Patrícia J. Reis on Patrícia J. Reis — Media & Installation Artist

Tactile Intelligence: Rethinking Consent through Embodied AI Prototyping

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

MZ* Baltazar’s Lab Jägerstraße 52-56 1200 Wien

This hands-on workshop explores the ethical, emotional, and sensory dimensions of AI-driven human-machine interaction by approaching the body as a “black box”—both as an artistic strategy and as a critical lens through which to examine how interactive technologies, and AI in particular, engage with bodies. Rather than prioritising control, prediction, and optimisation, it focuses on intimate, situated experience while questioning how bodies are shaped, abstracted, and often excluded and discriminated against within these technological paradigms.

Hardware and Eco-Feminist Art

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Patrícia J. Reis / Stefanie Wuschitz Hacking and Artistic Practices Towards Ethical Technology Link for free PDF download

Performing Critique with Lisa Großkopf, Patrícia J. Reis, and Mehrta Shirzadian

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Moderated by Nadine Khalil (curator-in-residence) philomena+ Heinestraße 40, 1020 Vienna Artist Talk: Performing Critique, led by independent critic and curator Nadine Khalil, currently in residence at PART, brings together Vienna-based artists Lisa Großkopf, Patrícia J. Reis and Mehrta Shirzadian to consider how they use performance to examine the systems that place demands on their labour and artistic production. Their practices interrogate the pressures of self-optimisation and marketability in the art world, the technological amplification of sensory perception and bodily capacities, and microbial processes that act as agents within the body. Together, these practices examine how neoliberal and institutional infrastructures shape what bodies can do and how they are valued. They ask how human, technological and microscopic bodies are regulated and controlled within systems of power, and how performance can reconfigure these hierarchies through humour, slowing down or performing otherwise.

Hardware and Eco-Feminist Art:

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Hacking and Artistic Practices Towards Ethical Technology An event organised by Patrícia J. Reis and Stefanie Wuschitz in cooperation with Mz* Baltazar’s Laboratory.

Jägerstraße 52-54 1200 Wien

Secession Tuesdays

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Curated by Maximilian Lehner Friedrichstraße 12 1010 Wien

Ecofeminism across Materials, Bodies, and Systems in Post-digital times

Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

[Inter]ACT! Forum 2026 Burg Wildegg, Vienna

Praxeologie der Digitalität: Interdisziplinäres Symposium zum künstlerischen Arbeiten im Zeitalter digitaler Reproduzierbarkeit

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Eine Kooperation zwischen den Abteilungen Expanded Museum Studies, Kulturwissenschaften, Geometrie sowie Kunstsammlung und Archiv

Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien Seminarraum 6 Oskar Kokoschka-Platz 2, 1010 Wien

12.06.2026, 13.06.2026

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

trans.* Festival Klangturm St. Pölten Kuratorin:

Elisabeth Schimana In Kooperation mit dem Festival StadtLandFluss und dem Fest/Spiel/Haus St. Pölten

Hacking the Body as a Black Box: AI and Embodied Experience

Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Intermediartes: Conference on Media, Arts and Interaction School of Media Arts and Design Auditorium Luis Soares Politécnico do Porto R. Dom Sancho I 1, Porto, Portugal How can we reclaim the body in a landscape increasingly contaminated by AI hype? Can technology still become an ally in bringing us back in touch with each other and ourselves, beyond predictability and disembodied interaction? How can we create interfaces that bring the body back to the centre of experience?

Clareiras (Clearings)

Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Clareiras (Clearings) Technologies as Clearings: Ecofeminism between Materials, Bodies and Systems A PiSCiNA Rua Santa Catarina 132, 2nd floor Porto, Portugal Using the metaphor of clearings, this hybrid conversation reflects on the need to unravel the eco-socio-political complexity of contemporary technologies from an ecofeminist perspective. Working with the

ClayPCB

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

University of Amsterdam, natuurkamer, Waag Guest Lecture Eco-feminist decolonial hardware 30.3.2026, 17h Critical Infrastructure lab University of Amsterdam

Are You Human?

Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Notes from the Digital Underground

Goethe-Institut New Delhi, India Bringing together artists, scholars, and technologists, Notes from the Digital Underground convened critical conversations on bodies, machines, and publics to unpack the complexities of networked life in a digitally uneven India. Through shared inquiry and dialogue, the symposium reflects on the contradictions and possibilities of the digital present, while imagining ways of living—and working—otherwise.

Finissage & Guided Tour —Sensorial Mechanismsat CSW ŁAŹNIA, Gdańsk

Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

CSW ŁAŹNIA Jaskółcza 1 Street 80-767 Gdańsk, Poland The event includes a guided tour through the exhibition led by the artists and curator Jola Woszczenko, offering insights into the works and the research processes behind them — from sensory structures to material interfaces and embodied perception.

ŁAŹNIA Centre for Contemporary Art

Fri, 14 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Exhibition Sensorial Mechanisms PATRÍCIA J. REIS AND DOROTA WALENTYNOWICZ Jaskółcza 1 Street 80-767 Gdańsk Poland Read review

Notes from the Digital Underground

Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Notes from the Digital Underground was a symposium by Khoj, conceptualised with Mila T. Samdub, held on 31 January and 1 February 2026 at the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan in New Delhi, India.

Suck my Code

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Exhibit Galerie Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Vienna Austria

Ecosystems

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Laura Coulson and Patrícia J. Reis Das LOT, Wien Absberggasse 31, 1100 Wien, Österreich Watch podcast

GALERIE LISI HÄMMERLE

Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Exhibition whatamess Lisi Hämmerle Anton-Schneider-Straße 4a 6900 Bregenz Austria Artists:

Bella Angora – Iris Andraschek – Thom Barth – Gottfried Bechtold – B. J. Blume – Christian Boltanski – Götz Bury – Carla Degentardt – Georg Dinstl – Ugo Dossi – Manfred Egender – Franz Ehmann – Christian Eisenberger – Tone Fink – G.R.A.M. – Mathias Garnitschnig – Hasso Gehrmann – Harald Gmeiner – Elsbeth Gisinger-Fessler – Rainer Ganahl – Monika Helfer – Edith Hofer – Eva Maria Joelli – Rudi Klein – Ulli Knall – Marina Koldobskaya – Michaela Konrad – Claudia Larcher – Paul Albert Leitner – Ulrike Lienbacher – Barbarella Maier – Sabine Marte – Albert Mayr – Georgij Melnikov – Flora Neuwirth – Leo Peschta – Carmen Pfanner – Franz Pichler – Paul Renner – David Reumüller – Ferdinand Ruef – Stoph Sauter – Liddy Scheffknecht – Patrícia J. Reis & Ruth Schnell – Elisabeth von Samsonow – Ruth Schnell – Kathrin Ströbl & Mohammed Laouli – Bianca Tschaikner – Maja Vukoje – Alexandra Wacker – Albert Weis – Amrei Wittwer

