Enacting Innovation is a participatory staging of the social fabric surrounding contemporary innovation practices. Participants will negotiate the roles and situations that are frequently encountered in innovation processes and act out conflicts with each other and the technical infrastructures typically employed within such contexts. The simulation is inspired by research on ‘innovation scripts’ – the recipes followed in dealing with the omnipresent pressure to prove innovative ability.
Enacting Innovation
The aesthetic dramatization of these innovation scripts aims to make innovation dynamics “experienceable” to the festival audience and provokes thinking about our powers and powerlessness when it comes to steering and interfering with processes of societal change and renewal.
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Project Credits
LIT – Linz Institute of Technology, Johannes Kepler Universität
Institut für Organisation, Johannes Kepler Universität
Studiengang Spiel und Objekt, Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch
Supported by Land Oberösterreich
Biographies
Judith Igelsböck is leading the social scientific project “Upper Austrian Innovation Scripts” – an inquiry and artistic intervention into the organization of innovation activities – at the Linz Institute of Technology (LIT). These days, she finds herself in a post-disciplinary and experimental mood. One of her current obsessions is the fusion of theatrical techniques and innovation research. During her time working in theatre and performing arts, Laura Zoelzer sometimes wrestled with locusts and developed an unruly curiosity for how it could be possible to transform utopias into realities. She then studied sociology and philosophy and has since stopped wondering. Her academic interest focuses on performative theories as well as qualitative research on intimate relationships.
Friedrich Kirschner is a director and software developer. He re-purposes computer games and realtime animation technology to create animated narratives and interactive performances. He is currently Professor for digital media at the University of Performing Arts Ernst Busch in Berlin. His works have been displayed at various international Festivals and exhibitions.
Sarah Buser (CH) is an artist working at the intersection of participatory theatre, philosophy and new media. In her projects she examines the nature of reality, perception and speculative scenarios with augmented reality and location-based software. She also teaches at art academies and gives workshops on the artistic and theatrical use of new technologies.
Mónica Rikic is a new media artist and creative coder from Barcelona. She uses code, electronics and analog objects to create interactive works framed as experimental games. Her interest lies in the social impact of technology and human-machine coexistence. She has participated festivals such as Japan Media Arts Festival, FILE Festival, A MAZE, Sónar and in previous editions of Ars Electronica, among others.
Leoni Voegelin has studied Art History and History in Basel. During the master’s program Spiel & Objekt at the HfS Ernst Busch in Berlin, she was exploring the world of physical computing, coding, interactive new media and theater. This interdisciplinary approach has also allowed her to expand her research scope also in her video art. In her artistic practice, she questions the nature of human society, the influence of the Anthropocene on nature, and the generation of Hybrids and Cyborgs that are raised out of our intertwined living on this planet.
Tomás Montes Massa studied acting at the Universidad Católica de Chile with particular interest for movement and dance theater. 2018 he completed his Masters on “Contemporary Theater, Dance & Dramaturgy” in the University of Utrecht (Netherlands). Since 2018 he studies the new “Play and Object” Masters at the HfS Ernst Busch, where he is learning about participatory theater, digitality and interactive media.
Laura Zoelzer – During her time working in theatre and performing arts, Laura often wrestled with locusts and developed an unruly curiosity for how it could be possible to transform utopias into realities. She then studied Sociology and Philosophy and has since stopped wondering. Her academic interest focuses on performative theories as well as qualitative research on intimate relationships.
