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subnetAIR – HANNA HOFMANN | Meet the artist: Wednesday, October 28th | 5 PM

@ HCI – Division for Human-Computer Interaction,
Techno-Z Salzburg Bauteil V, Jakob-Haringer-Straße 8, 5020 Salzburg

It’s our pleasure to welcome our Octobers subnetAIR, Hanna Hofmann! Wednesday, October 28th, she will present her project and talk about her work.

ABOUT
Hanna Hofmann project explores parallels between the Alpine tradition of Perchten and the Japanese Setsubun or Oni rituals – two cultural practices that use masks, sound, and collective performance to banish evil and mark transition. Through an experimental short film and audiovisual installation, she aims to connect these traditional gestures of cleansing and renewal with contemporary digital culture: What does it mean today to “drive away demons” when our ghosts live in data, networks, and inherited myths?
This project has plans of filming key rituals and scenes during the Rauhnächte 2025/26 in the Baverian mountains, focusing on the Schnabelpercht – a bird-like figure that sweeps away evil – and the Tengu, its Japanese counterpart. Both figures are being created based on scientific and also artistic research into craft, culture and superstition. The masks, outfits and scenes will be the outcome of this first phase.

Hanna Hofmann is a designer & artist working at the intersection of language, perception, and technology. With a background in visual communication, she creates research-based artworks using code, sound, and interactive installations to explore hidden systems—translating complex ideas into accessible experiences. Through data-driven visuals, generative processes, and immersive environments, she invites audiences to engage with the unseen structures shaping our understanding of the world.

More about Hanna Hofmann:
http://hanna-hofmann.com

Picture credit: Hanna Hofmann - „Greenprint“

MediaART Residency + Grant
Salzburg Stadt + subnet
Project development grant for artists from the field of media art and experimental media.

The Artist-in-Residence Program of Salzburg awards in cooperation with subnet – Salzburg platform for media art and experimental technologies a one-month project development grant.

Period: 4 weeks – Time slot: November 2nd-29th, 2027.
Application Deadline: November 15th , 2026

The studio apartment is located in the Künstlerhaus Salzburg.

Context:
# A studio apartment for project development
# A grant of 600, – Euro
# Free access to subnetBÜRO and its infrastructure
# The possibility to access the laboratories and workshops of the Center for Human-Computer Interaction.

Prerequisite is a willingness to work with the context of the city of Salzburg.
The aim is to promote selected artists through a residency scholarship and also to locate in the city.

The Media Arts: Residence + scholarship is part of subnetAIR annual program. The selection and award made by the department of culture, education and knowledge of the city of Salzburg on a proposal of the independent subnetAIR jury. The decision will be communicated in December.

Please send your submissions to – subnet Salzburger Plattform für Medienkunst und experimentelle Technologien via [email protected]

all info: https://subnet.at/subnetair/mediaart-call-2027/

ERIK ZEPKA | Wednesday, SEPTEMBER 23rd | 5 PM
Hallein, Alte Schmiede
Mauttorpromenade 7a, 5400 Hallein

TALK:
„Navigating the Absurd: A Rigorous Manual for the Post-Truth Age“
Feeling overwhelmed by the sheer, unadulterated absurdity of modern existence? Drowning in a deluge of misinformation, surveillance, and existential dread? Traditional coping mechanisms have failed you. But fear not, lost soul! This program offers a lifeline – a cold, hard dose of reality delivered through the unassailable logic of science, mathematics, and computation. We won’t promise happiness, but we will provide the analytical tools to dissect the mechanisms of your despair. Prepare to confront the algorithms, untangle the networks, and quantify the chaos that defines our glorious, post-truth era.

SPEAKER:
Erik Zepka is a media artist, performer, scientific researcher and educator He is interested in how science and technology shape our collective concepts, and how art, parody and education can reflect that. He has presented and published this work around the whether as artist (Furtherfield, Transfer Gallery, Pearl Art Museum), scientist (Tongji University, MIT, New York University), or researcher (Simon Fraser University, University of Victoria, Shanghaitech University).

Language: EN
picture credit: Erik Zepka

REMINDER!
MiniSchmiede Hallein (11. – 12.September 2026) – jetzt anmelden! 🤩
Lust einen Tanz- oder Kampfroboter bauen?
Kommt zur MiniSchmiede Hallein 2026!

Bitte das AnmeldungsPDF unter https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XjiOHDKv_robWTWOxx__wi8Ac5weZ_eK/view?usp=sharing

ausdrucken und ausgefüllt als Postkarte an

subnet
Ulrike-Gschwandtner-Str. 5
A-5020 Salzburg

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Die Anmeldung ist möglich, solange Platz vorhanden ist.
Alle News auch unter https://schmiedehallein.com/minischmiede

Worum geht’s?
- Roboter bauen
- Werkzeugkunde
- Elektrogeräte auf der Suche nach Bauteilen zerlegen
- Roboter testen und verbessern

Die teilnehmenden Kinder (8- 11 Jahre) werden Samstag & Sonntag von 13 bis 17 Uhr betreut. Für kleine Snacks und Getränke wird gesorgt.
Jause bitte mitbringen!

