So, dear students, dear guests, dear colleagues, please come here, there's so much space between us. Please come here, some steps, come here. Yes, to the camera. Wonderful. A very warm welcome to all of you. Yes, to the camera. Wonderful. A very warm welcome to all of you. It's Ars Campus, it's Ars Electronica 2026, and it's the best time in the year in Linz, and we all have fun with the project, with the presentations, and with the time we have above us. A very warm welcome and a special welcome to the former rector, my colleague, who is now whistling, Reinhard Kanani. It's great that you are here. A very warm welcome. And also a very warm welcome to Margot Nassal, the Director of Cultural Affairs and the Chief of the Cultural Department. Thank you that you are here. A very warm welcome to Margot Nassal. We are here at our University, at the University of Arts in Linz, Art and Design. And we are cooperating since a couple of years, many, many years with the Ars Electronica Festival. And it's great that we can do this cooperation. And I would like to thank and especially thank Gerfried Stocker and the whole team. It's a great team. Thank you very much for the cooperation. It wouldn't work and it wouldn't be this great festival without your great, great performance. Till... Yes, I speak like Mr. Trump. So, without your great performance. So, it's very easy to speak like some politicians in USA because it's so simple language that they are dealing with, so that's my kind of speaking English, so I'm very sorry. We have also here the two curators, Manuela Naveau and Hess-John. A very warm welcome to both of you and many thanks for all of you and about the presentations and to all the team you are working together. We have really a good and a perfect team, not to say a great team, it's a great team, it's a great team. So thank you. We have the Ars Electronica with the title Future Begins Negotiating Humanity and we ask the questions, what does being human mean in times of this, in times of crisis? And what does future mean to all of us and especially for young artists? Who decides about what it means? And at what price are we bargaining away our humanity? So these are very important questions and there is not one answer. There are many answers in presentations which we can see now. We have about 200 works by our students, by University of Arts and Design Lins students from the departments of Fine Arts, Design and Technology, Industrial Design, Interface Cultures, the PhD program, Sculptural Concepts and Ceramics, Post-Digital Loosery Space and Design Strategies, Textile Art Design, Visual Communication, Time-Based Media, Time-based media, time-based and interactive media. Thank you all the students and all the teachers. Thank you. And we have our dear guests. We have about 45 universities in the festival. We have here at our university 21 guest universities, visiting universities from China, from Hong Kong, from Berlin, from Kyoto, from Weimar, Estonia, Poland, Qatar, Taipei, and all between. So thank you very much for coming. It's great that you are here. Thank you. I think Hess and Manu will tell you what you can see and give you an overview over the program. see and give you an overview of the over the program but it's important to tell you that we have sound campus here we have both buildings here at the middle and at the center of linz and we have also the dome gas our building nearby and there is interface cultures because I mentioned it because we didn't show it at our at our press round trip this morning but it's very very good to go there and to see what young students students in their first second second year are present presenting. And we have, and it's very important, at the main square, flood the zone with courage or courage, however you would like to spell it, in cooperation with the Ars Electronica Center, but also in cooperation with partners like EdTech Austria and 52. And we have a festival center here at our place gallery, so everybody who needs tickets, who needs information, can also come here at the university and can get this information and can get these services. So we hope that people come to us who wouldn't have come without these services. So we like to have the service center here and perhaps it is a model for the next years. So we deal with humanity and we are discussing humanity and we have a sense of reality. When you look at TV, at social media, you see a lot of reality there, but there is a sense of possibility. We are discussing not only reality, the now, we are discussing the future, we are discussing our possibilities and this makes us kind of free but it's a word which is used so often but it is a kind of freedom we get in discussing with art, with design, with research and with all of you, the colleagues and teachers and the students. So thank you very much that you are here and have a great time here at our university. Thank you. So as usual, I can keep my part super short. So probably at least for an hour, I should go on and say thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. I mean, you said how important it is for the university and how wonderful to collaborate with Ars Electronica. But I can just give it back. It's one of the best parts of us electronica festival it's 24 years i think since we started so reinhard kanner near the former rector knows how difficult it was to get it started but to see now the huge number of departments the students from your university that are participating and then how you know wonderful and warmly you are welcoming and hosting all these guest universities. This is really I think the most energetic and vital part of the festival all the communications that are going on so I can only ask you know all the students from here and in particular from abroad use this time really to come together to talk to each other to share experiences because this is what the festival is about and thank you very much for making this possible So now it's on us. I would like to start