The Wild State | Opening & Gallery Performance

THE WILD STATE is the title of this year’s Kunstuniversität Campus activities at Hauptplatz Linz during Ars Electronica Festival 2020 from 9. – 13. September 2020. Existing since 2002, the intention of the Campus format is to invite outstanding international universities working in the academic fields of media arts and design.
This year with the “The Wild State: networked” exhibition with contributions by various partner universities, as well as the departments Interface Cultures, Visual Communication, Fashion&Technology, Art Education, and Design: Tech.Tex. The Media Theory department hosts the symposium “Unheimliche Freunde”, including three evening keynotes, and special events comprise façade projection “Interfacing Hauptplatz”, the Internet flea market “Yami-ichi”, discursive format “Agora Digitalis” and the top notch nightline “Sound Campus”.

Curators: Davide Bevilacqua & Julia Nüßlein

Gallery Performances: Alejandro Quiñones Roa, Razieh Kooshki & Vahid Qaderi, Afra Sönmez & Nursinem Aslan

Cascada (Alejandro Quiñones Roa, (University of Art and Design Linz, AT)
In the live sound performance Cascada, found objects form nature are implemented. Workflow and sound flow are one.

Vivid Q (Razieh Kooshki, Vahid Quaderi, University of Art and Design Linz, AT)
In Vivid Q the artists remember, audio-visually re-create and share the many doubts, dreams, nightmares, sounds, illusions and memories that occured at (37°26’10.7″N 49°51’14.1″E).
Onisma

Afra Sönmez & Nursinem Aslan (University of Art and Design Linz, AT)
A textile organism as an electronic instrument. Against the frustration of being stuck in one body, at one place, the electronic organism ONISMA is taking the audience on a journy to different places.

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