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After a successful start at the Off-ICMC , the Science Slam format is set to enter its second round on December 5, 2026! Under the theme “strg+alt+ligeti,” four members of the center will present their research. The goal: to captivate, inspire, and thrill the audience—all in just ten minutes and with a touch of humor. Who will pull it off best? That’s up to the applause and the audience jury to decide!

The Science Slam in the center’s own Production Lab will round out the second Open House at the ligeti zentrum .

Program

Benjamin Helmer (Artistic Research Lab): Artistic Research @HfMT: Towards Practical Aesthetics

The sciences usually analyze art from the outside, while art is created from within. Artistic Research transcends this either/or dichotomy and fulfills both simultaneously: research is conducted directly through art. The practice itself becomes a method of understanding. This presentation offers insight into Artistic Research and demonstrates what happens when artists suddenly pursue doctoral degrees.

Greg Beller (InnoLab): MusiXSpace: Music in Phygital Space

MusiXSpace is a next-generation music production application that radically transforms the way music is composed, produced, and performed. MusiXSpace transcends the limitations of conventional digital audio workstations (DAWs) and offers a phygital environment in which sound is no longer merely an abstraction on a timeline, but a spatial and physical object that can be manipulated directly in space through the user’s simple movements.

Simon Linke (InnoLab): Sonic Ideals: What We Can Learn from the Bio-Atomic Organ

Since the fatal reactor accident in Chernobyl, Ukraine (1986), German forests and their fungi have also been significantly contaminated with cesium-137. This raises a question: Can we harness the problematic radioactive energy of our local chanterelle population to create novel, pleasurable sounds?

Margo Zālīte (Sustainable Theater Lab): Who Gets to Make Art? Inclusion and Exclusion in Art Education

Art colleges should be bastions of the avant-garde—yet at the same time, they are among the most exclusive institutions in existence. What happens if we view inclusion not as a marginal issue, but as an artistic principle? A report from the ongoing experiment: data, examples, uncomfortable questions—and the question of how AI could be used as a tool for greater inclusion.

Moderator: Kira Herff

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Event Schedule
December 5, 2026, 11:00 a.m.
December 5, 2026, 7:00 p.m.