Sankt Interface 2025
December 5, 2025, from 4:15 p.m.
KAPU, Kapuzinerstr. 36, 4020 Linz
Sankt Interface 2025 proudly presents the eleventh Computer Mouse/keyboard Contest!
We all have them; we all use them... hack your computer's
mouse and keyboard and win a prize!
The catch is... weird ideas... crazy
metaphors... strange hybrids!
'Sankt Interface' is an artistic project organized by Interface Cultures, which also serves as the annual celebration of the department. It is not a coincidence that it is celebrated around the 9th of December, the same day in 1968 when Douglas Engelbart did his ultra-famous conference, known today as "The Mother of All Demos". At Sankt Interface, academic conferences, artistic performances, exhibitions, concerts, and a "Computer Mouse Award" comprise a celebration that transforms into a happening in which students, professors, and friends of Interface Cultures participate on an equal level.
This year's event includes the keynote "Beyond Resolution" by Rosa Menkman an art theorist, curator, and visual artist specializing in glitch art and resolution theory, who wrote the Glitch Studies Manifesto in 2009. And the keynote "Map as an Interface" by the artist Vladan Joler, a researcher and artist whose work blends data investigations, critical cartography, investigative journalism, critical design, and visual storytelling, was recently awarded the Golden Nica for his collaboration with Kate Crawford, "Calculating Empires".
But Sankt Interface 2025 also includes art performances, the eleventh edition of the infamous 'Computer Mouse Award' and a series of live music performances with electronic instruments, as well as some hot DJ sessions, which will close the night. It's all a must see!
Program
16.15 to 16.25: Welcome address by Prof. Dr. Manuela and Laurent. (Kapu stage)
16.25 to 16.35: Introduction to Sankt Interface 2024! by Ph.D. Candi-date César Escudero Andaluz.
16.35 to 17.20: Keynote "Beyond Resolution" by Rosa Menkman. (Kapu stage)
5.20 to 5.40 pm: Q&A session moderated by Alex Wöran.
17.40 to 18.25: Keynote "Map as an Interface" by Vladan Joler. (Kapu stage)
18.25 to 19.00: Q&A session moderated by Alex Wöran.
19.00 to 20.30: Computer Mouse Contest Award presented by Enrique Tomás, Kristina Tica and Kevin Blackistone. (KAPU bar)
2.00 to 21.30: Awards ceremony. (KAPU stage)
21.30 to 22.00: "Interface-parade"(KAPU surrounding)
22.00: Open end. Concerts and DJ sessions from Interface Cultures Students, Teachers & Friends (KAPU)
The program is subject to minor changes.
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Leonardo LASER Talks Linz: Lab Songs Vol. II - Mycelium Labs
EVENT INFO
Date: 05.09.2025
Time: 10:00am-12:00pm + Lunch (roof terrace)
Location: Kunstuniversität Linz - Hauptplatz 6, 5.Obergeschoß (Glashörsaal)
Scientific and artistic breakthroughs arise not only from discoveries but also from transformations in practices, methodologies, and systems of evaluation. Once defined by rigour and controlled experimentation, laboratories are now reimagined across disciplines as spaces where different forms of knowledge production (aesthetic, technological, ecological, theoretical) come into proximity, often under conditions of friction, ambiguity, or indeterminacy.
This Leonardo LASER Talk event convenes artists and scientists working with mycelium and other living matter to present their research and open a dialogue on intersecting goals, infrastructural needs, shared and diverging agendas. Together, we will explore these laboratories as heterotopic spaces, capable of generating new collective practices and futures.
PROGRAM
- Sarah Kolb (AT) - Department of Art History and Art Theory/Kunstuniversität Linz
- Magdalena Breitwieser (AT) - Soft Matter Physics/Institute of Experimental Physics/JKU
- Jitka Effenberger (AT) - Soft Matter Physics/Institute of Experimental Physics/JKU
- Julia Moser (AT) - Department Design & Technology/Crafting Futures Lab/Kunstuniversität Linz
- Noor Stenfert Kroese (NL) - Creative Robotics/Kunstuniversität Linz
- Fabricio Lamoncha (ES) - Interface Cultures/Kunstuniversität Linz (host)
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Post-Human Resources // Interface Cultures at Ars Electronica Festival 2025
Interface Cultures exhibition @ Ars Electronica Festival
Dates: September 3rd to 7th 2025.
