(No) Connection – Media Artistic Experiments for New Forms of Community is a free, public exhibition of media art created by emerging artists from the Master’s program International Media Cultural Work (IMC) at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences. It brings together participatory installations, sound works, audiovisual environments, and immersive formats – inviting visitors not just to observe, but to listen, move, interact, and respond.
The exhibition understands community as something continuously in the making: temporary, contingent, and shaped through encounter. Rather than offering answers, it opens up questions about what it means to connect – and what forms that connection might take.
Admission is free. An exhibition catalog is available at the museum, and a range of guided tours and family activities accompany the show throughout its run.
(No) Connection – Media Artistic Experiments for New Forms of Community is a major summer exhibition presented by students, graduates, and guests of the Master’s program International Media Cultural Work (IMC) at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences. On view at Museum Schloss Fechenbach in Dieburg from June 11 to July 12, 2026, the exhibition brings together participatory installations, sound works, audiovisual environments, and immersive formats that explore new possibilities for connection and collective experience.
At its core, the exhibition asks visitors to move from observation to participation – to listen, interact, and respond. Community is not represented as something fixed, but as something continuously in the making: incomplete, unstable, and open.
The exhibition is part of a long-standing collaboration between the IMC program at Media Campus Dieburg and Museum Schloss Fechenbach. It is accompanied by an educational program including public guided tours and a digital scavenger hunt for families via the Actionbound app. An exhibition catalog is available in print at the museum.
At the finissage on July 12, the Town of Dieburg will present the Young Talent Award for Media Culture, recognizing outstanding works from the exhibition – with 40% of the vote going to the public.
Media art is a broad field of artistic practice that uses technology as its primary medium – from video, sound, and digital imaging to software, networks, and interactive systems. Rather than simply depicting the world, media artists work with the tools and languages of contemporary technology to question, explore, and reimagine how we communicate, perceive, and relate to one another. Media art often blurs the boundary between artist and audience: many works are participatory or generative, meaning they only fully come to life through the presence and engagement of the viewer. As technology continues to shape everyday experience, media art offers a space to reflect critically and creatively on the world we inhabit together.