first of all to give you an overview what you can see. The students from all these different departments that Brigitte already mentioned. Here in Hauptplatz 6 we have two floors. So we have just a ground floor and we have the floor on minus two. This is here. Okay, so let's not forget the lovely Inenhof with the Sound Campus, which the Sound Campus team has amazingly prepared. Please, a round of applause for them. There will be performances, sound works, music, DJ, dancing. So please do come tonight and tomorrow and Thursday night. And when you move then here from Hauptplatz 6 from the sound campus, have a look on the worm that is hanging here. It's interactive. You can actually touch here the tree or this kind of predefined places that you can actually touch and can interact with the worm in the tree. When you then move to the main square, the main square is a very special thing because there's also artworks from us participating. And it was actually a collaboration. It was already mentioned it was with ATT&CK together. It was actually part of a lecture that we did together within Critical Data, together with also some participants from us, Electronica. And we were talking about the question like who is profiting in terms of crisis, in terms of multi-crisis. is profiting in terms of crisis, in terms of multi-crisis. And the outcome that you see is actually a collaboration together with ATT&CK. They gave us access to some very interesting data, to some very interesting platforms. We had very good discussions with them. And please have a look of these works that are presented. There of course, there's a lot going on because it's a collaboration, as I mentioned, with Ars Electronica. There will also be a lot of performances taking place every day. There will be IG Kultur, there is IG Demokratie, sorry, a lot of programs that actually Christel Bauer is in charge of, not us. But have a look at the art installations in the container there. And this is then the way actually to the Domgasse. Maybe for... I should? Okay. Yeah, it's interface cultures, okay. So, Domgasse, interface cultures. You know, interface cultures suffered a lot on water damages this year. Maybe you remember, we had to... We are the ones that say, okay, they are there. No, they are there. Where are they? Fuck. The Swiss culture suffered a lot on water damages this year. Maybe you remember we had to... We are the ones that say, okay, they are there, no, they are there. Where are they? Fuck. Okay, we had a lot to do around, so we were not... We had a difficult time, but we had also a difficult time when we decided that we wanted to have the exhibition here in minus two. Because then we heard, oh, sorry, now also minus two is flooded, so find another place. Okay, yeah. The water was following us, yeah. So now Interface Cultures is in Domgasse, in Audimax, everybody of you knows Audimax. Thank you so much Fabrizio actually for putting together this exhibition on such a short notice and in these possibilities that we actually had. Okay, I would just like to thank my team and the staff of the university. Just one more time, because there's a lot of work that they put into making this happen. There's a lot of rooms involved, a lot of infrastructure involved. So, a lot of nerves and calming down from stress. So my team, please thank you again. I don't know where you are. I see some here. Some over there somewhere. Yes. Thank you for making this happen. And thank you all for coming here today because this is really a rewarding moment for me. And also Manuela, and also for you as well to see all these people come together and make something create something together. But we're not finished yes we're not finished no no no because we have I mean we have of course Hauptplatz 8 with all the partner universities as Elektronika this year has 45 partner universities. On Hauptplatz 8, we have 21 partner universities. So Hauptplatz 8 is full, totally, with a lot of our guests internationally. Please go there, find your way. This is also for us a very special situation. Because of these international relations that are very important for us, we're doing a very special thing on Friday. Thursday. Thursday. On Thursday, we have our first Kunz University Linz International University Seminar. In short, it's CLIUS. It is an academic and artistic seminar. Invite any educators and students are welcome to visit. Please have a listen to the presenters. And there'll be also sandwiches. So Thursday this week, do come by. It's on the top floor of this building here. And then on Friday and on Saturday, please go back to Domgasse, because we have the Leonardo Laser Talks that Fabrizio already curated, as all the other years, with some paella, with some questions of what does digestion actually also mean, and how to actually bring together people with different thoughts and how to digest actually different ideas that could come together. And I think this is also Friday, Saturday, 11 o'clock we are starting. What did we forget? On the way to the Domgasse, there is of course also 52. Also 52 is Gleach and Leak. Maybe you've heard about it. is of course also 52. Also 52 is a Glicent League. Maybe you've heard about it. They have their own program. Also, please try, it's also on Friday afternoon, please try also to pass by their walk that they're initiating. There's also mainly students from the Art University that are participating. So please also have a look on Friday. They are starting at 4 o'clock. There's also Wednesday for Dorf TV is going around interviewing people. So please do answer their questions. And they will make a collaborative video together, I believe. And last but not least, you're making tours. Me and Vincent, the tour guides, we do a tour of the whole place, Domgasa, Hoplots 6 and 8, and Hoplots at 5 a.m. Sorry, 5 p.m. from Wednesday to Saturday. So please do come by. It's in English and German. Thank you so much. 월요일에서 일요일까지 영어로도 들어주세요 감사합니다 여러분의 훌륭한 축제에 기도하고 싶습니다 즐겁게 즐기세요 감사합니다 Thank you.