Zauberstimmen
Parlavent
13 06 2025 & 14 06 2025 16:00 - 24:00
terrace
A paravent is a screen that blocks the view but lets sounds from the other side through. The Parlavent plays with this not being able to see yet being able to hear what is happening on the other side and with the (imagined) scenes taking place over there. I was inspired by the paravent as a piece of furniture because of its semi-permeability, which makes it a medium: by partitioning space it also serves as an interface between the real and the fictional, between actual and imagined events.
Historically, in addition to its function as a screen that blocked the view and afforded protection from the wind, the paravent was often also a storyteller: literary and mythical tales as well as scenes from everyday life were depicted on it. In my work, the paravent becomes a whispering circulator of the information it conceals: captured by a camera and embellished by the misinterpretations and mistakes of a visual AI, the invisible is whispered through the paper panels of the screen and mixes with the real on-site sounds, creating a poetic-generative story, a real-time audio piece. What interests me here is the poetic-fictional potential inherent in the misinterpretations of AI. I also associate the uncertainty tied to information generated by AI and other algorithms with this work: it is often precisely the apparent objectivity of computational pattern recognition that takes things out of context and chimerically reassembles them into a deceptive narrative.
Ein Heimatfilm
Video, found footage, 5:20 min, Austria 2014
13 06 2025 & 14 06 2025 16:00 - 24:00
Second sound sphere
The videowork Ein Heimatfilm is an attempt to wrest propaganda images and sounds from an image film of the Austrian Popular Party of 1959. Putting it together to a complete new form is as well a tribute to the Austrian post war Avantgarde in art and literature as my own personal coming to terms with my Lower Austrian past.
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ein heimatfilm
Meet the Clone!
Elisabeth Schimana & Norbert Math
13 06 2025 & 14 06 2025 16:00 - 24:00
First sound level and First sound sphere
Come in and make a face! This is the only way you can control the voice clones of the Wöd Chor Plus according to your mood. Mirror, mirror in the control room - the first Klangkugel in the Klangturm - records your personal state of emotion and uses your facial expressions to control the voice clones. In the exhibition space - the first Klangebene in the Klangturm - visitors experience an immersive sound space and image clips from their grimaces.
Even if we can be quite sure that a computer can’t feel emotions - the computer is already very good at recognizing human emotions! Recently developed methods of machine learning (an AI method) can recognize the emotional state of people in real time, and this from very different sources: It can be the image of a face, but also a text, or the melody of a voice recording.
Whenever you post online, a selfie or a comment, or when you call a call center or apply for a job, you are - unintentionally - also communicating your state of emotion, and this can be recorded and evaluated by machines.
As good as image, text and sound recognition and the emotions attributed to it work, it is not perfect and often reacts in a very strange way. Play with it!
stadt.rauschen
© Hannah Mayr
13 06 2025 & 14 06 2025 16:00 - 24:00
foyer
Sound & Video: Conny Zenk
Text: Verena Dürr
Voice: Suzie Léger
Clouds of electrosmog drift clanging above the noise of urban infrastructure. Fragments of voices and poetry overlay long-forgotten territories. Traces of sound connect conversations with places and images of memory. Cyclists explore the city as a sphere of sound, questioning its effects of power and implications. Who has access to the acoustic arenas of everyday life? What drives the sound of your city?