--- type: exposition title: Civa – Contemporary Immersive Virtual Art language: en url: "https://www.belvedere.at/en/civa-2024" --- # Civa – Contemporary Immersive Virtual Art ## coded manoeuvres\_sticky webs ![Logo Civa](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/header_cropped_1920x480_fp/public/2024-08/Header_Website_Civa.png.webp?itok=900DqM_3) **Duration:** 1 October 2024 - 2 February 2025 From 2024 onwards, the [Civa media art festival](https://civa.at/) will be jointly organized and developed by Belvedere 21 and sound:frame. Building on the thematic focuses of the past three festivals, Civa 2024 explores how media art is situated in our society and the impact of current technologies on our lives. Through an exhibition and a hybrid program of talks, film screenings, and live performances, Civa brings together diverse international artistic and intellectual voices. The festival aims to draw together energies untethered by physical boundaries and create an open space for exchange and mutual learning. **Curators:** Exhibition: Eva Fischer, Djamila Grandits, Assistant Curators: Theresa Dann-Freyenschlag, Anna Ewa Dyrko Discourse and Networking: Eva Fischer, Djamila Grandits, Angie-Shahira Pohl, Paul Feigelfeld, Marko Kölbl, Kulturen in Bewegung, D–Arts Tours: Klimentina Milenova Screening: Djamila Grandits, Marija Milovanovic, Anna-Lena Panter Live: Eva Fischer, Angie-Shahira Pohl ### [Belvedere 21](https://www.belvedere.at/en/visit/belvedere-21) **Opening hours:** Tuesday to Sunday, 11 am - 6 pm; Late Night: Thursday, 11 am - 9 pm **Address:** Belvedere 21, 1030 Vienna ([Getting there]()) [Tickets](https://www.belvedere.at/en/tickets?location%5B0%5D=4) ##### In cooperation with - [Civa 2024](https://www.civa.at/) - [ATC 2024](http://www.atc-truss.com/) ## Impressions - ![Ausstellungsansicht Civa. coded manoeuvres_sticky webs — Exhibition view Civa. coded manoeuvres_sticky webs — Photo: Kunst-Dokumentation.com, Manuel Carreon Lopez / Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2024-09/2024_09_28_Belvedere_Civa%202024_00551_30x40.jpg.webp?itok=cw4NAM_I) - ![Ausstellungsansicht Civa. coded manoeuvres_sticky webs — Exhibition view Civa. coded manoeuvres_sticky webs — Photo: Kunst-Dokumentation.com, Manuel Carreon Lopez / Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2024-09/2024_09_28_Belvedere_Civa%202024_00062_30x40.jpg.webp?itok=3R_NwpDN) - ![Ausstellungsansicht Civa. coded manoeuvres_sticky webs — Exhibition view Civa. coded manoeuvres_sticky webs — Photo: Kunst-Dokumentation.com, Manuel Carreon Lopez / Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2024-09/2024_09_28_Belvedere_Civa%202024_00503_30x40.jpg.webp?itok=DcQOHw4L) - ![Ausstellungsansicht Civa. coded manoeuvres_sticky webs — Exhibition view Civa. coded manoeuvres_sticky webs — Photo: Kunst-Dokumentation.com, Manuel Carreon Lopez / Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2024-09/2024_09_28_Belvedere_Civa%202024_00377_30x40.jpg.webp?itok=k6x7_OE1) - ![Ausstellungsansicht Civa. coded manoeuvres_sticky webs — Exhibition view Civa. coded manoeuvres_sticky webs — Photo: Kunst-Dokumentation.com, Manuel Carreon Lopez / Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2024-09/2024_09_28_Belvedere_Civa%202024_00362_30x40.jpg.webp?itok=PnFs1DHa) ## Festival and Exhibition Understanding *intelligence* not only as a solely human trait or technology but also extending it to knowing entities and organisms allows for the exploration of a field within which power constructions and technologies can be decoded and disrupted. How can organisms glitch militarized spheres and thereby breach violent technologies? What survival strategies, tactics, and codes do we need to effectively resist the imposition of binary coding and appropriations? What kinds of symbiotic relationships can we envision and program? By breaking down the barriers between digital and physical spaces, between embodied knowledge and reason, between online and offline, and by challenging the hierarchical structuring of forms of existence, a variety of positions will raise questions about collective approaches to knowledge and organisms and their applicability to the discourse on (artificial) intelligence. This gives rise to sensuous choreographies, unexpected patterns of movement, and new symbiotic constellations in hybrid spaces. Free admission to the exhibition and all Civa events from 1 to 5 October 2024. ## Videos **Civa (Part 1)** **Civa (Part 2)** **Civa (Part 3)** **Civa (Part 4)** ## Festival Program #### 1 to 5 October ##### CODED MANOEUVRES The Civa media art festival explores the intersection of contemporary technologies, realities, and experiences in digital, physical, and hybrid spaces. The 2024 edition will investigate the intricate processes involved in the creation of intelligence and the flow and dissemination of knowledge. Civa will host discussions, film screenings, and live performances at the Belvedere 21 from 1 to 5 October, 2024. [Program](https://civa.at/en#program) ## Artists **Exhibition** Filipa César & Louis Henderson CROSSLUCID Evan Ifekoya Martina Menegon Philipp Muerling Brooklyn J. Pakathi Dagmar Schürrer Ziyang Wu & Mark H. Ramos