Kunstuniversität Linz

Pre-Opening

Before the festival officially begins, locals are invited to an inaugural tour, a pre-opening, on Wednesday evening.

Expert Tour: Shared Habitats – Bauhaus-Universität Weimar@aecampus

Ursula Damm (DE), Mindaugas Gapševičius (LT/DE)

The guided curators tour offers the unique opportunity to learn more about the background of the Shared Habitats exhibition, as well as artworks and artistic practices emerging from the Bauhaus-University’s Faculty of Art and Design. The artists will also be present to discuss with the public and share insights about their artistic research.

PhD PANEL: slow algorithms and the hazards of standardization

Bauhaus University (DE)

Made up of four doctoral research students from the Bauhaus University Weimar’s practice-based PhD program, this panel uses the 100-year anniversary of the Bauhaus to critically reflect on the cultural, educational, political, and economic standardization of art and design in society today.

100 Jahre Bauhaus: We are not alone / Shared Habitats

We are not alone consoles and warns us: it promises an answer from the ecosphere – animals, plants, cosmos, which speak to us in an old-fashioned way – just as it reminds us that we still do not understand enough of this ecosphere, just as we overlook many other humans who do not live in our culture, our sphere of life, or our social class. And it reminds us that the world does not end with the Earth or even our own limited field of vision. At the same time, the title points out that our technologies are not passive tools that we use with our hands. Rather, they have mutated into co-creative teammates who make predictions, take decisions, and not only generate their own suggestions for action but also implement them. We are not alone! As artists and descendants of the Bauhaus, we recognize that our role is changing. We no longer believe in the heroic genius of the master who forms the world in a state of intuition. Embedding and feedback reveal that responsible action requires diverse cognitive variations that involve the counterpart in a performative way.