Deep Space 8K

The Ars Electronica Center offers its visitors something that cannot be found anywhere else in the world: 16 x 9 meters of wall and another 16 x 9 meters of floor projection, laser tracking and 3D-animations make the Deep Space 8K something very special indeed. Furthermore, Deep Space 8K presents challenging infrastructure to media artists. As they go about adapting existing works and, above all, designing installations custom-made for this space, they’re entering artistic terra incognita. The position of visitors amidst the projection surface and participation by them call for a well-thought-out aesthetic composition and concepts for the resulting dynamics.

Deep Space 8K Calendar

Time	Title
10:00 am – 10:30 am	Deep Space Selection
10:30 am – 11:30 am	Cooperative Aesthetics
11:30 am – 12:00 pm	Dataspace: Global impacts of the Russian war on Ukraine EN
12:00 pm – 12:30 pm	Deep Delivery
12:30 pm – 1:00 pm	Deep Space Selection
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm	Superlative telescopes: In the desert and far behind the moon EN, DE
2:00 pm – 2:30 pm	FRUIT ART… REAL Vs.-VIRTUAL LIFE (FA-RVsVR)
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm	Rooted
4:00 pm – 4:30 pm	Deep Space Selection
5:00 pm – 5:15 pm	un ctrl
5:30 pm – 6:00 pm	Deep Space Selection
6:30 pm – 7:00 pm	Rooted

Time	Title
10:00 am – 10:30 am	The Art of enjoying the Silence
10:30 am – 11:00 am	Deep Space Selection
11:00 am – 12:00 pm	The 4th VH AWARD
12:30 pm – 1:00 pm	DANU
1:00 pm – 1:30 pm	Dataspace: Global impacts of the Russian war on Ukraine EN
1:30 pm – 2:00 pm	The Nature of Systems
2:15 pm – 3:00 pm	CoBot Studio – Research Insights into Human Robot Collaboration EN
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm	FRUIT ART… REAL Vs.-VIRTUAL LIFE (FA-RVsVR)
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm	Deep Space Selection
7:00 pm – 11:00 pm	Ars Electronica Futurelab: Night Performances

Time	Title
10:00 am – 10:30 am	Deep Space Selection
11:00 am – 12:00 pm	The Mona Lisa EN
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm	Searching for Planet B: How Astronomy Visualization and Remote Sensing Guide Us to Humanity’s Future
1:30 pm – 2:00 pm	Taking the pulse of our planet from space
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm	Gigapixel Images from the Vatican Museums — The Frescoes by Pietro Perugino in the Sistine Chapel: Beauty Leading to Faith
4:30 pm – 5:15 pm	Miragique
6:00 pm – 6:30 pm	un ctrl
6:30 pm – 7:00 pm	Deep Space Selection
7:30 pm – 8:00 pm	Fragility & Beauty – Earth from Space

Time	Title
10:00 am – 10:30 am	Deep Space Selection
10:30 am – 11:00 am	Our Earths VR Preview
11:00 am – 11:30 am	Welcome to Planet B – Deep Space
11:30 am – 12:00 pm	Deep Space Selection
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm	Searching for Planet B: How Astronomy Visualization and Remote Sensing Guide Us to Humanity’s Future
1:00 pm – 1:30 pm	Deep Space Selection
1:30 pm – 2:00 pm	Deep Delivery
2:00 pm – 2:30 pm	Teletext is Art
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm	PLASTICPHONIA – Music out of Plastic Trash
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm	Deep Space Selection
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm	Welcome to Planet B – Deep Space
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm	Project %, Blue Tears and Sandbox – The Taiwan Special
5:30 pm – 6:15 pm	un ctrl
6:00 pm – 6:30 pm	Ars Electronica Animation Festival: Being
6:30 pm – 7:00 pm	Ars Electronica Animation Festival: Egg, kai – a little too much, Cosmoetico
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm	The 4th VH AWARD

