Guest Projects

Like every year at the Ars Electronica Festival, there is a series of exciting Guest Projects taking place at various locations in Linz, ranging from contributions by local art and cultural initiatives to works by artists from all over the world.

arebyte Gallery, London

Mark Farid (UK)

arebyte Gallery is a London-based art organization which supports the development of artists working across digital and emerging artforms. Following in the long tradition of artists experimenting with new technologies, arebyte Gallery has led a pioneering program since 2013, to much acclaim. | For 24 hours a day, for 28 days, artist Mark Farid will wear a virtual reality headset, seeing and hearing what one person sees and hears for 28 days.

BIO AUSTRIA Bauernmarkt: All organic. All reliable. All regional.

BIO AUSTRIA (AT)

On September 7th the farmers of BIO AUSTRIA will present their unique regional products. Visitors to the festival can try, taste, and enjoy the organic food and talk to the producers. Information about organic farming and how organic farmers benefit our climate and environment round off the BIO AUSTRIA farmers’ market.

Holy Hydra

Raumteiler Linz Kulturverein – Amanda Augustin (AT), Lorena Höllrigl (AT)

With contemporary dance performances, electronic music, interactive light installations and room-filling projections, the Urfahr parish church will be enchanted for two days and appear in a completely different light. The interplay of theory and practice will redefine sacred space and put it on an equal footing with urban space with a symposium of a special kind.

The Internet Yami-Ichi

IDPW (JP), Sofia Braga (AT)

The Internet Yami-Ichi, from the Japanese “Internet Black Market,” but also “sickness” and “addiction,” is a flea market where people consumed by the Internet can share and buy Internet-related things in real life. In this weird market, you can browse through the booths and find the amazing and the useless—in an ironic and humorous atmosphere reminiscent of the early Internet era.

Monophon yello)))

Hörstadt – Anatol Bogendorfer (AT), Peter Androsch (AT)

The Monophon yello)))) is the most recent work from a series of ear trumpets that the Linz collective Hörstadt has realized since its foundation. It focuses on an essential context for many Hörstadt projects: public space is always acoustic space. It can be designed.

Strange Temporalities

STOCHASTIC LABS (US)

KATHRIN STUMREICH hosted by ARS ELECTRONICA

Kathrin Stumreich (AT)

In the scope of this year’s Ars Electronica Festival 2019, Bildraum 07 in Vienna presents current works by Kathrin Stumreich. The artist gives insights into her sound research, in which she examines order and code, movement choreography and complex robotics, as well as coincidence and chaos as material properties.

STWST48x5 STAY UNFINISHED

Stadtwerkstatt (AT)

Founded as an artists’ collective forty years ago, in 1979, Stadtwerkstatt (STWST) – a living and striving cultural space― takes pride in its autonomous structure. In 2019, STWST48x5 STAY UNFINISHED, the 5th edition of its 48-hour showcase extravaganza, brings together critical producers and artists to negotiate permanently unfinished conditions.

U >< N<>I<> A

STATION ROSE (AT)

#Urbana Natura in_hancing_The_Augmented & vice versa is an augmented audio-visual installation, an “Out of Nature into Urban Augmented Space & Back again” exhibition. The ensemble of nature, urban and augmented spaces shows the already existing deep interweaving of these seemingly independent levels and forms of life.