LINZ FMR, Waldeggstraße 116, Linz (2026)

31/05/2026

Take a look at the amazing founding members of LINZ FMR & the wonderful team of FMR 26, people who are artists, designers, producers, developers, technicians, communicators, mediators, researchers, curators, guides, volunteers, partners, friends, and more.

Founding Members:
servus.at, qujOchÖ, Atelierhaus Salzamt, University of Arts Linz, Sturm und Drang Galerie (Davide Bevilacqua, Ushi Reiter, Jakob Dietrich, Thomas Philipp, Holger Jagersberger, Clemens Mairhofer, Lorenz Homolka et al.)

General Management:
Jakob Dietrich, Thomas Philipp

Team members FMR 26
Conception, Project Management & Curating:
Jakob Dietrich, Thomas Philipp

Production:
Jakob Dietrich, Felix Vierlinger, Laura Torres, Ebrahim Eskandari, Randolf Helmstetter, Hedieh Khajehzadeh, Simon Kopfberger, Vladislav Nazarov

Project Supervision University of Arts Linz, Department Sculptural Conceptions / Ceramics:
Sarah Decristoforo

Project Supervision University of Arts Linz, Department
space&designstrategies:
Andrea Curtoni, Claudia Lui Springer, Giulia Mazzorin

Project Supervision University of Arts Linz, Tangible Music Lab, Sound and Space Class, University of Arts Linz:
Florian Goeschke

Co-Curating Concerts:
Isabella Auer, Andrea Corradi, Melanie de Jong, Jakob Dietrich, Tomiris Dmitrievskikh, Marlies Hajnal, Lorenzo Iannantuoni, Hedieh Khajehzadeh, Edin Turalic (qujOchÖ)

Co-Curating and Moderating Lectures & Talks:
Thomas Philipp, Davide Bevilacqua, Aimilia Liontou (servus.at)

Press, Public Relations & Social Media:
Thomas Philipp, Melanie de Jong

Photos:
Elias Dietrich

Visual Communication & Website:
Verena Panholzer, Andrey Lanko (studio-es.at)

Art Education & Infotrainer:
Susanne Hinterberger, Valentin Bernauer, Pia Ina Hochstrasser, Margo Ivanova, Gundega Graudina, Rita Gimaeva, Sophie Morelli, Natalia Muñoz-Carpintero, Marc Müller, Juri Wegner, Ivo Bartuschek, Anina Neumeier, Aban Fazelashrafi

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30/05/2026

⚡️Update: Camilla Sparks @ FMR Concert Night ⚡️⚡️

Due to circumstances beyond anyone’s control, Aja Ireland will unfortunately not be able to join us for the for FMR26. However, we are very happy to announce that Camilla Sparksss has agreed to step in at short notice, and we couldn’t be more excited to welcome her to the lineup.

We’re looking forward to an unforgettable concert night and can’t wait to see you all on Friday 5 June at Schosspark!

Camilla Sparksss (CH/CA)

Camilla Sparksss, born Barbara Lehnhoff, is a Swiss-Canadian electro noise pop musician and visual artist, also known for co-founding the post-punk band Peter Kernel. She was born at -27 degrees in Kenora, Ontario, Canada. And yes, her father flew a floatplane and she had a pet bear as a child. Her music blends high-energy performances with heavy beats pressed on dubplates, thick synths, and cutting vocals.

With over 1000 live shows across Europe, North Africa, Canada, and the US, she’s become a fixture in the international electronic and experimental music scene. In September 2025 she released her fourth full length album ICU RUN, via On The Camper Records: a renegade album about escape and refuge that will make you dance.

FMR 26 brings electronic music to the Schlossberg on two evenings — the opening night on Wednesday, 3 June, and the concert night on Friday, 5 June, both taking place at Schlosspark. The line-up presents artists whose sounds and visuals engage with ephemeral elements and resonate with art in digital contexts.

Concert Night
Friday, 5 June 2026, from 7.30 pm
Outer Schlosspark Meadow / Playground
with Apex Anima & FRZNTE (IS/DE), Camilla Sparksss (UK), and DJ Terror (AT)

Curated by qujOchÖ.

