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Congratulations to Yuseung Lee (Joann Lee -Yuseung-) for the successful master thesis defense on ‘Artistic Data Abstraction in User-Data-Driven Interactive Media Art: Transforming Emotional Data into Color’

We wish you all the best with your future endeavors!

Join us next week for the thesis defence of Maria Konstantinova (Maria Konstantinova) on Thursday, 18th of June.

18.06.2026 | 14:00 at Interface Cultures, 3rd Floor, Domgasse Kunstuniversität Linz

‘Between Interaction and Expression: Exploring the Potential of Media Art in the Context of Expressive Arts Therapy’

The thesis explores the potential of interactive media art within the context of expressive arts therapy from the perspective of an artist and designer. It examines how interaction with media artworks can support creative expression and facilitate processes associated with expressive therapeutic practice. The research connects theories of expressive therapy with interaction design and presents two original projects, Soup Kitchen and Création Nocturne, as case studies. It opens a discussion on whether interactive media art may offer new possibilities for
expressive practice through embodied, participatory, and technologically mediated creative experiences, and whether its benefits and limitations may hold value within expressive arts therapy alongside more traditional artistic modalities.

Photo credit: Camilla Scholz

Uni Prof. Dr. Laurent Mignonneau and Dr. Christa Sommerer ‘s artwork ‘Flaneur’ is being shown at The Shenzhen International Museum of Art (SIMoA), Shenzhen, China and will be exhibited until May 2027!

In the interactive installation ‘Flaneur’, visitors can walk around on a large round projection surface. Their walking pattern and speed creates beautiful vegetations, consisting of leaves, flowers, branches and other organic elements. Strolling around fills up a colorful virtual garden which always recomposes itself.

However digital ants also like these beautiful flora and come to quickly eat them up. They organize themselves to eliminate all what humans have created. Between one’s joyful creation of a garden and the removal cycle created by the ants, one might be reminded of the human impact on nature.

‘Flaneur’ celebrates the aimless strolling around and the life cycle of creation and disappearance.

🌐 Web site of the artwork:
https://interface.ufg.ac.at/christa-laurent/Flaneur.html

🌐 Website about Shenzhen International Art Museum (the biggest in China):
https://www.szgm.gov.cn/english/news/latestnews/content/post_12705808.html