KLIUS 2026
Free format seminar, open for all educators, students, artists, and researchers
Join us for the Kunstuni Linz International Universities Seminar (KLIUS 2026) on September 10th at the University of Arts Linz, located in the heart of the city. We invite papers, artworks, research, and other scholarly projects exploring artistic expression at the intersection of art, technology, and society.
The seminar offers educators, students, artists, and researchers a platform to present their work and receive constructive feedback. Held during the Ars Electronica Festival, it provides an ideal space for networking and creative exchange among international guests. You are welcome to submit your work as either a digital presentation (such as slides) or an analog poster.
Participators will be grouped into panels of 3-5, depending on the topics of the presentations.
Submissions may include:
- Research
- Research Paper
- Artworks
- Exhibitions & events showcase
- Activism & social engagement
- Student projects, including PhD Candidates
- Ongoing academic projects
- University program introduction
- Other related topics
Program
KLIUS program (10.09.2026) 11:00 - 18:00
Location: Hörsaal C. West (Hauptplatz 6, 5th Floor)
Opening
| 11:00 | Introduction |
Social engagement and artistic research
| 11:15 | Omer Eliraz | Patterns |
| Maria Esperanza Sasaki Otani | DADA-TATA |
Against the Tide: Critical art practices
| 11:45 | Cameron Mankin | On the Manner: HCI and the Artist's Hand |
| Sophie Wei-san Miller | Simulacrum 2 |
| Xenia Kvitko | Camera Obscura as a Tool for Documenting Contemporary Self-Expression Through Costume |
| Joe Zijian Zhou | Technology as a Structural Condition in Contemporary Art Rethinking High-Tech and Low-Tech |
Announcement of Libre Graphics Meeting / Open-source communities
| 12:30 | Joseph Knierzinger | Libre Graphics Meeting 2027 |
Lunch break
| 13:00 | Lunch break |
Culture and heritage through digital mediation
| 14:00 | Gregory Lik Hoo WEE | Dream Cosmology: Between Worlds |
| Dokyung Kim, Eunyu Kim, Sumin Tak | Reading Me in Color |
| Benedict Yu | Beyond Language: Reimagining Heritage and Family Archives through XR in Multicultural Singapore |
Ecology and bio art
| 14:45 | Veronika Miškovičová | Urban Living Labs |
| Chih-Yung Chiu, Yi-Lin Chang, Yu-Fang Wang, Jhih-En Wu | Living Strata: Speculative Archeology and the AI-Mediated Construction of Posthuman Knowledge |
| Tieyuan Liu | Cities, Birds, and Our Shared Ecology: The Impact of China's Rapid Urbanizat ion on Urban Avian Ecology |
Interfacing the Ocean
| 15:40 | Anthea Oestreicher | Mobilis in mobili - Drifting in planktonic seas |
| Antoine Bertin | Fish String Theory: Submerging the Listening and Weaving Conversations with Marine Life |
| Rasa Weber | SymbiOcean. Design Research in Troubled Waters. |
| Luke Franzke | Oral Digital |
Data and sound art
| 16:30 | Paul Clift | Timbre Mining in Large Audio Datasets |
| Xianglong Zhang | Echos Beyond Algorithms |
End
| 17:00 | End |
Location: Hörsaal D. OST (Hauptplatz 6, 5th Floor)
Opening
| 11:00 | Introduction |
Generative narratives
| 11:10 | Mor Peled | Things That Can Be Measured |
| Asaf Lupo | The Imprisoned Robot |
| Felix Henke | Der unendliche Film |
| Chenxin Yang | Who Speaks for the Work? |
Art, AI, and education
| 12:00 | Predrag Nikolic | Epistemoverse: Preserving intellectual heritage |
| Aura Bălănescu | From Techno-Ecologies to a Living Knowledge Circuit |
| Natalia Grincheva | Dreaming Outside the Algorithm: Foresight 3.0 and Creative Counter-Futures in AI Singapore |
