Opening of the Vienna Digital Cultures Festival: Art meets technology!

Opening of the Vienna Digital Cultures Festival: Art meets technology!

Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz, Treitlstraße 2, 1040 Wien, Österreich - On April 7, 2025, a new festival will celebrate its premiere in Vienna: the Vienna Digital Cultures Festival, which takes place for the first time in the Kunsthalle Vienna Karlsplatz from May 5th to 18th, 2025 and in other places in the city. Together organized by the Kunsthalle Vienna and photo Arsenal Vienna, the festival focuses on researching the effects of new technologies on culture. Under the title "Model Collapse", a varied program of exhibitions, performances and discourse formats with internationally renowned artists and experts are planned.

The presentation of the program and the artists will take place on April 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. in the Kunsthalle Vienna Karlsplatz. At this press conference, important personalities from the cultural and art scene, including Veronica Kaup-Hasler (City Councilor for Culture and Science), Wolfgang Kuzmits (Managing Director of the City of Vienna Kunst GmbH), and Michelle Cotton (Artistic Director Kunsthalle Vienna) will be present. Interested parties can register until April 8th at presse@kunsthallewien.at to the press conference.

technology and art - a new interaction

The connection between digital technology and art has become more important since the 1980s. For example, in the case of the VR installation "Atmospheric Forest" from the Latvian artist duo Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits, which enables visitors to immerse yourself in 3D scans of a digitized forest. Such works reflect the effects of technological change and show how digital technologies can become expanded human experience.

As part of the festival, topics that currently shape society, such as artificial intelligence (AI) and their influence on human emotions, are also dealt with. According to Deutschlandfunk's reporting, artists like Mario Klingemann use KI to create new visual worlds and question the relationship between man and machine. The exhibition "Real Feelings" offers an interesting perspective, which addresses the challenges of AI in the analysis of human emotions.

social debates and digital art

The Vienna Digital Cultures Festival will not only emphasize the artistic possibilities of new technologies, but also the ethical and social issues that are connected with it. The discussion about humanoid robots in everyday life and their influence on interpersonal relationships will also play a role. Sabine Himmelsbach, who deals intensively with the development of media art, emphasizes that digital works of art provide important impulses for social debates.

In a time when technologies are omnipresent and society shape, the festival promises a space for creative clashes with the digital challenges of our time. An event that will not only address art lovers, but also interested parties at the intersection between technology and culture. Information about further details about the festival and the artists will be published in the coming weeks.

For additional information about the development of media art, it is recommended to take a look at the page of the Deutschlandfunks . There it is explained in an understandable manner how profoundly the technologies influence our life and what opportunities they offer for art.