PLATFORM
FOR
IMMERSIVE
ART

Connecting
Artists, Researchers
and Producers

sound:frame operates at the intersection of art, technology, and science, and is grounded in an interdisciplinary network of artists, researchers, institutions, and producers.
It gained international recognition as a European festival for audiovisual and immersive expressions, significantly contributing to Vienna’s emergence as a key hub for audiovisual art and media-based research.
Since its inception in 2007, sound:frame has established and continuously expanded a global network of artists and experts working across audiovisual art, immersive media, digital technologies, and transdisciplinary research.
 
Since 2017, sound:frame has operated as an internationally networked platform for artistic research, art&technology and immersive art.
sound:frame develops and realizes exhibitions, events, and festival programs, as well as individually commissioned artworks and discursive formats.
In addition, sound:frame works across roles as consultant, curator, and organizer, fostering dialogue and collaboration between art, technology, and science.
 
In 2021, the platform launched a new festival format: Civa – Contemporary Immersive Virtual Art.
Since its inception, Civa has been dedicated to strengthening the potential of artistic practices in dialogue with science, technology, and global society.
The Civa media art festival highlights the interplay between contemporary technologies, realities, and experiences across digital, physical, and hybrid spaces.

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Immersive Art

Laboratory for the Advancement
of Interdisciplinary Artistic
and Cultural Projects

Network

We value our strong community and thrive on collaboration within our far-reaching international network.
Together with partners around the world, we create platforms and stages for artistic research and interdisciplinary projects, fostering exchange across artistic, technological, and scientific fields.

 

IMMERSIVE ART

sound:frame and Civa highlight current developments in art, technology, and media, presenting interdisciplinary and immersive works across exhibitions, live environments, and discursive formats.
We are particularly interested in innovative approaches to audiovisual live performances, artistic practices involving AI and machine learning, quantum science and technologies, XR and virtual production, as well as stage, display, and experience design.

 

INTERDISCIPLINARY COPRODUCTIONS

Together with a wide range of international partner institutions, we invite artists and researchers from diverse core disciplines to collaborate and realize new interdisciplinary works.
Through regular commissions, we create lab-based environments that function as experimental breeding grounds for emerging artistic practices, research-driven approaches, and critical discourse.

 

  1. CALENDAR 2014

    1. March

      1. 25.03–13.03.2017
        sound:frame Festival A Matter of...

  2. CALENDAR 2015

    1. April

      1. 09.04–17.04.2017
        sound:frame Festival LIVE

  3. CALENDAR 2016

    1. April

      1. 15.04–23.04.2017
        sound:frame Festival Ten

  4. CALENDAR 2017

    1. February

      1. 23.02.2017
        sound:frame RELAUNCH in Kooperation mit brut

    2. March

      1. 28.03. – 02.04.2017
        Diagonale x sound:frame #DurchDieNacht Haus der Architektur

    3. May

      1. 24.05.2017
        Wirtschaftsagentur Wien x sound:frame “departure Lab” 1 – VR | Virtual Reality
      2. 28.04. – 06.05.2017
        donaufestival x sound:frame Gerald Moser. turning and falling

    4. June

      1. 35.06. bis 25.06.2017
        EUTOPIA DJ/VJ stage – Donauinselfest

    5. July

      1. 13.07.2017, 18:30
        Evy Jokhova. The Shape of Ritual. co-produced by sound:frame

    6. August

      1. 29.08.2017
        Kino wie noch nie x sound:frame – RAD PERFORMANCE

    7. September

      1. 28. – 29.09.2017
        OK Offenes Kulturhaus Linz x sound:frame

    8. October

      1. 03.10.2017 – 28.01.2018
        ANALOG_DIGITAL. Media (Ex)changes. Ausstellung | Metrokino Kulturhaus
      2. 06.10.–07.10.2017
        Performing Sound Festival und Symposium

    9. November

      1. 22.11.2017
        Wirtschaftsagentur Wien x sound:frame “departure Lab” 2 – VR | Virtual Reality

    10. December

      1. 01.12.2017, 22:00
        UTOPIA 3000 x sound:frame

  5. CALENDAR 2018

    1. January

      1. 19.01.2018, 13:00
        Breakfast Club im METRO Kinokulturhaus: Digital ist besser?
      2. 19.01.2018, 17:00
        FINISSAGE – Analog_Digital. Media (ex)changes METRO Kinokulturhaus

