Linz

MAKE ME A SIGNAL – Prelude to a RADIOTOPIA

Shu Lea Cheang (US), Adriana Knouf, Franz Xaver (AT)

Since 2009, the Messschiff Eleonore, once a survey vessel, has been docked at the Danube harbor in Linz, powered by solar energy, equipped with radio components and modified to host artists in residency as part of Stadwerkstatt’s InfoLab activities.

BLOODY SUNDAY

Shu Lea Cheang (US) & STWST (AT)

Welcome to the BioNet / Your body infiltrated / Your microbe compromised / Your red blood micro-computes / Your red blood codes DNA / Your red blood is your current currency / Shove me with your bloody money / G for Giblings / Giblings for giving / Giving for forgiving / Shake me hands / Hold me tight / I want your wet data / Make me a red pill / Swallow the red pill / SenSexual AutoInduction / Your pleasure our business / You and I don’t live the same viral reality.

particula influxus

taro klemens knop (AT)

Be aware of your (invisible) environment.

Postglow Cinema - Counterworld Quantum Cinema

Tanja Brandmayr (AT), Astrid Benzer (AT)

Nachleuchten / Gegenwelt-Kino is research and reflection in which visual content consisting of light, rhythmization and image fragments is projected onto an afterglow surface. Motion sequences and text are explored as prototypical cinema with afterglow properties.

THE ELECTROMAGNETIC MASSAGE / Images without surface

STWST No Content Dptm. (AT), Franz Xaver (AT)

STWST's No Architects have made an entire Art Space disappear into thin air. On the Maindeck there is scaffolding enclosing an invisible building. The Grid Museum as a dematerialised space is the construction site of the future and the space which symbolizes the open electromagnetic space. In the Grid Museum's open system, images hang neither higher nor lower, but it is about the dissolution of spaces as they were.

Gigapixel 3D Scan of Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring”

Emilien Leonhardt / HIROX EUROPE - JYFEL​

Johannes Vermeer’s masterpiece Girl with a Pearl Earring is known worldwide, but only a few people have seen its individual pigments. Discover the biggest microscopic gigapixel scan of a work of art, ever, to see the master's techniques! Explore the micro-panorama of the full painting captured by state-of-the-art Hirox 3D microscopes, with a custom XYZ stand at a resolution so high you can print it the size of a building, and true color 3D modeling as if you were holding the painting in your hands!

NOCTURNE

Mark Chavez (US/SG), Victoria Primus (AT), Ina Conradi (US/SG), Tate Chavez (US)

Nocturne is a reflection of the current state affairs after one year of pandemic. Created as a rite of spring, this large-scale, immersive installation uses interactive and audio-reactive visuals with emotive-abstraction animation, mapping emotions, and design with the real-time flow of a dance performance.

Department of space&designstrategies

LOOPS OF WISDOM Exhibition, Kunstuniversität Linz

In April 2020, when Austria first began its lockdown due to the pandemic and the university immediately switched to distance learning, Xian Zheng created the Post-it to Post It workshop. Every Friday in April, students submit five post-it-sized diary drawings, which are uploaded to an online gallery on Pinterest. The mini-sized drawing paper recycles daily waste paper and distracts from the trouble of not being able to go shopping.

Sound Campus

Sound Campus opens a possibility for students and researchers of the University of Art and Design Linz to present new forms of sonic arts to the great audience at the Ars Electronica Festival. This year’s program resonates with the revival of “Reclaim The City” sensibilities grown after lockdown periods. Mini-raves, organized by youngsters on the Danube’s shores, are boosted by battery-powered bluetooth speakers and delimited only by towels and picnic blankets.

Gigapixel 3D Scan of Picasso’s “GUERNICA ”

Reina Sofia, Spanish Embassy

In collaboration with the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía Madrid, Ars Electronica, with the kind support of the Spanish Embassy in Vienna, will present a gigapixel image of Picasso's famous masterpiece, GUERNICA, as well as sketches created by photographers at the Reina Sofía.