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)

Sat, 12 August 2023, 6 pm ///
Sat, 19 August 2023, 6 pm ///
Sat, 26 August 2023, 2 pm ///
zur Schiassn (former Wirtshaus zur Schießhalle), Waldeggstraße 116, Linz ///

qujOchÖ invites you to its summer program in the shady guest garden at Schiassn (former Wirtshaus zur Schießhalle at Waldeggstraße 116, one minute from the Untergaumberg tramway stop).

On three Saturdays in August there will be fine live acts and film screenings, and on the last Saturday there will also be a workshop with Noiselab Linz. In addition, every time served: Jaus’n, beer, G’spritzter, juices & more! Pay as you wish!

Sat 12 August 2023, from 6 pm
Live: Andaka / soundcloud.com/andaka
Screening: What We Do in the Shadows (2014, 86 Min.) / imdb.com/title/tt3416742

Sat 19 August 2023, from 6 pm
Live: Andre Zogholy / zogholy.net
Screening: Greener Grass (2019, 95 Min.) / imdb.com/title/tt7422822

Sat 26 August 2023, from 2 pm
Workshop “Einfache Synthesizer Löten” with Mascha Illich (Course fee 30 Euro, incl. soldering kit) / cargocollective.com/noiselab
Live: RGBastler / rgbastler.wordpress.com
Screening: Sisters with Transistors (2020, 86 Min.) / imdb.com/title/tt6744250

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

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

At the invitation of “Interuniversitäre Einrichtung Wissenschaft und Kunst” (Inter-University Institution for Science and Art), a collaboration between Paris Lodron University and the Mozarteum University, qujOchÖ is coming to Salzburg with MYTH OF THEUTH. As part of the W&K forum “Artistic play spaces as participatory places of learning?”, after a round of games, the possibilities and limits of using games to promote participation and impart knowledge will be discussed in a panel discussion. 

MYTH OF THEUTH is a playful exploration of media theories from ancient history to the present day. While walking through ancient Athens, up to seven people gather different media and get in touch with media-philosophical celebrities from the ancient world to the present. Vilém Flusser drives aside the telematic society ad nauseam, Laura Mulvey takes a joyful look at our memory and Marshall McLuhan finally gets his well-deserved massage. Smartphones, newspapers, Lego bricks, sleeping masks, stamps, liqueur and other media are used through twelve unique stations.

Details on W&K forum: w‑k.sbg.ac.at/veranstaltung/kuenstlerische-spielraeume-als-partizipative-lernorte

Read more about MYTHOS VON THEUTH: qujochoe.org/archive/myth-of-theuth

Together with the qujOchÖ community and a professional here and there, we are reviving ancient cultural techniques that people have learnt together over thousands of years and which conceal symbols from times gone by.

Using the imperfection of pre-post-digital mental stumbling, we create absurd new things or make old things (un)usable again or even, by mistake of course, beautiful.

Dates:
# Thursday, 21 April 2022, 3–6 p.m.
# Thursday, 19 May 2022, 3–6 p.m.
# Thursday, 23 June 2022, 3–6 p.m.
# Thursday, 29 September 2022, 3–6 p.m.
# Thursday, 3 November 2022, 3–6 p.m.
# Thursday, 1 December 2022, 3–6 p.m.

No registration required, tools and materials are available on site.

The Illusion of Ending Things

Fr, 15 April 2022, 16:00 – 21:00 //
Ehem. Wirtshaus zur Schießhalle, Waldeggstraße 116, Linz ///

Schmelzende-Polarkappen  im Klimakasino; ein Folientunnel-Labyrinth ohne Ausgang; Artificial Intelligence Geldduschen; der Käsekurator hat die Ausstellung im Kühlschrank nicht chronologisch angeordnet…

Welcome to EPIC ESCXPE, eine Serie an episodenhaften Events, die auf künstlerische Weise das unendliche Wirrwarr der großen Fragen unserer Realität der 2020er-Jahre karikiert.

Einzelne aufeinanderfolgende Events und Teaser präsentieren Vehikel mehrdimensionaler Krisen in assemblageartigen Settings.

Episode 2 der Season 2 wird ausschließlich online „ausgestrahlt“, danach geht es noch in eine dritte Staffel! 

Die einzelnen Episoden werden in einem fulminanten Seasonfinale zu einem Parcour verschiedener Rätselstationen zusammengeführt:

Escape-Room-meets-alle-Krisen-dieser-Welt, ob der Telefonjoker wohl den entscheidenen Hinweis liefert…?

Und was ist bitte ein MacGuffin…?