Johannes Grenzfurthner
Johannes Grenzfurthner is an award-winning artist, filmmaker, author, and performer. He blends fact and fiction to create unique experiences. As the founder and artistic director of monochrom, he has influenced nerd, hacker, and art cultures. His films include Masking Threshold (2021), Razzennest (2022), and Solvent (2024). His documentary Hacking at Leaves premiered in 2024. Johannes lectures on transmedia arts in Vienna and teaches communication theory in Lüneburg. He also organizes Arse Elektronika and Roboexotica. His work has been featured in major media outlets, and he has presented at numerous prestigious events. He openly identifies as a leftist and atheist.

Günther Friesinger
Günther Friesinger is an artist, philosopher, curator, and producer. He is the founder and director of the paraflows festival, managing director of monochrom, and producer of the Arse Elektronika festival, the Roboexotica festival, and the KOMM.ST festival. Friesinger teaches cultural management, production, social media, and exhibition dramaturgy at universities in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland.

Jasmin Hagendorfer
Based in Vienna, Jasmin Hagendorfer is a contemporary artist, filmmaker, and curator exploring socio-political themes and gender identity. She co-founded and directs the Porn Film Festival Vienna, blending feminist and queer perspectives with art and pornography. Her TEDx talk, How Good Porn Can Save the Planet, examined the environmental potential of alternative pornography. She contributed to Fragile Fäden – Beziehungsweisen im Kapitalismus, analyzing intimacy, sensuality, and capitalism through the lens of pornography. Her films, including Fudliaks! Tear The Sexes Apart!, Slugfest, and Musings of a Mechatronic Mistress, reflect her bold approach to art and social critique.

Franz Ablinger
As co-founder and technical manager of monochrom, Franz Ablinger oversees the technical aspects of events, exhibition implementation, and website management.

The STD Experience
You don't want to encounter them in the dark of night.

Ann Antidote
Ann Antidote (no pronouns) brings to life eclectic artworks centered on inclusive, solidaristic, queer, consensual, dissident, or downright awkward lifeforms and moments. Music, film, performance, and the practice and teaching of rope bondage often take shape in temporary autonomous zones and travel widely, appearing in diverse contexts such as cooperative housing projects, reclaimed urban structures, streaming platforms, parties, museums, and galleries. Ann challenges power structures, especially those that are invisible, unacknowledged, or lack explicit consent. Ann examines gender(s), privilege(s), consent, sustainability, and accessibility, favoring clear and direct expression whenever possible while rejecting non-consensual interpretations.

Lun Ário
Lun Ário (they/them) is active in music, visual art, performance, and film. By merging seemingly incompatible worlds into a new universe, Lun employs an audiovisual vocabulary that engages with various social and political issues. Their work frequently explores gender, sexuality, and queer theory. Musically, they focus on real-time sound sampling and manipulation in live performance contexts. Lun lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Felix Helmut Wagner
Felix Helmut Wagner is a media artist and performer from Erlangen, Germany, based in Vienna. He studied civil engineering before pursuing fine arts at Braunschweig University of Art and transmedia art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. His work has been exhibited in over fifty shows across Germany, Austria, and the USA, including the PARALLEL Art Fair (Vienna), Spring/Break Art Show (Los Angeles), and Untitled Art Fair (Miami). A Cusanuswerk scholarship recipient, he graduated with distinction in 2021 and received the Austrian Recognition Award. Since 2022, he has been teaching at the Angewandte Performance Laboratory (APL) in Vienna.

Omzol
Omzol is a self-taught musician with a deep passion for developing musical instruments. Currently pursuing a Master’s in Post-Digital Lutherie at TAMLAB Linz, Omzol's work focuses on instrument design, musical interfaces, and critically examining various media to better understand user interaction and experience.

rasos, chagai, and belowtoxic
rasos was born in Zurich and has a background in IT and media arts. He enjoys hiking and biking and lives in Vorarlberg, Austria.
chagai, also an IT professional, was born in Israel and now lives in Bern, Switzerland.
belowtoxic is the third member, with a background in music production, software development, and media art, also based in Vorarlberg, Austria.
This is their first endeavor in this sector, and they are excited to receive feedback at Arse Elektronika 2025.

