Civa Festival 2025 – |indeterminate⟩⟨apparatus|
Experience the 5th edition of the media art festival
Civa will host discussions, film screenings, and live performances at the Belvedere 21 from 2 to 4 2025. The Festival highlights the interplay of current technologies, realities, and experiences in digital, physical, and hybrid spaces. This year's edition focuses on the world of quantum physics as part of the festival and exhibition.
With an extensive interdisciplinary discourse program, film screenings, workshops, and live audiovisual performances, the Civa media art festival offers a wide range of opportunities for exchange and networking over three days. |indeterminate> <apparatus| asks how a worldview can be developed that encompasses a grammar of the non-binary, allows for indeterminacy, and reconfigures the apparatuses through which reality is created. The discourse program is presented by the Vienna Business Agency.
Further information can be found here. Admission to the events is free of charge.
Discoursive program
2 October 2 - 4.30 pm
Podcast Studio
Hosted by The Black Cube with Giulia Yoko Galbarini and Carlo Rizzo. The Black Cube is a new editorial platform that explores how moving images are conceived, produced, and experienced — through the lens of technology.
3 October 11 am - 2 pm
Workshop: Decolonize Electronic Music: The search of repressed possibilities
With Seba Kayan. In this Workshop we want to push the boundaries of sonic experimentation, by demonstrating the transformative power of embracing diversity and challenging colonial legacies in music production.
3 October 2 - 3.30 pm
Interaktive Conversation: QUANTUM. Resonances of an ecosystem
With Claudia Reinprecht, Matthias Kettemann, Gláucia Murta, Margarete Jahrmann and Somya Rathee. The ecosystem of quantum technologies is multifaceted, dynamic, and full of unanswered questions. This interactive format brings together six voices from science, industry, diplomacy, ethics, art, and society. In an open circle, the participants will share key concepts from their everyday practice.
3 October 5 - 6.15 pm
Panel: Building for Quantum. On quantum computing, technological infrastructures, and speculative artistic approaches
A conversation with Ivona Brandic, Marina Otero Verzier, Manuel Correa, Eva Fischer, and Ana Prendes. Quantum computing emerges as a scientific revolution, an architectural challenge, and a speculative imaginary.
3 October 6.45 - 8 pm
Panel: (Afro)Futurities and the manipulation of space-time
A panel discussion with Rasheedah Philipps, Nelly Yaa Pinkrah, and Djamila Grandits. Was bedeutet es, Zeit nicht linear zu denken? Wie lässt sich Raum manipulieren, um alternative Zukünfte zu imaginieren und zu gestalten?
4 October 7 - 8.15 pm
Interaktive conversation: sensing the unseen. Art, science & the perception of invisible realms
With Patrick Emonts, Mike Rijnierse, Evelina Domnitch, Dmitry Gelfand, and Natalie Paneng, Moderator: Leon Lapa Pereira. This panel brings together a unique constellation of voices from the worlds of art, science, and speculative design to explore how new forms of perception are emerging at the intersection of disciplines.
4 October 3.30 - 5 pm
Panel: Quantum Witchcraft: Feminist Theory and the Ghosts of the Quantum Realm
With Tanja Traxler and Martin Reinhart.This discussion conjures the strange, ghostly presences of quantum physics—entangled particles, vacuum fluctuations, and nonlocal influences—through a feminist lens.
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