2025 Linz Electronic Art Festival Main Visual ©arselectronica
1. Debut at Linz Electronic Art Festival
From September 3rd to 7th, 2025, the world’s most influential media art event, the Ars electronica Festival, will kick off in Austria. This year’s theme is “Panic”, with the main exhibition venue located in POSTCITY Linz and linked to cultural venues throughout the city, presenting a thought experiment that spans art, technology, and society to the public. Among over 30 top universities from around the world, a joint team consisting of China Academy of Art (CAA), Bauhaus University ä t Weimar in Germany, and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore will make its debut at the Campus Exhibition of Linz International College under the CDSA core project “Beyond the Screen”, jointly exploring new forms of digital art in global urban public spaces.
2 exhibited works
Panic yes/no “confronts the uncertainty and fragility of today’s society. Information overload, climate crisis, accelerated penetration of artificial intelligence, panic seems to have become a new social consensus. Do we accept it? Are you resisting? Can we find the possibility of transformation in systemic fragility?
CDSA’s response is: Beyond the Screen. The works use AI generated imagery, cross-cultural storytelling, and public space media experiments to transform panic into a rethinking of future cities and human perception.
The participating artists include Ay ç a Tugran, Kevin Blackistone, Lee Chaewon Nicole, Muma Island (Zhao Boxiong, Gao Jialuo, Marinlin), Spinor Kongjie (Wu Jianbin, Yu Ziheng, Lin Qian, Qiu Zilin, Chen Yanfeng, Si Wenjie) Sreeshna Sowmya。
3 CDSA: Urban Digital Skin
CDSA (City Digital Skin for Art) is initiated by the Department of Public Space Art at the School of Sculpture and Public Art, China Academy of Art. It is an international collaboration platform that connects art, technology, and urban public spaces. It uses LED screens in global cities as the “digital skin” to promote artists to conduct experiments and dialogues in public spaces.
Since its establishment in 2022, CDSA has linked multiple cities in Asia and Europe through international media art and creative competitions and global exhibitions. This year’s’ Beyond the Screen ‘is its first overall presentation of the academic section in Linz.
Curatorial Team: Ruan Yuelai (CDSA, China Academy of Art) Susa Pop (Public Art Lab/Connecting Cities Network/Weimar Bauhaus University) Ina Conradi (NTU ADM) Invited Contributions: Maria Grazia Mattei (MEET Digital Culture Center, Milan), Dominique Moulon (Paris)
Collaboration support: Shahma Abdulla (Brand Design, NTU), Hoe Jian Wei (Digital Integration, NTU), Carolina Garcia (Bauhaus University Weimar/Public Art Lab)
Collaborating institutions: NTU Media Art Nexus, Ten Square in Singapore, Weimar Public Art Lab, Department of Public Space Art, China Academy of Art, Media City Research and Development Center, China Academy of Art MEET Milan、Fiber Media Lab、 Digital Arts Network D-arts, MANA Platform, etc.
4 CDSA Recommended Works VR Display
SPINOR air medium x Muma wooden code floating island
Resonance Matrix: Memories of Wandering Stars
CDSA International Media Art and Creativity Competition
Officially designated VR immersive experience
Exhibition coordinates: Public space 14a on the first floor of POSTCITY
Experience duration: approximately 5 minutes
Wearing a headset, you will step into a digital universe woven from fragments of memory, hear the gravitational waves of cross-cultural emotions, and see how common human emotions penetrate regions, languages, and time.
VR experience with still frames
VR Experience Still Frame _ China · Hangzhou Window
VR Experience Still Frame _ West Lake Skyline in China
VR Experience Still Frame _ Hamburg Yibei Philharmonic Concert Hall, Germany
VR Experience Stills _ Milan Central Station, Italy
VR Experience Stills _ Ten Square Singapore
Behind the scenes creation _ PINOR LAB internal meeting
Behind the scenes creation _ PINOR LAB internal meeting
5 Voices to the World
The Linz Electronic Art Festival was founded in 1979 and is known as the “Olympics of Electronic Art”. As an important part of the Festival, Campus exhibition focuses on emerging artists and researchers from top universities around the world, showcasing interdisciplinary creativity and experimental spirit.
On the stage of 2025, CDSA’s three school joint project is not only a showcase, but also a voice:
·By juxtaposing art education and experimentation from both the East and the West, we aim to construct a cross-cultural public narrative;
·Taking AI, urban media, and environmental issues as entry points, responding to the complex emotions of human panic;
·Open up possibilities beyond the screen and create new resonance between digital art and real life in global public spaces.
Outside the screen, within the selection.
Linz Electronic Art Festival Main Venue Map
Exhibition Information for POSTCITY Venue at Linz Electronic Art Festival
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Host: Department of Public Space Art, School of Sculpture and Public Art, China Academy of Art
Organizer: Organizing Committee of the International Media Art and Creativity Competition for Urban Digital Skin
Co organizer: Public Art Lab, German Public Art Laboratory, Bauhaus University Weimar, Singapore Nanyang Technological University, School of Art and Design, China Academy of Art, Media City Research and Development Center, Media Art Nexus FML Fiber Media Laboratory, SPINOR Spatial Digital Media Laboratory, LIMPIDART Clear Art, Zhejiang Future Hegu Cultural Tourism E-ART, French Art Academy Alliance
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