Zum Abschluss bringen wir die Roboter zum Tanzen (Danceocon) oder Kämpfen (Hebocon) (Sonntag: 17 Uhr).

Ziel:
Das Ziel der MiniSchmiede ist es, technische Berührungsängste abzubauen. Beziehungen werden haptisch erforscht. Selbstständigkeit, Kreativität und soziale Kompetenz werden gefördert.

Die Umsetzungspartner der MiniSchmiede sind:
Do!Lab, Schmiede, subnet und Division for Human-Computer Interaction

Die Förderer der MiniSchmiede:
Stadt Hallein, Land Salzburg

MiniSchmiede war MINT Siegerprojekt 2021.

The time has come, our jury has decided.
Thank you for all the outstanding applications.
In short, here are the 3 artists our jury has decided on.

Klemens Hegen - Sounds of Disappearing Landscapes

Sounds of Disappearing Landscapes is an artistic research project that builds on his previous work exploring the relationship between humans, the environment and technology. It is conceived as the starting point for a new series of sculptures. At the core of the project is the question of how our relationship with and perception of the environment change when elements threatened with extinction as a result of human-induced climate change are artificially recreated.

Sofia Talanti - Cyborgs of Adaption under the Capitalocene

Building on her previous work with speculative soft robotics and cyborg figures PSY000T3, this project continues an investigation into how subjectivity is shaped through technological and infrastructural systems. Rather than approaching the cyborg as a futuristic or exceptional hybrid, the project focuses on it as an already existing condition: a form of everyday adaptation to systems of extraction, acceleration, and optimization that structure contemporary life.

Krystina Cyan - Digital Ghosts: Operational Bodies

Digital Ghost: Operational Bodies is an artistic research project investigating how computational systems construct, interpret, and govern contemporary forms of identity. The project explores the growing condition in which individuals are increasingly represented not through lived experience alone, but through continuously generated digital profiles composed of behavioral patterns, predictive models, biometric indicators, and algorithmic classifications.

Congratulations to and ! We're happy to welcome you in Salzburg next year.

Over the next few weeks, we'll introduce the next year's Artists in Residence one by one and share more about their work, so stay tuned!

TRACY REDHEAD | Wednesday, JUNE 17TH | 6 PM
@ HCI – Division for Human-Computer Interaction,
Techno-Z Salzburg Bauteil V, Jakob-Haringer-Straße 8, 5020 Salzburg

TALK:
"Songwriting as a System: The Semantic Machine, a Song That Changes with the World Around You"
Tracy Redhead presents The Semantic Machine, a mobile-app artwork and transmutable song that changes according to the listener’s location, time of day, and weather. Developed in collaboration with Florian Thalmann, the work explores how a recorded song can remain authored and recognisable while shifting through data-responsive musical, lyrical, and visual variations. Framed as a speculative artwork about personal data and algorithmic personalisation, the talk considers songwriting as a system: a way of composing songs that are responsive, plural, and shaped by changing contexts.

SPEAKER:
Tracy Redhead is a musician, composer, songwriter, and researcher working across recorded music, interactive technologies, and creative practice. Her work explores how recorded music can become dynamic, adaptive, and context-aware, informed by her practice as a recording artist and her research into songwriting, data, interaction, and transmutable music.

More information about Tracy Redhead:
http://www.tracyredhead.com
https://thesemanticmachine.com/

Tracy Redhead

Language: EN
picture credit: Tracy Redhead

MiniSchmiede Hallein (11. – 12.September 2026) – ab sofort anmelden! 🤩
Ihr seid zwischen 8 und 11 Jahre alt und wolltet immer schon mal euren eigenen Tanz- oder Kampfroboter bauen?
Kommt zur MiniSchmiede Hallein 2026!

Bitte das AnmeldungsPDF unter https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XjiOHDKv_robWTWOxx__wi8Ac5weZ_eK/view?usp=sharing

ausdrucken und ausgefüllt als Postkarte an

subnet
Ulrike-Gschwandtner-Str. 5
A-5020 Salzburg

schicken bzw. eingescannt per E-Mail an [email protected] retournieren.

Die Anmeldung ist möglich, solange Platz vorhanden ist.
Alle News auch unter https://schmiedehallein.com/minischmiede

Worum geht’s?
In einem zweitägigen Prozess bauen wir einfache Roboter.
Wir beginnen mit Werkzeugkunde. Im nächsten Schritt werden Drucker und andere Elektrogeräte auf der Suche nach Motoren und Bauteilen zerlegt.
Wir verwenden bewusst keine Standardbauelemente um die Kreativität zu fördern, gerade Wege und die Vergleichbarkeit zu erschweren. Die entstehenden Roboter werden getestet und verbessert. Zusammenhänge und realistische Möglichkeiten werden selbstbestimmt und in der individuellen Geschwindigkeit erforscht.
Dieser Prozess wird von jungen Mentoren und den Veranstaltern unterstützt.