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30/05/2026

For the fourth time, the festival for art in digital contexts and public spaces is taking place in Linz. After previous editions at the Danube embankment (2019), around the Mühlkreisbahnhof (2021) and in the southern harbour area (2023), the Schlossberg will serve as the festival venue this time: the historic hill with its Schlosspark, Schlossmuseum, Rosengarten, Keplerwiese, Schlossbergstollen and Martinskirche will be transformed into a freely accessible art space spanning approximately 5 hectares.

P. S. In 799 AD, Martinskirche Linz — considered one of the oldest churches in Austria — was founded. During FMR 26, it will host the work “Tutta Notte Buia” by MAalex feat. Luigi Grande & Marta Perrone. Thank you for hosting us, Diözese Linz, Stefanie Hinterleitner & Martina Resch.

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29/05/2026

MR 26 offers a lot of program for the upcoming days! What should you do?

First and most important: Join us on Wed 3 June at 6 pm for the opening of FMR 26 at Schlossmuseum Linz (Entrance West)! Expect short opening speeches, drinks, food, nice people and the beginning of five festival days filled with exhibitions, performances, lectures, talks and concerts around Schlossberg Linz.

From 7 to 8 pm, Opening Tours with art educators and curators will guide visitors through the festival area. Several performances and live formats will already take place during these hours. Afterwards, the Opening Night in Schlosspark will continue the evening with concerts and live acts.

From Thu 4 June onwards, the exhibition is open daily from 10 am to 10 pm across Schlosspark, Schlossmuseum, Friedrichstor, Rudolfstor, Schlossbergstollen, Rosengarten, Keplerwiese and Martinskirche. Just drop by at the festival centre in Schlosspark and start your individual exploration of the festival.

Or join one of the daily guided tours at 2:00 pm, 3:30 pm or 5:00 pm. Or book a group tour for 7 people or more via [email protected].

Don’t miss the performances happening throughout the festival. And the daily lectures & talks from 5:00–6:30 pm on the four central festival themes. And, of course, the Concert Night on Fri 5 June.

28/05/2026

Plan your visit, check the timetable and take a closer look at the performances, tours and special formats happening throughout the festival.
Most performances are open to drop by, but some require a reservation via [email protected].
This is also the address to book a tour for groups of 7 or more. Or simply join one of our daily guided tours at 2:00 pm, 3:30 pm or 5:00 pm — accompanied by art educators, curators and artists.

Duration: approx. 90 minutes
Meeting point: in the foyer of Schlossmuseum (by the ticket desk)
Meeting time: 15 minutes before the start of the tour
Price: pay as you wish
Languages: German, English

27/05/2026

Only one week left until the opening of FMR 26!

Why shouldn’t you miss the festival? It’s simple. Haven’t you always wanted to ...
✓ buy sacred streetwear for the apocalypse,
✓ laugh on command to keep an AI system alive,
✓ be judged by a dystopian eco-social-credit machine,
✓ hear a street lamp breathing on the ground,
✓ let subliminal rock speakers plant an earworm in your head,
✓ ask yourself whether you really want to be forgotten online,
✓ follow extraterrestrial archaeologists misreading ancient memes,
✓ enter a dream constellation through a telescope,
✓ meet faces of people who never existed,
✓ join a synthetic political party preparing to run for mayor?

You can experience these and many other things from 3–7 June 2026 around Schlossberg Linz.

But beware: as fast as FMR 26 appears, as fast it disappears.

By the way: Don’t forget to book one of our daily tours with art educators, curators and artists → linzfmr.at/tours

⛰️ FMR 26 Festival
📍 Schlossberg Linz, Austria
📅 Wednesday, 3 – Sunday, 7 June 2026
🕕 Opening: Wednesday, 3 June 2026, 6 pm
🚶 Followed by Opening Tours and Opening Night
🎟 Free admission

Check out our festival website for more details: linzfmr.at/fmr26

26/05/2026

FMR 26 features a wide range of performances throughout the festival — from live interventions and performative walks to site-specific actions and participatory formats. Check the timetable and reserve your spot via [email protected] where required.

Performances:
- Messiah Merch (†een▲ge g☺d )
- The Crisis of Belonging (Selma Kjesen)
- Ancient Meme Protocols (YuFu)
- Tutta Notte Buia (MAalex feat. Luigi Grande & Marta Perrone)
- Exquisite Corpus Ludios (Sara Koniarek & Matilda Bjärum)
- DreamAtlas: DreamPicnic (Ahmed Jamal, Emma Silvana Tripaldi & Till Schönwetter)
- Speaking in Public MIT KI (MIT KI)
- Attuning Strategies: Interconnected + Surveying (University of Arts Linz, Department space&designstrategies)
- Average-Sized Rabbit Hole (Louisa Roubik)

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25/05/2026

We want to introduce you to the FMR 26 speakers and their lectures!