    2. February

      1. 28.02.2018, 21:30
        Elevate Festival – DEPART "The Lacuna Shifts" – in Kooperation mit sound:frame und der Diagonale

    3. March

      1. 02.03.2018, 20:15
        Elevate Festival – DEPART "The Lacuna Shifts" – in Kooperation mit sound:frame und der Diagonale
      2. 14.03. - 17.03.2018
        Diagonale x sound:frame #DurchDieNacht
      3. 15.03.2018, 11:00–17:00
        Diagonale x sound:frame VR-Schwerpunkt’18
      4. 16.03.2018, 11:00–17:00
        Diagonale x sound:frame VR-Schwerpunkt’18
      5. 17.03.2018, 23:00
        Diagonale x sound:frame Awards Party | CID RIM – live
      6. 30.03.2018
        PARADISE LOST LIVE A/V - China Tour Shanghai /M50 Undefine
      7. 31.03.2018
        PARADISE LOST LIVE A/V - China Tour Hangzhou /Loopy

    4. April

      1. 03.04.2018
        PARADISE LOST LIVE A/V - China Tour Beijing /Yue Space
      2. 08.04.2018
        PARADISE LOST LIVE A/V - China Tour Chengdu /Nuspace
      3. 12. und 13.4.2018
        ELECTRIC SPRING Visuals in Kooperation mit sound:frame

    5. June

      1. 08.06.2018
        Mourad Merzouki . Pixel . Festspielhaus St- Pölten . mit einer Einführung von Eva Fischer
      2. 15. – 16.06.2018
        springfestival Graz – Live Visuals hosted by sound:frame
      3. 22. – 24.06.2018
        EUTOPIA DJ/VJ-INSEL am Donauinselfest – Live Visuals hosted by sound:frame
      4. Deadline: 22.06.2018
        OPEN CALL – departure Challenge: Vienna goes TodaysArt Festival / Den Haag
      5. 22. – 23.06.2018
        WOW! SIGNAL FESTIVAL – METRO Kinokulturhaus – in Kooperation mit sound:frame

    6. September

      1. 03.09.2018, 18:30
        VRVienna meetup 'Game on! – The contribution of VR to video games and game-like experiences'
      2. 22.09.2018, 16:00
        Österreichische Botschaft Den Haag: TodaysArt Festival x sound:frame x Wirtschaftsagentur Wien – Panel Discussion VR
      3. 21.09. – 23.09.2018
        TodaysArt 2018 – Festival for Art, Music & Technology: commissioned VR artworks presented by TodaysArt Festival x Wirtschaftsagentur Wien x sound:frame
      4. 28.09. – 07.10.2018
        Vienna Design Week

    7. October

      1. 04.10.2018, 19:30
        sound:frame x VRVienna meetup @ Vienna Design Week – 'XR zwischen Ausstellungsraum und Virtualität'

  6. CALENDAR 2019

    1. March

      1. 21.03.2019, 10:00 - 19:00
        sound:frame x Diagonale @ designforum Steiermark. VR Schwerpunkt | VR Screening (10:00 - 19:00) und VR Brunch (11:00)
      2. 22.03.2019, 10:00 - 19:00
        sound:frame x Diagonale @ designforum Steiermark. VR Schwerpunkt | VR Screening und Conference (10:00 - 19:00)

    2. April

      1. 15. - 16.04.2019
        Electric Spring, Stage Design hosted by sound:frame
      2. 30.04.2019
        ★★★ CROSSING EUROPE Nightline 6 ★★★ Ebow ★★★ sound:frame girlstars

    3. May

      1. 16.05.2019, 17:00
        ?????? ?????? – a program of panel discussion, reading, performance, art exhibitions, artist talk and music act investigating the connection between communication and art in and around Reindorfgasse – in the up-and-coming 15. district of Vienna.
      2. 22.05.2019, 19:00
        Sehsaal, Gerald Moser »a matter of perpetual qualities«
      3. 29.05.2019, 11:00 - 18:00
        »Virtual Reality Check« – sound:frame + VIS + XR Vienna + MAK

    4. June

      1. 13.06.2019, 9:30 – 22:00
        Creative Days Vienna – Day 1 – Talks, Labs and Tours
      2. 14.06.2019, 9:30 – 17:15
        Creative Days Vienna – Day 2 – Talks, Networking Sessions and Tours
      3. 19.06.– 26.06.2019
        Kunsthaus Graz x sound:frame x springfestival Graz: "Ornament", Zalán Szakács, mit Sound von Stefan Fraunberger

    5. August

      1. 23.08. - 25.08.2019
        Jazzfestival Saalfelden – Park Tracks – hosted by sound:frame – DJ Line um Stadtpark

    6. November

      1. 13.11.2019
        Deadline Call – Departure Challenge: How immersive stories transform (us).