Machinic Metabolism

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Exhibition Lothringer 13 Halle Lothringer Str. 13 81667 München Germany

Communities of Communities: Austria’s Art–Tech Ecosystem Remix

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Innovation Stage, Aula der Wissenschaften, Wollzeile 27A, 1010 Wien CultTech Summit Curated and moderated by NODE Media Lab (Burcu Ozturkler and Ozan Turkkan) with Tamer Oslan, Daniela Weiss, Hans-Christian Hasselmann and Patricia J. Reis

PCB Clay

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

CCU studio Vlampijpstraat 84, 3534 AR Utrecht

Netherlands

TRACES OF CONTROL

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

PATRÍCIA J. REIS AND RUTH SCHNELL PARALLEL VIENNA Galerie Lisi Hämmerle Otto-Wagner-Areal, Baumgartnerhöhe 1, 1140 Vienna Austria

TRACES OF CONTROL

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

PATRÍCIA J. REIS AND RUTH SCHNELL Galerie Lisi Hämmerle Anton-Schneider-Straße 4a, 6900 Bregenz, Austria About the Exhibition: Traces of Control explores the hidden traces of artificial intelligence, focusing on the subtle yet pervasive forms of digital control inscribed into bodies, emotions, and social behaviours. These dynamics are sometimes visible—but more often they operate at the edges of perception. The exhibition presents ceramic objects, embroidered data visualisations, and media-based artefacts that critically engage with AI’s influence in sensitive domains such as autonomous weapon systems, neurotechnologies, and the simulation of pleasure and consent. Merging speculative design with real-world data, the works examine the complex, sensorial, and material entanglements between humans and machines.

25.6.2025 - 30.6.2025

Wed, 25 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Exhibition Anti/Medea: Phantasms, Love, Deceptions Back to Athens Festival Isaia Mantion PATISION 65, Athens, Greece

6.5. to25.6.2025

Wed, 25 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Exhibition The Unexpected: Enquiries on Human-AI Interaction Artists: Pamela Breda, Patricia Reis, Ruth Schnell AIL ::

Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab Opening:

06.5.2025, 18h Opening hours during exhibitions Mon–Fri, 11h - 18h Guided Tours: 20 May / 5 Jun, 17h Otto Wagner-Postsparkasse Georg-Coch-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna

Tactile Agency: Rethinking Consent through Embodied AI Prototyping

Sat, 07 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Workshop Semmelweisklinik Centre for Arts and Culture, Vienna Austria This hands-on workshop explores the ethical, emotional and sensory dimensions of AI-driven human-machine interaction. Participants will engage with simple AI models and DIY touch-responsive interfaces using Arduino and open-source machine learning tools to examine how consent, agency and embodiment can be both problematic and reimagined within technological systems. By building interactive prototypes and experimenting with real-time feedback, the workshop invites critical reflection on intimacy, power and the politics of touch in today’s technosphere. Beginners are also welcome; no prior experience is required.

Yasemin Engin, Patrícia J. Reis, Chucky Schuster, Maja Smrekar

Fri, 23 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Deep Skin Opening:

NODE Media Lab ORF Funkhaus, Studio A220, Argentinierstraße 30A, 1040 Vienna

“Deep Skin” invites viewers to explore the intimate relationship between physical form, psychological experience and the permeable boundaries between skin, body, human, and non-human. Through immersive, tactile, and multimedia installations, the works by Yasemin Engin, Patrícia J. Reis, Chucky Schuster, and Maja Smrekar open up new dimensions of bodily and emotional awareness. Each piece reflects on how physical surfaces and unseen forces shape identity, interaction, and connection.The exhibition features both emerging and established women artists, showcasing a diverse array of works, including AI-driven installations, interactive media, and video art. By bringing together talents from Vienna and beyond, we promote intercultural exchange that expands the boundaries of digital expression. This collaboration aims to inspire audiences to explore the evolving intersections of creativity and innovation.

Herstories of Feminist Hacking with Mz* Baltazar's Lab, Lale Rodgarkia-Dara, Patrícia J. Reis and Stefanie Wuschitz

Thu, 22 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Kunsthalle Wien within the framework of the exhibition “Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960-1991 Kunsthalle Wien, Museumsquartier, Vienna

18.10. to19.10.2024

Sat, 19 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

INTRA-ACCION international Symposium

Barcelona, Spain

1.10.2024, 19h

Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

MAK Wien Museum für angewandte Kunst Stubenring 5, 1010 Wien, AT Conversation Piece: Eco-Feminist Decolonial Hardware with Patrícia J. Reis and Stefanie Wuschitz Clay PCB , an artistic work by Patrícia J. Reis and Stefanie Wuschitz. Their work raises important questions regarding ecofeminism, contemporary design, and the use of technology and its raw materials.

Noise Festival

Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Fotogalerie Palais Festetics Berggasse 16, 1090 Vienna 12-15 September

S+T+ARTS Prize by Ars Electronica

Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

4-8 September Post City, Linz We are delighted to announce that we have been awarded the Nomination Prize in this year’s S+T+ARTS Prize by Ars Electronica. Our project,

“Clay PCB: Eco-Feminist Decolonial Hardware,” is a key artistic outcome of our PEEK Project (AR580) “Feminist Hacking: Building Circuits as an Artistic Practice

Ethical Hardware Workshop at PIF

Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Summer Hacking Camp PIF Camp Soča, Slovenia 29.7. to 3.8.

It is an open secret that the hardware in our smart devices contains not only plastics but also conflict minerals such as tungsten, tin, tantalum, silver, and gold. Hence, technology is not neutral. In this workshop, we investigate alternative hardware made from locally sourced materials, known as ethical hardware, to develop and speculate upon renewable practices for the benefit of both nature and humans.

26.6. to Sat, 29.6.

Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Feminist Hardware Clay PCB: Action Donau Island 11h a.m. to 9h p.m.

Place GCP (ehem. PSK) 1st floor, Raum 124 Georg-Coch-Platz 2, 1010 Wien Open in maps +

Department Digital Arts

PIRATE CULTURES: Unter dem Asphalt der Strand

Thu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Semmelweisklinik, Hockegasse 37 / Haus 4, 1180 Vienna 8. – , Vernissage: 8.05., 18h Together with actors from Mz* Baltazar’s Laboratory, RAD Performance, Kollektiv Raumstation, Friends & Partners in Crime, the artist collective Sandkasten Syndikat brings a pirate beach to Vienna.

