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IMA Wins an Honorary Mention @ The Ars Electronica Festival

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The Ars Electronica Festival is one of the most prestigious events in the world related to art, technology, and society. This year, 122,000 visitors attended the festival over the course of 5 days, experiencing hundreds of exhibitions, workshops, performances, and more. You can view the full program here.

A cornerstone of the festival is the Campus Exhibition, which showcases selected works from leading universities and art schools around the world. This year, 38 universities participated, presenting a total of 277 artworks. The jury reviewed all the submissions and nominated the best projects for this year’s awards. IMA received an honorary mention for the work “Weird Creatures,” created in the elective course “Advanced Lab: Synthetic Media.”

Selected Works:

  • M(other)hood: Robin Xie (CN)
  • NeoHarmony: Danny Wang (CN), Denny Wang (CN)
  • Wenming Constructs: Phoebe Lemon (US)
  • Weird Creatures: Siwei Chen (CN), Haoran Wang (CN), Rebecca Xiong (CN), Nuo Xu (CN), Jiapei Yao (CN), Xinyu (Torico) Chen (CN), Wes Firestone (US), Michelle Hua (CN), Jinhe (Anny) Jiang (CN), Zoe Kalamaros (US), Cindy Liu (CN), August Wang (US), Jinyuan (Jack) Xu (CN), Neo Alabastro (US)
  • Exoskins: Yelena Ye (CN), Korrina Poindexter-Benbow (US), Tania Hartanto (ID), Xinran Tong (CN), Jiachen Zhou (CN), Hazel Dai (CN), Peijun He (CN), Jia Xu (CN), Zhiyu Guo (CN), Yasmin Pang (CN), Rainee Wang (CN), Jiayin Fan (CN), Feiyang Zhuang (CN), Ziqi Yan (CN), Jiani Yang (CN), Mia Zhang (CN), Yinyin Lu (CN), Huiwei Wen (CN), Ran Xu (CN), Younian Liu (CN)

List of Credits for IMA’s Exhibition “The Elastic Umwelten”

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  • Artworks Selection Committee: Stavros Didakis, Eric Parren, Gottfried Haider
  • Technical Support: Dalin Zang, Stavros Didakis
  • Faculty Advisors: Stavros Didakis, Marcela Godoy, Gottfried Haider, Bogna Konior, Leon Eckert
  • Special Thanks To: Anna Greenspan & Bogna Konior (Research Center for AI & Culture), Marcela Godoy (IMA Area Head), Xingchen Zhang (VR support), Maggie Ren (Administrative Support), David Atwill (Dean of Arts & Sciences)

Photo: Stavros Didakis