CAMPUS Exhibition

Schon seit 2002 veranstalten Ars Electronica und die Kunstuniversität Linz eine Ausstellung von Künstler*innen an tertiären Bildungseinrichtungen, deren Curricula innovative Ansätze in der Vermittlung von Medienkunst und -kultur verfolgen. Die Idee des Campus Formats ist es, herausragende internationale Universitäten einzuladen, die in den akademischen Disziplinen Design und Medienkunst arbeiten. Die hier ins Zentrum gestellten Projekte verkörpern die Missionen und Aktivitäten der geladenen Gastunversitäten aus aller Welt. Die durch die so versammelten Institutionen gezeigten Projekte haben sich zu einem Kernelement des Festivals entwickelt und sind ein Instrument, um verschiedene edukative Methoden und Zugänge im künstlerischen und kreativen Bereich zu analysieren und darzustellen. So hat sich zunehmend eine Bühne entwickelt, die durch die kontextualisierten Werke von Alumni, Unterrichtenden und Partner*innen der Universitäten die Identitäten dieser akademischen Einrichtungen zeigen, sowohl als gegenwärtige Praxis als auch aus historischer Perspektive. Es gehört auch zur Mission des Campus, die Präsentation junger, lokaler Medienkunstschaffender und ihrer Arbeiten zu ermöglichen und mit internationaler Sichtbarkeit zu würdigen.

Das Interface Cultures Programm der Kunstuniversität Linz präsentiert jährlich einen Querschnitt der hervorragendsten Arbeiten und empfängt jedes Jahr gemeinsam mit Ars Electronica eine der zentralen Partneruniversitäten. Von schwarzen Schwänen… ist der Titel des diesjährigen Beitrags der Kunstuniversität Linz, eine Metapher auf die Pluralität verschiedener Undenkbarkeiten, die in ihrer Unwahrscheinlichkeit miteinander verwoben sind und gleichzeitig auf etwas Bezug nehmend, auf das wir nicht vorbereitet sind. Crossing the Bridge, die Ausstellung von Interface Cultures, verlässt die eigenen Räumlichkeiten und überquert die Brücke sowohl konzeptuell als auch tatsächlich, um ausgewählte Arbeiten im Herzen von Keplers Garten auf dem JKU Campus zu präsentieren.

2020 wurden viele Campus-Partner zu Ars Electronica Garten-Partnern , um das Festivalpublikum auf virtuelle und physische Reisen durch vernetzte Biotope und Ökosysteme zu entführen, in denen Studierende aus der ganzen Welt arbeiten, um unsere Zukunft zu entwickeln und zu formen. Dieses Jahr wurden neue Allianzen geschmiedet und Kooperationen geknüpft, die wieder in Linz erforscht werden können. Mehr als 25 internationale akademische Institutionen kommen wieder zu uns, um die Ergebnisse der vergangenen beiden Jahre zu präsentieren. Das *Campus* Programm ist voll experimenteller Zugänge und Prototypen und stellt so ein zentrales, identitätsstiftendes Element des Festivals dar. Die lokale Kunstuniversität dient mit ihren Instituten und Abteilungen dient als Standort, wo internationale Perspektiven ausgetauscht werden können, während auch die eigenen Abteilungen umfassend vorgestellt werden.

Das Festival entwickelt sich auch zunehmend zur Plattform für künstlerische und kreative Kooperationen zwischen Ars Electronica und den verschiedenen regionalen akademischen Partnereinrichtungen, etwa die Programme für Fashion & Technology und für Time-Based and Interactive Media Art der Kunstuniversität Linz, die Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität für Musik, Schauspiel und Tanz und die Fachhochschule Oberösterreich / Campus Hagenberg.

Der internationale Austausch zwischen Universitäten, der die zunehmende Kooperation zwischen akademischen Partnereinrichtungen fördert, bringt 29 Universitäten und Institutionen aus vielen Teilen der Welt nach Linz, um ihre Projekte zu präsentieren:

Von schwarzen Schwänen …

Kunstuniversität Linz (AT)

… oder pinken Tauben? Der Kunstunicampus zum Ars Electronica Festival versucht das scheinbar Unmögliche zu denken, das Undenkbare zu visionieren. Vor allem sollen Bilder und Metaphern ermöglicht werden, die eine Gestaltungskraft in sich tragen und uns inspirieren, uns selbst ein Bild unserer Welt zu machen.

