Kunstuni Campus: 18-meter tower on the main square

(Linz, September 3, 2024) Linz Kunstuni Campus celebrates the Ars Electronica Festival with a tower, a solar-powered galley and tube amplifiers: From 3 to 8 September, more than eighteen university departments will be active in the Linz city center – and what’s more, the Interface Cultures department fetes its 20th anniversary.

An eighteen-metre tower created by graduates of architecture in Linz’s Hauptplatz invites interested visitors to try a change of perspective. Aboard the good ship “Florentine” moored at the Urfahrmarkt dock, patrons eager for new experiences can enjoy a DIY solar-powered galley, fermentation processes and edible bio lab artefacts. From Tuesday, 3 September, to Sunday, 8 September, more than eighteen university departments will present activities coinciding with the festival at the Kunstuni Campus premises, right across from the Ars Electronica Center, on the opposite bank of the Danube.

Here, students and teachers will showcase their unconventional media art the whole day through, all free of charge. Moreover, the Interface Cultures department is celebrating its 20th anniversary with the exhibition “NOUS” at POSTCITY – in fact, the origins of Kunstuni Campus date back to a show presenting artistic projects by students of this department and a guest university. Today, fifteen international institutions are represented here; the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest is this year’s special featured institution, with installations exhibited at the event “FUTURESENSE” at the “splace” Gallery of the University of Arts Linz.

The full press text by the University of Arts Linz is available here.

More about the Ars Electronica Campus Exhibition with 42 international universities.