EQUILIBRIA

EQUILIBRIA / The National University of Theatre and Film “I.L. Caragiale” - Photo: ASCEND / Tony Macpela

EQUILIBRIA

How would you balance your multiple bio-techno identities?

The National University of Theatre and Film “I.L. Caragiale” (RO)

We are the inhabitants of a techno-creative revolution that occurs once in a century. This diverse exhibition titled Equilibria seeks to explore new states of equilibrium between the biological, spiritual, and algorithmic layers of our lives. Each installation reimagines a facet of contemporary society—climate change, identity, play—through a fusion of human intuition and algorithmic insight. The result is often a sensorial dialogue of two worlds.

Created by the Interactive Technology MA students of UNATC, the works invite audiences into interactive installations where sensitive inner feelings are translated into eccentric outer worlds.

In a time when art is dangerously framed exclusively as ephemeral escapism, this exhibition proposes a renegotiation of our deepest roots. This collection of wonders, presented as hybrid microcosms invites audiences to become more aware of their own presence, touch, and imprint on the world. In this rollercoaster, we are each invited to design a custom equilibria that blends our digital and non-digital selves. Finally, we are invited to see equilibria as a creature in motion, rather than an axiomatic resolution.

Modernist sculptor Constantin Brâncuși reinforced that “all dilemmas are resolved through unifying the contraries.” We believe that blending opposites can lead to a holistic state of being. Finding new inner and outer equilibria is perhaps the highest goal of our current era and our mission is to make it visible.

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  • Ritual for your Inner Child

    Andrada Băleanu (RO)

    Ritual for your Inner Child is an experimental performance blending internet culture, AR technologies, and AI in an eclectic dialogue about consumerism and new-age spirituality healing. Set within a TikTok-verse, the work asks us who we are authentically, after all?

  • Resonance

    Andrei Gheorghe (RO)

    Resonance is an interactive audiovisual installation that responds to the participant’s emotional state using real-time biometric data, including facial expression, EEG brainwaves, heart rate, and galvanic skin response (GSR).

  • Ashes Don’t Fall Equally

    Lorena Cocora (RO)

    Ashes Don’t Fall Equally is an interactive documentary that urges viewers to go beyond passive scrolling, revealing the hidden links between corporate greed and climate disasters, imagining them in familiar places, and prompting action before the exploited become the ones filming.

  • RAD!

    Orsolya Rend (RO)

    RAD! is an open installation merging graphic design, public participation, and algorithmic playfulness. A digital and a physical print form the core: one ready-made, one open to the audience. A camera captures the open print; remixing parts of it into the ready-made one. Graphics reimagined as a shared act—co-authored in real time.

  • ASCEND

    Tony Macpela (RO)

    ASCEND is an interactive installation where visitors expand a digital avatar and summon it onto a life-sized statue through a stylized web interface, blending identity, projection mapping and cyber-fantasy aesthetics.

Credits

Interactive Artists from Interactive Technologies for Performing and Media Arts (ITPMA): Lorena Cocora, Andrada Băleanu, Orsolya Rend, Andrei Gheorghe, Tony Macpela I Guiding professors: Grigore Burloiu, Alexandru Berceanu, Ioana Mischie

Please note: The program for the Ars Electronica Festival 2025 is still in progress.
We are currently preparing all the information for the website and plan to put the full program online in the coming days – stay tuned!