With STWST84x11 FOG MANIFESTO, STWST explores fog as a material, medium, and network. In its showcase extravaganza, Stadtwerkstatt presents disorienting works and foggy continuities between theory and artistic practice.

With MANIFESTO, EXHIBITION, and FOG BOWLING, the building becomes a FOG CUBE. The Stadtwerkstatt invites you to FOGGING AROUND - and to a spectacle of reduced foresight, hallucinatory consciousness, veiled visibility, and unverifiability.

The house thus focuses on its core themes and intentions: Art after new media, new contexts, critical production, increasing contradictions. It is about foundations, continuities, and a deeply flowing imagination as material.

Also in 2025, STWST84x11 will stand for genre-free art and critical production in the institution's anti-white cube. Together with its allies and accomplices, STWST presents exhibition pieces, installations, performances, discourse, theory and transformation, mixing it all up with two nights of Nightline.

STWST84x11 FOG MANIFESTO: FOGGING AROUND.

STWST84x11 FOG MANIFESTO: FLOODING THE ZONE WITH FOG.

STWST84x11 is a showcase extravaganza organized by Stadtwerkstatt in September in cooperation with Ars Electronica. STWST84 is based on the previous STWST48 format, but this year, with its 11th edition, it has been renamed and expanded by extending its duration and referring to the starting point of media art projects at the Stadtwerkstatt to the year 84. International artists and critical producers are invited to participate in all media art formats at STWST. In addition, new art contexts developed in and around STWST are showcased.

All projects of STWST48
All media art projects from 1984 in the STWST Archive.

STWST48 was renamed STWST84 in 2025! With the change in name, the duration of 48 hours has been canceled, the format has been extended to seven days, and the new name STWST84 marks an expanded reference point for Stadtwerkstatt media art projects since 1984. The first media art project of the Stadtwerkstatt took place in 1984, already as a participatory project at Ars Electronica. The year 1984 is also culturally significant.