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Sankt Interface 2025 proudly presents the eleventh Compu-ter Mouse/Keyboard Contest!
2025-12-05 16:15 - 23:59 (Europe/Vienna) | KAPU, Kapuzinerstraße 36, Linz, 4020
We all have them; we all use them… hack your computer’s
mouse and keyboard and win a prize!
The catch is… weird ideas… crazy
metaphors… strange hybrids!
‘Sankt Interface’ is an artistic project organized by Interface Cultures, which also serves as the annual celebration of our department. It is not a coincidence that it is celebrated around the 9th of December, the same day in 1968 when Douglas Engelbart did his ultra-famous conference, known today as “The Mother of All Demos”. At Sankt Interface, academic conferences, artistic performances, exhibi-tions, concerts, and a “Computer Mouse Award” comprise a celebration that transforms into a happening in which students, professors, and friends of Interface Cultures participate on an equal level.
This year’s event includes the keynote “Beyond Resolution” by Rosa Menkman an art theorist, curator, and visual artist specialising in glitch art and resolution theory, who wrote the Glitch Studies Manifesto in 2009. And the keynote “Map as an Interface” by the artist Vladan Joler, a researcher and artist whose work blends data inves-tigations, critical cartography, investigative journalism, critical design, and visual storytelling, was recently awarded the Golden Ni-ca for his collaboration with Kate Crawford, “Calculating Empires”.
But Sankt Interface 2025 also includes art performances, the eleventh edition of the infamous ‘Computer Mouse Award‘ and a series of live music performances with electronic instruments, as well as some hot DJ sessions, which will close the night. It’s all a must see!
Program:
16:15-16:25h. Welcome address by Prof. Dr. Manuela and Laurent. (Kapu stage)
16:25-16:35h. Introduction to Sankt Interface 2024! by Ph.D. Candi-date César Escudero Andaluz.
16:35-17:20h. Keynote “” by Rosa Menkman (Kapu stage)
17:20h- 17:40h. Q&A session moderated by Alex Wöran
17:40-18:25h. Keynote “” by Vladan Joler (Kapu stage)
18:25h- 19:00h. Q&A session moderated by Alex Wöran.
19:00- 20:30h. Computer Mouse Contest Award presented by Enrique Tomás, Kristina Tica and Kevin Blackistone. (KAPU bar)
21:00- 21:30h. Awards ceremony. (KAPU stage)
21:30- 22:00h. “Interface-parade”(KAPU surrounding)
22:00h – Open end. Concerts and DJ sessions from Interface Cultures Students, Teachers & Friends (KAPU)
The program is subject to minor changes.
