Fri, 15 September 2023, 4 pm ///
Zoo Linz, Windflachweg 1 ///

Join us for a very special event at Zoo Linz!

qujOchÖ explores the connections between animal, human and artificial intelligence in a six-hour foray. Artistic works on parrots and Alexa, the Codex Seraphinianus and the Kafkaesque “A Report to an Academy” meet contributions to animal psychology from 1912, read by Dominika Meindl and the three donkeys Jolly, Fejalema & Biggi. In addition, there will be a zoological tour with assistant zoo director Melanie Saxinger, exploring the question of animal intelligence, and a lecture by Theresa Rössler from the Goffin Lab at the Messerli Research Institute at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna.

The grand finale will then take place on the petting zoo stage with two live concerts. Elvin Brandhi is “an improvising lyricist, producer and sound artist from Bridgend, Wales, who builds aberrant beats from field recordings, tape, vinyl, instrument and voice.” (SHAPE Platform) Recently she performed at festivals like LINZ FMR (2019), Sonic Acts Academy Amsterdam (2020), Donaufestival Krems (2021), Club Transmediale (2022), Supersonic Birmingham (2023) or Atonal Berlin (2023). Support comes from OGDL (Gundega Graudina, Ozan Tezvaran), two musicians around the Tangible Music Lab at Art University Linz.

Starting time: 4 pm!!!
Entrance fee: 18 Euros (incl. 10 Euros regular entry to the zoo)

From 6 to 11 June 2023, LINZ FMR, the biennial festival for art in digital contexts and public spaces, will take place for the third time. After the first edition in March 2019 alongside the Danube river and the second edition in June 2021 around the train station Mühlkreisbahnhof, this time FMR 23 will transform the southern harbour area into a freely accessible art space by numerous artists.

Opening

The opening will take place on Tuesday, 6 June 2023 at 6 pm at the clubhouse of Kleingartenverein Linz-Ost – one of the festival’s venues alongside hello yellow Velodrom & Pumptrack, Linzer Stadtalm or Klimaoase Linz-Lustenau.

FMR 23, Southern Harbour Area, Linz, Austria
Tuesday, 6 June – Sunday, 11 June 2023

Opening:
Tuesday, 6 June 2023, 6 pm
Kleingartenverein Linz-Ost, Prinz-Eugen-Straße 40
followed by Opening Tours and Opening Night

Arrival and accommodation

Linz is located in the geographical heart of Europe and is quick and easy to reach by water, land and air thanks to a good network of motorways and the Linz Airport. Find out here how to get to Linz.

Several hotels are located within walking distance from the festival area, as well as the city centre of Linz. Hotel offers can be found on the website of the city of Linz, where you can also inform yourself about the Linz card, that gives you free admission to Linz museums and the public transport. For any personal inquiries, questions or information about Linz, the Tourist Information Linz is happy to help.

Program

FMR 23 brings to Linz a large exhibition centered around venues such as Kleingartenverein Linz-Ost, hello yellow Velodrom & Pumptrack, Klimaoase Linz-Lustenau, Linzer Stadtalm and vacancy of former Quelle/Woolworth/NORMA store in Industriezeile. On display will be works by artists from the fields of media art, digital art and Internet art:

✭ !Mediengruppe Bitnik (DE/CH/CR)
✭ Anne Fehres & Luke Conroy (NL/AU)
✭ Clemens Stöttinger (AT)
✭ Clusterduck (IT/FR/DE)
✭ Constant Dullaart (NL)
✭ Dennis de Bel & Anton Linus Jehle (NL/DE)
✭ Julian Oliver & Gordan Savičić (NZ/AT/CH)
✭ Julian Stadon (AU)
✭ Justin Tyler Tate (CA)
✭ Marie-Luce Nadal (FR)
✭ Marisa Olson (US)
✭ Mitra Azar (IT)
✭ raumarbeiterinnen (DE/AT)
✭ S.Myselle (AT)
✭ S()fia Braga (IT)
✭ Studer / van den Berg (CH)
✭ Students from the Department of Media Design at University of Arts Linz (AT)
✭ Swaeny Nina Kersaan (NL)
✭ TinTin Patrone (DE)
✭ ViaOral (NL)

The program also includes lectures and artist talks on topics such as ephemeral circuits, wild computing, detoxing digitality and chromatic fermentation. Performances from the field of electronic music will be offered in addition to the Opening Night at a Concert Night on Friday, 9 June, with Stefano D’Alessio (IT), Crystn Hunt Akron feat. Tofa (Modulux) (AT), Floating Spectrum feat. Abe Pazos (TW/DE/FI), SØS Gunver Ryberg (DK), Francesco Luzzana & Sofia Casprini (IT), Antenes (US), Sturmherta (AT), Mermaid & Seafruit (PL/AT) & Antonia XM (AT). In addition, there will be daily performances by the participating artists on the festival grounds as well as guided tours with art educators and curators.