Danja Vasiliev (RU/DE)

Danja Vasiliev is a media artist, critical engineer and Professor of Emerging Media in Art and Design at Merz Akademie in Stuttgart. In his artistic and theoretical practice, he explores digital systems, networks and human-machine interactions through experimental interventions in hardware and software as well as media-activist strategies. His work exposes the logics, vulnerabilities and power structures of networked technologies and makes their social implications visible.

Since the late 1990s, he has been active internationally in exhibitions, festivals and research projects, and has received awards including at Ars Electronica, Transmediale and Japan Media Arts Festival. Together with Julian Oliver and Gordan Savičić, he co-authored the Critical Engineering Manifesto in 2011, which defines the critical engagement with technological infrastructures as an artistic and political practice. As a member of Tactical Tech, he was also involved in the development of the Data Detox Kit, first published in 2016.Danja Vasiliev’s lecture is titled ‘The Potted History of Algorithmic Art’.

The talk will feature Joerg Auzinger (AT), Ahmed Jamal, Emma Silvana Tripaldi & Till Schönwetter (EG/IT/DE), and Florian Goeschke (DE).

Curated by LINZ FMR, moderated by Aimilia Liontou / servus.at

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25/05/2026

We want to introduce you to the FMR 26 speakers and their lectures!

Valentina Tanni (IT)

Valentina Tanni is an art historian, curator and lecturer based in Rome. Her research focuses on the intersections of art and technology, with particular attention to internet culture, digital visuality and the aesthetics of online environments. She teaches Meme Culture and Aesthetics, Digital Media Culture, and Introduction to Visual Culture at John Cabot University in Rome, and has previously taught at La Sapienza University of Rome, the Polytechnic University of Milan, and NABA | New Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and Milan.

Tanni is the author of several widely noted books, which explore memes, digital subcultures, AI and contemporary technoculture, including Memestetica. Il settembre eterno dell’arte (Nero 2020), Exit Reality. Vaporwave, backrooms, weirdcore e altri paesaggi oltre la soglia (Nero 2023), Conversazioni con la macchina. Il dialogo dell’arte con le intelligenze artificiali (Tlon 2025) and Antimacchine. Mancare di rispetto alla tecnologia (Einaudi 2025).

Valentina Tanni’s lecture is titled ‘Remembering the Unlived. Technology, Memory, and Imagination’.

Afterwards, a 45-minute talk will follow with FMR 26 artists discussing their works, which are loosely connected to this festival theme. The talk will feature Selma Kjesen (SE), YuFu (CN), and Sara Koniarek & Matilda Bjärum (AT/SE).

Curated by LINZ FMR, moderated by Aimilia Liontou / servus.at

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25/05/2026

We want to introduce you to the FMR 26 speakers and their lectures!

Dan McQuillan (UK)

Dan McQuillan is Senior Lecturer in Critical AI at Goldsmiths, University of London, and researcher with the ESRC Centre for Sociodigital Futures and with the AHRC-BRAID project on Sustainable AI Futures. He studied Physics at Oxford and completed a PhD in Experimental Particle Physics at Imperial College London. His work has moved across social care, digital inclusion, public health and human rights: he supported people with learning disabilities, worked as a mental health advocate, created online platforms for asylum seekers and refugees, co-founded a citizen science project on air pollution in Kosovo, worked for the NHS and helped establish Amnesty International’s first digital directorate.

He is the author of Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence (Bristol University Press 2022), a widely discussed and influential book that argues AI is not a neutral technology but can reinforce bureaucracy, discrimination and authoritarian power. Reviews have highlighted it as a particularly sharp and politically important intervention in contemporary debates on AI.

Dan McQuillan’s lecture is titled “Generative AI and the Infrastructures of Foundational Violence”.

Afterwards, a 45-minute talk will follow with FMR 26 artists discussing their works, which are loosely connected to this festival theme. The talk will feature k0j0 (US/CN), MIT KI (AT/DK), and Herr Clair (DE).

Curated by LINZ FMR, moderated by Aimilia Liontou / servus.at

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