Welcome to Planet B
The Festival University 2022
Even before the festival began, 200 students from over 70 countries spent four weeks at the Festival University of Ars Electronica with JKU scientists, artists, and many other high-ranking experts from all areas of art, technology, science, and society. They develop strategies and solutions and experience the complexity of one of the most significant challenges of our time in a fictitious international environmental court simulation (“The International Environmental and Climate Court”). The IECC will meet on Sept. 9, Sept. 10 and Sept. 11 at the Festival University Stage in KEPLER’S GARDENS and center petitions on water, climate migration and energy.
The International Environmental and Climate Court (IECC)
These court sessions are simulations conducted by the students of the Festival University 2022. Each day is dedicated to a specific topic: FRI Sept. 9 Water, SAT Sept. 10 Migration and SUN Sept. 11 Energy. This program is open to all visitors of the Ars Electronica Festival. Join us in the audience!
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Replay
Festival University, Credit: JKU
Festival University, Credit: JKU
Festival University, Credit: JKU
Festival University, Credit: tom mesic
Global challenges of tomorrow require a new approach – one based on creativity and co-creation. The Festival University, a joint initiative between Ars Electronica and Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU), invites students from around the world to jointly develop planetary strategies for change and transformation.
With “Welcome to Planet B” as the title for this year’s festival, the focus of the program is not just on climate change and its effects itself, but extends to the even more important questions of how we as a society, as nations, as a global community can respond to the challenges it poses.
- How can we collaborate and cope with the massive transformations required?
- How can we set the changes in motion?
- How can we manage such changes?
- What consequences will all these changes bring?
- What will the world, our world, look like after we have managed this transformation?
| Locations | In Linz, Austria |
| Duration | 4 weeks |
| Program dates | August 18th – September 14th, 2022 |
| Target group | Students from all disciplines 16–25 years |
| Application Deadline (extended) | July 4th, 2022 – 11:59pm CEST |
| Language | English |
| Study type | Festival University |
| Time requirement | Full-time |
| Credits | 6 ECTS |
| Stipends | The program is supported by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Research. |
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Faculty
Marcus Neustetter
Artist / Co-Director of The Trinity Session (South Africa & Austria)
Tammy Palesa Stewart
Artist / Project Manager at The Trinity Session (South Africa)
Seda Röder
Founder & CEO – Sonophilia Foundation; Managing Partner – Mindshift.Global (Austria)
Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
Director of the Global Research Communications – RethinkX; Special Investigations & Global Trends Reporter – BylineTimes (UK)
Tina Auer
Time‘s Up (Austria)
Tim Boykett
Time‘s Up (Austria)
Karen Palmer
Storyteller from the Future (UK)
Yoko Shimizu
Key Researcher & Artist – Ars Electronica Futurelab (Japan)
Miranda Marcus
Head of BBC News Lab – BBC (UK)
Prof. Gernot M. Wallner
(Austria)
Emran Feroz
Journalist (Austria & Afghanistan)
Andreas Safron
Climate Change Adaptation Manager – Sterngartl Gusental (Austria)
Andreas Reichl
CEO – Sternwird (Austria)
Team Memorial Gusen
(Austria)
Dr. Friedrich Hinterberger
Vice-President – Club of Rome (Austria)
Crystn Hunt Akron
Music Producer & performance artist – Plasticphonia
Dr. Matthew Gardiner
Artist & Key Researcher Ars Electronica Futurelab (Austria)
Prof. Johannes Braumann
Robots in Architecture (Austria)
Amir Bastani
Robots in Architecture (Austria)
Martin Rauchbauer
Tech Diplomacy Senior Fellow – DiploFoundation (Austria)
Prof. Dr. Franz Fischler
Former EU Commissioner, former President of the European Forum Alpbach, advisor to numerous governments and the OECD, author (Austria)
Mike Artner
Fridays For Future (Austria)
Dr. Eduardo Kapapelo
Researcher – Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria
Martin Hoffmann
Scientist 4 Future OÖ (Austria)
Dr. Ebrahim Afsah
Professor of Islamic law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Vienna (Austria)
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Lana Ivanjek
Junior Professor at the Chair for Didactics of Physics – Technical University Dresden (Germany)
Sarah Newman
Co-Founder – Data Nutrition Project; Director of Art & Education at metaLAB at Harvard (USA)