Immersive Sounds – External Worlds

Anton Bruckner Private University, Linz (AT)

Since 2016, Anton Bruckner Private University has been hosting the Sonic Saturday symposium and concert as part of the Ars Electronica Festival. For this year’s festival we will organize a research student meeting to allow for an informal, hands-on, in-person exchange of ideas of artistic researchers working in the field of immersive audio.

Post-Intelligent Artificial Humanism

University of Applied Science Berlin – School of Culture and Design, Department of Communication Design (DE)

Let’s create a new form of humanism together with Artificial Intelligence that will bring with it neither dystopia nor utopia, but realistic and desirable future scenarios.

Shored, My Ruin(ed) City

Birmingham School of Architecture and Design, Birmingham City University (UK)

From libraries to ballrooms, ruins represent fragments that retain meaning through changing times. These are ever present in a “soft city” that is lived through digital space and consumed in popular media. Our transmedia process explores the fringes between this “soft city” and the real one to speculate on future visions of the city built on these ruined fragments.

The Planet of Expanded Visions

Masaryk University, Faculty of Arts (CZ); Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication (CZ)

Welcome to the planet made of expanded visions of the Vasulkas — the pioneers of electronic art. Enter the world of augmented memories of their visionary models of the expanded man-machine nature systems of the possible futures.

LAÑILAWAL

Universidad Austral de Chile (CL)

The oldest living tree on Earth could be the Lañilawal tree in southern Chile. The Alerce Milenario remains in the mode of a deferred time removed from the time scale of humans. How to show the pulse of this life? Bringing together a group of artists and scientists, the Lañilawal project is an approach to get a glimpse of this living time capsule with the purpose of understanding its message.

Patterns that Connect

Bauhaus University Weimar (DE)

Planet Earth is a shared habitat, where we humans strive to coexist with our fellow creatures and with machines. The exhibition *Patterns That Connect* proposes to rethink the “dance of agency” in relation to long-lasting evolution and customs, behavioral patterns that we can address and modify.

When the Wind Blows from Everywhere, We Make Art and (Sur)render Reality

Vilnius Academy of Arts (LT), MENE (LT), INSTITUTIO MEDIA (LT)

Right after the pandemic, young artists in Lithuania were hit by the war. The unrest in neighboring countries enabled them to work out how to calm down, find new ways of communication, come up with methods for resilience and survival. Let’s make art and (sur)render new virtualities to help Ukraine win. All in order to strive and continue making art. We already have Planet B more real than ever!

Pixels from a Past Future

CINETic, National University of Theatre and Film (RO)

Pixels from a Past Future reunites works developed by students and teachers of the UNATC, from the MA of ITPMA and the MA New Media Design, works developed during 2021-2022. The works aspire to visualize empathy and closeness and to echo fading nature through capturing the presence of the visitor into the flow of data.

Worlds in Progress

Art & Technology Studies Department of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (US)

Challenged by Ars Electronica to imagine a world beyond today’s crises, artists from the Art and Technology Studies department at SAIC turn to the present and recent past, exploring the manufactured, digitized, artificial worlds we all create ourselves simply to continue living on Earth. Worlds In Progress finds planets and whole universes in the electronic spaces of today’s Earth.

(In)Tangible Future(s)

Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Design (AT)

Taking the thought that in a post-anthropocentric future, ecological justice is concerned with justice between species as a starting point, this exhibition is conceptualized as an affective infrastructure enabling two kinds of experiences: the lack of eco- and interspecies empathy on “Planet A” and experiments fostering interspecies and non-human sensory dialogues.

Digital Sensing

University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria (AT)

Digital Sensing examines the possibilities of scanning and perceiving the human body with current technologies such as 3D photography, AI scanning, and morphing. It then projects it back into physical space in the form of 3D-printed sculptures.

Scales of Care

Studio2, University of Innsbruck (AT) and Design for Performance and Interaction, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (UK)

We imagine futures, many of them, and then we realize them. One thing these futures must all have in common is to “change not only the world we live in, but also ourselves”. Design for Performance and Interaction Studio2 MArch(s) studios are joining forces to explore first-hand in a collaborative exhibition how interdependence might unfold as kinship across institutions, disciplines, communities.

Desktop movies and other uncanny stories

The ArTeC Graduate School of Research (FR)

For the Ars Electronica Festival 2022 Campus exhibition, ArTeC Graduate School of Research selected four films by artists and researchers from Paris 8 University for an ongoing post-cinema screening that questions the evolution of communication systems analyzing daily landscapes on, with and through our screens.

