IC @ Volumes 2025
October 15, 2025 Valencia
Participation of Interface Cultures in the Volumens 2025 festival.
Campus AVM – Volumens presents a selection of projects by artists from the Master’s Degree in Visual Arts and Multimedia at the Universitat Politècnica de València. In this edition, the program also welcomes artists from the Interface Cultures Master’s program at the University of Arts Linz — co-organizer of the Campus section at Ars Electronica and a recurring presence in several of its editions.
The exhibition brings together twelve projects by AVM Master’s students alongside the contributions of Interface Cultures, configuring a European space for dialogue around art and technology.
Fragile Aesthetics. Prototyping Complex Universes
15.10.2025 (exhibition)
What does it mean to be human when our memories, emotions, and gestures are projected into digital territories? How are we transformed in a world where the natural and the technological sustain one another?
The works gathered in this exhibition place us at that threshold. Bodies turned into projection surfaces, brainwaves generating virtual landscapes, electronic gardens questioning what we understand as “living,” mirrors that reflect more environment than faces—each piece opens a passage into a shared experience.
Fragile Aesthetics. Prototyping Complex Universes invites us to recognize that we inhabit a common, hybrid, and fragile ecosystem. Here, the visible and the invisible, the individual and the collective, the real and the fictional intertwine, reminding us that every creation, every datum, and every gesture forms part of a network in which we are inextricably connected. Each work functions as a prototype of worlds to come, open rehearsals that expand the possibilities of the human in constant dialogue with technology.
Volumens is the leading festival for digital culture and new media art in the Valencian Community, held annually in Valencia since 2015.
Its name holds three meanings: volume, referring to sound; lumens, to light and image; and volumes, to the spaces that host its interventions.
The festival explores the intersections between contemporary art, music, science, and technology. Its aim is to build an open and inclusive platform where curiosity immerses itself in unique and innovative forms of creation through workshops, exhibitions, talks, performances, and, above all, concerts.
With music as its driving force and a clear commitment to reaching new audiences and reshaping the spaces it occupies, the festival has activated some of Valencia’s most iconic venues, including Palau de la Música, Bombas Gens, MuVIM, Centre del Carme de Cultura Contemporània, La Marina’s Base, Teatre El Musical, the City of Arts and Sciences, La Mutant, Las Naves, and La Fábrica de Hielo.
IC Projects @ Volumens 2025
Mirror Me! by Ahmed Jamal & Simon Weckert
Reflections form in our minds and shape our ideas of who we are. This project seeks to trace responses and patterns from different perceptions of the question: Who am I? As spectators approach the installation, they are drawn to the reflective surface, which acts like a mirror. However, unlike a traditional mirror, the closer one gets, the less one sees oneself and the more one sees the surrounding environment.
This intriguing effect produces a visual shift that challenges conventional understandings of self-identity, prompting consideration of our interconnectedness with the world around us. Mirror Me! encourages us to look beyond the surface and delve into the complex web of relations that constitute identity. The act of observation itself becomes a metaphor for self-discovery, recognizing that identity is not isolated but deeply entangled with the people, objects, and landscapes around us.
New Cartographies by Behiye Erdemir
“Is there a road with poor reception inland?”
New Cartographies employs radio waves to observe how invisible signals vary depending on location and environment. By transmitting and receiving images via radio, the work demonstrates how the electromagnetic space is shaped by its surroundings. Each distorted image functions as a cartography, revealing the invisible landscape of signals in everyday environments.
In Between Us by Patric Ortiz
In Between Us is a messaging application that uses artificial intelligence to rewrite every message. By transforming the original content, it creates a buffer between the sender’s raw thoughts and the recipient’s understanding, subtly softening the sender’s intentions. While the app aims to encourage communication that feels harmless yet assertive, it also exposes the inherent gap between genuine expression and the mediated message ultimately received.
