For the very first time this year, a selection of universities will not only present their work in a special Campus exhibition, but also host their own discursive format – the Campus Forum Conferences. This panel will discuss teaching a digital native generation for a sustainable future technology.
Host: Dr. Manfred Lechner (AT)
Moderator: Christa Sommerer (AT), Interface Cultures, Linz Art University
Speakerrs: Speakers: Pavel Ivančic (CZ), Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design Prague / Stephanie Hutchison (AU), Queensland University of Technology / Duncan Bass (US), School of Art Institute of Chicago / Jessie Dong (CN), Roy Ascott Technoetic Arts Studio (CN), DeTao Masters Academy (CN), Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts (CN) / Chris Salter (US/QC/CA), Hexagram / Annelie Berner (DK), CIID Copenhagen / Prof. Qiu Yhijie (CN) and Jo Wei (CN), Central Academy of Fine Arts CAFA Beijing / Dr. Sabine Pollak (AT), Linz Art University
Moderation
Christa Sommerer (AT)
Christa Sommerer is an internationally renowned media artist, researcher and pioneer of interactive art. After working, researching and teaching in the US and Japan for 10 years, she in 2004 together with French media artist Laurent Mignonneau set up the department for Interface Cultures at the University of Art and Design in Linz, Austria, where they are both professors. Sommerer is also an Obel Guest Professor at Aalborg University in Denmark, a Visiting Professor at Tsukuba University Department of Empowerment Informatics in Japan and together with Laurent Mignoneau Chaire International Guest Professors at the Université Paris 8 in Paris, France. Sommerer and Mignonneau created around 30 interactive artworks, which have been shown in around 250 international exhibitions. They have received numerous awards: the BEEP Award at ARCO Art Fair in Madrid in 2016, the 2012 Wu Guanzhong Art and Science Innovation Prize which was bestowed by the Ministry of Culture of the People’s Republic of China; the 1994 Golden Nica Prix Ars Electronica Award; the 1995 Ovation Award of the Interactive Media Festival in Los Angeles; the Multi Media Award’95 of the Multimedia Association Japan, the 2001 World Technology Award of the World Technology Network in London UK and the PRIZE 2008 – uni:invent Award, which was bestowed by the Ministry of Science and Research in Austria.
Speakers
Pavel Ivančic, MA (CZ)
Multi-award-winning designer studied fashion design at UMPRUM and also holds an MA in fashion womenswear from the CSM College of Art & Design London. From 2003 until 2011 he worked as creative director at the Prague-based label MUSET. The label was known for its innovative yet functional designs and conceptual approach. In 2011 he established his eponymous label, Pavel Ivančic. Since 2012 Pavel has worked as the director of UMPRUM’s Fashion Design Studio. In 2016 he received Best country award as a curator of Czechia presentation at International Fashion Showcase at London Fashion Week.
Duncan Bass (US)
Duncan Bass is a cultural critic, curator, and the author of countless emails. Current research explores the intersections of art and contemporary culture with an emphasis on the societal implications of emerging technologies and the socio-historic impact of US domestic and foreign policy. Bass has coordinated traditional and experimental curatorial projects for venues on a spectrum from real to virtual.
Chris Salter (CA)
Chris Salter is an artist, University Research Chair in New Media, Technology and the Senses at Concordia University and Co-Director of the Hexagram network for Research-Creation in Media Arts, Design, Technology and Digital Culture, in Montreal. Salter’s performances, installations, research and publications have been presented at numerous festivals, exhibition and conferences around the world. He is the author of Entangled (2010) and Alien Agency (2015) both from MIT Press.
Annelie Berner (DK)
Annelie Berner is an interaction designer, researcher, teacher and data artist. She works across disciplines, from ethics philosophers to data technologists. She is currently specialising in how to structure and visualise futures in collaborative and open ways – from workshops to exhibitions to tools. She often uses the medium of interactive and playful data visualisation. She is a faculty member and researcher at CIID (Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design) where she teaches programming and data visualization.
She leads projects that span from researching and designing tools for dialogue on sensitive topics to tools for ethical decision-making among IOT developers to designing an interactive exhibition of future energy choices.
Annelie’s work has won honors in the Core77 Design Awards for Strategy & Research, Design Education, Built Environments and Food Design, as well has having been exhibited at the World Health Organisation, Red Bull Studios NYC, the Georgia Museum of Art and the California College of Arts.
She is a founding member of NEWINC, the New Museum’s incubator for artists, technologists and designers. Previously, she taught at Rutger’s College of Art and Design and Columbia University’s School of Architecture. She has worked for the Spatial Information Design Lab, was a resident at IDEO’s Digital Lab and worked at the New York Times’ Research and Development Lab.
Annelie graduated from New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) and studied Government and Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard.
www.annelieberner.com
