Women in Media Arts

Residency. But How?

Christian Rauch (DE), Aimee Van Wynsberghe (CA), Irakli Sabekia (GE), Marjan Žitnik (HR), Robertina Šebjanič (SI)

Residency programs offer an opportunity for Artists or Scientists to swap their respective point of view – from working in an atelier to testing their skills in a laboratory context and vice versa – thus encouraging the exchange of ideas and building of new conceptiual models for problem solving.

Visionary Pioneers Lecture by Laurie Anderson with Laudatio by Charles Amirkhanian

Laurie Anderson (US), Charles Amirkhanian (US), Gerfried Stocker (AT)

Ars Electronica honors internationally renowned artist Laurie Anderson (US) as the 2022 “Visionary Pioneer of Media Art”.

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.

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)

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.