Conferences, Lectures, Workshops

Impulse Talks + Academic Speed Dating: Approaches to Design

Academic Design Network Austria

FRI 6.9. | 10:00 – 13:00 In reference to the students’ and other design projects, representatives of the participating universities will outline their approaches to the field of design in brief statements. In the course of the session participants and members of the audience can contribute design projects they find outstanding.

Knowledge Engine Co-Creation Workshop

Linz Center of Mechatronics GmbH (AT)

This event brings experts from the Festival, technology, art and business together. In a Co-creation workshop, participants will explore knowledge engines and topics related to the Festival.

The Messy Shape of Problems – Past, Present and Future Perspectives of Design

Academic Design Network Austria

Designers have to face an increasingly complex field of global challenges necessitating great sensitivity for relevant questions, adequate approaches and tools to develop sustainable solutions. How can design education convey the required skills and perspectives to cope with this dramatic rise in complexity? And how do technological advances shape the future of design?

Prix Forum III – Artificial Intelligence & Life Art

SAT 7.9. | 12:30 – 14:00

Prix Forum II – Digital Musics & Sound Art

SAT 7.9. | 11:00 – 12:00

Prix Forum I – Computer Animation (within the Expanded Animation Symposium)

FRI 6.9. | 12:15 – 13:45

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.

Activate & Participate

FRI 6.9. | 14:00 – 15:30 Amanda Cox (US), Marta Peirano (ES), Fridays for Future (INT), Manuela Naveau (AT), Lara Leik (INT) & Kathi Weissenböck (AT) for Fridays for Future (AT)

AIxMusic Applications

Jean Beauve (FR), 0W1 Audio/Oleg Stavitsky (RU), Endel / Florian Richling (AT), Fortunes / Ivan Turkalj (HR/AT), Music Traveler / Taishi Fukuyama (JP), Amadeus Code

SUN 8.9. | 16:15 – 17:30

AIxMusic Cultural Organizations

Gerald Wirth (AT), Vive Kumar (IN), Veronika Liebl (AT), Matthias Röder (DE)

SUN 8.9. | 15:00 – 16:00