Maya Magnat
Maya Magnat is a performance artist, speaker, and certified sex educator specializing in intimacy, technology, and education. She holds an MA in Education and Technology (Haifa University) and an MFA in Performance Research (Tel Aviv University). As Digital and Innovation Manager at Elem Digital, she harnesses technology for social impact, supporting at-risk youth online. Her interactive performances explore mediated intimacy and the evolving relationship between humans and technology. As a speaker, she focuses on AI and love, sextech, and teenagers in the digital age. Her work has been featured at re:publica, Lyst, Reimagining Sexuality, and the Biennial of the Moving Image.

Christian Heller
Christian Heller (plomlompom), born in 1984 in East Berlin, studied Film Studies, Philosophy, and Computer Science at Freie Universität Berlin. From 2004 to 2010, he wrote for online magazines (carta.info, critic.de), maintained blogs on futurism, film criticism, and internet politics, and lectured at conferences like Chaos Communication Congress and Transmediale. A proponent of post-privacy, he authored Post-Privacy. Prima leben ohne Privatsphäre (2011) and publicly documented his daily life from 2010 to 2016. His research on internet subcultures includes Internet-Meme (2013) and a study on body horror imageboards. Since 2014, he has worked as a freelance software developer, contributing to projects like MNT Reform and teledisko, and developed two indie roguelike games. Around 2016, he drifted into hippie festivals and largely disappeared from the public eye.

Laura A. Dima
Laura A. Dima is a multidisciplinary artist born in Romania and based in the Netherlands. She is finalizing her master's thesis at the ArtScience Interfaculty, University of the Arts, The Hague. Her work explores social dynamics and emerging technologies through interactive installations focused on touch and haptics. Her current research examines consent, privacy, and intimacy. Beyond her artistic practice, she engages in academic research and collaborates with universities of technology, where her artworks serve as case studies for socio-affective interactions mediated by technology.

Kero Fichter
Kero Fichter is an art historian and PhD candidate at the University of Vienna. He specializes in the depiction of sexuality, body images, and gender relations in Western visual culture, particularly the Renaissance and the 19th and early 20th centuries. From 2021 to 2023, he worked as an assistant curator in traineeship at Hessen Kassel Heritage, where he collaborated on the exhibition Old Masters – A Queer Reading, which challenged assumed norms on sexuality and gender in the early modern period. In addition, he lectured at the Kassel Music Academy and has published extensively with DailyArt Magazine.

Kathleen Cherrington
Kathleen Cherrington is a 5th-year PhD candidate at York University, combining sex-positive feminism with research on commercial sex, AI, and digital technologies. Her work examines the evolving boundaries of intimacy, power, and technology, advocating for ethical, inclusive engagement across academia and marginalized communities. Passionate about mentorship and advocacy, her interdisciplinary research challenges norms, amplifies underrepresented voices, and redefines perspectives on pleasure, labor, and technology.

Nerea González
Nerea González is a Vienna-based artist and philosopher. Working primarily in sound and performance, they explore visceral sensualities, intimacies, excess, and the liminality of queer bodies. As a philosopher, their recent work focuses on the slimy and viscous as materialities that, from a queer perspective, challenge hegemonically solid and fixed conceptions of body, identity, and gender. They create music through their teknopunk & emotional rave project Mousse de Pus and are part of the collective Sounds Queer?.

Maaike van der Horst
Maaike van der Horst is a PhD candidate at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. Her research explores what sex robots reveal about human nature and perceptions of sexuality, as well as how they shape understandings of (desirable) sexuality. She approaches these questions through a queer, existentialist, and Lacanian (psychoanalytic) lens.

Stefan Lutschinger
Stefan Lutschinger is an artist-philosopher, creative technologist, and metaverse developer exploring the intersections of art, technology, and speculative media. Engaging with embedded systems, digital textiles, and intelligent interfaces, he examines how bodies extend into machinic environments. His recent work investigates the aesthetics of biodata, neurofeedback, and cybernetic intimacy, reimagining sensory experience through interactive wearables. Blending speculative design with critical theory, his practice fuses philosophical inquiry with hands-on experimentation, challenging distinctions between human, machine, and code.

