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Which paths and places are marked on a map? Which ones do we actually walk? Which places does the city offer us, and which do we long for? What special places and memories define your, our city? And which ones are still waiting to be discovered? Let’s take a closer look together!
The collectives Kronberger&Kronberger and gold extra, together with people who live in or simply love Salzburg, are creating maps and city tours that reveal the everyday, the hidden, and the personal—experiences that feel more like home than like a postcard. Especially in a city like Salzburg, which is strongly shaped by tourist imagery, the question of spaces used by local residents is particularly pressing. As part of DIGITAL SPRING, the artists therefore set out on a search for traces together with interested citizens. Through exchange, we discover places that are loved, overlooked, forgotten, or not yet discovered at all: favorite spots, detours, blind spots—a city seen from many perspectives.
As part of the project, gold extra is creating augmented reality interventions in which personal places and experiences can be explored—both in the urban space and in the Artificial Museum by System Kollektiv, with whom gold extra collaborates.
At the conclusion of the collective artistic research, the artists invite everyone to a shared mapping session. Initial results, stories, and sketches will be presented and will serve as a starting point for conversation, opening up new perspectives, discussing places and spaces, and designing alternative city maps together. In this way, a new image of the city emerges—from memories, ideas, and jointly discovered places and paths—showing how Salzburg truly feels.
The project takes place as part of DIGITAL SPRING at ARGEkultur Salzburg
WORLD WIDE WIKI
March 18–20, 2026
In 2026, Wikipedia celebrates its 25th anniversary. The encyclopedia, which went online on January 10, 2001, not only represents the digital and democratic spirit of optimism of the 1990s—it also reflects the major and often problematic developments of the digital world over the past quarter century. Nevertheless, with around 65 million articles and hundreds of thousands of active, anonymous, volunteer authors, Wikipedia remains an indispensable archive of free knowledge on the World Wide Web.
Yet this free knowledge is under acute threat. AI companies train their large language models using Wikipedia’s open-source texts, extracting knowledge for their proprietary products. At the same time, the culture war from the right is gaining momentum: questioning non-profit status, withdrawing funding, exposing the identities of authors.
Wikipedia is just one prominent example of the current state of free knowledge on the internet. Whether digital archives, social media platforms, or government websites: information is disappearing and being censored—often disguised as criticism of alleged “wokeness” and under the guise of free speech. Whether the internet truly never forgets, as was once claimed, has ultimately become a question of power, capital interests, and political influence.
How can digital art respond to this situation and raise awareness of it? And how can digital art find ways to preserve endangered knowledge and keep it accessible?
Together with the DIGITHALIA Festival at Schauspielhaus Graz and HAU 4—the digital venue of Hebbel am Ufer Berlin—ARGEkultur Salzburg issued an open call in autumn 2025 for digital art projects addressing this topic and ultimately selected six artists and collectives. From Salzburg, the participating artists are Nina Vasilchenko and a collaborative project by the collectives gold extra and Kronberger&Kronberger; from Graz, works by the artist groups SOAP and Das Planetenparty Prinzip; and from Berlin, artistic positions by eeefff and Chinedum Muotto.
The projects will be presented at the three venues starting March 18, 2026.
In cooperation with:
Kronberger & Kronberger
Artificial Museum
ARGEkultur Salzburg
Research project AR Communities
