You and I, You and Me at Ars Electronica 2022

This year You and I, You and Me is featured next to the works of students and teaching staff of Bauhaus University Weimar.

7 – 11 September 2022
Hauptplatz 8, University of Art and Design Linz, Groundfloor
https://ars.electronica.art/planetb/de/patterns-that-connect/

With a total of six works from various artistic degree programmes at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, students and teaching staff will be presenting themselves at the renowned »Ars Electronica« media art festival in Linz from 7 to 11 September 2022. The installations, concerts and experiments were created in the »Media Art and Design« and »Media Architecture« degree programmes.

Participants’ work will be shown in the »Patterns That Connect« exhibit as part of the »Campus Exhibition« at Ars Electronica. The works to be presented allow planet Earth to be experienced through the senses as a shared environment, making coexistence with not only organisms but also machines practical and tangible.

In »You and I, You and Me«, Mindaugas Gapševičius and Maria Safronova Wahlström explore the possibilities of communication through electricity. With the help of clothing and accessories, the imperceptible connections between different actors are made tangible. The wearers’ senses are stimulated and influenced by electrical impulses. The participatory event invites the audience to experience the environment in a different way by wearing jewellery, shoes and headgear.

Ars Electronica’s »Campus-Exhibition« invites artists who are associated with an international university whose curriculum takes an innovative approach to teaching media art and media culture. The Bauhaus-Universität Weimar is regularly represented at the world-renowned media art festival by Prof. Ursula Damm from the Professorship of »Media Environments«.