
Café Kuba | Ars Electronica Festival 2025: Panic
Café Kuba by David Shongo questions creation in crisis: How to film your own country when you have become a fugitive within it? The installation offers a sharp aesthetic and political view of Kinshasa …
State of the ART (ist) 2025: Main Prize for Café Kuba by David Shongo
Jul 22, 2025 · These figures embody the tension between a painful past, an unstable present, and an unknown future. With Café Kuba, David Shongo—himself based in Kinshasa—succeeds in creating …
Café Kuba – State of the ART (ist)
The installation offers a sharp aesthetic and political view of Kinshasa under tension after the rebel offensive in the East. "In February 2025, as Eastern Congo plunged into renewed conflict and …
Winners 2025 – State of the ART (ist)
Café Kuba by David Shongo questions creation in crisis: How to film your own country when you have become a fugitive within it? The installation offers a sharp aesthetic and political view of Kinshasa …
Living in a State of Uncertainty – Ars Electronica Blog
Aug 5, 2025 · Dancers from the Anton Bruckner University and media artists from the Interface Cultures program at the University of Arts Linz bring everyday moments to the stage—an emotional field of …
feel.exe | Ars Electronica Festival 2025: Panic
feel.exe is an interactive artwork in the form of an esoteric programming language in which codes are created by expressing emotions, which in turn creates visuals. A tension between intention and …
Conference SOCIETY AND ART IN A FORCED REALITY
The epochal crisis and tension of the world is caused by the action of “raging capitalism” because large corporations and their owners have turned the whole world into their own resource – equally …
AREYOUARE | Ars Electronica Festival 2025: Panic
The core research question of AREYOUARE explores the tension between rear projections, hyperfeminism, and hybridization through the interactions between the robots and the performer.
Malva Marina | Ars Electronica Festival 2025: Panic
The piece reacts to the viewer’s presence like pressure in the brain from excess fluid. As one approaches, movement intensifies and sound sharpens, evoking tension and urgency. Stepping …
jurystatements – Prix Ars Electronica
The sheet of plastic becomes hereby an interactive instrument for both the resulting sound and light situation, reflecting sound and light in correspondence within the movements. This results in a well …