Kasia Chmielinski
Co-Founder – Data Nutrition Project; Current Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School & Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center (Austria)
Guy Ben-Ary
Artist, Researcher (Australia)
Nathan Thompson
New Media Artist/Design Engineer (Australia)
Richard Wilson
Director – Stop Funding Hate, Co-founder – Stop Funding Heat (UK)
Sean Buchan
Campaign Manager – Stop Funding Heat (Austria)
Prof. Dr. Thomas Gegenhuber
Professor for Managing Socio-Technical Transitions – Johannes Kepler University (Austria)
Univ.-Prof.in Dr.in Barbara Krumay, Bakk. MSc
Head of Institute – Institute of Business Informatics – Information Engineering – Johannes Kepler University (Austria)
Dr. Manuel Mühlburger, MSc
Assistant Professor – Institute of Business Informatics – Information Engineering – Johannes Kepler University (Austria)
Marko Vivoda
Creative Director – HEKA lab (Slovenia)
Gjorgji Despodov
3D Illustrator & Graphic Designer (Slovenia)
Daria Kuklina
Peace Activist
Ruth Freedom Pojman
International Expert, Advisor, Consultant, Founder Ruth Freedom Pojman Advisory Services
Jun. Prof. Dr. Lana Ivanjek
Professorship for Didactics of Physics – University of Technology Dresden
Magdalena Micloi
PhD student, research assistant – University of Technology Dresden
Flora Peham
Climate Activist, Friday‘s For Future, LobauBleibt & Jugendrat (Youth Council), Student
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Alexander R. Moschen, PhD
Head of the Department of Internal Medicine 2 – Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Nephrology, Rheumatology Kepler University Hospital – Johannes Kepler University, Faculty of Medicine
Prim. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Franz Fellner
Board of Directors of the Central Radiology Institute; Kepler University Hospital – Johannes Kepler University, Faculty of Medicine
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Bernd Lamprecht
Head of the University Department of Internal Medicine 4 – Pneumology; Kepler University Hospital – Johannes Kepler University, Faculty of Medicine
Univ.-Prof. DDr. Wolfram Hötzenecker, MBA
Head of the University Department of Dermatology and Venereology; Kepler University Hospital – Johannes Kepler University, Faculty of Medicine
Court Simulation
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Mathis Fister
Johannes Kepler University; Lawyer & Partner; Tschurtschenthaler walder Fister
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Bergthaler
Johannes Kepler University; Lawyer & Partner; Haslinger & Nagele
Qing Qin
Artist
Mag. Barbara Simma LL.M.
Judge at Federal Administrative Court
Peter Hammer
Judge at Federal Administrative Court
Mike Artner
Fridays For Future (Austria)
Dr. Eduardo Kapapelo
Researcher – Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria
Andreas Safron
Climate Change Adaptation Manager – Sterngartl Gusental (Austria)
Festival Faculty
Manthia Diawara
is a Malian writer, filmmaker, cultural theorist, scholar, and art historian. He holds the title of University Professor at New York University, where he is Director of the Institute of Afro-American Affairs. (Mali)
Selina Nairok Leem
climate change activist, spoken word performer. She was the youngest speaker at COP21 and has also spoken at COP26, making a “passionate plea” to world leaders for increased action on addressing climate change. (Marshall Islands)
Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker
Environmental Scientist, Former Member of the German Bundestag, Former co-president of the Club of Rome (Germany)
Jayati Ghosh
Development Economist, Chairperson of the Centre for Economic Studies (NJU) (India)
Maria Langsenlehner
Project Lead Circular Futures – Circular Economy Platform Austria (Germany)
Giulia Foscari
Architect, Founder of UNLESS, a non-profit agency for change devoted to interdisciplinary research on extreme environments. Project Lead Antarctic Resolution (Italy)
Carlo Barbante
Director Institute of Polar Sciences, Prof. Analytical Chemistry, University Ca‘Foscari Venice (Italy)
Eva Franch Gilabert
Architect, curator, educator; Experiemental Architecture for Green Innovation, Radical Change (Spain)
Laurie Anderson
Visionary Pioneer, film director, composer, musician, fighter for human rights (USA)
Holly Herndon
Musician, composer and innovative sound artist (USA)
Gianni Riotta
Journalist (La Stampa, Washington Post, Le Monde, New York Times) and Director of Data Lab at LUISS (Italy)
Bernd Hezel
Bernd Hezel investigates, designs and realises audio-visual climate change communication formats at the Climate Media Factory.
