LINZ FMR – Art in Digital Contexts and Public Spaces is a biennial festival and format for artistic processes and positions, that reflects the ephemeral nature of our digital and connected present. The ever-advancing digitalization of everyday life implies an intense overlapping and layering of familiar physical, but also finely interwoven digital spaces. LINZ FMR focuses on the shifts, distortions and rifts that arise in this process and presents current artistic positions in this context.
The festival, whose title alludes to ephemerality and short-livedness, presents works whose initial ideas can be found in virtual and/or digital space or have a strong reference to it, but are shown (sometimes in a transformed way) in the physical surroundings of the city of Linz. The focus is primarily on the interstices that arise during these transformations into public space – outside of museums, galleries or art spaces. At the same time, LINZ FMR attempts to subject the concept of sculpture to a contemporary update and to reflect on questions of transience, ephemerality and obviousness.
An exhibition in public and open space with works by international and local artists who deal with art in digital contexts is the core of the festival. The exhibition is accompanied by guided tours, artist talks, a symposium, a concert night and a closing party.
LINZ FMR’s first edition took place at the end of March 2019 at the Donaulände in Linz. Click here for the archive of LINZ FMR 19.
LINZ FMR 21 will be located on the premises and in the immediate surroundings of the Mühlkreisbahnhof, a small secondary railway station in Linz-Urfahr between 1 and 6 June. Further details will be announced soon.
LINZ FMR 21 is curated by qujOchÖ, servus.at, Atelierhaus Salzamt, the University of Art and Design Linz and the Sturm und Drang Galerie.