  7. CALENDAR 2020

    1. January

      1. 09. – 10.01.2020
        Belvedere Research Center, "Das Kunstmuseum im digitalen Zeitalter – 2020" – Internationale Konferenz – Keynote Eva Fischer
      2. 15. – 17.01.2020
        NAVIGATING THE POSTDIGITAL – AIL x sound:frame Conference & Exhibition

    2. September

      1. 09.09.2020, 18:00 CET
        Area for Virtual Art – MEET THE TEAM – join us in our mozilla hub space and have a chat with us
      2. 09.09.2020, 11:00 CET
        Area for Virtual Art – Virtual exhibition tour @ Ars Electronica Festival "In Kepler's Gardens"
      3. 09.09.2020, 09:00 CET
        Area for Virtual Art. A place for immersive experiences and get-togethers – LAUNCH
      4. 10.09.2020, 11:00 CET
        Area for Virtual Art – MEET THE TEAM – join us in our mozilla hub space and have a chat with us
      5. 10.09.2020, 18:00 CET
        Area for Virtual Art – MEET THE TEAM – join us in our mozilla hub space and have a chat with us
      6. 11.09.2020, 11:00 CET
        Area for Virtual Art – MEET THE TEAM – join us in our mozilla hub space and have a chat with us
      7. 11.09.2020, 18:00 CET
        Area for Virtual Art – MEET THE TEAM – join us in our mozilla hub space and have a chat with us
      8. 12.09.2020, 20:00 CET
        Area for Virtual Art x FM4 – Dalia’s Late Night Lemonade – Radio Show in VR
      9. 25.09. – 01.10.2020
        Area for Virtual Art x VIENNA DESIGN WEEK – Virtual Festival Headquarters + Exhibition
      10. 30.09.2020, 18:00 CET
        Area for Virtual Art x VIENNA DESIGN WEEK – Conference

  8. CALENDAR 2021

    1. January

      1. 14.01.2021. 16:00 CET
        Pixel, Bytes + Film – Virtuelle Präsentation

    2. February

      1. 19.02. – 27.02.2021
        CIVA Festival – Contemporary Immersive Virtual Art

    3. April

      1. 22.04.2021 – 19:30
        CIVA x V2_Test_Lab: Social Distancing - Virtual Bonding

    4. May

      1. 05. – 06.05.2021
        Creative Days Vienna x sound:frame

    5. July

      1. 09.07.2021 – ab 14:00
        SUMMERFESTIVAL. Ausstellung, Diskurs, Live Performances und DJ Line im Park / Wild im WEST

    6. September

      1. 23.09. – 24.09.2021
        Rotting Sounds Symposium – mdw Future Art Lab – Discourse, Live Performances

    7. October

      1. 01.10. – 20.10.2021
        PLEASE VOTE FOR US! sound:frame METAVERSE – Creatives for Vienna (Vienna Business Agency) – future communities

  9. CALENDAR 2022

    1. February

      1. 18.02. – 26.02.2022
        CIVA Festival 2022. 'Embodied Structures' @ Belvedere21, Stadtkino Wien, Volkstheater and online

    2. June

      1. 01.06. – 02.06.2022
        Creative Days Vienna – part of ViennaUP'22
      2. 02.06.2022
        CIVA Tour – Creative Days Vienna – part of ViennaUP'22

    3. November

      1. 25.11.2022, 9:45 - 13:00
        Online Session: Culture & Technology. New ways of staging – with Space Popular and Susanne Kennedy

  10. CALENDAR 2023

    1. February

      1. 17.02.2023 - 26.02.2023
        Civa festival 2023 – 'Tangible Care' Belvedere 21

