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.
TANGO
Inhalt
Tango ist ein Tanz, der sich in der Region des Río de la Plata aus der Verschmelzung verschiedener kultureller Strömungen entwickelt hat. Er basiert auf dem einfachen gemeinsamen Gehen. Von dort aus entwickeln sich all die ausgefallenen Bewegungen. Es ist ein Kommunikationstanz, d. h. die Tanzpartner*innen lernen, wie sie sich durch eine bestimmte Technik miteinander verbinden können, um sich gemeinsam zu bewegen. Als zeitgenössische Perspektive bieten wir an, beide Seiten des Tanzes zu lernen, die unterschiedliche Herausforderungen haben. Darüber hinaus verstehen wir den Tanz als eine nicht geschlechtsspezifische Tanzpraxis - die Tänzer*innen mischen sich, wie sie wollen. Am Ende des Semesters sind die Teilnehmer*innen in der Lage, mit ausreichenden Grundkenntnissen an einer Milonga, der Tanzveranstaltung für Tango, teilzunehmen.
Trainer*innen
Arno Cuca Plass
... ist eine queere Tangotänzerin und Doktorandin an der Kunstuniversität Linz.Ihre Forschung beschäftigt sich mit Bewegung in Verbindung mit kultureller Bedeutung.Er nähert sich daher mit einer praxisbasierten Methode; diese erforscht Bewegung in verschiedenen Kollektiven.Arno unterrichtet Queer Tango in verschiedenen Kontexten, als Teil der Lehre an Universitäten, im Rahmen von Tanzklassen/Workshops etc.
Marcela Lopez Morales
... ist eine professionelle Tänzerin, Choreografin und Tanzpädagogin, die diese drei Bereiche des Tanzes in einem ständigen Dialog zwischen Praxis und theoretischer Forschung miteinander verknüpft.Derzeit absolviert sie ihr Doktoratsstudium an der Kunstuniversität Linz.
Damian Cortes Alberti
... befindet sich derzeit in der Endphase seiner Doktorarbeit an der Kunstuniversität Linz. Er unterrichtet an der Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität, ist Vorstandsmitglied der Red Sapata Kunst Kultur und Tanzitiative, koproduziert das A!KO Dance Festival und arbeitet international als freier Mitarbeiter.
Termine
19.3.; 2.4.; 16.4.; 30.4.; 14.5.; 28.5.; 11.6.
18:30 - 20:00 Uhr
Ort
Kunstuniversität Linz, Hauptplatz 8
Zielgruppe
Universitätspersonal
Anmeldung
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TANGO
... is a dance that evolved in fusion of different cultural threads in the region of the Río de la Plata. It is based on simply walking together. From there all the fancy moves develop. It is a dance of communication which means, that the dance partners learn how to connect through a specific technique in order to move together. As a contemporary perspective, we offer to learn both sides of the dance that have different challenges. In addition, we perceive it as a non-gendered dance practice - dancers mix as they wish to. At the end of the semester, participants are ready to join with enough basic knowledge a milonga, the dance event for tango.
Arno Cuca Plass
... is a queer tango dancer and PhD student at Kunstuniversität Linz. Her research is concerned with movement ind connection to cultural signification. He therefore approaches with a practice-based method; this is exploring movement in different collectives. Arno teaches queer tango in different contexts, as part of their teaching at univeristies; in the frame of dance classes/workshops etc.
Marcela Lopez Morales
... is a professional dancer, choreographer, and dance pedagogue who articulate these three fields of dance in a constant dialogue between praxis and theoretic research. Currently, she is carrying out her Doctoral studies at Kunstuniversität Linz.
Damian Cortes Alberti
... is currently in the final stage of his doctoral thesis at the Kunstuniversität Linz. He teaches at the Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität, serves as a board member of Red Sapata Kunst Kultur und Tanzitiative, co-produces the A!KO Dance Festival, and conducts freelance work internationally.
