16:30 - 17:00 Maywa Denki (J)
17:00 - 17:30 Margarete Jahrmann, Max Moswitzer (A)
17:30 - 18:00 Blast Theory / Mixed Reality Lab (UK)

Moderation: Stahl Stenslie (N / D)

Blast Theory (UK) is one of the most adventurous artists' groups in Britain making interactive performances, installations, video and mixed reality projects. Combining rigorous research and development with leading edge technologies, their work confronts a media saturated world in which popular culture rules to ask questions about the ideologies present in the information that envelops us.

Margarete Jahrmann (A) artist and theorist, born 1968, lives in Zurich and graduated from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna in 1994. Since then she has realized a variety of mediapoietic network projects, CD-ROMs, life generated modular software lectures, data objects and projects. Jahrmann is also co-founder of the art-server konsum.net. 96 - 98 correspondent of the online Journal Telepolis.

Mixed Reality Lab (UK) is an interdisciplinary research initiative at the University of Nottingham. The MRL brings together leading researchers in Computer Science, Engineering and Psychology to research new technologies that merge the physical and digital worlds, focusing on playful, artistic and educational applications.

Max Moswitzer (A), multimedia artist. He works on hardware hacking and art-scripting, server-art setups, generative visuals and dynamic data visualizations. 1990 co-founder of the artist group "You Never Know", where he exhibited e.g. at the Secession Vienna or international experimental galleries. Moswitzer studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, where he is now lecturer for hybrid media.

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