Die teilnehmenden Kinder (8- 11 Jahre) werden Samstag & Sonntag von 13 bis 17 Uhr betreut. Für kleine Snacks und Getränke wird gesorgt.
Jause bitte mitbringen!

Zum Abschluss bringen wir die Roboter zum Tanzen (Danceocon) oder Kämpfen (Hebocon) (Sonntag: 17 Uhr).

Ziel:
Das Ziel der MiniSchmiede ist es, technische Berührungsängste abzubauen. Beziehungen werden haptisch erforscht. Selbstständigkeit, Kreativität und soziale Kompetenz werden gefördert.

Die Umsetzungspartner der MiniSchmiede sind:
Do!Lab, Schmiede, subnet und Division for Human-Computer Interaction

Die Förderer der MiniSchmiede:
Stadt Hallein, Land Salzburg

MiniSchmiede war MINT Siegerprojekt 2021.

CHRISTA SOMMERER | Wednesday, MAY 27ND | 6 PM
@ HCI – Division for Human-Computer Interaction,
Techno-Z Salzburg Bauteil V, Jakob-Haringer-Straße 8, 5020 Salzburg

TALK:
"The Artwork as a Living System – from Artificial Life to Interactive Art: Creating Human-Computer Interaction Systems"
Since 33 years Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau collaborate to create interactive art installations which combine natural and artificial environments. Their works often use innovative interface designs and human-computer interactions.
In 2022 they presented their big retrospective exhibition called "The Artwork as a Living System", which brings together artworks that display artificial growth, evolution, generative design and A-Life.
In this lecture Christa Sommerer will present selected artworks from the past years as well as most recent projects.

SPEAKER:
Christa Sommerer is an internationally renowned, award winning media artist, researcher and pioneer of interactive art. Together with Laurent Mignonneau she founded the Interface Cultures Department at the University of Art Linz, where she was a professor. Her works were shown in around 400 exhibitions world-wide.

More information about Christa Sommerer:
https://interface.ufg.ac.at/christa-laurent



Language: EN
picture credit: Flaneur ©2026, Laurent Mignonneau & Christa Sommerer
Production Videoformes 2026

subnetAIR – LYRA ROBINSON | Meet the artist: Wednesday, May 20th | 5 PM

@ HCI – Division for Human-Computer Interaction,
Techno-Z Salzburg Bauteil V, Jakob-Haringer-Straße 8, 5020 Salzburg

It’s our pleasure to welcome our Mays subnetAIR, Lyra Robinson! Wednesday, April 20th, she will present her project and talk about her work.

ABOUT
Lyra Robinson is aiming to develop a new body of work exploring the OpenWorm simulation – an open-source computational model of Caenorhabditis elegans, a 1mm nematode worm with exactly 302 neurons.
This microscopic organism has been fundamental to biological research for over 50 years; every synapse mapped, every cell division documented. It is perhaps the most thoroughly known organism on Earth.
Working with OpenWorm’s neural simulation (c302) and physics engine (Sibernetic), she will create speculative modifications to the worm’s body plan and neural architecture – generating impossible worms, alien morphologies, tentacled variations that push against biological constraints.
What happens when we give C. elegans the body plan of hypothetical organisms on Jupiter’s ice moons? What does a worm look like when its neural topology is rewired for environments that don’t exist?

Lyra Robinson (b. 2002) is a transmedia artist whose work spans performance, installation, and video.
Her practice is concerned with the mechanisms through which bodies are read, understood, and made legible in her interactions with surveillance technologies and data gathering. She explores the possibilities for disrupting established knowledge systems to imagine new forms of embodied agency.

More about Lyra Robinson:
https://lyrarobinson.art/

Picturecredit: Lyra Robinson

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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: subnetAIR 2027

want to become an subnet Artist in Residence in 2027?
here is all you need to know

Application Deadline: June 15th, 2026

Art meets Human-Computer Interaction

subnet, a media art initiative based in Salzburg, invites applications for three artist-in-residence / micro-grant positions in 2026, in collaboration with the Division for Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Salzburg.

About the residency:
- develop projects in dialogue with HCI researchers Residents
- access to technical infrastructure, tools, expertise, and a growing network
- intersection of art, technology, and research
- a focused yet relaxed environment
- supports experimentation, exchange, and process-oriented work.

What we offer:
- Access to the HCI labs and workshops
- A Workspace at the Division for HCI
- Support from the subnet team
- Connection to a local and international media art network
- A self-directed, flexible working process

Facts subnetAIR Residency (3 slots)
- Duration: 3 to 6 weeks each
- Timeframes:
March 15 – June 30, 2027
October 1 – November 30, 2027
- Includes: €1000 grant (no accommodation)

Requirements:
- Short project proposal
- CV
- Portfolio / references
- Preferred timeframes (for subnetAIR)
Applications should not exceed 3 pages total.

During the residency:
- give an introductory artist talk “meet the artist”
- invited to name a supportive speaker for a subnetTALK

Beyond this, the residency is self-directed

How to apply
=> Send your application (PDF) to: [email protected]

more about us: subnet.at
more about the residency: https://subnet.at/subnetair/call-for-applications-subnetair-2027/