interface-cultures

MOVEMENT ROBOTICS

Chris Ziegler (DE)

The workshop takes place in an interactive robotic stage of around 30 motorized LEDs, researching the relation of human physical motion in a relation to a mechanized environment. How can we make the user or audience experience more physical and participatory? The body of a dancer is connected to the environment and interacts both with the audience and the mechanical system through digital interfaces.

Photosynthetic You

Vanessa V(ozzo) (IT)

Workshop: Photosynthetic You explores fundamental ethical questions related to the renewed debate on genetics, reaching as far as the hypothesis of being able to exchange our human genes with those of other species using innovative systems such as CRISPR/Cas. What if we can all decide, paradoxically and in an extreme, mass democratic act, to become thin and motionless like leaves, energetically self-sufficient like plants, feeding only on light and solar power?

Leonardo Laser Linz

Christa Sommerer (AT) & Fabricio Lamoncha (ES), Verena Merstallinger (AT) & Doğuş Karlık (TR), Vanessa V(ozzo) (IT), Robertina Šebjanič (SI), Olivia Osborne (GB)

We are delighted once again for the opportunity to host our Leonardo Laser Talk at the Ars Electronica Festival 2022, with the support of the University of Art and Design Linz and the Interface Cultures Department.