Idyll - AR intervention in snow globe format

What does snow mean to us?

Idyll is a documentary augmented reality intervention in snow globe format that looks at climate change from a personal, globally networked perspective. What does snow mean to us? When did we experience it for the first or last time, and what emotions does it trigger in us? 

These memories can be experienced in an installation consisting of snow globes filled with water: the starting point is postcard motifs, which serve as markers for virtual snow globes in the AR experience.

Inside these digital miniatures, poetic memory scenarios unfold, based on documentary material: interviews with people from several continents, from Venezuela to Thailand, who talk about their individual experiences with snow. The snow globe becomes a speculative space of memory – between nostalgia, loss and transformation.

Idyll links personal narratives with global climate realities and allows us to experience how ecological changes are inscribed in everyday images, memories and cultural ideas.

With contributions from Austria, Italy, Finland, Thailand, Venezuela, the USA and Mexico by Nathaniel Eras, Haydee Jimenez, Sarut Komalittipong, Simo Pitkänen, Erika Reiterer, Stefan Reiterer, Sasapin Siriwanij, Mara Vivas and Karl Zechenter.

A project by Reinhold Bidner, Sonja Prlić, Karl Zechenter, installation by Severin Weiser

Exhibition: gold extra Studio, Wolf-Dietrichstraße 21/1, A-5020 Salzburg

25 February–22 March 2026