Intersections II: Art, Healthcare, and Well-being explores the active role of artistic practice in reimagining healthcare, medical literacy, and well-being. An introduction to the work of artists Špela Petrič and Mary Maggic shows how artistic engagement with infrastructures of care and medical systems can contribute to medical literacy and awareness. Concrete examples of cross-disciplinary collaborations between artists and medical tech professionals at Johannes Kepler University will be followed by a panel discussion including representatives from EIT Health and EIT Culture & Creativity, Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft, and Bayern Innovativ that focuses on the benefits of interdisciplinarity and future ways in which the two worlds can experiment together. In the final sessions, Jill Sonke, Andreas Leithner, and Kyoko Kunoh examine though a public health lens how arts can build social cohesion and solidarity and make a difference when integrated into medical environments.
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Intersections II: Art, Healthcare, and Well-being
POSTCITY, First Floor, Conference Hall
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EN
Cross-sectoral Collaborations: The Arts Meet HealthTech
Georg Russegger (AT)
Georg Russegger launches an afternoon dedicated to the intersection between art and healthcare, including topics like health tech, well-being, and policymaking.
Medical Literacy through Art
Špela Petrič (SI), Mary Maggic (US), Patricia Stark (AT)
We invite artists Špela Petrič and Mary Maggic to discuss how their practice contributes to health literacy, not only by telling stories differently but sometimes by telling different stories.
The Dream In Experience: Sleep Culture & Health
Andreas Kaindlstorfer (AT)
Short presentation of The Dream In Experience—an interdisciplinary project by the Department of Neurology at the Kepler University Hospital Linz.
Impact Initiative: Transforming Medicine through AI and Art
Patricia Stark (AT), Thomas Tschoellitsch (AT)
This short presentation will sum up key insights from an intensive, transdisciplinary hackathon addressing urgent issues in healthcare. In close collaboration, artists, students, medical professionals, and AI experts will develop bold ideas reimagining the future of medicine. The hackathon is a joint initiative by Johannes Kepler University Linz, the LBG Open Innovation in Science Center, and Ars Electronica—and part of the Impact Initiative. The Impact Initiative is initiated by the Open Innovation in Science Center at the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft.
The Future of Arts & Health Industries Encounters
Georg Russegger (AT), Rania Islambouli (AT), Aniko Fejes (AT), Miriam Kathrein (AT), Matthias Konrad (DE)
A conversation about existing, emerging, and possible cross-disciplinary collaborations between art and healthcare.
When hope is a creative act: The arts as a public health imperative
Jill Sonke (US)
The German painter Gerhard Richter asserted that art is the highest form of hope. In this time of profound change that demands not only radical imagination but the radical adaptation of our individual and collective organisms, how can the arts contribute to the health and solidarity that are essential to our survival? This presentation will explore how, through a public health lens, the arts can build social cohesion and solidarity as basic and essential foundations for advancing social goods, including health and well-being.
Art in Medical Environments
Jill Sonke (US), Andreas Leithner (AT), Kyoko Kunoh (JP)
Jill Sonke talks to medical professional Andreas Leithner and artist-curator Kyoko Kunoh about their projects in Austria and Japan that aimed to redesign spaces of care with the help of art.