Eva Pascoe
Eva Pascoe is a researcher and expert in Human-Computer Interaction, specializing in wearable technology. She was instrumental in developing MyMonex, a pioneering wearable device capable of reading full-body data, including non-invasive glucose measurements. Beyond technology, she has worked in fashion and lingerie design, with a particular interest in sensual wellness for remote workers. Her interdisciplinary approach bridges innovation, design, and well-being in the digital age.

Luke Robert Mason
Luke Robert Mason is a PhD candidate at Warwick University, researching the impact of Digital Twins on human experiences. As a specialist in Human-Computer Interaction, his work examines how digital simulations of individuals influence identity, agency, and perception in an increasingly virtual world. He is dedicated to exploring the intersection of emerging technologies and human subjectivity.

Trudy Barber
Trudy Barber is a scholar specializing in digital sensuality and electronic intimacy. Her research explores how emerging technologies shape human relationships, pleasure, and embodied experiences in digital spaces. She has contributed extensively to discussions on the evolution of intimacy in an era of cybernetics and virtual interaction.

Christian Schlaeffer
Christian Schlaeffer holds an MA in Animation from the Royal College of Art, London, and is a 3D designer, tech artist, and award-winning animation filmmaker. His animated short films and documentary sequences have been screened at festivals such as the BFI London Film Festival, Encounters in Bristol, and the Melbourne International Animation Festival. He has taught animation, communication design, and cultural history at the Technical University of Applied Sciences Augsburg, DSK Supinfocom in Pune, India, and the Royal College of Art, London. In 2021, he collaborated with the Augsburg State Theatre as a 3D artist to develop the VR theater platform Elektrotheater and designed VR sequences for various productions.

Stephanie Meisl
Stephanie Meisl began her artistic career as a live-performing visual artist in 1997. Her expertise is reflected in award-winning AI-driven projects such as OK Computer, I Want Full Manual Control Now and Schiele's Ghost. In 2021, she co-founded D#AVANTGARDE – new technology, art, and creativity, a collective dedicated to bridging the gap between art and the creative industries. Stephanie explores influencer culture and digital identity through her digital twin, s.myselle, a project that pushes the boundaries of digital art, performance, and self-expression while interrogating the complexities of AI influencers and chatbots. Her work raises critical questions about digital humanism and the authenticity of virtual realities. Through multilayered social media performances, she merges artistic vision with contemporary digital culture, continuously asking: "How real is digital reality?"

Viviene Wallner
Viviene Wallner, also known as the artist Animehur, is a doctoral student at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Her research explores the use of sexuality in anime and its role as a narrative device.

Philipp Blab
Philipp Blab, born in Vienna, explores aesthetics as an intersection of art and politics, working as a curator, author, and observer.

Georg Zev Mir
Georg Zev Mir is a game designer and UX & media consultant with over 15 years of experience. Best known for Michtim: Fluffy Adventures, he explores technology, mental health, sexuality, and games from his base in Graz. Always open to new opportunities.

Italia Bruno
Italia Bruno was born in Italy in 1998. They studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence and are currently pursuing a master's at Thesign Academy. Since 2022, they have been part of the curatorial collective DFTM, working as a graphic designer and social media manager.

Federico Niccolai
Federico Niccolai is a PhD candidate in Extended Reality at the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence. His research focuses on 3D visualization systems in both artistic contexts and the preservation of cultural and natural heritage. He is part of Teogonia, a multimedia project exploring real-time 3D interaction with music.

Hidéo Snes
Hidéo Snes is said to be otherworldly, different—a creature so deranged, strange, and twisted that its presence remains in constant flux. A tentacled elder god, a multi-breasted space vixen, a many-faced, utterly fiendish beast. Hidéo Snes is not one but many, not a single thought echoing through the void, but a chorus—a frightful symphony of ideas. Fundamentally questioning artistic production processes, Hidéo Snes establishes a neomodern continuum in which the fractured self is mirrored in equally distorted selves. Working with artificial intelligence, Snes conducts artistic research into its racist, misogynist, and queerphobic aspects. Their works have been presented at Mumok (Vienna, AT) and Kiasma (Helsinki, FI) and have been featured in exhibitions across four continents.

