Saint Interface Day 2025

December 5, 2025, from 4:15 p.m. KAPU, Kapuzinerstr. 36, 4020 Linz

Sankt Interface 2025 proudly presents the eleventh Computer Mouse/keyboard Contest!

We all have them; we all use them... hack your computer's
mouse and keyboard and win a prize! 
The catch is... weird ideas... crazy
metaphors... strange hybrids!
 

'Sankt Interface' is an artistic project organized by Interface Cultures, which also serves as the annual celebration of the department. It is not a coincidence that it is celebrated around the 9th of December, the same day in 1968 when Douglas Engelbart did his ultra-famous conference, known today as "The Mother of All Demos". At Sankt Interface, academic conferences, artistic performances, exhibitions, concerts, and a "Computer Mouse Award" comprise a celebration that transforms into a happening in which students, professors, and friends of Interface Cultures participate on an equal level.

This year's event includes the keynote "Beyond Resolution" by Rosa Menkman an art theorist, curator, and visual artist specializing in glitch art and resolution theory, who wrote the Glitch Studies Manifesto in 2009. And the keynote "Map as an Interface" by the artist Vladan Joler, a researcher and artist whose work blends data investigations, critical cartography, investigative journalism, critical design, and visual storytelling, was recently awarded the Golden Nica for his collaboration with Kate Crawford, "Calculating Empires".

But Sankt Interface 2025 also includes art performances, the eleventh edition of the infamous 'Computer Mouse Award' and a series of live music performances with electronic instruments, as well as some hot DJ sessions, which will close the night. It's all a must see!

Program

16.15 to 16.25: Welcome address by Prof. Dr. Manuela and Laurent. (Kapu stage)
16.25 to 16.35: Introduction to Sankt Interface 2024! by Ph.D. Candi-date César Escudero Andaluz.
16.35 to 17.20: Keynote "Beyond Resolution" by Rosa Menkman. (Kapu stage)
5.20 to 5.40 pm: Q&A session moderated by Alex Wöran.
5.40 to 6.25 pm: Keynote "Map as an Interface" by Vladan Joler. (Kapu stage)
18.25 to 19.00: Q&A session moderated by Alex Wöran.
19.00 to 20.30: Computer Mouse Contest Award presented by Enrique Tomás, Kristina Tica and Kevin Blackistone. (KAPU bar)
20.30 to 21.00: Dinner and jury decision break. (KAPU bar)
2.00 to 21.30: Awards ceremony. (KAPU stage)
21.30 to 22.00: "Interface-parade"(KAPU surrounding)
22.00: Open end. Concerts and DJ sessions from Interface Cultures Students, Teachers & Friends (KAPU)
The program is subject to minor changes.

KEYNOTES

Beyond Resolution
by Rosa Menkman
Resolution is often misunderstood as a simple number; a quantitative or qualitative metric. But resolution is not a fixed technical specification. Resolution is a relational, procedural condition shaped by protocols, standards, infrastructures, and interpretive regimes.
Moreover, perceived quality of the image is relational too; it is shaped by how an image is captured, processed, circulated, and displayed. Acutance (edge contrast), for example, can enhance the perceptual clarity, even when no new detail is resolved. Distinctions within image quality, such as between acutance and resolvable detail (e.g., pixel count), reveal that sharpness itself is a constructed perceptual effect. Even an image with high spatial resolution may appear low quality on a screen with poor acutance, or after platform compression and algorithmic distortion. ...

Map as an Interface
by Vladan Joler
The session positions maps as dynamic interfaces, spaces where data, narrative, and critique converge. Not as passive representations but as active interfaces that shape our understanding of power, extraction, and the hidden architectures of the digital world.