LINZ FMR is a biennial festival and format for artistic processes and positions, that reflects the ephemeral nature of our digital and connected present. The ever-advancing digitalization of everyday life implies an intense overlapping and layering of familiar physical, but also finely interwoven digital spaces. LINZ FMR focuses on the shifts, distortions and rifts that arise in this process and presents current artistic positions in this context.

The festival, whose title alludes to ephemerality and short-livedness, presents works whose initial ideas can be found in virtual and/or digital space or have a strong reference to it, but are shown (sometimes in a transformed way) in the physical surroundings of the city of Linz. The focus is primarily on the interstices that arise during these transformations into public space—outside of museums, galleries or art spaces.

LINZ FMR has taken place two times so far. After → FMR 19 along the Danube → FMR 21 transformed the area around Mühlkreisbahnhof into a freely accessible art space. In addition to a major exhibition featuring works by numerous artists from the fields of media art, digital art and internet art, each of the three editions also brought lectures, talks, concerts, performances and guided tours to Linz.

The third edition of LINZ FMR will take place from 6 to 10 June, 2023, in the southern harbor area in Linz.

Responsible for the festival is the association “LINZ FMR—Art in digital contexts and public spaces”. It was founded by the two art and cultural initiatives → qujOchÖ and → servus.at, → Atelierhaus Salzamt of the city of Linz, → University of Arts Linz and → Sturm und Drang Galerie. Their representatives have been involved in the conception, organization and curation of the festival since its first edition in March 2019.

LINZ FMR is supported by the City of Linz as UNESCO City of Media Arts, the State of Upper Austria and the Federal Ministry of Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport, as well as numerous organizations and companies, including the main sponsors of the FMR 23, LINZ AG and Werbering.