Post-Human Resources
Art University Campus @ Ars Electronica Festival 2025
What happens when technology is no longer an isolated tool for specific tasks, but embedded in a complex web of interrelationships? At Interface Cultures, we have spent over two decades exploring this evolving liaison as an artistic field—asking how we communicate with technology, not merely through it. In a world where digital interfaces shape our emotions, memories, and desires, excellence in media art demands more than technical skill; it calls for a critical sensitivity to emerging systems and the frictions that surface within our entanglement with them.
Founded at the University of Arts Linz, Interface Cultures has grown into a vibrant community of artists, researchers, and educators committed to redefining the boundaries of media art. For more than 20 years, we have brought experimental works to the Ars Electronica Festival, contributing to an ongoing global discourse on technology, art, and society from the perspective of younger generations.
This year’s exhibition, Post-Human Resources, arises from a moment of saturation—where every device demands our attention and every interface mirrors a culture of dopamine, urgency, and algorithmic control. We ask: what new narratives can resist this noise? How can we create spaces for care, attention, and reflection within systems designed for speed? Post-Human Resources is not just an exhibition—it is a space for reconfiguration. A collective gesture by a generation of artists attuned to the pulse of the present, offering subtle, imaginative, and resistant responses to the challenges of our mediated lives.
Curator: Manuela Naveau
Exhibition venues: Ars Electronica Center, Lentos, Kunstuniversität Hauptplatz 6 and 8, splace am Hauptplatz, Post City and Linzer Hauptplatz
EXHIBITED WORKS
Venelin Shurelov, Lucia Claus, Hani Elias, Joann Lee, Laura Walter, Ahmad Aiub, Hanif Haghtalab, David Schuch, Alessia Fallica, Martina Pizzigoni, Ghazal Hosseini, Flavia Luna Somarriba, Tsu-Wei Lu, Camilla Scholz, Lilly Marie Stelzer, Mehmet Çolak, Till Schönwetter, Zixin Mou, Ahmed Jamal, Emma Silvana Tripaldi, Volkan Dinçer, Sofia Talanti, Frieda Emmrich, Camilla Scholz, Andrea Corradi
Satelitenprojekte
Events as part of the exhibition
Leonardo LASER talks -Lab Songs Vol. II
Scientific revolutions lie not only in discoveries, but also in changes to their practices, goals, protocols and evaluation methods. The laboratory, originally dedicated to scientific work and characterized by precision and dedication to experimentation, now resonates across disciplines and fosters creativity and collaboration. Through the experiences and songs of our guests, we explore the laboratory as a heterotopic space that can generate new agendas and structures for collective creation.
Presenters of the Leonardo LASER events in Linz: Fabricio Lamoncha and Christa Sommerer
PERFORMING DATA uses data as a material, a tool, a subject and/or a critique of our current reality. In particular, the program aims to artistically explore the fluid, ever-changing potential of data to better understand how it influences us and our view of the world, both positively and negatively.
Participants: Andra Panainte, Kristina Thuduwage, Evgenios Amvrosi, Georgia Rose Demetriou, Stauros Kazakos, Demetres Zonias, Aksenia Avramova, Nevena Vasileva, Nil Zheleznyakov, Radina Yotova, Roslana Yotova, Ahmed Jamal, Camilla Scholz, Flavia Luna Somarriba, Ghazal Hosseini, Lilly Stelzer, Lucia Claus, Hani Elias, Sifan Pan, Volkan Dinçer
Supervision: Venelin Shurelov, Marinos Koutsomichalis, Doros Polydorou, Charalambos Margaritis, Myrto Aristidou, Manuela Naveau