Exhibitions, Projects
Joy on the wheels
Qianlun Li (CN)
This project engages with ‘Outsiders,’ an online meeting and dating platform for physically disabled people. For a long time, the sexuality of people with a disability has been often ignored. This project aims to encourage sexual expression in this community and healthy relationships through helping them explore their and their partners’ body.
Fishbowl Discussion: The Future of Design – Transitions in the field
Academic Design Network Austria
SAT 7.9. | 10:00 – 13:00 How do technological advances (e.g. machine learning) transform working modes, task areas and perspectives in the field of design? In the course of discussion we will try to identify a number of burning questions for the future of design.Together we will desicuss the major challenges contemporary societies have to face, which necessitate design as an interdisciplinary field.
Keyboard + Mouse
Jack Ratcliffe (UK)
If the medium is the message, then in an age of cyber-bullying, trolls & great political divides, is it time to consider the impact of the interfaces of our online communication? This piece, an interactive keyboard and mouse made using 100% natural wool, invites the audience to experience whether the softening of our hardware could soften our harsh communication edges.
Exploring Processes and Solutions: Asking relevant questions – Finding appropriate methods
Academic Design Network Austria
FRI 6.9. | 13:45 – 16:45 This workshop discusses past and recent design projects (also the ones collected in the morning session) to identify relevant questions, problem-adequate methods, fruitful processes and outstanding solutions.
TRANSCODE!
University of Art and Design Linz, Interface Cultures
Knowing that technology will not save our world, we call for unsecured transcode! The Interface Culture Department of the Linz University of Art and Design is celebrating its 15th anniversary within the 40th anniversary of the Ars Electronica Festival. Reason enough to embark on a comprehensive transformation process and to examine processes of transcoding in particular and in general in the form of an exhibition, performances and presentations as well as discursive approaches.
Yuan原
Mich Tsai (TW)
This interactive project offers audiences the opportunity to reflect on themselves, through reproducing traditional Formosan music via a perspective on the triangular relationship between machine, human and nature. Yuan not only represents Formosan musical culture, it also demonstrates the notion of ‘LOSS’ and the risk of cultural histories disappearing.
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.
INSTRUMENT SEMATARY
Lia Mice (AU)
INSTRUMENT SEMATARY is an interactive sonic sculpture created from broken, pre-owned classical instruments that have been brought back to life with a new digital identity. Inspired by Stephen King's Pet Sematary in which deceased animals return to life with unfamiliar, evil personalities, this work explores the environmental choices of musicians and instrument designers, and our responsibilities to preserve historical hand-crafted musical instruments that are becoming increasingly out of fashion in a digital age.
Breath With Me
Marta Roncero (ES)
Inspired by ancient beliefs, my project proposes the idea of re-connecting to nature using our human energy. Breathe With Me allows us to connect with our plants through a meditation based in Hindu notion of Kundalini energy.
Data Dreaming
Andrea Guidi (IT)
Data Dreaming is a multimedia performative installation driving nuanced gestures to create ethereal audio-visual compositions with an interface resembling a household lamp. Rather than addressing functional requirements, the wood pyramidal object invites viewers to explore and compose enchanted sonic textures and fictional visual renderings.