Time	Title
10:00 am – 10:30 am	Deep Space Selection
10:30 am – 11:00 am	Cooperative Aesthetics Performance
11:00 am – 11:30 am	Teletext is Art
11:30 am – 12:00 pm	Deep Space Selection
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm	Ars Electronica Animation Festival: Experimental Animation
1:00 pm – 1:30 pm	Deep Space Selection
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm	Searching for Planet B: How Astronomy Visualization and Remote Sensing Guide Us to Humanity’s Future
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm	VRA_peek
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm	Deep Space Selection
3:30 pm – 4:30 pm	Superlative telescopes: In the desert and far behind the moon EN, DE
4:30 pm – 5:00 pm	Deep Space Selection
5:00 pm – 5:30 pm	Hypothetical Moments
5:30 pm – 6:00 pm	The Art of enjoying the Silence

Deep Space 8K Projects

Ars Electronica Animation Festival: Being

Rashaad Newsome (US)

Being (2022) is a nonbinary, non-race AI created by combining animation game engines, scripted responses, generative grammars and unique machine-learning models.

CoBot Studio – Research Insights into Human Robot Collaboration

Martina Mara (AT), Brigitte Krenn (AT), Roland Haring (AT), Peter Holzkorn (AT), Kathrin Meyer (DE)

How to communicate with robot colleagues, increase acceptance for them and create a safe work environment? With the “CoBot Studio” research program, the LIT Robopsychology Lab of the JKU Linz, the Ars Electronica Futurelab and five other partners have been working on these and more questions for years now.

Cooperative Aesthetics

Carlotta Borcherding (DE), Axel Bräuer (AT), Ariathney Coyne (AT), Joann Lee (KR), Katherine Romero (CO), Emilia Vogt (DE), Friederike Weber (DE)

The interactive artworks under the title „Cooperative Aesthetics“ were created at the Art University of Linz by students of Timebased and Interactive Media Arts and Interface Culture under the supervision of Univ.-Prof. Gerhard Funk and Sen.Artist Holunder Heiß. Using the lasertracking system of the Ars Electronica Deep Space they enable visitors to have a collective, audiovisual, aesthetic experience.

Cooperative Aesthetics Performance

Botond Kelemen (HU), Bálint Budai (HU), Daniel Haas (artistname STURMHERTA) (AT )

Mold yourself! Fungi have existed for billions of years, setting the stage for humanity by supporting, carrying and converting life. – Schwarzes Rauschen (Black Noise) The project is an immersive, interactive installation, consisting of 12 different, dynamic worlds, which change their structures with the movement of the group of people currently being tracked.

DANU

Smirna Kulenovic (BA), Damian Cortes-Alberti (AR), Julia Moser (AT), Alejandra Benet Garcia (ES), Laura Gagliardi (IT), Lucia Mauri (IT), Ariathney Coyne (EL/US), Alessia Rizzi (IT), Lina Pulido Barragan (CO), Sara Koniarek (AT), Maria Dierneder (AT), Felix Chang (AT), Daphne Xanthopoulou (EL)

We are all Bodies of Water: Re-enchanting the Vulva, re-spiriting the Danube, inviting the magic back into our oceanic beginnings. Entangled between our menstrual blood and primeval waters of Dānu, we embody our ancestral river myths through our common microbes, dancing. Leaking, sponging, and dissolving our human watery bodies, we invite the audience into a ritualistic gaze of interacting dependency — a mystical relationship with our larger, ecological, Bodies of Water.

Dataspace: Global impacts of the Russian war on Ukraine

Nikkei Innovation Lab (JP), Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)

Dataspace proposes a “newspaper of the future”: Here, the Ars Electronica Futurelab and financial newspaper Nikkei’s Innovation Lab demonstrate, how art and journalism can help to listen carefully to facts and think deeply rather than just consuming and reacting to news.

Deep Delivery

Jeremiah Diephuis (US), Andrea Haider-Pachtrog (AT), Rita Hainzl (AT), Paul Huemer (AT), Sebastian Mayer (AT) 

In the co-located game Deep Delivery, designed specifically for Deep Space in the Ars Electronica Center, players assume the role of delivery services that take orders from the participating viewing audience, competing for the most accurate and fastest delivery performance.