Marta Handenawer
Creative Director of Domestic Data Streamers, fighting environmental violence using data and art (Spain)
Aimee Van Wynsberghe
Founder Bonn Sustainable AI Lab, Director of the Institute for Science and Ethics at the University of Bonn and member of the European Commission’s High Level Expert Group on AI (Netherlands)
Robertina Šebjanič
internationally awarded artist, whose work revolves around the biological, chemical, political, and cultural realities of aquatic environments and explores humankind’s impact on other species and on the rights of non-human entities (Slovenia)
Marjan Žitnik
Computer Scientist, CEO Maritimo Recycling, which cleans the Adriatic Sea from plastic, upcycling it into innovative use (Slovenia)
Alexandra Antwi-Boasiako
Creative Industries, Communication and Media (Ghana/Germany)
Bernd Fesel
director of the European Creative Business Network (ECBN), vice director of the European Capital of Culture (Ruhr Region) and senior advisor to the European Centre for creative economy (Germany)
Diana Ayton-Shenker
CEO Leonardo/ISAST, Professor at ASU Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation, CEO of Global Momenta, founder of the Fast Forward Fund (USA)
Bradly Dunn Klerks
Expert of Technology and Innovation in Green Fashion, former CEO of Iris van Herpen, works now with Yuima Nakazato (Belgium/Netherlands)
Babitha George
Partner Quicksand Studio Bangalore, social impact & environmental technology (India)
Shannon Dosemagen
Director Open Environmental Data Project, President & Executive Director Public Lab, Environmental health advocate (USA)
Camila Nobrega
Journalist working on social-environmental conflicts and environmental justice for The Guardian, Le Monde, Mongabay. Founder at Beyond the Green (Brazil)
Luis Felipe Rosado Murillo
Arctic Research Center, Data Scientist, Anthropologist, free and open software research, Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Uni. (Brazil)
Persephone Lewis
specializes in training and organizational management with a focus on American Indian communities, creating impactful, effective, culturally-competant organizations and programs. (USA)
Audrey-Flore Ngomsik
Scientist, Green Chemistry and Sustainable Development, CEO & Founder Trianon Scientific Communication, CEO Climate Change Strategist (Belgium)
Andres Colmenares
Environmental activist, lawyer, co-director of The Billion Seconds Institute, a lifelong learning initiative, co-founder of IAM, the creative research lab for socioecological challenges (Columbia)
Artists
Gijs Schalkx (NL)
Engineer, vehicle that is powered by local and sustainable cooling sources
Tega Brain (AU)
Environmental engineer, artist who examines how technology shapes ecology
Sam Lavigne (US)
An environmental chatbot. His work deals with technology, data, surveillance, natural language processing and automation
Ory Yoshifuji (JP)
He created a robot as an avatar to enable social participation, allowing for new ways of employment for peopole with special needs
Amina Khoulani (SY)
is a Syrian survivor of Assad’s prisons and she has campaigned for other prisoners and helped to support their families. She was chosen as an International Woman of Courage in March 2020
Kiya Tadele (Ethiopia)
Director of Yatreda art collective
Joanna Wright (GB)
Her work deals with the final days of a rural nuclear power station in Wales
Center for Political Beauty (DE)
The Center for Political Beauty embodies a radical form of humanism. It is an assault troop that establishes moral beauty, political poetry, and human magnanimity. The Center fuses the power of fantasy with the power of history
Total Refusal (AT)
The pseudo-marxist media guerilla Total Refusal explores and practices strategies for artistic intervention in contemporary computer games
Rashaad Newsome (US)
Using the diasporic traditions of improvisation, he pulls from the world of advertising, the internet, Art History, and Black and Queer culture to produce counter-hegemonic work
Alex Verhaest (BE)
Ad Hominem is an interactive philosophical choose-your-own-adventure film, based on Eutopia Unbound, in which the player is cast in the role of Change. The player is invited to pick an answer to questions proposed by four different characters representing four distinct utopic ideas
Jung Hsu (TW)
Her work has focused on micro-biopolitics and social movements
Natalia Rivera (CO)