Organisation

Responsible for the festival is the association „LINZ FMR – art in digital contexts and public spaces“. It was founded by the two art and cultural initiatives qujOchÖ and servus.at, Atelierhaus Salzamt of the City of Linz, University of Arts Linz and Sturm und Drang Galerie. Their representatives have been involved in the conception, organization and curation of the festival since its first edition in March 2019.

FMR 23 is supported by the City of Linz as UNESCO City of Media Arts, the State of Upper Austria and the Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport, as well as numerous organizations and companies, including our main sponsors LINZ AG and Gutenberg-Werbering, our co-sponsors Plasser & Theurer, Datapress, Christian Schepe Fineartprinting, Schachermayer, ARCOTEL Nike Linz, Austria Classic Hotel Wolfinger, Das Landhof, arte Hotel Linz, TIER, city bike Linz, MOTORMOBIL Autohaus Dornach, Freistädter Bier, brotsüchtig, connect724, USP, Gebrüder Weiss, Schuller Eh’Klar and our further partners & supporters Linz Tourismus, Innovationshauptplatz Linz, younion Oberösterreich, Kleingartenverein Linz-Ost, Klimaoase Linz-Lustenau, hello yellow Velodrom & Pumptrack by Schachermayer, Linzer Stadtalm, Radio FRO, DORF TV and DIE REFERENTIN.

More info → linzfmr.at

Opening

Posters and magazine

Festival office

Exhibition

Tours

Talks

Concerts

THE FOREST SIRENS (AT) ///
COUSINES LIKE SHIT (AT) ///
CAORLI (AT) ///

Thu, December 15 2022, 20:00 ///
former Wirtshaus zur Schießhalle, Waldeggstraße 116, Linz ///

qujOchÖ invites to an extraordinary xmas-party. Expect art, music and drinks that will make you cry and laugh at the same time. Dead raccoons meet forest sirens, Cousines like Shit eat trippy licorice and Caorli serves the best cheese strips in the Universe.

cousines-like-sh.it
youtube.com/watch?v=LSYOM5KUnVw
youtube.com/watch?v=zAKA14MtDrE

Sequential events and teasers present vehicles of multidimensional crises in assemblage-like settings.

The individual episodes are brought together in this Zine as the season finale, a photographically documented process forming a conceptual parcours of puzzles.

The episodes originally and sporadically “aired” as real life events or in virtual ways, combining exhibition, intervention and photo shooting, at the same time accompanying the collective along the process of changing their location of work. This way the series went along three seasons, from 2020 to 2022.

Escape-room-meets-all-crises-in-this-world, wondering if the telephone joker will provide the decisive clue…?
And what is a MacGuffin…?

Content:

In the show-kaes El Queso, qujOchÖ and friends research the true nature of the “Cacio e Pepe”, through an artistic exploration of the pale-yellow-to-intensely-coloured-mirabellic substance.
A series of Käs-studies, double-blind experiments and radical research processes on the essence of the Käsessenz will be the main course of the evening.

With:
qujOchÖ, Avril Corroon, Stefan Brandmayr, Alice Strete, Ivo Cerwenka, Julia Nüßlein, Davide Bevilacqua, Eva Maria Dreisiebner

El Queso

For millions of years, man thought the moon was made of cheese. In 1969, we went there and discovered it was made of rock. We haven’t been back since.

The facets of cheese are as diverse as its variety; they combine culture with science, economics with chemistry, craftsmanship with politics. In a good cheese, every hole, no matter how small, is filled with stories and History. From soft to hard, young to old, mild to spicy – there is a cheese for every occasion.

Cheese is a mysterious matter that solves any polarization. In its creation process, the denaturation of a colloidal fat-water emulsion — better known as milk – frees up the radical tension between its two unmixable components. An alchemic processes finds a new delicate balance. The result is a solid substance that carry its magic properties way beyond its production technique, moulding over various areas of human activity, from art to philosophy.