Deep Space Evolution

2022, here and now. For months, the teams from Ars Electronica Futurelab and Ars Electronica Solutions have been pushing ahead with the evolution of the Deep Space 8K.

Deep Space Selection

At Deep Space Selection we present several times a day a selection from our programme variety, which we have been continuously developing since 2009. You can expect exciting stories and immersive experiences in impressive image quality and colour brilliance from the thematic fields of media art, science, technology, interaction and action.

Fragility & Beauty – Earth from Space

Nils Sparwasser (DE), Robert Meisner (DE), Rupert Huber (AT)

Join us on a journey around the world with breathtaking satellite images of our planet. Robert Meisner (ESA) and Nils Sparwasser (DLR) show how beautiful, fragile and endangered our planet is and how we are changing the surface of the Earth at an unprecedented speed. Be fascinated by the possibilities of Earth observation satellites, which today permanently provide us with information about the state of our planet.

Ars Electronica Animation Festival: Egg, kai – a little too much, Cosmoetico

Martina Scarpelli (IT)

Italian filmmaker based in Denmark with studies in Milan, Turin, and a variety of residence experiences and distinctions.

The Art of enjoying the Silence

Georgios Tsampounaris (GR) 

A meditative immersive experience of sea-view, underwater, landscapes and wave soundscapes in Mediterranean.  The more you see and hear repetitive patterns and sounds, the more you start observing micro-details.

Ars Electronica Animation Festival: Experimental Animation

Experimental and innovative forays into various forms of animation are on display here.

FRUIT ART… REAL Vs.-VIRTUAL LIFE (FA-RVsVR)

Franz Fischnaller (IT)

Exploring How Nature Makes Fiction Come Alive – 8K 3D Stereo Gigapixel immersive fruit art-based experience, gravitating around the invisible world of fruits. Visitors are virtually transferred “inside”.

Welcome to Planet B – Deep Space

There are many concepts to combat the climate crisis, but which measures are the most promising? “Welcome to Planet B”, the new program by the Ars Electronica Futurelab, lets visitors of the Deep Space 8K choose: In a virtual reality based on data from Earth, they decide on various climate issues to better assess the consequences.

Gigapixel Images from the Vatican Museums — The Frescoes by Pietro Perugino in the Sistine Chapel: Beauty Leading to Faith

Dr. Barbara Jatta (IT), Dr. Rosanna Di Pinto (IT)

For the first time, the Vatican Museums will be guests at the Ars Electronica Center for a special Cultural Heritage Series based on a cooperation with the Vatican Museums and the Embassy of Austria to the Holy See in Rome. Gigapixel images of two outstanding artworks by the Great Master Pietro Perugino in the Sistine Chapel — the main Chapel in the Pope’s Palace — will be presented at Deep Space 8K.

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.

Miragique

Kaoru Tashiro (JP), Razieh Kooshki (IR), Vahid Ghaderi (IR)

A performance of Real time 3D visual with Piano playing the compositions by Kenji Sakai (JP), Julia Purgina (AT), Claude Ledoux (BE), J.P. Deleuze(BE)

The Nature of Systems

Sebastian Pirch (AT), Norbert Unfug (AT), Christiane V. R. Hütter (AT), Jörg Menche (DE) 

We live in the anthropocene, where human and natural ecosystems collide. In this interactive visualization, we explore the emergence and breakdown of complex systems from the cellular to the planetary scale. Life emerges from the interactions of biomolecules, cities from connecting people, the global society from sharing ideas. These systems can be beautiful, but also fragile.

Ars Electronica Futurelab: Night Performances

To bring the Futurelab Day on Thursday to a fitting close, in the evening the Ars Electronica Futurelab invites everyone to join the Night Performances: Visitors can enjoy a wide range of experiences — from the lab’s latest work to fascinating art performances, including world-class piano and dance with stunning visuals in the unique setting of Deep Space 8K, a giant immersive environment developed by the Ars Electronica Futurelab.