Lunch break + Poster Presentations
| 13:00 | Rocio Garcia Robles, Aura Bălănescu, Livia Mateiaș, Marius Jurca / 13m10j, Paul Babencu, Deian Berar, Vlad Jelmărean, Miki Velciov | From Techno-Ecologies to a Living Knowledge Circuit |
Embodied interactions: multisensory interfaces
| 14:00 | Jue Wang | Sympoietic Entanglement: Slime Mold, Machines, and the Weaving of the Material-Semiotic Poetry |
| Iosune Sarasate Azcona | Movement as Interaction in Swept Volumetric Displays |
| Sun Xueyi | The Elusive River: The "brilliant error" in operational images |
Games, interaction design and art - Part 1
| 15:00 | Anna Lena Reisinger | Not The Same Game |
| Gayoung Kim, Ezequiel Gavilan Acunxxa, Jeongmin Kim | 1 Park 2 Kim |
| Cailean Finn | The Metagardener Cultivating Life In Interaction Design |
Games, interaction design and art - Part 2
| 15:45 | Yeonwoo Park, Yejin Park, Yunseo Choi | 501 Not Implemented |
| Angela Kristie Rustham & Amila Khairana | Cultivating XR Literacy: The Power of Human-Guided VR Art |
| Zhenhua Wu | Calculating Your Redundancy |
Public Art & AI
| 16:30 | Xinhao Zheng | How Does Publicness Emerge Through Technological Relations? |
| Alessandro Ludovico, Alexia Achilleos | Toolkit of Care experimental publication |
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
AI, data, and society
| 17:00 | Dietmar Offenhueber | In Silico - Synthetic worldviews |
How to get here
To Seminar
5th Floor, East Lecture Hall H6.05.01, H6.05.02 (Hörsaal C & D)
Hauptplatz 6, 4020 Linz
To Linz
- By train with ÖBB via Linz main station and the Mühlkreis or Bergbahnhof Linz
- By plane via Linz Airport
- By ship with Donautouristik, Donauschiffahrt Wurm & Noé and other shipping companies
To the individual locations
By bus and streetcar
- Hauptplatz location | take streetcar line 1, 2, 3 or 4 or bus line 19 to Hauptplatz and the buses of the Upper Austrian Transport Association to the Untere Donaulände stop.
- Domgasse location | take streetcar line 1, 2, 3 or 4 to the Taubenmarkt or Hauptplatz stop (from there it is about 5 to 7 minutes on foot).
- Flixbus long-distance bus routes
* Online timetable for LINZ AG streetcars and buses
* Online timetable for the Upper Austrian Transport Association
By bike
- All locations are also easy to reach on your own or with a rental bike. There are public bike racks on the roads around the university as well as dedicated bike racks in the courtyards. You can get an overview of how to get there using the Radlobby Linz online cycle map.
- You can also switch to the local bike rental system at the train station. In Linz there are the Citybikes powered by next bike - you can rent them via app. You can reach all our locations from the main train station with a Citybike, the pick-up and return stations are in the immediate vicinity. At Hauptplatz (station 41615), Pfarrplatz (41628) and Ludlgasse (station 41642). Find out more under Citybikes.
By car
- Location Hauptplatz/Domgasse | from Passau via the Innkreisautobahn A8 (E66), from Prague/Freistadt via the Mühlkreisautobahn E55/A, from Vienna via the Westautobahn A1 (E60), from Salzburg via the Westautobahn A1 (E55) - in each case exit Hafenstrasse (Exit 11)
Paid parking spaces
- Hauptplatz location | underground parking garage on Hauptplatz (entrance Nibelungenbrücke/Untere Donaulände in the direction of Hauptplatz), in the Lentos, at Pfarrplatz, and in the short-term parking zone along Untere Donaulände
- Location Domgasse | underground parking garage Pfarrplatz
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