Results

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.

Performer: 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 Kulturhauptstadt 2025 gGmbh

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.

Like astronauts in full protective gear, the participants of the week-long workshop approach the life-threatening ideal environment of glass: 1400-degree hot furnaces. Sunburns ignite on recklessly uncovered skin areas. The crucibles in the long tongs are heavy, and the glass flows like honey over sand molds. On the way back to the cold 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 somewhere in the oven, the cooling curves are at their limit, the fusing oven burns 800 degrees hotter than planned, and the plasma torch whistles until finally, the pizza oven brings together the participants and everyone from the Glass Institute and Thermal Engineering.

MELT showcases works by the artist collective Art Ashram, with Klara Adam, Maja Nacke, Georg Scherlin, Daria Wartalska, and Markus Zimmermann, in an intervention at the Terra Mineralia Freiberg – Mineral Exhibition TU Bergakademie Freiberg. Currently on view at the Center for efficient high-temperature processes and materials conversion in Winklerstrasse 5 in Freiberg, weekdays from 9–17 o’clock.

Created within the framework of Pop Up Science – a format by 4transfer. The event series conveys scientific knowledge and research findings to a broad audience. In its second edition, 4transfer is cooperating with the FUNKEN Academy of Klub Solitaer e.V.

Exhibition at Galerie Hinten, Chemnitz

Copyright: © Fraunhofer CPM / Sascha Linke.

Exhibition at smart³ Zukunftsimpulse – conference Schloss Albrechtsberg, Dresden

Copyright: © Fraunhofer CPM / smart³ / Sascha Linke.