EVA FISCHER
Curator. Cultural manager. Lecturer.
Eva Fischer is an independent curator, cultural manager and lecturer in the field of experimental media, immersive art and technology. She has curated and co-produced interdisciplinary exhibitions and performance series focussing on audiovisual and post-digital art, immersive media and XR in institutions such as Belvedere21, MAK Vienna, ACFNY New York, MediaArtLab / Manege Moscow. Since 2021 Eva Fischer has been head of the media art festival Civa - Contemporary Immersive Virtual Art. Since 2023, she has also been COO of the private film training organisation International Screen Institute. In the years before that, from 2007 to 2016, she headed the sound:frame - Festival for Audiovisual Art and founded the agency of the same name, sound:frame. Since 2020 she has been a lecturer at several universities in Austria.
Eva Fischer / © Elodie Grethen
“As a curator in the field of media art, I have always been interested in interfaces and often also in the speculative. For me, one of the greatest strengths of art is that it not only stirs things up and provides impetus, but that it also breaks new ground and thus inspires. Media art in particular often gives rise to interesting designs and utopias that test out possible alternatives and thus seek to scrutinise the status quo.”
Francisco Carolinum Linz 2023
“I find it exciting to keep discussing what responsibility we as humans have towards our environment and how the various disciplines can contribute to development. Art creates a very special space in which we can critically scrutinise what digital technologies and media currently have to achieve in order to create a fairer society and how we ourselves could behave in this regard.”
CIVA 2023, Führung Eva Fischer / © CIVA, Mario Pernkopf
Francisco Carolinum Linz 2023