Stefan Yazzie Herbert
Stefan Yazzie Herbert is an independent porn director and the Art Director of the Porn Film Festival Vienna. In the 'normal' world, he does other creative work, pulls off corporate drag effortlessly, and has a beautiful dog named Marcy, who unfortunately doesn’t appreciate his work. With a background in digital art, Stefan is fascinated by how technology stimulates us, shapes our experiences, and influences how we interact with each other.

Arne Vogelgesang
Arne Vogelgesang is a performing artist. Since 2005, under the label internil and his own name, he has combined documentary material, new media, fiction, and immersive settings. His work explores online radicalization and its media-technological contexts while experimenting with digital representation. He also creates video essays and conducts talks and workshops on his research topics. Currently, he is pursuing an artistic research doctorate at Vienna’s mdw, focusing on virtual embodiment, desire, and cannibalism. His VR performance NEW FLESH will premiere at Volkstheater in April 2025.

Kollektiv 14
Kollektiv 14 is a Vienna-based art collective working with photography, film, new media, and performing arts. Founded by Magdalena Mayr, Martin Graf, and Max Hase, the collective merges academic research with experimental, interdisciplinary approaches. Their works, frequently showcased at international festivals, explore themes of identity, corporeality, masculinity, religion, and sexuality. They integrate scientific theory with artistic practice, while their experimental films challenge traditional narrative structures and explore new artistic expressions. Kollektiv 14 has received awards such as a Special Jury Mention at PFFV in Vienna and the Premio Capozzi Award in Rome.

Christian Schüler
Christian Schüler is passionate about innovative research and development. As the founder of Wetouch (2010–2024), he implemented over 100 interactive experience installations across Austria, Germany, and Switzerland, along with international research projects on user interfaces. A mechatronics engineer, he is also a licensed mechatronics professional and a self-taught programmer with a lifelong fascination for computers and software.

Jan Lauth
Jan Lauth (born 1967 in Vienna) is an artist and educator working in digital art, media design, typography, video, performance, and curatorial projects. He earned his Master’s degree in Visuelle Mediengestaltung under Peter Weibel at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in 1992. Since the late 1980s, he has participated in international festivals such as Ars Electronica, Burning Man, and Cynetart. In 1993, he founded the visualist collective eYeM, engaging in public art and interdisciplinary collaborations.
Lauth has taught at the University of Applied Arts Vienna since 2000 (currently on leave for 2024/25) and has organized cultural initiatives such as frameOut film festival, mediaOpera, and seelab in Aspern Seestadt. His research includes the Morphopoly.org project (2021–2023), and he has contributed to studies on Vienna’s visualist culture.

Kaname Kenny Muroya
Born in Japan, this self-proclaimed artist first encountered cocktail robots at Roboexotica, sparking an obsession with creating robots. Since then, he has exhibited numerous robots at Roboexotica and participated in the last Arse Elektronika with the project Nas-Horn.
His main project, alongside various side projects, is an artist manifesto designed to be fed to AI—so that not only humans but AI itself might one day proclaim being an artist.

Maxin Krippner
Born in 1993, Maxin Krippner is a Vienna-based artist whose work explores gender, connection, and power, challenging the boundaries between the organic and the synthetic.
Through painting, Maxin engages with sexual technologies to question normative understandings of the body, sexuality, and gender. Their work deconstructs binary norms, reimagining fluid and transformative forms of embodiment and intimacy.

Sofia Talanti
Sofia Talanti is a cyborg multimedia artist based in Linz, Austria. 3D modeling, data visualization, animation, and installation design are key tools in developing their artistic practice.
What does it mean to live in a body governed by invisible and fragile internal regulation—both physical and emotional? Talanti explores this question as a collective restraint that can only be mapped through personal experience and technological tools that enable its narration.
They recently participated in Ars Electronica Festival 2024 in Linz, Austria, and collaborate with institutions across Europe, including JKU (Linz), Zurich Opera Theatre, Tabakalera Donostia, and BASE Milano.

June Kitho
June Kitho works at the intersection of biology and art. Preservation, transience, and decay are often reflected in her sculptures. She lives and works in Vienna.

Reinhard Sprung
Reinhard Sprung is a tinkerer, researcher, and madman based in Vienna.

