Representative members from the international universities that form the CAMPUS exhibition this year will present their institutions and programs in art and technology to the audience and the students. The session will be followed by a discussion where the topic of the Festival this year is applied to higher education research. Participants will present and talk about cases of study that had served as an example of “profitable errors” in their academic experience. How the academically considered mistakes can show us other ways of research and creation.
Host: Violeta Gil Martínez (SP)
Moderator: Tina Frank (AT), Splace Magazine, Kunstuniversität Linz
Speakers: Lily Diaz-Kommonen (FI), Aalto University / Barbara von Rechbach (AT), Visual Communication Department in New Design University St.Pölten and Kunstuniversität Linz / Fiona Zisch (UK), Bartlett School of Architecture, Interactive Architecture Lab / Tobias Revell (NL), London College of Communication / Nick Bryan-Kinns (UK), Queen Mary University of London / Predrag K. Nikolic (RS), Shantou University – Digital Media Design / Hiroo Iwata (JP), Tsukuba University – Empowerment Informatics
Moderator
Tina Frank (AT)
Tina Frank is a graphic designer and media artist aswell as professor for graphic design at The University for Art and Industrial Design in Linz, Austria. The focus of her work lies in Print, Corporate Design, Signage Systems and within the experimental field of music visualisations. Taschen Books listed Tina Frank in their book »Graphic Design for the 21st Century« among the top 100 graphic designers worldwide. Many of her coverdesigns have been published in numerous design reference works and are considered influential. With generative tools she creates immersive works to visualize music, hotel rooms, etc. Since October 2008 Tina Frank is head of the department of graphic design and photography at the University for Art and Industrial Design in Linz. In 2010 she organized the international symposium »REAL FAKE – reality as image, image as reality«, which dealt with the design and mapping of reality. Tina Frank has given many presentations on how to link design, music and the moving image.
Speakers
Lily Díaz-Kommonen (FI/ VE/PR)
Lily Díaz-Kommonen is professor of new media at Aaalto University. Her research projects include Illuminating History, Through the Eyes of Media, Digital Facsimile of 1550, Map of Mexico, which received first prize in the 2004 Nabi Digital Storytelling International Competition of Intangible Heritage, an interactive VR installation of the Pavillion of Finland at the 1900 World Fair in Paris, and an interactive VR installation of Vrouw Maria, awarded a special mention by the jury in the research category of the 2015 Europa Nostra digital culture heritage competition.
Barbara von Rechbach (AT)
Barbara von Rechbach, university assistant for design fiction at University of Arts and Design Linz (UFG), at the department for Technology & Design, guest professor at New Design University St. Pölten (NDU), lecturer for visual communication at UFG Linz and the University of Applied Science for Management & Communication Vienna. 2013-2017 award leader BA (Hons.) Graphic Design, Staffordshire University, UK. Lecturer and researcher for storytelling and media design at Berlin University of the Arts, University of Westminster, London, University of Applied Arts Vienna, et al. Barbara is a creative director and works in exhibition design and narrative planning for clients in design and media. MA in Hypermedia Studies at the University of Westminster and Visual Media/Arts Education at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Fiona Zisch (UK)
Fiona Zisch is an architect, researcher, and educator at the Bartlett School of Architecture UCL, the University of Innsbruck, and the University of Westminster. Her research interest focuses on how neural mechanisms construct our experience of space and what implications neuroscientific knowledge holds for architectural design. She is writing a transdisciplinary PhD in architecture and neuroscience at UCL. Fiona also works in architectural practice, focusing on consultancy and communicating design projects to clients, investors, and the media. She has recently co-founded the design practice GRAPH.
Tobias Revell (UK)
Tobias Revell is an artist and designer. Spanning different disciplines and media his work addresses the urgent need for critical engagement with material reality through design, art and technology. Recent work has looked at the idea of technology as a territory, expectations of the future, rendering software and the occult and supernatural in pop culture discussions of technology.
Tobias is Course Leader of MA Interaction Design Communication at the London College of Communication, UAL. He is a co-founder of research consultancy Strange Telemetry and one-half of research and curatorial project Haunted Machines who curated Impakt festival in 2017. He lectures and exhibits internationally, and has recently appeared at Improving Reality, FutureEverything, IMPAKT Utrecht, Web Directions Sydney, Transmediale Berlin, ThingsCon and Lift Geneva. He is a PhD candidate in design at Goldsmiths.
Dr. Nick Bryan-Kinns (UK)
Dr. Nick Bryan-Kinns is Director of the Media and Arts Technology Centre (MAT), Reader in Interaction Design, and lead of the Sonic Interaction Design Lab at Queen Mary University of London. He researches interaction, engagement, and inclusive co-design practices. Jack Ratcliffe (Jacktionman) and Sophie Skach are MAT PhD students. Jack is a London-based artist who specialises in mixed-reality installations that playfully explore humanity’s relationship with technology. Sophie is an Austrian fashion designer and researcher based in London. She has been working on linking mathematics and fashion.
Dr. Predrag K. Nikolic (RS)
Dr. Predrag K. Nikolic is Associate Professor at Cheung Kong School of Art and Design, Shantou University. He is a digital media expert, interaction designer and media artists who holds Ph.D. in Digital Media. His artistic focus is on interactive installations; he exhibited worldwide such as at SIGGRAPH, Museum of Applied Art Belgrade, Hong Kong – Shenzhen Design Biennial, etc. He has published numerous research papers on design for behavior change, collective creativity, robot-robot interactions, multi-sensory interfaces and use of interactive objects in smart environments.
Hiroo Iwata (JP)
Hiroo Iwata is a professor of the University of Tsukuba, where he conducting virtual reality projects. He exhibited his work at the Emerging Technologies venue of the SIGGRAPH every year from 1994 to 2007. He also got honorary mentions at Prix Ars Electronica 96 and 2001. He launched Device Art project in 2004. He has been leading PhD. Program in Empowerment Informatics since 2013.
