Creative Future Lab

Xinyu Ma is invited by this year’s curatorial team, CMA faculty Clea von Chamier Waite (lead), Ingeborg Reichle, and James She, to exhibit in September 2026 at the Ars Electronica Campus Exhibition in Linz, Austria. The Ars Electronica festival is an internationally distinguished media arts festival—a platform known worldwide for linking art and technology since its founding in 1979.

CMA exhibition Reality Flux: Sensing the Unseen will showcase artworks by six CMA students in Linz, Austria for the third time in a row. The show will frame the invisible not as hidden but as structurally inaccessible and will invite audiences to inhabit next-gen existence, where uncertainty is a fixed state shaped by present pressures of ecological impacts, shifting conditions of embodiment, and the mechanization of the State—where the unseen becomes fractionally accessible only via interaction, translation, and entanglement. As technology and culture oscillate in continual co-formation, the artworks in Reality Flux reject representation as an endpoint. These works exist in a dynamic state where agency is shared, shifting among bodies, machines, and matter. Authorship is complicated as an emergent, posthuman process. Interactive systems, embodied interfaces, and algorithmic processes will manifest the unseen through continuous translation. Each art project will operate as an open work—fields of possibility resisting closure.

Six CMA students as well as Assistant Professor Nicolò Merendino will be invited to put their current art production on display, including: Zoe Qijing Li, Jue Wang, Tiancheng Liu & Nicolò Merendino, Hao Li, Yufan Li & Qing Yang, as well as Xinyu Ma.

The curatorial team of the Ars Electronica Campus Exhibition 2026 consists of three CMA faculty members, including Clea von Chamier Waite (lead), Ingeborg Reichle, and James She.