22 08 24

Feminist toolboxes
Inspired by Donna Haraway’s Cyborg Manifesto (1985), many feminists followed her ‘dream of a common language for women in the integrated circuit’ and developed cyberfeminist appropriation strategies and subversive art actions on the net and beyond.

18:00
The Art of Unmasking Power. Sharing tactics and tools. Keynote by Cornelia Sollfrank

A central aspect of Cornelia Sollfrank’s work is the question of how art can have a political impact. How can artists fulfill their social responsibility beyond the art market and city marketing by using new aesthetic practices? She assumes that conventional forms of protest and resistance are too predictable and therefore tend to solidify rather than liquefy conditions. Inspired by the concept of Organizational Aesthetics, she has repeatedly created new forms, partly as resistance to concrete conditions, partly as ways of self-organization and collaboration. Digital technologies play an important role in this; once envisioned as automatically emancipatory and empowering, they now represent an apparatus of power that hardly allows any freedom.

In her lecture, Cornelia Sollfrank presents very different projects that have emerged over a period of more than two decades, her own and those of her allies. She compares strategies, evaluates their impact, asks questions about topicality and sustainability and tries to identify free spaces for forms of contemporary practice. She has identified a series of central questions and looks forward to a lively exchange.

18:45
Panel with Cornelia Sollfrank, Reni Hofmüller, Jenny Pickett, Tamara Wilhelm followed by a discussion moderated by Eva Ursprung

20:00
SENSORium Concert by Reni Hofmüller

The SENSORium consists of sensors for measuring the environment, such as Geiger counters and magnetism, temperature, humidity and fine dust. These sensors provide data in real time, which is either converted directly into sound (oscillators, granular synthesis, etc.) using Pure Data or indirectly serves as a trigger for other controllable events (further compositions, lighting control, volume, etc.).

The data measured live is converted into sound, making the specific environment audible: a completely new form of soundscape is created and information that would not be accessible to us humans with our senses at all, or only to a very limited extent, can be experienced by the senses - a new sound space is created.

The SENSORium is based on the Radio Cyborg Transmitter RCT*, produced by esc medien kunst labor Graz as part of the Graz 2020 Year of Culture, concept by Reni Hofmüller.

21:00
Power Lines Concert by Solar Return (Julien Ottavi, Jenny Pickett)

Taking electromagnetic phenomena as a starting point for their audio creations, they have produced various scores for Dual Audio synths/oscillators/DIY electronics etc… This scores reflect patterns and electromagnetic events such as solar flares and inner city mobile phone masts as well as the unfathomable audio world of kitchen appliances. Through their performances the duo tunnel deep into the world of frequency, statics and sound as a physical experience. Solar Return performances evolves through frequencies and filters of noise crushers, oscillators and waveforms, interacting with the immediate electromagnetic environment. Every performance is using a VLF (very low frequency) antenna as an instrument to reveal the hidden soundscapes and electrical pulses that massage our bodies daily, influencing our perception, intensifying sounds, noise and music.