  11. CALENDAR 2024

    1. June

      1. 06.06.2024, 13:00 - 18:00
        Creative Days Vienna 2024 Civa festival kick off – Keynote, Talks, Screening Belvedere 21

    2. October

      1. 01.10. - 05.10.2024
        Civa festival 2024 Belvedere 21

  12. CALENDAR 2025

    1. October

      1. 02.10.2025 – 01.02.2026
        Civa 2025 – |indeterminate⟩⟨apparatus| Belvedere 21

    2. NO OPEN CALL AT THE MOMENTNO OPEN CALL AT THE MOMENT

 

Civa 2025 – |indeterminate⟩⟨apparatus|

Research

TEXTS AND ARTICLES ON
IMMERSIVE ART,
POST-DIGITAL TENDENCIES
AND ART & TECHNOLOGY

discourse

 
 
With its expertise in audiovisual art, art&technology and artistic research, sound:frame curates, hosts, and produces artistic and discursive formats.
In collaboration with international partners, we aim to foster interdisciplinary exchange and actively advance artistic research at the intersection of art, technology, and science.
 

outlook

Digital Transformation

We believe that art is a vital force in accompanying, questioning, and shaping emerging technologies.
Artistic practice plays a crucial role in guiding digital transformation toward directions that benefit society, foster critical reflection, and generate positive impact for our shared future.
 
 

Immersive art
as a way of looking at the world

Together with artists, experts, scientists, and institutions, we engage in critical dialogue on emerging futures, technological transformations, and their societal implications.
A strong focus on artistic approaches and strategies lies at the core of our work. Through continuous exchange and collaborative experimentation we address structural, conceptual, aesthetic, and social questions.

artistic research

 

TOPICS

  • Post Digital Art

Art & Technology

Screens as Immaterial Spaces

Digital Humanism

AIL x SOUND:FRAME Konferenz 2020

Immersive Art

REVIEW Exhibition

Screens as Immaterial Spaces

EXHIBITION TOUR – AIL

Post Digital Art

REVIEW Exhibition

REVIEW Konferenz

AIL x SOUND:FRAME Konferenz 2020
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Festivals

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Civa

The Civa media art festival highlights the interplay between contemporary technologies, realities, and experiences across digital, physical, and hybrid spaces.
Civa is co-organized and continually developed by Belvedere 21 and sound:frame.

 
 
SOUND:FRAME

The sound:frame "Festival for audiovisual expressions" was initiated in 2007 and has been pursuing its aim of presenting and supporting audiovisual art and making it visible ever since. For ten years, sound:frame has been showing current trends in audiovisual art and culture, has invited a total of more than 650 international and national visualists, media artists, musicians, and theoreticians from more than 25 countries to Vienna and had more than 65,000 visitors. Each year, a large exhibition, several live events and a comprehensive program of workshops, screenings, and conferences have been devoted to different thematic focuses such as “LIVE,” “Collective,” or “A matter of …”

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Team

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Eva Fischer
Board: Artistic Director

Angie Pohl
Board: Vice Director, Curator

Martina Menegon
Board: Curator

Matthias K. Heschl
Board: Press

Flo Pamsteiner
Board: Finances

Katharina Wiesler
Board: Press
 

  • Civa Team

    • Agathe Lemaitre
    • Alicia Panholzer
    • Angie Pohl
    • Ayo Aloba
    • Barbara Gielesberger
    • Benjamin Typplt
    • Djamila Grandits
    • Ella Guggenbichler
    • Enrico Zago
    • Eva Fischer
    • Flo Palmsteiner
    • Hanna Radek
    • Janek Janßen
    • Janine Scheer-Erb
    • Julia Reichmayr
    • Julia Wohlgemuth
    • Kai Erenli
    • Katharina Fennesz
    • Katharina Wiesler
    • Klimentina Milenova
    • Laura Welzenbach
    • Maria Rudakova
    • Marija Milovanovic
    • Marijn Bril
    • Marlene Kager
    • Martina Menegon
    • Matthias K. Heschel
    • Maximilian Prag
    • Mena Huber
    • Michael Perl
    • Paolo Schmidt
    • Paul Bohunsky
    • Robert Pucher
    • Romana Spitzbart-Kleewein
    • Sebastian Reissmüller
    • Stefanie Schmitt
    • Tonica Hunter
    • Vivian Grabowksi

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