Our Earths VR Preview

Sebastian Postl (AT), Claudia Puck (AT), Sebastian Pichelhofer (AT), Katharina Keiblinger (AT), Jelena Obradovic (AT), Roberto Schaefer, ASC, AIC (AT), Johann Steinegger (AT)

Looking back in a few hundred years, how will humanity have prevented the collapse by climate crisis, resource scarcity, species extinction and exponential growth? This project creates a science-based utopia – the success story of mankind – and fuses animation and real film elements into an immersive 3D experience with an atmospheric soundtrack in a virtual reality experience.

PLASTICPHONIA – Music out of Plastic Trash

Crystn Hunt Akron (AT) , Christopher Noelle (DE)

By moving the material, sounds are generated from plastic parts such as brushes, bags, bin, bottles, tubes, cups, etc. The trash acts as an instrument and this PLASTIC WASTE becomes MUSIC.  The concert is supported by a visualization by Berlin’s artist Christopher Noelle also known as TOFA.

Project %, Blue Tears and Sandbox – The Taiwan Special

Lien-Cheng Wang (TW), Aluan Wang (TW), Jinyao Lin (TW), Hsiao-Yue Tsao (TW), Chin-Hsiang Hu (TW), Tzu-Liang Chen (TW), Yu-Hao Lee (TW)

Based on Project Percentage by FAB DAO (Formosa Art Bank DAO), three Taiwanese audiovisual artists, Lien-Cheng Wang, Aluan Wang, and Jin-Yao Lin, will have a 30 minutes long show at Deep Space. The performance uses Taiwan’s mountain ridges as materials to outline the mountains in the digital world.

Taking the pulse of our planet from space

Simonetta Cheli (IT) , Robert Meisner (DE)

The view of the Earth from space is the only perspective that allows us to observe changes on our planet. To demonstrate the relevance and value of Earth observation in terms of environmental and socio-economic benefits, the journey takes us to current issues around climate change with a virtual presentation.

Rooted

Elliott Gaston-Ross (GB/IE) , Indiara Di Benedetto (IT)

The project Rooted performed at the Deep Space 8K is an artistic depiction of the effects of climate change on our planet through live electroacoustic musical performance with accompanimental visual effects by Indiara Di Benedetto.

Searching for Planet B: How Astronomy Visualization and Remote Sensing Guide Us to Humanity’s Future

Dan Tell (US) 

Thousands of years of increasingly precise measuring and modeling have revolutionized humanity’s understanding of the universe. We now know Earth is one of many planets, but it is uniquely habitable. The same research and techniques we use to understand these other worlds can help us understand what made Earth habitable in the first place and how we can restore and sustain this planet into the future.

Superlative telescopes: In the desert and far behind the moon

Dr. Dietmar Hager — Stargazer Observatory (AT)

The well-known Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has reached its limits. Modern telescopes will have to work outside visible light to make new discoveries possible. The JWST (James Webb Space Telescope) is one of the successors. It will be supported by Earth-based telescopes, such as the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), which is currently being built in Chile. The talk reaches out from the HST to the JWST and the GMT and gives an idea of how new insights will revolutionize our understanding of space.

Teletext is Art

Bloom Jr. (DE), Buzzlightning (DE), Gleb Divov (LT/RU), Christoph Faulhaber (DE), Max Haarich (DE), Juha van Ingen (FI), KleinTonno (DE), Claudie Linke (DE), Nissla (AT), Numo (DE), Quasimondo (DE), Jarkko Räsänen (FI), Mamadou Sow (DE), sp4ce (DE) and tius (DE)

The teletext exhibition “Teletext is Art” will be shown in a presentation at Deep Space 8K. Five of the participating artists present their artworks, provide insights into the technical implementation of teletext artworks and the aspect of immortalization as NFTs in the blockchain.

The Mona Lisa

Vincent Delieuvin (FR), Christelle Terrier (FR), Roei Amit (FR)

Why is the Mona Lisa the most famous painting in the world? The answers to this apparently simple question are varied, complex and surprising, giving visitors an insight into part of the myth and above all into the work itself, beyond any false mysteries and clichés.  This immersive exhibition invites a wide audience to experience an exhibition, and everyone’s relationship with this emblematic work, in a brand-new way.

un ctrl

Daniel Kohlmeigner (AT), Martin Retschitzegger (AT), Cat Jimenez (AT) 

un ctrl is an intertwining performance between a musician, a dancer and a visual artist.

