Artists and experts from the fields of dance, music and technology joined forces to explore the connections between the body and technology. With the help of robotics, wearables, AI, software development and intelligent lighting solutions, new forms of movement and interaction were created. Improvised experiments and creative prototyping processes led to surprising insights and innovative artistic approaches.
The Dance Hack relied on spontaneous, interdisciplinary collaboration – each participant contributed their own expertise and inspired the group. The focus was on shared flow, exchange and the open exploration of new creative possibilities. Whether dancers, programmers or designers – everyone was able to discover new perspectives and develop innovative ideas.
The Oulu Dance Hack in Chemnitz was an inspiring experience that showed how movement and technology can meet and enrich each other in a creative process.
Performers: Batul Al-Aidi, Duc Le, Greta Thole, Laura Waltz, Tanja Råman
Video: Fabian Thüroff
Music: Vincent Maurer
A project of the FUNKEN Academy of Klub Solitaer e.V. in cooperation with TaikaBox. Supported by: Chemnitz Capital of Culture 2025 gGmbh
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FUNKEN Dance Hack
Dance & tech in motion: At the beginning of November 2024, the Chemnitz Technology Campus was transformed into a lively experimental field for movement, technology and artistic research. In collaboration with the FUNKEN Academy, the team from the renowned Oulu Dance Hack from Finland brought its innovative format to Chemnitz - three days of intensive dance-tech collaboration to join in and experience.
The video shows the artists and researchers working together, as well as early works and artistic prototypes from the Summer School. The footage is accompanied by statements from the participating organisations and artists.
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FUNKEN European Summer School
The FUNKEN European Summer School brought together 30 young international artists with renowned mentors from the art world. Together, they researched and experimented in the laboratories of Fraunhofer ENAS and Fraunhofer IWU in a close exchange between art and science.
Like astronauts in full protective gear, the participants in the week-long workshop approach the hostile ideal environment of glass: ovens heated to 1400 degrees. Sunburn develops on carelessly uncovered areas of skin. The crucibles in the long tongs are heavy, the glass flows like honey over sand moulds. On the way back into the cold of the world, it stretches, cracks and splinters. With makeshift cooling ovens, they strain not only the material but also the university’s resources. Everyone still has a roast in the pipe somewhere, the cooling curves are at the limit, the fusing oven burns 800 degrees hotter than planned and the plasma torch whistles, until finally the pizza oven brings the participants and all the people from the Glass Institute and Thermal Engineering together.
SCHMELZE shows works by the artist collective Art Ashram of Klara Adam, Maja Nacke, Georg Scherlin, Daria Wartalska and Markus Zimmermann in an intervention in the Terra Mineralia Freiberg – Mineral Exhibition TU Bergakademie Freiberg. The work can currently be viewed at the Centre for Efficient High-Temperature Material Conversion at Winklerstrasse 5 in Freiberg on weekdays between 9 am and 5 pm
Created as part of Pop Up Science – a format organised by 4transfer. The series of events communicates scientific findings and research results to a wide audience. In its second edition, 4transfer is cooperating with the FUNKEN Academy of Klub Solitaer e.V.
Interventions in the mineral collection of the TU Bergakedmie Freiberg |
Melt
Thanks to industrial production, glass has become a product that remains invisible in everyday life. We drink from it, look out of the window and type on our touchscreen. Only when we work with glass ourselves does the essence of the material become visible - a liquid, a chaotic pile of molecules, constantly flowing, MELTING.
The results of the course if/then - artificial natures were subsequently presented in an exhibition at the Galerie Hinten as well as at the expert conference smart³ Zukunftsimpulse.
Lab 2025 at Ars Electronica Center |
CCI Lab
The results of Labor 2025 were exhibited at the Ars Electronica Center Linz in 2021. Various video documentaries, interviews and talks were produced in this context.
