Welcome at the Interface Culture program website.
Acting as creative artists and researchers, students learn how to advance the state of the art of current interface technologies and applications. Through interdisciplinary research and team work, they also develop new aspects of interface design including its cultural and social applications. The themes elaborated under the Master's programme in relation to interactive technologies include Interactive Environments, Interactive Art, Ubiquitous Computing, game design, VR and MR environments, Sound Art, Media Art, Web-Art, Software Art, HCI research and interaction design.
The Interface Culture program at the Linz University of Arts Department of Media was founded in 2004 by Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau. The program teaches students of human-machine interaction to develop innovative interfaces that harness new interface technologies at the confluence of art, research, application and design, and to investigate the cultural and social possibilities of implementing them.
The term "interface" is omnipresent nowadays. Basically, it describes an intersection or linkage between different computer systems that makes use of hardware components and software programs to enable the exchange and transmission of digital information via communications protocols.
However, an interface also describes the hook-up between human and machine, whereby the human qua user undertakes interaction as a means of operating and influencing the software and hardware components of a digital system. An interface thus enables human beings to communicate with digital technologies as well as to generate, receive and exchange data. Examples of interfaces in very widespread use are the mouse-keyboard interface and graphical user interfaces (i.e. desktop metaphors). In recent years, though, we have witnessed rapid developments in the direction of more intuitive and more seamless interface designs; the fields of research that have emerged include ubiquitous computing, intelligent environments, tangible user interfaces, auditory interfaces, VR-based and MR-based interaction, multi-modal interaction (camera-based interaction, voice-driven interaction, gesture-based interaction), robotic interfaces, natural interfaces and artistic and metaphoric interfaces.
Artists in the field of interactive art have been conducting research on human-machine interaction for a number of years now. By means of artistic, intuitive, conceptual, social and critical forms of interaction design, they have shown how digital processes can become essential elements of the artistic process.
Ars Electronica and in particular the Prix Ars Electronica's Interactive Art category launched in 1991 has had a powerful impact on this dialog and played an active role in promoting ongoing development in this field of research.
The Interface Cultures program is based upon this know-how. It is an artistic-scientific course of study to give budding media artists and media theoreticians solid training in creative and innovative interface design. Artistic design in these areas includes interactive art, netart, software art, robotic art, soundart, noiseart, games & storytelling and mobile art, as well as new hybrid fields like genetic art, bioart, spaceart and nanoart.
It is precisely this combination of technical know-how, interdisciplinary research and a creative artistic-scientific approach to a task that makes it possible to develop new, creative interfaces that engender progressive and innovative artistic-creative applications for media art, media design, media research and communication.
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Eröffnung: 3. April 2010, 15.00 Uhr Istanbul, Türkei
Die Experimentelle in Istanbul
Die Präsentation junger österreichischer Kunst in der Galerie 5533 in Istanbul im April 2010 zeigt einen repräsentativen Querschnitt aktueller Produktionen. In Videos, Fotografien, Objekten, Performances und Audioinstallationen reflektieren die Künstlerinnen und Künstler persönliche Erfahrungen, aber auch die gesellschaftlichen und politischen Kontexte, in denen sie stattfinden.
Die Ausstellung wird erweitert durch einen Abend im Club dogztar mit experimenteller elektronischer Musik, künstlerischen Projekten und Performances (Freitag 2. April 2010) und Artist talks in der Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, die zu Austausch und Diskussion anregen sollen. Die Auswahl der künstlerischen Arbeiten kuratierte der Leiter der Oberösterreichischen Landesgalerie Univ. Prof. Dr. Martin Hochleitner gemeinsam mit dem Studienbereich Experimentelle Gestaltung an der Kunstuniversität Linz; Andrea van der Straeten und Hubert Lobnig.
