GUESTS

Keiken is an interdisciplinary artist collective co-founded by Isabel Ramos, Hana Omori and Tanya Cruz.

Martina Menegon is an artist working predominantly with Interactive and Extended Reality Art and was co-curator at 2022’s CIVA festival.

Eva Fischer is an independent curator, cultural manager and lecturer in the field of experimental media, immersive art and technology. Since 2021, she has been directing the new Viennese media art festival CIVA - Contemporary Immersive Visual Art.

HOST

Severin Matusek is a strategist and founder of co—matter, a creative studio exploring the cultural and societal impact of new technologies.

IDEAS AND PEOPLE IN CONTEXT

• Bet(a) Bodies is an interactive installation centering a wearable haptic womb with sound. The meta-womb is an empathy and consciousness device. https://keiken.cloud/work/beta-bodies/
• A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace is a early paper on the applicability of government on the Internet by the writer, activist Grateful Dead member John Perry Barlow. https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence
• CIVA Festival is a new media festival taking place each year in Vienna. https://www.civa.at/

TRANSCRIPT

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CREDITS

The Vienna Business Agency supports businesses, the economy and the city in developing the Austrian capital’s creative industries and shaping its future trajectory. viennabusinessagency.at

Editorial Team: Mike Evans, Paul Feigelfeld, Severin Matusek, Elisabeth Noever-Ginthör, Theresa Reimann-Dubbers, Elisa Stockinger, Heinz Wolf

Theme Music by Zanshin.