Interface Cultures

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Introducing IC Artists @ Rundgang 2026 (2/3)
Kunstuniversität Linz, Hauptplatz 6, Hörsaal A

~ Giulia Olivieri (.lito), ‘Non-Human Topographies’
~ Paul Eßer (), ‘Basilisk’
~ Grace Kim (Grace Kim 김은영), ‘No-machine / Nein-maschine’
~ Yasmin Bock (), ‘Naturally Unnatural’
~ Aisling Phelan (Aisling Phelan), ‘This Person Did Not Exist’

Opening: June 18, 2026, 6p.m., Hauptplatz 6

Opening Hours
Thursday, June 18, 2026: 6p.m. to 10p.m.
Friday, June 19, 2026: 11a.m. to 6p.m.
Saturday, June 20, 2026: 11a.m. to 6p.m.

Journal Club Presentation
Friday, June 19, 2026: 3p.m./Hauptplatz 6

Code [ ] Ritual
Introducing Interface Cultures Artists @ Rundgang 2026
Kunstuniversität Linz, Hauptplatz 6, Hörsaal A

~ Alessandro Ambrosini (), ‘ANTI-WORK SIMULATOR’ made by 4L34M
~ Joshua Mattson (.api), DefenceContractorFantasyWorld’
~ Kate Yalovetsky (каte), ‘LEBERKÄSE ULTIMATE’
~ Dagmar Schürrer (Dagmar Schürrer), ‘Retrons’
~ Gustiele Fistaról (Gustiele Fistaról), ‘Spectral Roots’

Opening: June 18, 2026, 6 p.m., Hauptplatz 6

Opening Hours
Thursday, June 18, 2026: 6p.m. to 10p.m.
Friday, June 19, 2026: 11a.m. to 6p.m.
Saturday, June 20, 2026: 11a.m. to 6p.m.

Journal Club Presentation
Friday, June 19, 2026: 3p.m./Hauptplatz 6

Congratulations to Yuseung Lee (Joann Lee -Yuseung-) for the successful master thesis defense on ‘Artistic Data Abstraction in User-Data-Driven Interactive Media Art: Transforming Emotional Data into Color’

We wish you all the best with your future endeavors!

Congratulations to Sara Koniarek (Zara Koniarek) for the successful master thesis defense on ‘Spatial Narratives - Navigating Realities Through Intervention’.

All the best with your future projects!

Join us next week for the thesis defence of Maria Konstantinova (Maria Konstantinova) on Thursday, 18th of June.

18.06.2026 | 14:00 at Interface Cultures, 3rd Floor, Domgasse Kunstuniversität Linz

‘Between Interaction and Expression: Exploring the Potential of Media Art in the Context of Expressive Arts Therapy’

The thesis explores the potential of interactive media art within the context of expressive arts therapy from the perspective of an artist and designer. It examines how interaction with media artworks can support creative expression and facilitate processes associated with expressive therapeutic practice. The research connects theories of expressive therapy with interaction design and presents two original projects, Soup Kitchen and Création Nocturne, as case studies. It opens a discussion on whether interactive media art may offer new possibilities for
expressive practice through embodied, participatory, and technologically mediated creative experiences, and whether its benefits and limitations may hold value within expressive arts therapy alongside more traditional artistic modalities.

Photo credit: Camilla Scholz

Join us next week for the thesis defence of Sara Koniarek () on Tuesday, 16th of June.

16.06.2026 | 13:00 at Interface Cultures, 3rd Floor, Domgasse, Kunstuniversität Linz

Spatial Narratives - Navigating Realities Through Intervention

Virtual environments can be understood as constructed systems that organize and distribute information through spatial design, interfaces, interaction and navigation. Approaching them as more than immersive simulations, this research investigates how systems such as video games, virtual environments and navigation platforms like Google Maps or Google Street View can be gamified, reappropriated and subverted for unintended uses. Central to the thesis are navigation, cartography and the concept of spatial narratives: non-linear forms of meaning-making that emerge through movement, exploration and the decoding of space. Drawing on artistic works developed over the past six years alongside selected interventions by artists and activists, I demonstrate how these systems can be disrupted and repurposed, opening space for play, resistance and alternative forms of knowledge production.