AMRO24

Thu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

afo – architekturforum oberösterreic Linz, Austria Opening Hours: May 8th – 17th Wednesday – Friday, 3 – 6 pm or individual appointments with:

Sanela Jahić, Nicolas Gourault, Stadtwerkstatt: STWST, Murad Khan, Martin Disley, joak, Dasha Ilina, REINCANTAMENTO, Javaneh, Patrícia J. Reis, Stefanie Wuschitz, Marina Gržinić, Tjaša Kancler, Jovita Pristovšek

Neu Galerie Graz07.05.2024, 19h30Performance/ soun

Tue, 07 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Neu Galerie Graz Performance/ sound installation “About Clouds and Clocks” by Dora Deliyska and Patricia J. Reis

Pirate Cultures & Plunder Sonics: MAYDAY!

Wed, 01 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

FLUCC, Praterstern 5 On May 1 st , the artist collective Sandkasten Syndikat hijacks the ‘Kulturdampfer’ at Praterstern and sends out an emergency signal to allied cultural workers: MAYDAY!

Together with actors from Mz* Baltazar’s Laboratory, Kollektiv Raumstation, RAD Performance and friends, we are looking for critical-creative answers to precarious living and working conditions. The exhibition revolves around topics of re-appropriation, hijacking and hacking, DIY cultures, commoning, care and the (technology-enabled) self-organization of solidarity networks.

Patrícia J. Reis: »Hacking the body as a black box«

Mon, 11 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Artist Lecture Neue Wiener Gruppe/Lacan-Schule Die Niederösterreich Vinothek Piaristengasse 35, 1080 Wien

Unabridged - Sound Installation with interpretation from

Fri, 09 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

György Ligestis “Poème Symphonique for 100 metronomes” A collaboration project by Dora Deliyska and Patrícia J. Reis KÜNSTLERHAUS FACTORY Karlsplatz 5, 1010 Wien 9.2.2024 - 11.2.2024 Opening 9.2.2024, 18h30 Performances:

PATRICIA J. REIS, Digital Skin

Wed, 10 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Opening:

1. - 15.2.2024 StudioOne Café Zeit, P.° Almte. Montt 658, Cerro Alegre, Valparaíso, Chile

“ Love's Modern Nature”

Mon, 15 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Exhibition:

Patrícia J. Reis, Agata Nowosielska Curator: Anna Ciabach 15.01.2024 - 16.02.2024 Opening:

15.01.2024, 7h p.m Austrian Cultural Forum ul. Próżna 7/9 Warszawa The latest exhibition at the Austrian Cultural Forum is a meeting between two artists: Patricia J. Reis from Portugal, who lives in Vienna, and Agata Nowosielska from Gdansk.

SOS 2.0_ FÜRSORGE IST DIE SCHWESTER DER AUTONOMIE VON MZ* BALTAZAR’S LAB IN DER MEDIENWERKSTATT WIEN

Wed, 13 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

SOS 2.0_ FÜRSORGE IST DIE SCHWESTER DER AUTONOMIE VON MZ* BALTAZAR’S LAB IN DER MEDIENWERKSTATT WIEN SOS 2.0_ Fürsorge ist die Schwester der Autonomie Eine Ausstellung von Mz*Baltazar’s Lab (Olivia Jaques, Patricia J. Reis, Lale Rodgarkia-Dara, Nicole Sabella, Anna Watzinger und Stefanie Wuschitz) in der Medienwerkstatt Wien Medienwerkstatt: Neubaugasse 40a, 1070 Wien Eröffnung: Mittwoch Ausstellungsdauer: 13.12.2023 - 21.12.2023 und 09.01.2024 - 23.01.2024 Öffnungszeiten: Di – Fr 17h - 20h Finissage: Dienstag 23.01.2024, 19h Wir danken den folgenden Künstlerinnen für die Zusammenarbeit mit dem Mz Baltazar’s Lab im Rahmen der Ausstellungsproduktion: Catarina Reis, Erika Farina, Taguhi Torosyan und der Medienwerkstatt Wien!

XVI International Ceramics Biennale of Aveiro

Fri, 27 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Exhibition Opening and Performance 29.10.2023, 11h30 + 17h30 Exhibition duration:

28.10.2023 - 28.01.2023 Atlas - Biblioteca Municipal de Aveiro 1st floor Salon of Open Secrets Interactive Sound Installation/ Performance:

“The Coffee Table” [video width=“1280” height=“720” mp4=“https://old.patriciajreis.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/sos_short_video_2.mp4”][/video]

WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT?

Sat, 30 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

by Steffi Alte, Saskia Te Nicklin & Patrícia J. Reis Mz* Baltazar’s Lab

Opening: 29 Sep 2023, 19h Midd opening: 14 Oct 2023, 19h Finissage: 3 Nov 2023, 19h

MUD-GROUP#3: WHO HAS LAND TO MAKE A FIRE?

Sat, 30 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Patrícia J. Reis, Celiné Struger & Kristin Weissenberger Galerie3 Klagenfurt Im Lichthof 23 Sep – 28 Oct 2023 Opening:

22. Sep 2023 - 19h

Date |18.10.2023 - 20.10.2023

Wed, 18 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Feminist Hardware: Making Printed Circuit Boards with Natural Clay by Patrícia J. Reis & Stefanie Wuschitz at Hangar Barcelona Venue | Hangar, Barcelona It is an open secret that the hardware in our smart devices contains not only plastics but also conflict minerals such as tungsten, tin, tantalum, silver and gold. Hence, technology is not neutral. In this workshop, given by Patrícia J. Reis (PT/AT) & Stefanie Wuschitz (AT), we investigate alternative hardware from locally sourced materials, so-called ethical hardware, to develop and speculate upon renewable practices for the benefit of both nature and humans.

DIGITAL II Sensorik

Wed, 18 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

MARTIN KUSCH ERNST LIMA JULIE MONACO PATRÍCIA J. REIS FOTOGALERIE WIEN ON TOUR! Opening: Monday, 24. April 2023, 19h Medienwerkstatt, Wien Neubaugasse 40a, 1070 Wien www.medienwerkstatt-wien.at Opening times: Tuesday–Friday 17h - 20h Exhibition duration: 25. April–26. May 2023

MUD-GROUP#3: WHO HAS LAND TO MAKE A FIRE?

