Credits
A Project by Sylvia Eckermann and Gerald Nestler in cooperation with Heinrich Böll Foundation - Global Unit for Human Security, Tactical Tech Berlin, Technopolitics Vienna, The Lisbon Architecture Triennale.
Team
Markus Passecker: head of XR production and Unity3D development, Marek Šimoník: Record3D volumetric video sharing, Michael Loizenbauer: live-streaming, Alexander Weber: camera, Alex Bossew: sound engineering, Daniel H. Pineda: assistance, set photography.Biographies
FOTO: Katharina Stögmüller
Sylvia Eckermann
is an artist based in Vienna whose engagement with form and media culminates in critical artistic reflections on socio-political and economic conditions. She works with various media, including digital and physical environments, installations, videos, objects and sculpture, and stages information that structures individual as well as economic entanglements in binary and physical environments. Since the late 1980s, Eckermann has been artistically engaged with the digital space, its nature and possibilities. Initially, she concentrated exclusively on the virtual space, with her interests shifting in the mid-2000s towards the "interface" between real and virtual space. Her early artistic involvement with computer games has earned her the reputation of a Game Art pioneer. She has shown her work in numerous exhibitions and projects internationally, such as the Millennium Dome, London, UK; the European Cultural Capital Graz, AT; Ludwig Forum for International art, Aachen, DE; KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, FI; Kunsthalle Wien, AT; Kunsthaus Graz, AT. She is a member of the Technopolitics research group, Vienna. In 2014, she received the inaugural Media Art Prize of the City of Vienna and was awarded the Austrian Art Prize for Media Art in 2018.
syl-eckermann.net
FOTO: Katharina Stögmüller
Gerald Nestler
is an artist and researcher who combines video, installation, performance, intervention, print and text with theory and conversation. He also develops and curates postdisciplinary formats dedicated to collaborative practices between art and other fields of knowledge and experience. In his research, he focuses on the derivative condition of technocapitalism, a performative mode whose power to claim the future derives to a significant degree from finance models, operations, and narratives. Since 2014 he examines how the semiotic field of the term resolution can be activated as a toolbox against non-transparency and explores renegade activism as a form of resistance to transform dissent and critique into forms of insurrection. Gerald’s practice is to a large extent based on thinking and making together, especially with the artist Sylvia Eckermann and the Technopolitics research group. He has shown his work and has also published and lectured internationally. He graduated from the Academy of fine arts Vienna and received a PhD from the Centre for Research Architecture, Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London, where he was also a researcher at Forensic Architecture. geraldnestler.net
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Giuliana Furci
is the foundress and CEO of the Fungi Foundation. She is also an associate at Harvard University, a National Geographic Explorer, a Dame of the Order of the Star of Italy, the deputy chair of the IUCN Fungal Conservation Committee, and the author of several titles, including a series of field guides to Chilean fungi. She has co-authored titles such as the 1st State of the World's Fungi [Kew, 2018], the publication that delimits the term “funga,” and the 3F Proposal - Fauna, Flora & Funga. Giuliana has held consulting positions in U.S. philanthropic foundations as well as full-time positions in international and Chilean marine conservation non-profits. She sits on the Board of Fundación Acción Fauna, and on the Advisory Board of the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks [SPUN], and other organizations. Giuliana has received several distinctions, including the 2022 Buffett/National Geographic Leadership in Conservation in Latin America Award, the 2022 Gordon and Tina Wasson Award from the Mycological Society of America, and the 2013 Presidents Award from the International Society for Fungal Conservation. giulianafurci.com
Simon Ilse
Simon Ilse works on foreign &security policy with a comprehensive security understanding (integrated security, human security, feminist foreign policy) based in Vienna. His work focuses on global perspectives. He holds a B.A. in International Relations (Dresden, New Delhi) and an M.A. in Public International Law (SOAS) and worked as an advisor for the Secretary-General of the German Greens and the Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg. He joined the foundation in its Tunis office and was office director in Belgrade from 2018 - 2022. Since 2023 he has been office director in Vienna. Heinrich Böll Stiftung
Volkmar Klien
Growing up in Vienna, Volkmar Klien spent his childhood engulfed in the city’s rich musical life with all its glorious traditions and engrained rituals. Working from this background Volkmar Klien today strives to extend traditional practices of composing, producing, and listening far beyond the established settings of concert music. He works in various areas of the audible and occasionally inaudible arts navigating the manifold links in-between the different modes of human perception, the spheres of presentation and the roles these play in the communal generation of meaning. volkmarklien.com
Markus Passecker
is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten, in collaboration with the Technical University Vienna. His research focuses on advancements in digital heritage and interactive storytelling.He earned an MA in Digital Media Technology and Digital Healthcare from the University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten, with a specialization in Experimental Media|Art. As an XR creator and UX designer, Markus develops applications that aim to enhance visitor experiences both in museums and in broader contexts. He has a keen interest in the interaction between the physical body and media technologies, particularly through biofeedback-controlled installations and performances. His work seeks to explore and expand the potential of XR technology to create immersive and engaging experiences. markuspassecker.com
Daniel H. Pineda
is an artist, curator and researcher. He is involved in an array of local as well as trans-national and trans-disciplinary projects that range from research groups and artist run spaces to experimental theory and performance networks. Daniel operates mostly in and as adO/Aptive, a flexible assemblage with ever-changing members and a collective that foments critical thinking, potential action, communication and Otherness through performative adaptions. adoaptive.pet
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Felix Stalder
is a professor teaching Digital Culture at the Zurich University of the Arts. His work focuses on the intersection of cultural, political and technological dynamics, in particular on new modes of commons-based production, copyright, datafication, and transformation of subjectivity. He not only works as an academic, but also as a cultural producer, recently retired as a moderator of the mailing list ‹nettime›, a crucial nexus of critical net culture. He is a member of the World Information Institute and the Technopolitics Working Group, both based in Vienna. He is the author/editor of numerous books, among others Deep Search. The Politics of Search Beyond Google [Transaction Publishers, 2009], Digital Solidarity [PML Mute, 2014], Kultur der Digitalität / Digital Condition /字 状况 [Suhrkamp, 2016/Polity Press, 2018, School of Public Art, 2023], Aesthetics of the Commons [Diaphanes, 2021], Digital Unconscious [Autonomedia, 2021] and From Commons to NFTS [Ljubliana 2022]. felix.openflows.com
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Wientaler Dreigesang
In the Wientaler Dreigesang [Vienna Valley Singers] Christine Gnigler, Joachim Rigler und Lorina Vallaster join forces to raise their voices in praise of global capitalism. On their recent album “Capital Must Accumulate; it’s a law of nature” [loewenhertz 038] they presented vocal trios composed by Volkmar Klien with words by John Barker, Ines Doujak and Gerald Nestler. The Wientaler Dreigesang in their songs draw heavily on historic musical practice, juxtaposing heavenly harmonies with rather earthly matter. wientaler-dreigesang.at