SPICETOPIA

MAG (Media Art Globale), Festival by Connected Art Platform, Mona Liem (ID)

The exhibition of SPICETOPIA expresses the relationship and journey between humans, earth, technology and spice as symbols of health and nourishment and explores technology as a transformative tool for artists, researchers & academics.

Ville Radieuse

Musrara the Naggar School of Art and Society (IL)

In recent years Amir Meir has been researching the seam between the visible and the audible using the “Dudon,” a musical instrument that turns light and visible shapes into sound. The “Dudon” is an analog light synthesizer that translates changes in light exposure into sound.

Interverse of Things

Yasuaki Kakehi Lab, The University of Tokyo (JP)

This exhibition will feature three works that incorporate phenomena that cannot always be precisely controlled into the work and reveal narratives within each change. Rather than dismissing the uncontrollable as noise or coincidence, we will explore technology to create new values by utilizing the characteristics of these things that behave under their own mechanisms and principles.

Nature of Prototyping

College of Arts, National Tsing Hua University (TW)

In the face of the growing problems of the Earth resulting from intensification of human life and its implications, technology is often seen as an opportunity that would help order this chaos of overproduction. The Nature of Prototyping provides not solutions but reflections, and the development of technology serves to know others better.

Different Bodies, Different Myths

London College of Communication, University of the Arts London (UK)

What are the myths told about our world, ourselves, our bodies, other bodies? What are the myths we tell about the past, and how do they influence the new myths about the future? 22 new works of interaction design explore these questions and others to present new ideas about the possibilities of life, and how other lives are possible.

Human Touch

Korea National University of Arts | K-ARTS (KR)

Human Touch is an attitude facilitating humans to coexist with ecology and technology. It refers to a way of thinking whereby we can coexist with non-human beings, which previously were dependent on humans. In this regard, K-ARTS will present various immersive performances, NFT showcases, and lecture series.

Ballet Metanique

Korea National University of Art | K-ARTS (KR), Pohang University of Science and Technology (KR)

K-ART presents an on-site VR immersive performance collaborated with Pohang University of Science and Technology, Ballet Metanique is a reimagination of Ballet with the social and technical apparatus of Metaverse in the age of global warming.

Time, Space, Me, Us.

University of Nova Gorica School of Arts (SI)

„And I ran like crazy until I reached the edge the next day towards evening. We called this line that separated the known from the unknown the ‘edge of the world’.“ How far do the boundaries of our community go, how far does ‘me’ extend to and until where does a ‘we’ expand?

Sounding Lifeworld

Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture (FI)

Sounding Lifeworld explores what is possible when artificial intelligence method with deep learning model applied to a musical instrument and communicates with the musicians within a flow that is tailored to the variance and diversities of the new sounding lifeworld. It is as if Özcan and Tahiroğlu is thrown into the space of musical universe with continuously transforming cluster of sounds, facing with the challenge of forming a new transitional relationship between each other and the AI-terity.

Credits

Kunstuniversität Linz, Design and Technology: Fashion and Technology; Interface Cultures; Media Design; Time-Based and Interactive Media Art; PhD Study
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture
Anton Bruckner Private University Linz
Arizona State University, Leonardo ISAST
ArTeC Graduate School of Research
Bauhaus University, Weimar
Birmingham City University, School of Architecture and Design
Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication
Centre Art & Technology Studies Department of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Korea National University of Arts | K-ARTS
MAG (Media Art Globale), Festival by Connected Art Platform
Masaryk University, Faculty of Arts
Musrara the Naggar School of Art and Society
National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), College of Arts
Technical University Berlin (TU)
UNATC, CINETic
Universidad Austral de Chile
University College London, Bartlett School of Architecture
University of Applied Sciences Berlin, School of Culture and Design, Department of Communication Design
University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria
University of Auckland, arc/sec Lab
University of Innsbruck, Studio2
University of Nova Gorica School of Arts
University of the Arts Berlin (UdK)
University of the Arts London, College of Communication
Vilnius Academy of Arts, MENE, INSTITUTIO MEDIA
Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Design
Yasuaki Kakehi Lab., The University of Tokyo

Campus Exhibitions: Young Creation and International Perspectives

In collaboration with international academic institutions, the Campus exhibitions of the University of Art and Design Linz will once again become a platform for media art and experimental approaches.