Join us next week for the thesis defence of Yuseung Lee () on Wednesday, 16th of June.

16.06.2026 | 15:00 at Interface Cultures, 3rd Floor, Domgasse Kunstuniversität Linz

‘Artistic Data Abstraction in User-Data-Driven Interactive Media Art: Transforming Emotional Data into Color’

This thesis proposes Artistic Data Abstraction (ADA), a framework for user-data-driven interactive media art that transforms emotional data into color experience. Distinct from data visualization and artistic data visualization, ADA draws on pictorial abstraction and rests on three principles: embracing the algorithmic lens, treating emotional data as formal raw material, and a circulation model in which color experience stirs new emotion in the user. Three of the author’s interactive works—I am, We are, In Between, and Cycle of Emotions—realize these principles.

🚨 Only 1 week left to apply to Interface Cultures Master Programme at Kunstuni Linz 🚨

Interface Cultures connects humans and machines, art and culture, interaction and experience - turn your curiosity into practice with us!

Feel free to reach out with any questions and we’ll do our best to get back to you 📩

Deadline: June 9th.
Interviews: June 30th & July 1st.

🔗 Apply now: https://calls.kunstuni-linz.at/calls/175S22/cg/index.php?lang=EN

📚 Learn more about the programme: https://www.kunstuni-linz.at/studium/studienrichtungen/interface-cultures/masterstudium



Image Credit: Knotting the Memory :: Encoding the Khipu, Patricia Cadavid, 2019, (c) IC Archives

Uni Prof. Dr. Laurent Mignonneau and Dr. Christa Sommerer ‘s artwork ‘Flaneur’ is being shown at The Shenzhen International Museum of Art (SIMoA), Shenzhen, China and will be exhibited until May 2027!

In the interactive installation ‘Flaneur’, visitors can walk around on a large round projection surface. Their walking pattern and speed creates beautiful vegetations, consisting of leaves, flowers, branches and other organic elements. Strolling around fills up a colorful virtual garden which always recomposes itself.

However digital ants also like these beautiful flora and come to quickly eat them up. They organize themselves to eliminate all what humans have created. Between one’s joyful creation of a garden and the removal cycle created by the ants, one might be reminded of the human impact on nature.

‘Flaneur’ celebrates the aimless strolling around and the life cycle of creation and disappearance.

🌐 Web site of the artwork:
https://interface.ufg.ac.at/christa-laurent/Flaneur.html

🌐 Website about Shenzhen International Art Museum (the biggest in China):
https://www.szgm.gov.cn/english/news/latestnews/content/post_12705808.html

Saumil Bhandari () is showing his electromagnetic installation ‘Fill in the Gap’ in the MIND THE GAP exhibition taking place in both Linz & Vienna!

📍Post City Linz 26th May, Linz, 6PM (1 day event)

📍Third Space Wien (Mariahilferstrase 74A), 29th May, Wien 12-6PM (3 day event)

MIND THE GAP brings young artists in both cities together to enter this unspoken space and to consider what it means to approach the gap, and whether it can be narrowed at all. The exhibition emerges as a wish to reflect on these conditions without fixing them into rigid positions, inviting participants to engage in dialogue and to think about different ways of existing together.

The exhibition unfolds across both cities, opening with a vernissage at Post City in Linz on the 26th of May and concluding with a finissage in Vienna at Third Space on the 31st of May. This structure invites the movement of artworks, people, and critical ideas, allowing meanings to shift, misalign, and reappear differently as they travel between contexts. The exhibition is thus not understood as a singular event, but as a sequence of encounters shaped by location, time, and context.