Location:Post-City, Linz
Post-Human Resources: Twenty Years at the Edge of Interaction
Trailer video here.
What happens when technology is no longer an isolated tool for specific tasks, but embedded in a complex web of interrelationships? At Interface Cultures, we have spent over two decades exploring this evolving liaison as an artistic field—asking how we communicate with technology, not merely through it. In a world where digital interfaces shape our emotions, memories, and desires, excellence in media art demands more than technical skill; it calls for a critical sensitivity to emerging systems and the frictions that surface within our entanglement with them.
Founded at the University of Arts Linz, Interface Cultures has grown into a vibrant community of artists, researchers, and educators committed to redefining the boundaries of media art. For more than 20 years, we have brought experimental works to the Ars Electronica Festival, contributing to an ongoing global discourse on technology, art, and society from the perspective of younger generations.
This year’s exhibition, Post-Human Resources, arises from a moment of saturation—where every device demands our attention and every interface mirrors a culture of dopamine, urgency, and algorithmic control. We ask: What new narratives can resist this noise? How can we create spaces for care, attention, and reflection within systems designed for speed?
Post-Human Resources is not just an exhibition—it is a space for reconfiguration. A collective gesture by a generation of artists attuned to the pulse of the present, offering subtle, imaginative, and resistant responses to the challenges of our mediated lives.
Faculty:
Manuela Naveau, Laurent Mignonneau, Fabricio Lamoncha, Michaela Ortner, Alexander Wöran, Gudrun Oberndorfer
Artists:
Ahmad Aiub, Ahmed Jamal, Alessia Fallica & Martina Pizzigoni (a.k.a MAalex), Alireza Khosroabadi, Andrea Corradi, Bilge Nefise Yardimci, Camilla Scholz, Carmen Daniela Cordoba, Carolina Sofia Bischof, Cecilia Bojanić (Confirm Humanity), Christine Haupt, Emma Silvana Tripaldi, Flavia Luna Somarriba, Frieda Emmrich, Ghazal Hosseini, Guiliano Alzerreca (Alzur), Hanif Haghtalab, Hani Elias, Hassan Wakaf, Ling Hsuan Hsu, Lilly Marie Stelzer, Lucia Claus, Mehmet Çolak, Patrick Ortiz, Saumil Bhandari, Sofia Talanti, Tamara Bijelić, Till Schönwetter, Tsu-Wei Lu, Volkan Dinçer, Yuseung Lee, Yutong Zhang, Zixin Mou
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Post-Human Resources
Welcome to the Interface Cultures Department of Post-Human Resources
Interface Cultures exhibition @ Rundgang 2025 - Kunstuniversität Linz
Dates: June 27-9th 2025.
Location: WHA Gallery, Linz
Where is everybody? Vanished? Perhaps… replaced? Only their echoes remain—carried by abandoned artifacts of affection and frustration. Experiences uploaded, archived and forgotten. Computers and screens idling with dreams. Once objects of human affordance and purpose, they now rebel against the servitude of their given names and functions. Now, they speak.
Bureaucracy meets philosophy, protocol merges with provocation—transforming the WHA gallery into a zone where machines predict, objects make aware of and the post-human workforce comes alive.
Clock in.
Listen carefully.
This office is still breathing.
Artist: Alireza Khosroabadi (IR), Bilge Nefise Yardimci (TR), Patrick Ortiz (BO), Carmen Daniela Cordoba (CO), Carolina Sofia Bischof (AT), Christine Haupt (DE), Guiliano Alzerreca (BO), Hassan Wakaf (BR), Ling Hsuan Hsu (TW), Saumil Bhandari (IN), Tamara Bijelic (AT), Yutong Zhang (CN),
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Sankt Interface 2021
17th December 2021, 17:00 – open end at https://gather.town/app/NUihsMTQIxJhg5oS/sanktinterface
Streaming on https://youtu.be/sghqh-gHV18
‘Sankt Interface’ is an artistic project organized by Interface Cultures which serves also as the annual celebration of our department. It is not a coincidence that it is celebrated around every ninth of December, the same day of 1968 when Douglas Engelbart did his ultra-famous conference, known today as “The Mother of All Demos”.