Already in the time of classical philosophy, Epicurus found out that a single piece of cheese has the property of filling a person more than a whole meal. The obvious question is: which cheese was it? Perhaps the Camembert known for distorting the space-time continuum, the same that initiated Dalì’s “Persistence of Memory”…? Aristoteles had a more fundamental intuition on the aetheric substance of the lunar body, probably only failing to recognising its root withing the lactose matters.

As cheese seems to be fundamentally molten in the essence of everything, only another metaphisically rich substance can keep the pace and serve the quest of the Queso. Recalling the words of the theorist Dino Formaggio – “Art is everything that humans call Art” – it seems that, once again, only Art can save human from complete meltdown.

Participant Artists

Stefan Brandmayr
Stefan Brandmayr selects and put together, he disassembles and organizes, he forms and performs. His approach is always process-oriented. His artistic starting point is never a concept but haptic work combined with research. Brandmayr often deals with pictures of masculinity and connects an analysis of gender roles with basic parameters of contemporary art production. (Gudrin Ratzinger)
https://www.stefanbrandmayr.net/
@stefanbrandmayr/

Alice Strete
Alice Strete (1991) is a Romanian media artist/researcher based in Rotterdam. She is a member of Varia and a board member of BioBulkBende food co-operative.
http://vvvvvvaria.org/~strt/

Ivo Cerwenka
ivocerwenka.at

Avril Corroon
Avril Corroon is an Irish visual artist based in London. She works with moving image, performance, and sculpture to examine precarious living, inequity and how architecture manifests governance. She has made cheese from toxic black mould in housing, has turned a gallery into a car dealership and covertly filmed labour conditions in her hospitality job. Currently she is working on ‘Got Damp’ a research and development project with TACO Gallery in Thamesmead, exploring qualities of damp housing as both harmful and lively material.
avrilcorroon.com
@avcorroon

The second edition of FMR, the biennial festival for art in digital contexts and public spaces, will take place from June 1 to 6, 2021. After the first edition along Linz’s Donaulände, this time the area around Linz’s Mühlkreisbahnhof will be transformed by numerous international and local artists into an open and freely accessible exhibition space. There will also be a program lasting several days with a symposium, artist talks, guided tours and concerts.

Participating artists of second edition:

• Thomas Albdorf (AT), thomasalbdorf.com
• Yarli Allison (CA), yarliallison.com
• Clara Boesl (AT), instagram.com/karlbrosl
• DARV (AT/BG, Guest Performance), darv.org
• Dries Depoorter (BE), driesdepoorter.be
• Unnur Andrea Einarsdóttir (IS) with Boris Kourtoukov (RU/CA), unnurandrea.net
• Tom Galle (BE), tomgalle.online
• Kyriaki Goni (GR), kyriakigoni.com
• Edurne Herrán (ES), pinkblood-globulosrosas.blogspot.com
• Lucas LaRochelle (CA), lucaslarochelle.com
• Aimilia Liontou (GR), aimilialiontou.com
• Stephanie Lüning (DE), stephanieluening.com
• Dominik Morishita-Leitner (AT), dominikleitner.tumblr.com
• Jaakko Myyri (FI), jmyyri.com
• Hannah Neckel (AT), hannahneckel.com
• Elisa Giardina Papa (IT), elisagiardinapapa.org
• Matthias Pitscher (DE), pitscher.net
• Carlos Sáez (ES), instagram.com/carlossaez1
• Filipe Vilas-Boas (PT/FR), filipevilasboas.com
• Simon Weckert (DE) with Armandeus Meniak (DE) and Lucas Novy (DE), simonweckert.com
• Zara Worth (GB), zaraworth.com

FMR 21 is curated, programmed and organized by qujOchÖ, servus.at, the Atelierhaus Salzamt, the Department of Media Theories at University of Art and Design Linz and the STURM UND DRANG GALERIE.

Further information and updates on the current situation at linzfmr.at.

Audio: FMR Prime Time, around the festival area and on Radio FRO 105.0 MHz
with pnk_t (AT), Gischt (AT), Astrid Gnosis (GB) & Nkisi (BE)

Funders

Main sponsors

Co sponsors

Partners & Supporters

Special thanks also go to DIE REFERENTIN, Radio FRO, Hannes Leopoldseder, Linz Tourismus, CROSSING EUROPE, Innovationshauptplatz Linz, ANWALTGMBH Rinner Teuchtmann, Juwelier Pichler, Kroh & Partner Ziviltechniker GmbH, RUNNER STORE, Teppichdoktor and Weinturm.