The 4th VH AWARD

VH AWARD

The VH AWARD aims to support Asian media artists from diverse backgrounds whose works creatively portray a vast array of issues. The 4th VH AWARD finalists’ works engage with technology in new ways and forge new connections, addressing subjects that range from the relationship between humans and artificial intelligence to the pressing social and ecological issues of our time.

VRA_peek

Daniel Haas (artistname STURMHERTA) (AT)

VRA_peek is an audio-visual performance, in which sound is created exclusively out of images.

This year’s Festival programme in Deep Space 8K is kindly supported by Dorotheum and Linz AG

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Deep Space 8K Projects

Rashaad Newsome (US)

Martina Mara (AT), Brigitte Krenn (AT), Roland Haring (AT), Peter Holzkorn (AT), Kathrin Meyer (DE)

Carlotta Borcherding (DE), Axel Bräuer (AT), Ariathney Coyne (AT), Joann Lee (KR), Katherine Romero (CO), Emilia Vogt (DE), Friederike Weber (DE)

Botond Kelemen (HU), Bálint Budai (HU), Daniel Haas (artistname STURMHERTA) (AT )

Smirna Kulenovic (BA), Damian Cortes-Alberti (AR), Julia Moser (AT), Alejandra Benet Garcia (ES), Laura Gagliardi (IT), Lucia Mauri (IT), Ariathney Coyne (EL/US), Alessia Rizzi (IT), Lina Pulido Barragan (CO), Sara Koniarek (AT), Maria Dierneder (AT), Felix Chang (AT), Daphne Xanthopoulou (EL)

Nikkei Innovation Lab (JP), Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)

Jeremiah Diephuis (US), Andrea Haider-Pachtrog (AT), Rita Hainzl (AT), Paul Huemer (AT), Sebastian Mayer (AT)

Nils Sparwasser (DE), Robert Meisner (DE), Rupert Huber (AT)

Martina Scarpelli (IT)

Georgios Tsampounaris (GR)

Franz Fischnaller (IT)

Dr. Barbara Jatta (IT), Dr. Rosanna Di Pinto (IT)

Charles Amirkhanian (US), Carol Law (US)

Kaoru Tashiro (JP), Razieh Kooshki (IR), Vahid Ghaderi (IR)

Sebastian Pirch (AT), Norbert Unfug (AT), Christiane V. R. Hütter (AT), Jörg Menche (DE)

Sebastian Postl (AT), Claudia Puck (AT), Sebastian Pichelhofer (AT), Katharina Keiblinger (AT), Jelena Obradovic (AT), Roberto Schaefer, ASC, AIC (AT), Johann Steinegger (AT)

Crystn Hunt Akron (AT) , Christopher Noelle (DE)

Lien-Cheng Wang (TW), Aluan Wang (TW), Jinyao Lin (TW), Hsiao-Yue Tsao (TW), Chin-Hsiang Hu (TW), Tzu-Liang Chen (TW), Yu-Hao Lee (TW)

Simonetta Cheli (IT) , Robert Meisner (DE)

Elliott Gaston-Ross (GB/IE) , Indiara Di Benedetto (IT)

Dan Tell (US)

Dr. Dietmar Hager — Stargazer Observatory (AT)

Bloom Jr. (DE), Buzzlightning (DE), Gleb Divov (LT/RU), Christoph Faulhaber (DE), Max Haarich (DE), Juha van Ingen (FI), KleinTonno (DE), Claudie Linke (DE), Nissla (AT), Numo (DE), Quasimondo (DE), Jarkko Räsänen (FI), Mamadou Sow (DE), sp4ce (DE) and tius (DE)

Vincent Delieuvin (FR), Christelle Terrier (FR), Roei Amit (FR)

Daniel Kohlmeigner (AT), Martin Retschitzegger (AT), Cat Jimenez (AT)

VH AWARD

Daniel Haas (artistname STURMHERTA) (AT)

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Deep Space 8K Calendar

Deep Space 8K Projects

Rashaad Newsome (US)

