Linz

Echinoidea Future — Adriatic Sensing

Robertina Šebjanič (SI)

The project addresses the current biogeological and morphological conditions in the sea urchin environment, which is aqua-formed by anthropogenic liquid waste, resulting in low oxygen levels in the water. Exploring the stressors of the local/global human footprint, the project demonstrates the resilience of the aquatic species. The project acts as an activation of (sy)(e)mpathia. The main research was carried out in the coastal region of the Adriatic Sea at the UR Institute, Dubrovnik (STARTS4water).

the Intersection

Superflux (GB)

Superflux‘s film The Intersection journeys from a violent present to a cooperative future. Set within a possible hopeful future, several years after growing inequality and the splintering of reality reached a critical mass. The story features diverse protagonists recounting personal past experiences and their place in the emergence of the future they now live in — both the chaos and the hope that surfaced afterwards.

Feral Automated System: ULTB-1

Posthuman Studies Lab (RU)

The project outlines the interconnections between vegetal and computing systems in a vein of current ecological crises and diverse narrations about alternative futures. Excavating Soviet narratives of building a common world that embraces not only humans, but animals, plants and machines, we created a network composed of both vegetal and digital parts that include chips and internet protocols, along with phytomining technology and plant-based computing architectures.

Living Dead — On the Trail of a Female

Laura Deborah Cinti (IT/ZA)

Living Dead — On the Trail of a Female (2022) is a biodiversity-focused project involving the search for a female mate for one of the rarest plants on Earth, the extinct-in-the-wild male cycad — the Encephalartos woodii.

Hypothetical Moments

Charles Amirkhanian (US), Carol Law (US)

New videos of early experiments in performance media by two artists using invented tools, ambient sound recordings, text, electronic music and photography. The resulting montages for the eye and ear evoke both humorous and psychological spaces in the mind! Dare to Watch.

Ouroboros

Kat Austen (UK/DE) and Fara Peluso (IT/DE)

Ouroborous proposes a bioplastic LP record based on a circular relationship with new materiality in a post-extractive age. Combining new bioplastics and audio aesthetics, the installation entangles extraction, material longevity and the climate to question the position of the human in global and local ecosystems. Ouroboros is the exhibition outcome of the Circular Records project by Kat Austen and Fara Peluso.

A parallel (r)evolution — Digital Art in Latin America

CIFO & Ars Electronica

CIFO, the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation based in Miami, has been promoting Latin American modern art for some 20 years and sees itself as a platform for artists, both emerging and established. Together with Ars Electronica, CIFO is preparing a prize to mark its 20th anniversary.

Have You Seen Her...?

Dora Ytzell Bartilotti (MX)

Participatory art piece that seeks to generate a poetic gesture of search and collective demand to make present our missing women, victims of forced disappearance in Mexico. The project seeks to bring together a polyphony of voices around the question “La has visto...?” (“Have you seen her?”) through a sound sculpture and a series of fabric strips. Each strip corresponds to a missing identity, to each of them the question: “La has visto?”

int.: time slip, a song for structural comfort

Thessia Machado (BR/US)

A sound and light installation, featuring two wall-mounted, light-sensitive string instruments played by a video projection. The architecture itself functions as the resonating body, singing through its structure and filling the space with a composition of evolving drones.

The Walls Know

Ana Elena Tejera (PA)

The old School of the Americas in Panama still stands: a three-story building, long corridors and few people. The halls witnessed a rigorous military education founded on oppressed soldiers of Latin American dictators and leaders. Today these same walls enclose a hotel, and the terrifying past is still present. The immersive installation is an artificial intelligence performance grounded on military manuals, archival images, what lies behind the sensations and memories and remnants of the place.