A group exhibition by students of the course “Technologies/Practices|Digital Communication and Media Worlds”
Artists:
electro_lyzer, Carmen García Lacalle, Franci Kas, Johanna Sophie Lutz, Lutzz&Bog, Jul Marian Schadauer
Vernissage: 20.6.2025: 7pm – 22pm
Workshop „Interweaving“: 26.06.2025: 4pm – 7pm
Presentation (KKP) & Finissage: 27.06.2025: from 3pm
opening hours:
21.6.2025, 23.– 26.6.2025 each 2pm-7pm
As part of the correspondent lecture within “Technologies/Practices|Digital Communication and Media Worlds” of the KKP degree program at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the collective Mz* Baltazar’s Lab presents artistic works by students that critically, poetically, and speculatively engage with digital infrastructure, feminist technology practices and the relationship between body, power, and machine. The exhibition addresses core themes of the lecture – from deconstruction and attentive listening to DIY hacking, ethical hardware, democracy, and the de/construction of the “ihuman.”
electro_lyzer explores the collaborative storytelling worlds of the Tumblr blog @the-muppet-joker in an interactive, playful archive – a queer social media universe beyond fixed identities, belief systems and linear narratives.
“Carmen García Lacalle’s „Default“ critically examines the replication of gendered and racist stereotypes by AI algorithms. Through the format of an interactive fanzine, the work exposes underlying systemic biases and encourages ongoing critical reflection on human perception and the machine-mediated representations of the world.
Jul Marian Schadauer questions European technological ambitions in „deus ex STMicroelectronics“ amid tensions of water scarcity, state funding, and environmental impact – a video essay intertwining tech sovereignty and water mythology.
Finally, the workshop „Interweaving“ by Franci Kas („Web Crawler“) together with Jul Marian Schadauer, electro_lyzer and Johanna Sophie Lutz („DIY Data Security“), invites participants to engage critically and physically with digital infrastructures-whether through a tactile web of fiction or by crafting Faraday bags as a resistant practise and protection against the data greed of the big tech-companies and the digital surveillance state.