Die Ausstellung in Istanbul ist der 2. Teil eines Austauschprojektes zwischen dem Studienbereich Experimentelle Gestaltung der Kunstuniversität Linz und der lebendigen Kunstszene Istanbuls. Oona Valarie Schager und Ufuk Serbest (beide Studierende der Experimentelle Gestaltung) initiierten, kuratierten und organisierten während ihres Erasmusaufenthaltes in Istanbul an der Yildiz Teknik Universität Istanbul die erste Ausstellung türkischer Kunst in Linz.
Inspiring Stanbul stellte im April 2009 zum ersten Mal die Arbeit junger türkischer Künstlerinnen und Künstler der Linzer Öffentlichkeit mitten im Zentrum der Stadt vor. Inspiring Stanbul 2009 repräsentierte darüber hinaus die Kooperation der Kunstuniversität mit Linz 09 - Kulturhauptstadt Europas.
Inspiring Stanbul
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Experimental Design in Istanbul
The Department of Experimental Design of the University of Art and Industrial Design Linz in Istanbul at Gallery 5533, Dogzstar, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University
DOGZSTAR, 2 April 2010, 10 p.m.
GALLERY 5533, 3 April 2010, 3 p.m.
open; Tue 06. 04. - Sat. 10. 04. 2010 1 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Meet the artists on Tuesday 06.04. between 1 p.m. and 6 p.m.
This April 2010 presentation of artworks by young Austrian artists at Istanbul’s Gallery 5533 (inauguration on Saturday, 3 April, at 3 p.m.) will feature a representative selection of contemporary productions. Videos, photography, objects, performances as well as audio installations are to reflect the artists’ personal experiences as well as their social and political backgrounds.The exhibition will be accompanied by talks with the artists at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University as well as by an evening with experimental electronic music, art projects and performances at Dogzstar Club Istanbul (Friday, 2 April 2010, 10 p.m.), all aimed at stimulating productive exchanges and discussions. The show was curated by Professor Dr. Martin Hochleitner (Director of the Gallery of the Federal Province of Upper Austria) together with the Department of Experimental Design of the University of Art and Industrial Design Linz (Andrea van der Straeten and Hubert Lobnig).This exhibition in Istanbul constitutes the second part of an ongoing exchange between the Department of Experimental Design of the University of Art and Industrial Design Linz and the young and vibrant art scene of Istanbul. During their stay at Yildiz Technical University Istanbul under the Erasmus programme, Oona Valarie Schager and Ufuk Serbest (both students at the Department of Experimental Design) initiated, curated and organised the very first exhibition of young artists from Istanbul in Linz. In April 2009, this show – Inspiring Stanbul – for the first time spotlighted the work of young Turkish artists right at the heart of Linz while also representing the co-operation between the University of Art and Industrial Design Linz and Linz 09 – European Capital of Culture.
ORGANISATION: ANDREA VAN DER STRAETEN, WILTRUD HACKL, ALEXANDER GLANDIEN, ASENA HAYAL, STEPHANIE MOLD, VALERIE OONA SCHAGER AND UFUK SERBEST
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HILLARY ALLEN, JAKOB BREITWIESER, SUSANNA FLOCK, ULRICH FOHLER, KATHARINA GRUZEI, GERDA HAUNSCHMID, asena hayal, VERENA HENETMAYR, ELISABETH KRAMER, SIGRID KRENNER, PAMELA LITZLBAUER, KATHARINA LOIDL, AGNES MIESENBERGER, STEPHANIE MOLD, CLAUDIA NICKL, TANJA OBERNBERGER, SANDRA OBWEGESER , CHRISTINE PAVLIC, HANNA PRIEMETZHOFER, ANTONIA PROCHASKA, JOHANNES RAMSL, NORA RIEDL, KAROLINE RUDOLF, OONA VALERIE SCHAGER, UFUK SERBEST, STEFAN STIPEK, FRANZISKA THURNER
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SELECTION AND ORGANISATION: MARTIN HOCHLEITNER AND HUBERT LOBNIG
Projektbeschreibung.pdf (in englischer Sprache)
