FR), Ronan Gaugne (FR), Valérie Gouranton (FR), Joël Laurent (FR), Bruno Bossis (FR)

Creative Harmony is a networked virtual reality artwork, inviting spectators from different cities to co-create a virtual environment in real time through gestures. With motion capture, each participant is led to create the landscape of a marine universe, to find a connection with nature. Through letting go, music and virtual dancers, spectators will be able to express themselves with their bodies and connect with each other to evolve the world in which they find themselves immersed.

Geophysics, drones, laser scans… tracking the ancient Romans with hightech

Stefan Traxler (AT)

In this segment, expert on ancient Rome Dr. Stefan Traxler (OÖ Landes-Kultur GmbH) will give you an overview of current projects.

Ars Electronica Center

at the 2020 Ars Electronica Festival

Located on the northern bank of the Danube, the striking architecture of the Ars Electronica Center has been shaping the Linz cityscape since 2009. During the festival, Ars Electronica's headquarters will be presenting several exhibitions, OpenLabs, guided tours of the adjacent Ars Electronica Futurelab and a comprehensive program of presentations in Deep Space 8K.

Infected

Gerhard Funk (AT)

In this simulation game for approx. 20 people, the visitors have to cooperate with each other and develop a common strategy in order to continue to live and stay healthy in an infectious world.

Cooperative Aesthetics

Students of the University of Art and Design Linz (AT)

For the third time, the Time-Based and Interactive Media Art department of the University of Art and Design Linz will be presenting 13 new projects on Cooperative Aesthetics in the Deep Space 8k as part of the Ars Electronica Festival. The works were created as part of the course “AEC Deep Space” under the direction of Prof. Gerhard Funk and assistant Prof. Holunder Heiss and enable the visitors to have a common audiovisual aesthetic experience. The interaction between all users, their communication and collaboration are essential.