Media artist and designer. My creative processes have focused on developing interactive experiences and a bio-centered use of new media
Cristhian Avila (PE)
pre-Hispanic music instruments, that are again “played” by the wind with technology assistance, we intend to hear random interpretations of someone else’s past
Masaki Fujihata (JP)
pioneers of new media art. His project considering the new type of ownership of digital artwork made possible using NFTs, not based on a uniqueness rooted in conventional materials, but as a novel means of ownership utilizing the properties of digital data
Dora Bartilotti (MX)
Voz Pública is a tactical mediation and participatory art piece that seeks to amplify the protest against gender violence in the urban context of Latin America
Gabriela Munguía (MX)
Her production recovers different Latin American cosmovisions, speculative thinking, ecomaterialisms and open source technologies to address issues related to geopolitics, reciprocity between species and environmental justice
Kat Austen (UK)
she focusses on environmental issues and melds disciplines and media, creating sculptural and installations, performances and participatory work. Her praxis is underpinned by extensive research and theory, and driven by a motivation to explore how to move towards a more socially and environmentally just future
Fara Peluso (IT/DE)
Fara Peluso is an artist and designer who seeks to deepen the relationship between human beings, living organisms and biological processes. Through a speculative practice, Peluso proposes alternative solutions aimed at rebuilding our coexistence with nature.
Laura Cinti (ZA)
a biodiversity-focused art-science project searching for a female mate for one of the rarest plants on Earth, the extinct-in-the-wild cycad – the Encephalartos woodii. It is a dramatic illustration of how easy it is to lose a species and our biodiversity
Siobhán McDonald (IE)
Her work centers around climate change, which she develops in art-sci collaborations
Yuima Nakazato (JP)
Yuima initiated the FASHION FRONTIER PROGRAM, an educational project for ambitious, next-generation fashion designers. Yuima seeks to address social issues while pursuing cutting-edge fashion through his collections presented at Haute Couture Week
Kuang-Yi Ku (TW)
is a bio-artist and speculative designer. He co-founded TW BioArt (a Taiwan bioart community) to stimulate the fields of BioArt and Science + Art in Taiwan. His works often deal with the human body, sexuality, interspecies interactions, and medical technology
Hypercomf (GR)
seeks to investigate and communicate the perceptual and practical problems that arise in marine ecosystem preservation by inviting the subject of the ocean inside our terrestrial homes and exploring ecosemiotic links and physical interactions between human homes and marine caves
Bill Fontana (US)
Is internationally known for his pioneering experiments in sound art
Irakli Sabekia (GE)
create an experimental digital platform that links geographical locations with personal stories. It is about places that had to be abandoned for political, social, ethnic, or religious reasons and about the narratives and stories of the people who lived there. Submitted even before Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, the Georgian artist’s poetic and conceptually compelling project is also highly topical
Marjan Colletti (IT)
Architect, founder of REX/LAB, a robotic lab at Uni Innsbruck, Chair of Building Design & Construction at Uni Bartlett, innovator with new approaches related to environmentally friendly buildings
Sara Dean, Beth Ferguson, Marina Monsonis (ES/US)
seeks to investigate and communicate the perceptual and practical problems that arise in marine ecosystem preservation by inviting the subject of the ocean inside our terrestrial homes and exploring ecosemiotic links and physical interactions between human homes and marine caves
Maja Smrekar (SI)
Is one of the most radical artists. She utilizes computation as a tool for critically addressing behavioral engineering within the human-dog-artificial intelligence paradigm
Karl Markovics (AT)
One of the most interesting actors as well as a film director
Jana Winderen (NO)
an artist based in Norway with a background in mathematics, chemistry and fish ecology. She works with soundscapes deep under water, inside ice or in frequency ranges inaudible to the human ear
