HAIP Festival
Venues
Venues are slightly different every year but in general the festival takes place in K6/4 Institute: Cyberpipe, Club K4, Metropol Café and others (e. g. Tovarna Rog).
Program
The first HAIP was in 2004 with 8 local and 10 foreign artists or groups participating. In 2006 the festival director was Borut Kumperščak and the festival presented project Burnstation by Rama Costentino and Platoniq, groups Time’s Up, FunkFeuer and Monochrom, Err0r, musician and producent Luka Prinčič and many others. HAIP 08 hosted over 40 artists on international level in cooperation with Monochrom (Vienna), Radio FRO (Linz), Time’s Up (Linz) and Ciant (Prague). The festival director was Daša Lakner.
HAIP 2010
The last HAIP Festival was in November 2010 when the festival theme was New nature and the artistic and operational leader of the festival was Maja Smrekar. The festival was opened with performative catering by Casa Franko. One of the festival’s highlights was the workshop Hackteria: Make your own laboratory. Hackteria is a collection of Open Source Biological Art Projects. As a community platform, Hackteria tries to encourage scientists, hackers and artists to share their expertise and co-operate. The exhibition was held in Cyberpipe and Metropol café. There were shown projects by Verena Friedrich; Sascha Pohflepp and Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Saša Spačal, Herwig Wieser and Gilberto Esparza who presented Nomadic Plants, a metaphor for the alienation of the human condition and the impact its activity has on nature. There were also lectures by Paul Prudence, Sascha Pohflepp, BridA, Marc R. Dusseiller, Koert van Mensvoort and performances by Evelina Domnitch, Dmitry Gelfand and Marko Batista, Nataša Muševič.
See also
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