Interface Technologies II

15th to 17th May, IC hosted the Interface Technologies 2 workshop, proposed by Stefano Vannotti and Alexander Wilhelm with the title “Designing Ultra Private and Secure Communication Tools and Services” The aim of the workshop has been the research and the design of communication tools that could assure and support a …

The Inhabited Interface at bb15.

During the last semester part of the IC students took part  in Interface Technologies, lecture given by Enrique Tomas. The result of the classes has been presented as an exhibition located in the linzer off-space bb15 from 28th January to 4th February 2014. The title of the exhibition was Inhabited …

IC monthly report: October 2013 Guestlecture

The semester has started only one month ago, the schedule is pretty tough, and we already lots of presentation and guestlectures, four in just one month! Here we are with a little resume and some infos about our guests. Prof. Jo Kazuhiro is a lecturer of our partner university IAMAS …

Assistenz Interface Culture

An der Kunstuniversität Linz gelangt am Institut für Medien im Bereich Interface Cultures ab 6. Jänner 2014 für die Dauer von 1,5 Jahren die Stelle eines/einer technischen Universitätsassistenten/in im halben Beschäftigungsausmaß (Karenzvertretung) zur Besetzung (gem. § 49 KV für die ArbeitnehmerInnen der Universitäten monatliches Mindestentgelt 1.281,00 Euro brutto – 14x …

Non Player Object – Play with it!

by Davide Bevilacqua, Alberto Boem, Isidora Ficovic, Marie Polakova. The Non Player Objects installation is addressing artefacts and media-contents in order to question the understanding of playfulness within contemporary artistic and cultural practice. The “gamification” of environments based on the idea of playful interactions is overtaking the discourse of digital media based arts, entertainment culture and design approaches. …

Advanced Microcontrollers!

those are the results of the Advanced Microcontrollers class, held by Laurent Mignonneau! During the semester we worked with Integrated Circuits, Arduino and different sensors with particular focus on sound devices.  The last class we had a presentation of what everybody of us did. Completely different objects were created, all …

Next week @IC lab…guestlectures!

Tomorrow starts the last week of the summersemester 2013, we will host two guestlectures, all of you are invited to come! Monday, 24th June 2013 / 2 PM POKING REALITY New media on the scene from Timm WILKS. From concept to event, from paper to the grandMA – close to …

So you think you can be an artist? – Ricardo O’Nascimento

So you think you can be an artist? Guestlecture of Ricardo O’Nascimento Tomorrow, Thursday 20th June 2013 / 2 PM We are living a difficult historical moment for art. Budgets for culture are being cut all over the globe, which brings lots of worries to young artists. We artists are …

Marc Dusseiller @Interface Cultures

Marc Dusseiller was at IC on the 6th of June and proposed us a guestlecture where he introduced us to hackteria and the DIY Bioart scene. The latter appeared to be a way to bring some basic Biotechnology’s issues in the common life, where nowadays is lacking: the high-specialized labs, …

Guerrilla Communication:
How to mess with media, the market and life itself

The term guerrilla communication refers to unconventional forms of communication and/or intervention in more conventional processes of communication. Communication guerilla is a specific style of political action drawing from a watchful view of the paradoxes and absurdities of power, turning these into the starting point for political interventions by playing …