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Festival for art in digital
contexts and public spaces
Next edition: 6 – 11 June, 2023
Southern Harbour Area
Linz, Austria
Festival for art in digital
contexts and public spaces
Next edition: 6 – 11 June 2023
Southern Harbour Area
Linz, Austria
Festival for art in digital
contexts and public spaces
Next edition: 6 – 11 June, 2023
Southern Harbour Area
Linz, Austria
Festival for art in digital
contexts and public spaces
Next edition: 6 – 11 June 2023
Southern Harbour Area
Linz, Austria
LINZ FMR 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.
From 6 to 11 June, 2023, LINZ FMR, the biennial festival for art in digital contexts and public spaces, will take place for the third time. After FMR 19 alongside the Danube river and FMR 21 around the train station Mühlkreisbahnhof, this time FMR 23 will transform the southern harbour area into a freely accessible art space.
FMR 23 brings to Linz a large exhibition centered around venues such as the Kleingartenverein Linz-Ost, hello yellow Velodrom & Pumptrack, Klimaoase Linz-Lustenau, Linzer Stadtalm and vacancy of former Quelle/Woolworth/NORMA store in Industriezeile. On display will be works by numerous artists from the fields of media art, digital art and Internet art. The program also includes lectures, talks, concerts, performances and tours.


!Mediengruppe Bitnik (DE/CH/CR)
Anne Fehres & Luke Conroy (NL/AU)
Clemens Stöttinger (AT)
Clusterduck (IT/FR/DE)
Constant Dullaart (NL)
Dennis de Bel & Anton Linus Jehle (NL/DE)
Julian Oliver & Gordan Savičić (NZ/AT/CH)
Julian Stadon (AU)
Justin Tyler Tate (CA)
Marie-Luce Nadal (FR)
Marisa Olson (US)
Mitra Azar (IT)
raumarbeiterinnen (DE/AT)
S.Myselle (AT)
S()fia Braga (IT)
Studer / van den Berg (CH)
Students from the Department of Media Design at University of Arts Linz (AT)
Swaeny Nina Kersaan (NL)
TinTin Patrone (DE)
ViaOral (NL)
Amanda Lewis (US/FR)
Erica Gargaglione (IT/NL)
Onur Olgaç (TR/AT)
Stefano D‘Alessio (IT)
Crystn Hunt Akron feat. Tofa (Modulux) (AT)
Floating Spectrum feat. Abe Pazos (TW/DE/FI)
SØS Gunver Ryberg (DK)
Francesco Luzzana & Sofia Casprini (IT)
Sturmherta (AT)
Antenes (US)
Mermaid & Seafruit (PL/AT)
Antonia XM (AT)
Linz is located in the geographical heart of Europe and is quick and easy to reach by water, land and air thanks to a good network of motorways and the Linz Airport. Find out here how to get to Linz.
Several hotels are located within walking distance from the festival area, as well as the city centre of Linz. Hotel offers can be found on the website of the city of Linz, where you can also inform yourself about the Linz card, that gives you free admission to Linz museums and the public transport. For any personal inquiries, questions or information about Linz, the Tourist Information Linz is happy to help.


Responsible for the festival is the association "LINZ FMR—Art in digital contexts and public spaces". It was founded by the two art and cultural initiatives qujOchÖ and servus.at, Atelierhaus Salzamt of the city of Linz, University of Arts Linz and Sturm und Drang Galerie. Their representatives have been involved in the conception, organization and curation of the festival since its first edition in March 2019.
FMR 23 is supported by the City of Linz as UNESCO City of Media Arts, the State of Upper Austria and the Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport, as well as numerous organizations and companies, including our main sponsors LINZ AG and Gutenberg-Werbering, our co-sponsors Plasser & Theurer, Datapress, Christian Schepe Fineartprinting, Schachermayer, ARCOTEL Nike Linz, Austria Classic Hotel Wolfinger, Das Landhof, arte Hotel Linz, TIER, city bike Linz, MOTORMOBIL Autohaus Dornach, Freistädter Bier, brotsüchtig, connect724, USP, Gebrüder Weiss, Schuller Eh'Klar and our further partners & supporters Linz Tourismus, Innovationshauptplatz Linz, younion Oberösterreich, Kleingartenverein Linz-Ost, Klimaoase Linz-Lustenau, hello yellow Velodrom & Pumptrack by Schachermayer, Linzer Stadtalm, Mamapapamoo – Streetfood Austria, Radio FRO, DORF TV and DIE REFERENTIN.