Linz

LEONARDO LASER LINZ - Die Gartenlaube / Garden Gazebo

In September 2021, Linz is joining the Leonardo Art & Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) network. This international program brings together artists, scientists, scholars and the general public for inspiring presentations and conversations. The LEONARDO LASER LINZ, hosted by the Interface Cultures department at the University of Art and Design Linz, will be held during the Ars Electronica 2021 Festival.

Akademie der Gedanken (Academy of Thoughts)

Department of Interface Cultures

A courtyard, a tree, a fountain and lots of pens and paper: this is the setting in which we are reflecting, together with invited partners. We sit around a tree and think, we sketch out ideas, scribble futures and write, together, on a critical image of our time.

Department of Architecture | Urban Studies

LOOPS OF WISDOM Exhibition, Kunstuniversität Linz

FLUT is a 1:1 project at the Urfahranermarkt Linz, a largely fallow area next to the Danube that is only briefly used twice a year for a fair. After a year of digital teaching, students went to the market area and developed parts of it according to their wishes. The area became a free zone, an experimental field for new architectures, a laboratory for artistic productions, a testing ground for new urban practices and a better usability of the city. As the pandemic has shown, the city needs open, freely accessible and consumption-free spaces and infrastructures.

Department of Industrial Design

LOOPS OF WISDOM Exhibition, Kunstuniversität Linz

Projects curated by the Department of Industrial Design, Kunstuniversität Linz.

Department of Visual Communication

LOOPS OF WISDOM Exhibition, Kunstuniversität Linz

Projects curated by the Department of Visual Communication, Kunstuniversität Linz.

Department of Media Design

LOOPS OF WISDOM Exhibition, Kunstuniversität Linz

Projects curated by the Department of Media Design, Kunstuniversität Linz.

Department of Design & Technology

LOOPS OF WISDOM Exhibition, Kunstuniversität Linz

The Crafting Futures Lab is a platform for active investigations of the future of craft, the craft of the future and the crafting of futures. It researches and practices materials, techniques and tools as processes and means to generate and diversify knowledge and engage diverse audiences in thinking and acting towards alternative futures. Active questioning, learning, and sharing are core premises to the inquiries undertaken at the intersection of traditional crafts, digital technologies and education.

Department of Art Education

LOOPS OF WISDOM Exhibition, Kunstuniversität Linz

While modern technology cannot replace the analog world’s haptic experience, it can complement it perfectly. Play with Pixels is an interactive open lab about the smallest part of a digital raster graphic. We zoom into the pixel world to enlarge, illuminate, recombine and make the world of digital images more tangible. Visitors are invited to create their own pixel postcards on site and to send pixelated greetings from downtown to the Open Lab at Kepler’s Garden.

Department of Time-based and Interactive Media Arts

LOOPS OF WISDOM Exhibition, Kunstuniversität Linz

Projects curated by the Department of Time-based and Interactive Media Arts, Kunstuniversität Linz.

Ars Electronica Campus: LOOPS OF WISDOM

Kunstuniversität Linz

LOOPS OF WISDOM is not a solution but a possible guide to action: a well-conceived set of inspiring exhibitions, presentations, performances, interventions, workshops and lab settings and a discursive platform, all by students and faculty of the University of Art and Design Linz on the occasion of the Ars Electronica Festival 2021.