Fri, 10 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

MUD-GROUP#3: WHO HAS LAND TO MAKE A FIRE?

A COLLABORATIVE PROJECT BY CELINE STRUGER, KRISTIN WEISSENBERGER & PATRÍCIA J. REIS OPENING:

FINISSAGE:

21.04.2023, 19h - 22h EXHIBITION DURATION: 11.3 — 21.4.2023 OPENING HOURS: Every Saturday from 12h - 17h Mz* Baltazar’s Lab Jägerstraße 52-56 1200 Wien

Salon of Open Secrets

Thu, 15 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Kunstraum pro arte Hallein, Salzburg, Austria

RGB EXPIRA: 2022

Fri, 29 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Castelo e Paço dos Condes Ourém, Portugal Curator: Carlos Veríssimo

Participation at 14 Bienal La Habana, Cubahttps://

Fri, 29 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Participation at 14 Bienal La Habana, Cuba https://fb.watch/ff1ca0hBOz/ http://cubarte.cult.cu/blog-cubarte/regreso-al-porvenir-propuesta-de-lujo-de-la-14-bienal-de-la-habana/

19.01.2022-IMPROPER EXPLORINGWORKSHOP: Fair Acupun

Wed, 19 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

IMPROPER EXPLORING WORKSHOP: Fair Acupuncture sonification by Mz* Baltazar’s Laboratory Registration is necessary, only 10 spots are available! LINK IN BIO.

Fair Acupuncture sonification Join Mz* Baltazar’s Laboratory (Patrícia J. Reis & Stefanie Wuschitz) and build a device to sonify your most active acupuncture spots on the surface of your skin (no needles involved). You can later connect the input from your acupuncture points to Pure Data. For more sophisticated sounds and more detailed findings on how the environment changes your body we will build several prototypes of instruments. This workshop is trying to use only hardware that was created under fair labour conditions. Without harming the environment and avoiding commodity chains connected to mining. This can work if we use fair trade certified electronic components, self made and recycled electronic parts and explore the capacitive quality and resistance of our own body.

::KAIROS. Recall of Earth

Wed, 19 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Group Show KAIROS. Recall of Earth at AIL, Vienna, Austria.

EXHIBITION Opening: 11 Nov 2021, 18h Running: 12 Nov 2021 – 21 Jan 2022 An exhibition about the relationship between humans and the phenomena of natural events. Curated by Sophia Panteliadou Vernissage: 11 Nov, 18h - 22h Registration required: info@ailab.at Closed: 18 Dec 2021 – 9 Jan 2022 Opening hours Mon – Fri 12h - 18h Thu 12h - 19h Sat, Sun, Public holidays closed 19/20 Nov 2021 Accompanying Symposium Kairos_Plakat_final KairosFlyer_pdf_invite

FusoLab- Body Sonification // Workshop

Mon, 27 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000

DIGICULT TRAVEL DIARY 1 METER UNDER THE METRO by GIADA TOTARO ARTARTICLES FusoLab - Body Sonification // Workshop SATURDAY, 11 DECEMBER-10AM-14PM Rome, Italy

MOSTRA DIFFUSA DI ARTE INTERATTIVA METROPOLITANA

Fri, 10 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Rome, Italy La seconda edizione del festival che porta l’arte interattiva digitale nelle fermate della metro C

Ferdinand Doblhammer / Kilian Hanappi / Tom Hochwallner / Margarete Jahrmann / kondition pluriel / Litto/Daniela Weiss / Patrícia J. Reis / Ruth Schnell / Patryk Senwicki

Fri, 05 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Group Show at medienwerkstatt during the Vienna Art Week, Austria.

In the Kitchen Visionen der Medienkunst 10 Eröffnung: Freitag05.11.2021, 19hUhr Ausstellungsdauer 05.11.2021 - 22.11.2021MO/FR/SA 14h - 18h UhrMedienwerkstatt Wien, Neubaugasse 40a, 1070 Wien In Kooperation mit FLUSS - NÖ.Initiative für Foto- und Medienkunst TALK “CITIZENS AND CITIES – WHAT LIES AROUND THE CORNER? TALK “CITIZENS AND CITIES – WHAT LIES AROUND THE CORNER? with Pedro Costa, Associate Professor at ISCTE, Tracy Geragthy, Project Manager at Dublin City Council Culture Company, Jordi Baltá, Consultant at Projects Barcelona.

Solo Show in collaboration with Carla Cabanas "From object to affect: proposals for future archives after the media" at Criatech 2021, Aveiro, Portugal.

Wed, 03 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Museu de Aveiro/Santa Joana October 11-16 Day 11:

1h30 pm – 6h00 pm Day 12 to 13:

10h00 am – 12h30 pm / 1h30 pm – 6h00 pm Days 15 a 16:

Update 2 on IMPACT ART AT:

Wed, 03 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000

After 5 weeks intensive work, it is time to say goodbye; There are no words to describe how grateful and fulfilled I feel after these five weeks of exchange, working together with the San Francisco Bay artists — Stephanie, Jenny, Sharmi, Erik, Marlys, Avital, and Parul. It has been a great pleasure to meet and work with them despite the approximate 6000 miles of physical distance between Vienna and the Bay Area; I have the odd and delightful feeling that I’ve actually met them in person. Check out our

Very proud to be part of thePOM:: Politics of the

Fri, 17 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Very proud to be part of the POM:: Politics of the Machine Berlin 2021 as the track chair of Interferences of Multitude. Follow us on Zoom - Room B from 11h - 13h — 15,16, and https://youtu.be/7y1eciQ4CLk

Artist lecture at ARS ELECTRONICA in the framework of the program Impact Art

Fri, 17 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Artist lecture at ARS ELECTRONICA in the framework of the program Impact Art.

zero1_art

Thu, 26 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Calling all Bay Area creatives (and the creatively curious)! The participant open call deadline for Impact Art AT is TOMORROW. Learn from and work with artist Patrícia J. Reis (

@patricia.joao.reis ) in a series of virtual workshops and project development sessions to unravel and augment the way we perceive truth through the lens of feminist hacking strategies.

