Ultramateria

Date: 27.11—30.11.25
Institution: Collini
Hohenems, AT

Initiated by Stefan Kainbacher (NEON GOLDEN), Leon Boch (Galerie am Lindenplatz), Klaus Birk and Simon Gallus (DHBW Center for Immersive Media).

ULTRAMATERIA transformed Collini's new industrial hall into a four-day laboratory for immersive installations, performances, and critical discourse at the intersection of art, technology, and society, with a curatorial focus on artificial intelligence, sustainability, and materiality.

AATB presented void avoid (return nothing) and a single dog from Spare Pack. void avoid (return nothing) consists of two circular screens mounted on industrial robotic arms — the restless eyes of a melancholic artificial entity that seeks human connection yet withdraws whenever direct eye contact threatens to occur.

Spare Pack imagines a near future in which fleets of robot dogs, once patrolling industrial sites, are rendered obsolete and left to roam abandoned spaces as feral packs. At ULTRAMATERIA a single dog was roaming around.

AATB also took part in the festival's panel discussions.