Civa Festival 2024 - coded manoeuvres_sticky webs

Filipa César & Louis Henderson


CROSSLUCID

Evan Ifekoya

Martina Menegon


Philipp Muerling


Brooklyn J. Pakathi

Dagmar Schürrer


Ziyang Wu & Mark H. Ramos

The group exhibition coded manoeuvres_sticky webs1 is part of the 2024 edition of Civa Festival, presenting artistic positions of contemporary immersive virtual art.

The Civa media art festival explores the intersection of contemporary technologies, realities, and experiences in digital, physical, and hybrid spaces. The 2024 edition investigates the intricate processes involved in the creation of intelligence and the flow and dissemination of knowledge. The festival faciliates discussions, film screenings, and live performances at the Belvedere 21 in Vienna, Austria.

Understanding intelligence not only as a solely human trait or technology but also extending it to knowing entities and organisms allows for the exploration of a field within which power constructions and technologies can be decoded and disrupted. How can organisms glitch militarized spheres and thereby breach violent technologies? What survival strategies, tactics, and codes do we need to effectively resist the imposition of binary coding and appropriations? What kinds of symbiotic relationships can we envision and program?

By breaking down the barriers between digital and physical spaces, between embodied knowledge and reason, between online and offline, and by challenging the hierarchical structuring of forms of existence, a variety of positions will raise questions about collective approaches to knowledge and organisms and their applicability to the discourse on (artificial) intelligence. This gives rise to sensuous choreographies, unexpected patterns of movement, and new symbiotic constellations in hybrid spaces.

coded manoeuvres_sticky webs1

as part of

Civa media art festival

October 2024 - 2 February 2025

Belvedere 21

Arsenalstraße 1

1030 Vienna

Austria

Curators: Eva Fischer, Djamila Grandits, Assistant Curators: Theresa Dann-Freyenschlag, Anna Ewa Dyrko

Exhibition Design: Masha Rudakova

Installation views: Manuel Carreon Lopez