“The Medusa v. The Odalisque” ***

Fri, 20 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000

A collaboration between Dorota Walentynowicz & Patrícia J. Reis Mz* Baltazar’s Laboratory Jägerstraße 52-54, 1200 Wien, Österreich Opening: 30th July, 18h - 22h The exhibition will be open for visitors between 31.07 and by appointment: patricia.reis@mzbaltazarslaboratory.org *** “The Medusa v. The Odalisque” - B.S. Latrodectus Mactans Productions. Uncredited cast; zone-plating laser holography by James O. Incadenza and Urquhart Ogilvie, Jr.; holographic fight choreography by Kenjiru Hirota courtesy of Sony Entertainment-Asia; 78 mm; 29 minutes; black and white; silent w/ audience-noises appropriated from network broadcast television. Mobile holograms of two visually lethal mythologic females duel with reflective surfaces onstage while a live crowd of spectators turn to stone. LIMITED CELLULOID RUN; PRIVATELY RE-RELEASED ON MAGNETIC VIDEO BY LATRODECTUS MACTANS PRODUCTIONS

CULTURE and TECHNOLOGY: COGNITION AND THE COMMON

Thu, 20 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Organised by the Master Students in Cultural Management of the ESAD.CR, PT - 19h > 23h [ONLINE] https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/85059542857?pwd=U1hhYzVLM2V6WWtjUnZEWVBQMzhvZz09

Culture and technology: cognition and the common Peter Hanenberg < UCP Universidade Católica Portuguesa Christian Nold < Softhook Patrícia J. Reis < UAK (Viena, Áustria) / KL (Linz, Áustria) Soundscape Simon James Philips Moderation Marta Jecu e Mário Caeiro

Symposium Sharing and Responding

Fri, 23 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000

with the framework of the exhibition Cybernetics of the Poor at the Kunsthalle Wien 12h - 15h [online] Please pre-register by April 22 at sharingandresponding@akbild.ac.at The event series Sharing and Responding is a cooperation between the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Kunsthalle Wien Patrícia J. Reis, Stefanie Wuschitz — Mz Baltazar’s Laboratory* Our feminist hackerspace — Mz* Baltazar’s Laboratory — allows for the luxury of time shared within its female* members, quality time to consider non-intuitive complexities and their impact on our personal lives. As an alternative to the (up until now) not conquered utopian dream of a non-binary cyberspace, we offer a safer physical space in which we do not have to consume, do not have to deliver and do not have to make sense of the complexity of things right away. It allows for a liberated feminist hacking practice and to speculate about future realities that can be shaped in (cyber)space.

PLUS DESIGN WEEK 20/21 – 2ºs.

Fri, 23 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000

IN//OUT//NACIONAL ISMAT, Algarve, Portugal Dia 14 de Abril – inicio às 18h Patrícia Reis Artista Multidisciplinar OPEN ONLINE//VIA ZOOM https://zoom.us/j/94140883807

Sobre:

Esta ano letivo, temos os primeiros licenciados a sair para o mercado com o renovado plano de estudos da Licenciatura de Design de Comunicação e nada melhor do que lhes transmitir o quanto o mundo é DINÂMICO!

Happy to be featured at SAR 12 by Mette Riise video on artistic research: 20h - 20h30

Fri, 23 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Care Share Dare12TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARTISTIC RESEARCH Evening Programme ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS VIENNA FIGHTING HIERARCHIES (IN LUXURIOUS ENVIRONMENTS)

Interactive Workshop: Exploring Critical Making

Thu, 25 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Join our kick-off Interactive Workshop: Exploring Critical Making on25.3.2021! We will host a conversation with experts of experimental research approaches and makers on how they are using new, different, hands-on research methods to shape the maker community in a more inclusive. Our Webinar will be host on our partner’s social media.

Happy to have been mentioned on Cornelia's Solfrank lecture about creating commons!

Sat, 13 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Variations of Gender and Technology Trouble by Cornelia Sollfrank Technofeminism is based on two basic assumptions: 1) technology is not neutral and 2) technology is a highly gendered field. These presuppositions open up a field of questions, problems and related practices. Based on selected positions in theory and practice, the talk exemplifies some of the tensions and openings from which to rethink ways of encountering the current technopolitical crisis. Commoning here serves as a framework for the process of vision and implementation, of experimentation and evaluation, of responding to the contemporary condition by creating new forms, formats and formations and questioning them again.

SALON OF OPEN SECRETS - SOS: “NEW MATERIALISM, FEMINIST PRACTICES”

Wed, 10 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Date | p.m.

Venue | Online with Karin Reisinger, Patricia J. Reis, Taguhi Torosyan, Stefanie Wuschitz, Barbara Huber and Karina Jarrett Event within the Frame of 100 years of Admitting Women to Study at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

Very proud to be part of thefemale*artistindex Vie

Mon, 08 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Very proud to be part of the female*artistindex Vienna , a project by Mz* Baltazar’s Laboratory , launched on the International Women Day

Screenshot 2 Channel Video installationThe Wishing Machine Project

Tue, 01 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000

ON-line Exhibition Adventkalender 2020 Patrícia J, Reis, The wishing machine project esc medien kunst labor Opening:

Duration:

01.12.2020 bis 24.12.2020 Screenshot 2 Channel Video installation The Wishing Machine Project

VBKÖ

Fri, 07 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Tale of delusion II

Opening: 7.8.2020, 18–21h Finissage: 21.8.2020, 18–21h

Maysedergasse 2/28 (4. Stock), 1010 Wien Opening times: Fridays 14–19h and Saturdays 14–19h

CYBORG SUBJECTS

Wed, 27 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

esc medien kunst labor Graz, Austria Opening:

14h 27.05.2020 — 24.07.2020 Opening hours:

Core times: Tuesday - Friday, 2 p.m. - 5 p.m. and by appointment. Closed on public holidays. Registration by phone: + 43-316-836 000; Registration by email: esc_at_mur.at

06.05.2020

Wed, 06 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

CANCELED Exhibition at Re:Publica Festival Kühlhaus Berlin LUCKENWALDER STRASSE 10963 BERLIN Opening:

Code yourself. Basics im Programmieren: Arduino Introduction: programming and electronic introduction for the creation of interactive artworks

Wed, 04 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

by Patrícia J. Reis — Mz* Baltazar’s Lab FH St. Pölten Matthias Corvinus-Straße 15 A-3100 St. Pölten, Austria 04.03.2020- 15h - 18h h

Patrícia J. Reis and the Sensorial masks project

Thu, 13 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Artist lecture Arte + Ciencia - Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas - UNAM Ciudad Universitaria,C.P. 04510, Coyoacán México, D.F., Mexico 13.02.2020- 18h

Group exhibition:: KAIROS RECALL OF EARTH

Thu, 28 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Opening: Thu, - 8 pm MIET - Cultural Foundation of the National Bank of Greece, Thessaloniki Villa Kapantzi, Leof. Vasilissis Olgas 108, Thessaloniki, Greece 29.11.2019 - 26.01.2020 Curated by Sophia Panteliadou The word KAIROS in greek language might refer to natural phenomena (weather), however, it also might refer to temporality (time). The ambiguosity inherent to this word is the main subject of this exhibition.