Offerus Ablinger
Offerus Ablinger's interdisciplinary, process-oriented work explores masculinity, subculture, and their impact on the mainstream. Using painting, performance, installation, and video, he frames his artistic analysis within a transhumanist science fiction context.
Through body extensions, optimizations, modifications, cyborgs, and technology, his paintings deconstruct societal codes, critically examine them, reinterpret them, and explore new bodily boundaries. His sociopolitical works recontextualize concepts such as biopower (Foucault), transhumanist utopias and dystopias, ethics, and gender.

David Kapl
David Kapl (*1992, Linz) is an Austrian artist living and working in Vienna and Bad Leonfelden. He studied Fine Arts and Experimental Design at the University of Art and Design Linz (2017–2023) under Andrea van der Straeten and Anna Jermolaewa. His work merges performance with spatial installations, encouraging interaction and speculation. Through audience participation, his static sculptures transform into dynamic social networks. His art explores the connection between human interaction, pop culture, and nature, often using found or repurposed materials to evoke emotions and sensory experiences.

Lena Reutenauer
Lena Reutenauer is a designer focused on (speculative) design, exploring bodies, perception, and interaction in both private and public spaces. Interested in power structures and their impact, Lena also investigates the private aspects of life, believing the private is political. With a passion for fabric, textile, feminist theory, and fashion, they create wearables that encourage questioning and discussion. Lena sees design as a tool to engage with social issues and spark dialogue beyond conventional knowledge.

José Maria De La Garza Flores
José María de la Garza Flores is an industrial design student from Cuernavaca, Mexico, whose work is shaped by his roots and travels. His designs are a canvas for experimentation, blending functionality with personal expression. Inspired by his Mexican heritage, he incorporates its richness into modern designs through form, texture, and symbolism. For José, design is about making connections, exploring the unknown, and leaving a lasting impact through every project.

Eva-Maria Lainer
Eva-Maria Lainer is an artist and designer whose work explores the power of colors, shapes, and breaking design norms to create transformative art. She believes design can positively impact the world and uses her skills to shape a fairer future. Eva views design as a dynamic field, adapting to changes while aiming to make a positive difference on the planet and its inhabitants.

Isabelle Wallner
She is an artist based in Austria.

Aleksandar Murkovic
Aleksandar Murkovic is an MA student of textile arts, design, and fashion & technology at Linz University of Arts. His work spans fine arts, digital media, critical thinking, unconventional material development, and analog craft. Conceptually, he is interested in topics related to society, everyday experiences, conventional objects, animal ethics, and philosophy. From a material perspective, he enjoys using packaging and glues, as well as experimenting with juxtapositions between the hidden and the obvious.

Cornpop Bright and Squarehead
Cornpop Bright and Squareheart are best friends. They sometimes make films together.
Cornpop Bright is an artist and gardener. In their free time, they create sensual, minimalist films and share them with other perverts. Science fiction is a strong influence on their work.
Squareheart enjoys technical challenges and cats. He works across film, music, and animation. Horny for film grain and narratives, his art dives deep into the dream world and the subconscious.

S4RA
S4RA is a non-binary & genderqueer interdisciplinary artist who draws on con*sensual power dynamics and gender role play through a post-dramatic storytelling hybrid process combining digital animation and ( immersive : ) environments. They also spend endless hours exploring post-capitalism mazes and its influence on libidinal pleasure.

ALMA de Bruixes
ALMA de Bruixes is a nomadic collective of biohacker witches, weaving spells, DIY biology, gynecology, and lubricants for the pleasure of self-sex-exploration. Born from the union of ALMA Futura, which studies and develops tools for radical change in vaginal and gender health, and Bruixes-Lab, a nomadic laboratory of biohacking, sextech, and witchcraft rituals. The starting point is the violence from which gynecology was born: racist, bourgeois, and misogynistic. The goal is pleasure as an anti-colonial, anti-patriarchal, and anti-capitalist claim.

Christian Rupp
Christian Rupp is an Austrian artist and curator whose work spans fine art, digital media, and critical theory. He has exhibited internationally in Europe, the U.S., and beyond, and has curated numerous exhibitions, including Austrillions to Come in Athens and Great Balls of Austria in Greece. Rupp’s work explores themes of identity, media, and the intersection of art and technology. He holds a background in product design from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and has studied at various international institutions.