VISKOM @ LANGE NACHT DER FORSCHUNG

April 24, 2026, 6 p.m. to 11 p.m., live performance 8 p.m. University of Arts Linz, Hauptplatz 6, ground floor, lecture

The Visual Communication department is taking part in the Lange Nacht der Forschung with the research lab Co.Lab Beta Now.

We are investigating how images are created when language, body, space and technology come together - in performative situations, in real time, with an open outcome.

On Friday, April 24, we will be taking part in the Long Night of Research. You can see and experience two installations that transform spoken language into something else: into drawings, into documents, into objects that you can take home with you.

"Splitting Image" is an AI-supported live visualization system that analyses spoken language in real time and translates it into drawings. The system listens, recognizes thematic connections and clusters of meaning - and passes them on to three different AI personalities, who each draw with their own visual language. Every two minutes, a postcard is created for the audience to take away. The result is not a neutral documentation, but an aesthetically colored translation: a mirror that condenses, shifts and reframes.

"Listen Say" - the title has three meanings at the same time: being heard, being interrogated, belonging. This tension is no coincidence, but a program. The installation analyzes spoken language for qualities that lie far beyond the content: synaesthetic qualities, rhythm and sound of the voice, emotional colouring, processual or object-related way of thinking. The result appears as a printed statement - on thermal paper, the material of receipts and receipts. Documents of a transaction. Except that it is not the price of a product that is recorded here, but an imprint of what and how someone speaks. What does it mean when a machine makes this kind of statement about a person?