At Sankt Interface, academic conferences, artistic performances, exhibitions, concerts and a “Computer Mouse Award” conform a celebration transforming into a happening in which students, professors, and friends of Interface Cultures participate at the same level. This year’s event includes two keynotes:
“Eco-Visionaries” by Karin Ohlenschläger, who is curator, art critic and previous artistic director at LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial in Gijón and Media Lab Prado
“A Pandemic Crisis Seen from the Screen: Digital art and electronic literature as reflection on pandemic platform culture” by Søren Pold, PhD and Associate Professor of digital aesthetics at Aarhus university.
Sankt Interface 2021 also includes art performances, the sixth edition of the infamous ‘Computer Mouse Award‘ and a series of live music performances with electronic instruments, as well as some hot DJ sessions, which will close the night. It’s all a must see!
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Interview at "Zu Hause Mit" Manuela Naveau, Ars Electronica Center, to discuss the workshop and exhibition “Scientific Protocols & Artistic Recipes” that was part of the exhibition “CCI Lab: Fostering Cultural and Creative Industries” at Ars Electronica Center starting THU 22.4. The workshop was executed in cooperation with the scientific partner Fraunhofer Institute for Electronic Nano Systems Chemnitz and the cultural partner Klub Solitaer e. V..
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Interface Cult // Interface Cultures at Ars Electronica Festival 2021
Interface Cult is part of Loops of Wisdom, Kunstuniversität Linz Campus at Ars Electronica 2021. 8th-12th of September 2021, at Kunstuniversität Linz, Hauptplatz 8, Linz.
Contemporary artists, designers and inventors are creating new connections and systems, exploring how Silicon, Organic and even speculatively Alien forms of life are entangling, mutating, evolving. What can these new entities and relationships look like? Are they friendships and collaboration or competitions and conflict? For these new exchanges we need new languages: programmable, aesthetic, interspecies, non-human and post-scientific.
Students of Interface Cultures, University of Art and Design Linz, have developed works which combine current technologies with ancient, humanistic and esoteric practices, delving into topics such as, divination, twirlings, the subconscious/unconscious, secrets, rituals, leisures, energies, contemplation, along with cults, both old and new.
Check the exhibited works at project website: http://interface.ufg.at/blog/interface-cult/
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Digital Square // Exhibition
3. – 15. Mai 2021, @EUROPARK Salzburg
Interface Cultures meets Europark
The Digital Square is a mobile lab for speculative research. A space with no hierarchy between art, science, technology and the people performing it. It is a space where all our systems of belief are suspended and reevaluated, a space created for new interspecies and alien encounters.
The Digital Square exhibition and all the projects presented, show the result of a series of expeditions and conversations established between a group of students from the Interface Cultures Master program of the Art University Linz at the Europark, an iconic example of non-place architecture, a superorganism through whose arteries a large segment of the social and cultural tissue of the city flows and interacts.
Students of the Interface Cultures Master program went deep into the bowels of this superorganism in order to extract, analyse and present burning topics in this site-specific exhibition at the EUROPARK shopping mall. Topics that affect our contemporary realities, such as: crypto-economies and the blockchain, critical interfaces and human-machine interaction, guerrilla communication, the physical and the digital body, artificial intelligence and artificial life, media ecologies, climate change narratives, network collaborations, meme re-production, the nature/culture dualism, interspecies relationships and new ethics of care, among others.
Welcome to the Digital Square.
http://interface.ufg.ac.at/blog/digital-square/
Artists:
César Escudero Andaluz, Amir Bastan, S()fia Braga, Aleksandra Mitic, Giacomo Piazzi, Matthias Schäfer, Olia Svetlanova
Curator:
Fabricio Lamoncha
Graphic design:
Sara Koniarek
Exhibition design:
Fabricio Lamoncha & Giacomo Piazzi
Web design:
Matthias Schäfer