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY,GENDER and TECHNOLOGY

Sat, 09 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

LASERZURICH SALON AT WWF Address

World Wildlife Fund ZURICH Hohlstrasse 110, Second Floor, 8010 Zürich . Featuring:

Professor Dr Hanna Kokko (Evolutionary Biologist, University of Zurich) and Dr.

Patrícia J Reis (Media Artist) TOGETHER THIS SCIENTIST AND ARTIST PRESENT AND CREATE A VERY LIVELY DISCUSSION ABOUT THE RELATIONAL ASPECTS OF THESE TOPICS

Session line-up:

Thu, 10 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Techdays 2019 Session Art & Tech . Luis Miguel Girão (CEO, Artshare) – Moderation and Introductory . Michela Magas (Founder & Creative Director, Music Tech Fest) – Keynote Speaker . Jiří Suchánek (Chief Pilot, ArtShifters . Yasuhiro Chida (Visual Artist, PRISMA) . Patrícia Reis (Visual Artist, CRIATECH)

Patrícia J. Reis

Thu, 10 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Por Baixo da Pele Outra Pele Criatech 2019 Teatro Aveirense, Salão Nobre Aveiro, Portugal

::KAIROS RECALL OF EARTH

Fri, 04 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000

A project by the Department of Digital Arts organized in the context of Biennale Sessions - Special Programme for Higher Education Institutions at La Biennale di Venezia’s 58th International Art Exhibition

Patrícia J. Reis

Fri, 04 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Blow! Interactive installation composed by wood, foam, textile, vibration motors, microcontroller, sensor PARALLEL VIENNA Sep. 24th - 29th Lassallestrasse 5 1020 Vienna, Austria

Tale of delusion

Fri, 13 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Mz* Baltazarʼs Laboratory Patrícia J. Reis, Lale Rodgarkia-Dara, Ana Loureiro, Taga Torosyan special participation: Yonka Dragomanska Tsvetkova, Sarah Howorka Georg Kargl Permanent | | Schleifmühlgasse 17, 1040 Vienna opening : Tuesday, 12th September, 18h | Opening times/ Special events: 14th September – 12h — 15h Guided tour during Curated by | 19th September – 13h - 18h | 28th September – 12h — 15h Letter soup brunch during Vienna Contemporary | 3rd October – 15h - 18h | 10th October – 15h - 18h | 12th October – 18h - 21h

Group Showflora pondtemporary, St. Florian, Linz, Austria

Fri, 26 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Group Show flora pondtemporary , St. Florian, Linz, Austria Opening: Friday, , from 5 pm Exhibition: July - September Stiftsteiche, 4490 St. Florian With:

Catrin Bolt Anita Fox Markus Hiesleitner Daniela Krajčová Nicole Krenn David Leitner Klara Paterok Patricia J. Reis Franz Tišek Lukas Walcher Curator: Lenka Kurková The Kulturdrogerie an artist-run-space in the 18th district in Vienna, would like to relocate the idea of living “social sculpture” over the summer months to the countryside in St. Florian. The Flora Pondtemporary project at the St. Florian peninsular makes it possible to temporarily compensate for the contrasts between city and countryside, space and density, tradition and trend.

Politics of the Machines: Art / ConflictPOM Beirut 2019The 2nd POM ConferenceThe International University of Beirut, June 11-14, 2019

Fri, 26 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Politics of the Machines: Art / Conflict POM Beirut 2019 The 2nd POM Conference The International University of Beirut, June 11-14, 2019 10.Track: Body-politics of the machines: Troubles WITH/IN/OUT art, body, perception, politics, and technology Track chair Ingrid Cogne, Patrícia J. Reis Within the cross-disciplinary research field art – science – technology, it has been widely remarked how the proliferation of new technologies affects human and non-human bodies in multiple ways—including perceptually, intellectually, culturally, socially, environmentally, ecologically, ethically, and politically.

Group Show#FUCK REALITY: Positions on immersive art

Sat, 08 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Gallery Šira , Zagreb, Croatia

Animafest Zagreb, 03.06. – 08.06.2019

ExhibitionThrough The Hole is the Way-Out-Of-This -World

Wed, 29 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Kulturdrogerie , Vienna, Austria Patrícia J. Reis & Lukas Vincent Walcher opening May 29th 7 pm Through the hole is the way ‘Out-of-This-World’ is a site-specific interactive installation presented by media artists Patricia J. Reis in collaboration with Lukas Vincent Walcher in the open-air segment of the experimental station Kulturdrogerie in the 18th district of Vienna, Währing and is on view from 29th of May till 20th of June 2019. The work explores the concepts of temporality, communication and translation in heterotopias – culturally, institutionally and discursively ‘othered’ spaces, inviting the interactors to have an embodied experience of the movement of a flag in the sky that can be observed underneath a temporary pavilion.

Workshop Arte Interactiva at Fundación Ludwig, Havana Biennale, Cuba

Wed, 29 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Workshop Arte Interactiva at Fundación Ludwig , Havana Biennale, Cuba.

Group Show#FUCK REALITY: Posiciones del Arte Inmersivo

Fri, 12 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Fundación Ludwig , Havana Biennale, Cuba.12.04.2019 -28.04.2019 Fundación Ludwig de Cuba, Calle 13 # 509 entre D y E, Vedado, Havana, Cuba Artists: Thomas Hochwallner, Nicolaj Kirisits, Martin Kusch / fitness pluriel, Bobby Malhotra, David Osthoff, Patrícia Reis, Ruth Schnell, Franz Schubert

Review at Designisso (Issue Nov 2018)

Fri, 12 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Read the review at Designisso

ROBOT LOVE

Sun, 02 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

15.09 — Evoluon, Campina, Van Abbemuseum, Park Theatre Eindhoven Eindhoven, Netherlands

Zip-Scene Conference

Thu, 08 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest, Hungary

#FUCK REALITY

Sat, 24 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

10 — Kunstraum Niederösterreich Vienna, Austria

BANFF, Centre for Art & Creativity

Fri, 13 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Banff, Canada

ISEA Symposium on Electronic Art

Sat, 23 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Durban, South Africa [Socially engaged media art] Conversation Session: Mediated Empowerment Using Media and Technology to Amplify the Voices of Local Communities together with Jill Scott and Eugenio Tisselli http://www.isea-international.org/

WORKSHOP Hackerspaces cultures: Speculations on bioenergy towards an alternative desired future

Fri, 25 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

25.05.2018| 15-17h Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Austria [Make… cooperative futures: Power, Access, Mapping, Alternative Fictions Symposium der Abteilung Mediengestaltung] How do we imagine a sustainable desired global future? What means being individually happy and satisfied? What should we believe in, when we are constantly loaded with new digital data and information? And what should we wish for? Can technology be an asset to project our future visions? Which open tools do we have access to empower our wishes?

