Beteiligung als externer Projektpartner im österreichischen, FWF/PEEK geförderten Forschungsprojekt BEYOND GLACIATION an der Kunstuniversität Linz, Projektlaufzeit: Juli 2025 bis Juli 2029, Gesamtleitung: Prof. Dr. Alexis Dworsky Institut: Institut für Kunst und Bildung, Institut für Medien, Kunstuniversität Linz (A)

The interdisciplinary art project "Beyond Glaciation" explores the Goldbergkees, a glacier in Austria that is melting rapidly. This glacier is to be preserved - not in a physical sense, which hardly seems possible in view of global warming, but through digital reconstruction and transformation.
Using a drone and a microscope, 3D models, the visualization of measurement data and artificial intelligence, a virtual image of the glacier is being created that goes far beyond its surface. Microorganisms, plastic particles, traces of human activity and old stories are examined, artistically interpreted and translated into an immersive simulation. The glacier is not understood as a dead mass of ice, but as a living, complex ecosystem that interweaves nature, culture, myth and science.
"Beyond Glaciation" tackles the climate crisis by capturing the multi-layered current state of the glacier and translating it into speculative future scenarios. The project explores the potential, but also the contradictions of the latest digital technologies in artistic processes. The result is a multimedia space that tells of what is currently disappearing - and of what might emerge from it. Bridges are built between art and science, between past and future, between reality and fiction. As a result, the glacier can still be experienced even after it has disappeared - as a virtual memorial and a space of possibility. By creating new ways of seeing, feeling and understanding, "Beyond Glaciation" opens up the opportunity to fundamentally rethink our relationship with nature.

Contact persons: Prof. Dr. Alexis Dworsky, Prof. Tina Frank, Simon Hochleitner, Nadja Reifer