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Vehicles of change
Bicycle activism and artistic augmented reality interventions in public space
Tuesday, March 18, 2025, 17:15-19:00, Science & Art, KunstQuartier, Bergstraße 12a, 1st floor, 5020 Salzburg
With:
Herbert Schwaab: media scientist at the University of Regensburg and co-editor of the book “Fahrradutopien. Media, aesthetics and activism”
Tara Dirala: Member of the Spicy Cycling Girls * (Salzburg)
Litto /Daniela Weiss: Artificial Museum. Activist museum project on art in public space using augmented reality (Vienna)
Sonja Prlić and Sophia Reiterer, AR Communities, research project on augmented reality and participation in public space (Salzburg, Austria)
Concept, organization, moderation: Sonja Prlić and Elke Zobl
Cycling embodies one of the central aspirations of forward-looking and socio-ecological mobility. But the bicycle is “not just a vehicle of transportation or traffic, but a vehicle of change”, argue the authors of the book “Fahrradutopien” (2002, p.8). Activist, but also artistic projects, deal with the transformative potential of cycling. Activist art makes issues visible in public space, while at the same time activists often work with artistic formats. The event brings together activists, artists and scientists whose work combines artistic approaches in the field of augmented reality and concerns for a sustainable change in public space around the topic of cycling.
We will discuss a wide range of questions:
How can the bicycle be used as a medium for social change? What are the real and utopian potentials of cycling in public space?
How do the projects presented combine cycling, activism and artistic practice?
Who can help shape public space and in what way?
How can utopias for a change in public space as a social space be worked on together and with relish?
What role do games such as Alleycats and augmented reality interventions play in this?
Participants are invited to discuss these and other questions in the World Café format. Concluding with drinks and snacks.
Registration: roswitha.gabriel@plus.ac.at
The event is a cooperation between the Society & Sustainability program area and the AR Communities research project (funded by the State of Salzburg) and part of the “eARTh: Climate, Art, Culture” series, which is being held in collaboration with the Co-CreART! Co-Creating Change project.
https://w-k.sbg.ac.at/veranstaltung/vehikel-des-wandels/