Ubiquitous Futures

Sun, 20 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

18.05. - [During the Click Festival — CONTEMPORARY ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY — CATCH, Helsingør, Denmark]

WorkshopFrom concept to exhibition[PhD Course: Open Hardware Open Machines]

Mon, 14 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

CATCH, Helsingør, Denmark Collaboration between IT University, CATCH, Aalborg University, within the framework of the conference POLITICS OF THE MACHINES – ART AND AFTER The Ph.d students have worked in teams with a particular focus on using the technologies of mapping, monitoring and sensory experiences in their research into hybrid state(s) of the body. The result is two installatory presentations operating as hybrids in-between art installations and prototypes, which are developed to test the status of technological devices and tools in an investigation of ‘future pleasure objects’.

WorkshopDemystifying the Black Box!

Thu, 25 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Workshop Demystifying the Black Box! FH Technikum Wien ProjectKitchen, UAS Technikum Wien (Room B_4.04)

Klangmanifest, Vienna

Wed, 17 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Opening:

Finissage:

26.1.2018, 18h Location:

Echoraum Sechshauser Straße 66, 1150 Vienna, Austria

Hacking the Body as a Black Box: From the Odalisque to Sexbots and Beyond

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Presented in the context of The Artistic Research Lecture Series — PhD in Practice programme.

Venue: UMAK (Universität Mozarteum am Kurgarten)
Schwarzstraße 36
Seminar Room 2.18

How can we reclaim the body in a landscape increasingly contaminated by AI hype? Can technology still become an ally in bringing us back in touch with each other and ourselves, beyond predictability and disembodied interaction? From the Orientalist fantasies embodied by the Odalisque to contemporary AI-driven sexbots, this lecture traces how colonial and patriarchal imaginaries continue to shape representations of the female body through what I refer to as probabilistic intimacy: systems that simulate desire, consent, and care through prediction rather than embodied experience. Grounded in extractivism, invisible labour, embedded biases, surveillance, and governance, these representations increasingly affect perception, intimacy, agency, and consent while reducing experience to probabilistic simulation. In response, I propose the body as a “black box”—both an artistic strategy and a critical lens—working with its indeterminacy to reclaim embodied perception and situated experience.

Skin under skin

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Skin under skin, is an audio-visual-tactile interactive installation composed of three human-scale soft objects that invite direct bodily engagement. Made from flexible materials, the work creates a sensorial and intimate relationship between the interactor and the system of the piece. Each object integrates an audio-visual-tactile interface: flickering light, pulsed sound, and internal vibration. When the interactor approaches with eyes closed and engages through touch, the synchronisation of these stimuli generates internal visual phenomena—moving geometric patterns and colours emerging from the brain’s interpretation of altered sensory input. Through this process, perception becomes the site of image construction. The interactor’s sensorial apparatus operates as an active system, producing individual and singular experiences. The interaction is not limited to the work’s technical system; rather, Interaction unfolds within the body, occuring within the internal space of the interactor. The interactor interacts within its system, generating new information and producing experiences in a singular way.

Sensorial Mechanisms

Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Artists Dorota Walentynowicz and Patrícia J. Reis create a shared visual and conceptual space shaped by a soft yet firm negotiation of the gaze. The exhibition brings together a constellation of objects, images, and surfaces that do not fully reveal themselves. Instead, they flicker between presence and concealment—between the desire to be seen and the right to refuse visibility. Embedded within these gestures is an inquiry into the digital gaze: mediated seeing, synthetic vision, machine desire. The artists ask whether, even for a brief moment, we can step back from the flood of images that saturates our daily lives and reflect on the normative frameworks of seeing and being seen—frameworks that reinforce prejudice, capitalism, and colonial narratives. They direct the audience’s attention toward what remains unseen, shifting the gaze away from spectacle and toward its backstage. In doing so, they expose mechanisms of power, recover what has been forgotten, and open the possibility of re-reading the history of visual media and technology from a feminist perspective.

Display Island

Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

In Display Island, Reis focuses on the physical involvement of participants. The installation activates the viewers’ sensory systems and, in response to the excess of images dominating contemporary visual culture, proposes an alternative mode of engagement—one that operates not primarily through sight, but through bodily and auditory perception. The circular couch installation features a sound work delivered through sound showers shaped like lampshades. The piece takes the form of a spoken, spell-like manifesto. Through layered whispers and declarative voices, it invokes Medusa and the Odalisque as guardians of embodied difference, transforming a critique of patriarchy and the commodification of pleasure into a sensorial act of resistance and remembrance. Interwoven with the voice, a mystical noise is both heard and physically felt through transducer speakers embedded in the couch. In this way, Reis explores new forms of communication between humans and technology grounded in sensuality and intuition. Her works function as laboratories of embodied perception, in which the body is reclaimed as a full-fledged instrument for cognition and interaction with the world.

Texts & Publications

Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Traces of Control

Tue, 12 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Within their artistic research Patrícia J. Reis and Ruth Schnell explore the far-reaching societal and ethical impacts of artificial intelligence, as well as its technological influence on our lived environment. Their interactive mixed media installation expands the physical exhibition into a hybrid experiential space by interweaving virtual and physical layers and adding a digital dimension to real objects and artefacts.

The Cosmic Box

Sat, 02 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

In their site-specific video installation titled The Cosmic Box, artists Patrícia J. Reis and Fernando Mesquita craft a thought-provoking satire that reflects on the human condition, blending dark humor with poignant social critique. Part of the group exhibition Tombola, where the theme and media for each artwork are determined by chance, Reis and Mesquita received the theme “Hope” and the media “Staging.” Their response is a clever subversion of the very notion of hope, offering instead a narrative steeped in pessimism and critique of human existence.

Of clouds and clocks

Wed, 24 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The sound installation and performative interpretation Of clouds and clocks after György Ligeti’s “Poème symphonique for 100 metronomes” was conceived for the exhibition Unabridged at the Kunstlerhaus in Vienna that combined a series of contemporary artistic positions from Dora Deliyska, Anna Hofbauer, Kai Maier-Rothe, Phelim McConigly, Flavio Palasciano, Patricia J. Reis, Axel Stockburger, Johanna Charlotte Trede.