Martina Mara (AT), Brigitte Krenn (AT), Roland Haring (AT), Peter Holzkorn (AT), Kathrin Meyer (DE)

Carlotta Borcherding (DE), Axel Bräuer (AT), Ariathney Coyne (AT), Joann Lee (KR), Katherine Romero (CO), Emilia Vogt (DE), Friederike Weber (DE)

Botond Kelemen (HU), Bálint Budai (HU), Daniel Haas (artistname STURMHERTA) (AT )

Smirna Kulenovic (BA), Damian Cortes-Alberti (AR), Julia Moser (AT), Alejandra Benet Garcia (ES), Laura Gagliardi (IT), Lucia Mauri (IT), Ariathney Coyne (EL/US), Alessia Rizzi (IT), Lina Pulido Barragan (CO), Sara Koniarek (AT), Maria Dierneder (AT), Felix Chang (AT), Daphne Xanthopoulou (EL)

Nikkei Innovation Lab (JP), Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)

Jeremiah Diephuis (US), Andrea Haider-Pachtrog (AT), Rita Hainzl (AT), Paul Huemer (AT), Sebastian Mayer (AT)

Nils Sparwasser (DE), Robert Meisner (DE), Rupert Huber (AT)

Martina Scarpelli (IT)

Georgios Tsampounaris (GR)

Franz Fischnaller (IT)

Dr. Barbara Jatta (IT), Dr. Rosanna Di Pinto (IT)

Charles Amirkhanian (US), Carol Law (US)

Kaoru Tashiro (JP), Razieh Kooshki (IR), Vahid Ghaderi (IR)

Sebastian Pirch (AT), Norbert Unfug (AT), Christiane V. R. Hütter (AT), Jörg Menche (DE)

Sebastian Postl (AT), Claudia Puck (AT), Sebastian Pichelhofer (AT), Katharina Keiblinger (AT), Jelena Obradovic (AT), Roberto Schaefer, ASC, AIC (AT), Johann Steinegger (AT)

Crystn Hunt Akron (AT) , Christopher Noelle (DE)

Lien-Cheng Wang (TW), Aluan Wang (TW), Jinyao Lin (TW), Hsiao-Yue Tsao (TW), Chin-Hsiang Hu (TW), Tzu-Liang Chen (TW), Yu-Hao Lee (TW)

Simonetta Cheli (IT) , Robert Meisner (DE)

Elliott Gaston-Ross (GB/IE) , Indiara Di Benedetto (IT)

Dan Tell (US)

Dr. Dietmar Hager — Stargazer Observatory (AT)

Bloom Jr. (DE), Buzzlightning (DE), Gleb Divov (LT/RU), Christoph Faulhaber (DE), Max Haarich (DE), Juha van Ingen (FI), KleinTonno (DE), Claudie Linke (DE), Nissla (AT), Numo (DE), Quasimondo (DE), Jarkko Räsänen (FI), Mamadou Sow (DE), sp4ce (DE) and tius (DE)

Vincent Delieuvin (FR), Christelle Terrier (FR), Roei Amit (FR)

Daniel Kohlmeigner (AT), Martin Retschitzegger (AT), Cat Jimenez (AT)

VH AWARD

Daniel Haas (artistname STURMHERTA) (AT)

WELCOME TO PLANET B

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Botond Kelemen (HU), Bálint Budai (HU), Daniel Haas (artistname STURMHERTA) (AT )

Jeremiah Diephuis (US), Andrea Haider-Pachtrog (AT), Rita Hainzl (AT), Paul Huemer (AT), Sebastian Mayer (AT) 

Georgios Tsampounaris (GR) 

Charles Amirkhanian (US), Carol Law (US) 

Sebastian Pirch (AT), Norbert Unfug (AT), Christiane V. R. Hütter (AT), Jörg Menche (DE) 

Crystn Hunt Akron (AT) , Christopher Noelle (DE)

Elliott Gaston-Ross (GB/IE) , Indiara Di Benedetto (IT)

Dan Tell (US) 

Daniel Kohlmeigner (AT), Martin Retschitzegger (AT), Cat Jimenez (AT) 