gold extra / Kronberger & Kronberger
Add Your Spot – Critical Mapping Research
Participatory research on knowledge and urban spaces
The project by the collectives Kronberger & Kronberger and gold extra conducts applied urban research and is the starting point for two projects.
Kronberger & Kronberger are working on ORBYTE, an interactive city map of Salzburg inspired by critical mapping, which collects and visualizes local, personal/non-public, and lost/marginalized knowledge about the city. The map transfers the encyclopedic principle to urban space and questions canonized knowledge bases.
SEEDS by gold extra deals with the social construction of knowledge and participatory mapping. Personal stories and everyday experiences are turned into thematic tours through Salzburg. Together with the cooperation partners of the Artificial Museum, this creates a digital archive and augmented reality interventions in public space.
During the residency, the artists meet, develop intersections and synergies for both projects, and present the (interim) results of their joint research. In a public analog showing—on March 19 at ARGEkultur Salzburg—the process will be opened up and visitors' knowledge of the city will be fed live into the map.
Concept & Realisation gold extra, Kronberger&Kronberger
gold extra is a group of artists working at the intersection of games, digital art, theater, film, and visual arts. They develop new formats in the fields of documentation, art, and technology and are active in artistic research. Their works range from AI installations to games and animations. The constant search for innovative forms of artistic expression is a central task in the artistic work of ‘gold extra’. Presentations and projects include Ars Electronica, ZKM, Nam Jung Paik Center, Annecy Film Festival, Games for Change New York, A.MAZE Berlin, and many more. gold extra has won numerous awards in the categories of animation, media art, games, interdisciplinary cultural work, media education, and youth culture. In 2024 gold extra presented their work ONCE UPON UNSTEADY GROUNDS at DIGITHALIA. www.goldextra.com
gold extra are Reinhold Bidner, Tobias Hammerle, Georg Hobmeier, Sonja Prlić, Sophia Reiterer, Elisabeth Stiebritz, Jana Sturm, Karl Zechenter.
Alexandra Leonie Kronberger and Philippa A. Kronberger are not only loving sisters, but also an unlikely yet symbiotic artistic duo. Kronberger&Kronberger are distinguished above all by their versatile skills and their courage to explore and try out new things. Nothing is impossible. Their work is always interdisciplinary and far removed from conventional norms, reflecting their respective skills. Their particular strength lies in their long-standing collaboration, which began even before they formed their artistic duo, and their close bond as sisters. The duo made their debut in August 2024 with the play GETRÄUMT WIRD IN FETZEN (Dreaming in Shreds). In May 2025, the two sisters realized another project: CIRQUE DE PENSEÉS, an immersive spatial installation that premiered at the Schlachthof Festival Traunsee.
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