Massage Chairs Love series

Fri, 09 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The work Massage Chair series offers a tangible encounter between automation and perception, where the machine and the body share a material space, engage in a metaphoric dialogue of touch, each responding to the other’s inputs. Participants are invited to embody, relax, and sit comfortably in the specially adjustable chairs — upcycled massage chairs modified by the artist, to which she added comfortable upholstered details and a technical audiovisual–tactile interface.

What's love got to do with it?

Thu, 09 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

“A culture of domination is anti-love. It requires violence to sustain itself. To choose love is to go against the prevailing values of the culture. Many people feel unable to love either themselves or others because they do not know what love is.” Bell Hooks (1994)

CLAY PCB

Fri, 15 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

We challenge conventional PCB economies through feminist hacking lenses, prioritising sentient, low-impact, non-toxic, fair-traded, and recycled production methods.

It is an open secret that the hardware in our smart devices contains not only plastics but also conflict minerals like tin, silver and gold. We investigated alternative hardware from locally sourced materials, so-called ethical hardware, to develop and speculate upon renewable practices for the benefit of both nature and humans. To decolonise technology we had to go beyond demystifying the black box, and dive deeper into understanding the basic elements these circuits and chips are made of. This journey took us virtually to many places, from gold mines in Indonesia to upcycle workshops in Cuba and e-waste landfills in Ghana.

Who has land to make a fire?

Thu, 23 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The project by Patrícia J. Reis, Céline Struger and Kristin Weissenberger was presented at Mz* Baltazar’s Laboratory (2023), Vienna, in the form of an exhibition. It revolved around the group’s collaborative and artistic process, using ceramics as their primary medium for exploration. The group’s goal was to create a shared artistic process that encouraged reflection and discussion among the artists involved. Through this project, the artists also wanted to shed light on the emancipation history of female artists and to explore the relationship between ceramics, hacking and other fields of art.

Coffee Table

Thu, 08 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

In the interactive installation Coffee Table (in German ‘Kaffeekränzchen’), the legacy of gendered porcelain collecting, and the different functions and meaning of this in women’s lives, was explored, while also engaging with themes of art, science and technology.

endoSensorial mask

Fri, 19 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

endoSensorial mask is an interactive installation composed by one sculpture/ mask suspended in space and hanged from the ceiling. The participant is invited to wear a VR headset (embedded in the sculpture) and embody it in multiple possible ways. By doing so, the participant is immersed in a virtual reality environment which is synchronised with the worn physicality of the objects.

Low-tech paper pulp lab

Mon, 01 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The participatory installation Low-tech paper pulp lab aims at bringing together people from different backgrounds and mind sets to collaborate with the artists in a commodity chain performance designed for recycling and upcycling paper collected from the streets of Havana.

from object to affect: proposals for future archives after the media

Sun, 28 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000

In the light of the current context of the big data in which data processing, data curation, storage, transfer, visualisation and privacy are major topics of discussion, artists Carla Cabanas and Patrícia J. Reis collaborate for the second time on an artist project that aims to reflect upon alternative ways of digital archiving, materialisation and/or dematerialisation of private objects.

Sensorial Screen #3

Sun, 28 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000

The sculpture Sensorial Screen #3 is an interactive installation that allows the body to view itself as a place where complex visual information. Is perceived as a sensation that can also be felt on the skin level. The vibration (60 vibration motors) reacts to the motion of the flag represented in the video. Weather-related pain or meteoropathy is the effect of weather on the human organism. Air pressure fluctuations, foehn winds, heat waves, changing humidity and thunderstorms might have an effect on general health, mood and performance levels of individuals.In particular, people who are weakened by chronic diseases, such as rheumatism or asthma are more sensitive to the weather.

"The Medusa v. The Odalisque"

Mon, 09 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000

“The Medusa v. The Odalisque” is the artists’ ongoing research towards a critical reflection on the subject of visual pleasure in the age of digital entities. The exhibition consists of a collection of objects and images which engage the visitors in a spectacle of gazes.

Blow!

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

In the light of the current digital media context, in which data and privacy are major topics of discussion, Patrícia J. Reis artwork examines potential processes of semantic translation between humans and machines.

Through the hole is the way "Out-of-This World"

Mon, 29 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Through the hole is the way ‘Out-of-This-World’ is a site-specific interactive installation presented by media artists Patricia J. Reis in collaboration with Lukas Vincent Walcher, first created for the open-air segment of the experimental station Kulturdrogerie in Vienna and, later installed and adapted to the nature site-specificity of Flora Pondtemporary, Stiftsteiche in St. Florian, Austria.

Sensorial screen #1

Tue, 18 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000

The project Sensorial screen is a concept for an interactive installation that considers the body as a screen, as a place, in which complex visual information can be perceived as a sensation, and felt at the skin level. By focusing on the haptic experience of the participant it takes into consideration his or hers sensorial biological apparatus in the construction of unique individual phenomenological experiences.

Touching my breath

Thu, 23 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

In the light of the current digital media context, in which data and privacy are major topics of discussion, Patrícia J. Reis artwork examines potential processes of semantic translation between humans and machines. Touching my breath (2018) focuses on one’s own intimate haptic system, taking into consideration their sensorial mechanism as an apparatus for the construction of individual sensations. The interactive installation invites participants to engage physically and bodily, experiencing haptic sensations resultant from the data collected from their own breath.

[B.M.I.] BELIEVER. MACHINE. INTERFACE

Fri, 05 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000

We learned to believe in machines! We enjoy believing in machines!

The BMI project investigates fictional technomancy by questioning the boundaries between science, religion and magic from the point of view of the user and/or the believer.

Intimate Archives After Media

Fri, 05 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000

In the light of the current context of the big data where data processing, data curation, storage, transfer, visualization and privacy are major topics of discussion, artists Carla Cabanas and Patrícia J. Reis proposed to collaborate on an artist project that aims to reflect upon future ways of materialization and/or dematerialization of visual private archives.

The wishing machine project

Fri, 05 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000

The wishing machine project explores technomancy science fiction imaginary through the creation of a machine that can make one’s wishes become true. The open source apparatus is powered by orgone energy [Wilhelm Reich, 1930] known to be as a “universal life force” flowing within living bodies and nature. Referring to other black boxes typologies [as the photo camera by Vilém Flusser, 1983], this apparatus contains an input and an output plate. The wishes are symbolically represented and placed on the input plate while the wisher touches and gently rubs the output plate. The process is concluded when the orgone energy is sensorial perceived in the body.

Cutting the body