11. und 12. September 2026 Kunstuniversität Linz, Domgasse 1, 4020 Linz
Courtyard / Audimax (Interface Cultures - Exhibition Hybrid Space)
Leonardo LASER is an international program that brings together artists, scientists, academics, and the public to share their work and inspire one another through presentations, performances, and discussions.
Our recurring LASER series Lab Songs explores evolving cultures of experimentation. Scientific and artistic breakthroughs arise not only from discoveries, but from transformations in practices, methodologies, and systems of care. As a result, laboratories are increasingly reimagined as spaces where aesthetic, technological, ecological, and theoretical forms of knowledge come into proximity.
For this year's Sobremesas, we gather around the dining table as a site of encounter. Much like the laboratory, it is a place where experiences are shared, differences remain present, and knowledge is collectively digested. Join us in celebrating the conversations, relationships, and acts of care through which new understandings emerge and unexpected encounters unfold.
DAY 1 - 11.09.2026 - Stardust Paella
11.00 to 12.30 | Panel: Rare Earths
Location: Audimax C
• Theresa Kofler — ATTAC Rohstoff - Raw Material Justice
• Ivan Sukovic — Terram Intelligere: INTERSTITIUM
• Victoria Vesna — [Alien] Star Dust Meditation
13.00 Stardust Paella & Art⚡Science DJ Set (open end)
Location: Domgasse Courtyard
DAY 2 - 12.09.2026 - Quantum Vermouth
11.00 to 12:30 | Guest Lecture — Lab Songs Vol. III
Location: Audimax C
• Jens Hauser — From Microperformativity to Greenness Studies
13.00 to 14.00 | Art & Science in Practice
Location: Audimax C
• Antonio Jesús Gómez Delegido — Particle Physics and Art in Dialogue (Introduction - CERN)
• Patricia Soto Molina — By the Time We Looked (Live Performance)
12.30 → | Quantum Vermouth & Art⚡Science DJ Set (open end)
Location: Domgasse Courtyard
Theresa Kofler coordinates the Austrian Trade Justice Plattform "Anders Handeln" and is trade expert with Attac Austria. She studied Political Science, Political Economy and Development Studies and has been campaigning for a global just transition, trade and raw material justice for 7 years.
Ivan Šuković (b. 1981, Podgorica, Montenegro) is a visual artist whose interdisciplinary practice spans multimedia art, archival research, and site-specific installations. Working in collaboration with scientific institutes, he develops projects that function as interdisciplinary platforms, bridging artistic inquiry and scientific methodology. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Arts in Belgrade (Department of Multimedia Art, 2019), an M.A. in Digital Art and New Media, and a B.A. in Literature from the University of Montenegro. Šuković represented Montenegro at the 59th International Art Exhibition – Venice Biennale (2022) and the 19th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (2025). His work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions across Europe and the Western Balkans. He has participated in international residencies and professional programs in Spain, Germany, Norway, and Italy. His practice has been recognized with multiple awards, and his works are held in public museum collections and private collections.
Victoria Vesna, Ph.D., is an Artist and Professor at the UCLA Department of Design Media Arts and Director of the Art|Sci Center. Although she was trained early on as a painter (Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Belgrade, 1984), her curious mind took her on an exploratory path that resulted in work that can be defined as experimental creative research residing between disciplines and technologies. With her installations, she investigates how communication technologies affect collective behavior and perceptions of identity shift in relation to scientific innovation (PhD, CAiiA-STAR, University of Wales, 2000). Her work involves long-term collaborations with composers, nano-scientists, neuroscientists, evolutionary biologists, and she brings this experience to students. Victoria exhibits her work in numerous international exhibitions, has been published in 20+ papers, and gave 100+ invited talks in the last decade. She is the North American editor of the AI & Society journal (Springer Verlag, UK) and in 2007 published an edited volume – Database Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Information Overflow (Minnesota Press) and another in 2011 — Context Providers: Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts. (co-edited with Christiane Paul and Margot Lovejoy) Intellect Ltd, 2011. Currently, she is working on Vibrations Matter: the art & science of Deep Listening (Routledge, 2026).
Jens Hauser is a media studies researcher, writer and curator who analyses the interactions between art and technology. Based between Paris and Vienna, he is currently an invited Global Fellowship professor at TU Wien, Austria, where he implements art/science initiatives, as well as a research fellow at University of Copenhagen’s Medical Museion and a distinguished faculty member in the Department of Art, Art History and Design at Michigan State University, where he co-directs the BRIDGE artist residency programme. Most recently, he was professor of art history at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).
Antonio Jesús Gómez Delegido is an experimental particle physicist and CERN Research Fellow working with the ATLAS Collaboration. His research explores the Higgs boson, a particle that plays a central role in our understanding of how elementary particles acquire mass. Through precise measurements of how the Higgs boson is produced and decays, he investigates questions such as how particles acquire mass, why their masses are so different from one another, whether the Higgs behaves exactly as our current theory predicts, and whether subtle deviations could point to phenomena that we have not yet discovered. His recent work has focused on combining different measurements to obtain a more complete and precise picture of the Higgs boson’s properties. In parallel, he works on the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter, a detector used to measure the energy of particles produced in collisions at the Large Hadron Collider. He currently coordinates its calibration activities.
Patricia Soto Molina is a media artist whose practice lies at the intersection of art, science, and technology (ACTS). Her work unfolds from an intermedia perspective, focusing on the investigation of the image and its relationship to technical media, especially screens, projection systems, and live audiovisual media. She develops projects that combine performance, research, and technological creation through Live Cinema, Live AV, livecoding, and other forms of audiovisual experimentation. Her practice is built upon collaborative methodologies with researchers and scientists, exploring new ways of producing knowledge through interdisciplinary dialogue.
Fabricio Lamoncha (host) is an artist and researcher from Spain, based in Austria. After graduating with a PhD in 2024 from the University of Art and Design Linz with the dissertation titled “Interspecies Interstitial Interfaces: Why Do I Care for Indoor Plants but Let the Rucola Rot in the Fridge?”, Fabricio is currently Senior Artist at the Interface Cultures Master’s program, where he teaches, conducts research, curates and cares for the laboratory spaces. He is member of the Art|Sci Center at UCLA and co-founder of the Leonardo Laser Talks Linz. His research explores the entanglements of media ecology and bioethics. His practice has been exhibited internationally and awarded with the Art and Artificial Life International Award Vida14.