Technological artists in Timișoara

The technological consciousness in Timișoara started in the 19th century during European and national industrial premieres, such as the first city with electric street lighting / 1884, the first newspaper / 1771, the first telegraph service / 1854, the first telephone network / 1881, the first cinematographic projections / 1897. In that prolific period, Banat portrait painters began to upgrade their artistic language with the help of photo camera techniques, which were already attested in Europe since 1839.
At the same time, in the post-war period, the intermediate experiments of the Sigma group (1960-70) coincided with the national premiere of the alpha-numerical computer (1967) at the Polytechnic University of Timișoara. The approach of media technology by engineers (proto-computer), but also by artists (analog video camera), has known locally an unprecedented creative dimension, whose roots can be found until the next generations able to use versatile new media (from the pre-digital generation of multimedia editing to digital programming artists).
The Tehnoarte platform challenges artists and specialists from various fields to generate transmedial content (programming intermediates, Machine Learning & AI, etc.) that can be implemented on a city scale (XR interactive-immersive installations), highlighting post-industrial history and heritage, but also at the scale of the telecommunication network (performative-collaborative actions) in order to report the local art at the level of (inter) national phenomena.
The project will include the creation of Artist Rooms for mapping local experiences in the interference between art-science-technology, reporting them to the scale of international media art and offering the public the opportunity to access information from an educational and creative point of view through dedicated digital applications.