Students of the Master’s program Communication, Media, Sound & Interaction Design presented their final projects, revealing what emerges when creative disciplines intersect and their boundaries begin to dissolve.
The exhibition invited visitors not only to observe, but to act, to feel, and to become part of the works themselves. Interactive installations, immersive media art, and visual experiments merged into a multi-layered exhibition experience.
Playful, loud, and physically demanding, Bug Slapper exemplified this approach as a VR game where survival depends on fast reactions. With Lightning Punch, physical strength was translated into forces of nature — each punch sent flashes of lightning and rolls of thunder through the space. Taking a more poetic stance, Eye Video Balloons explored perception through projected recordings of eyes on floating balloons, forming a living mosaic that made the fragility of vision tangible.
The Screen Wall connected a wide range of moving-image formats into a continuous visual flow—from animation and motion design to experimental AI film projects. This was complemented by No Theme, Just Posters, a raw and immediate collection of graphic works in which personal signatures, passions, and visual attitudes collided.
With the Rebranding Projects, strategic design came into focus: reimagined brand identities were translated into physical objects, while QR codes offered insights into creative processes and concepts. The exhibition was further expanded on a sonic level through projects such as Image Extender, an AI-based installation that analyzed images and transformed them into atmospheric soundscapes.
All projects from the fields of Communication, Media, Sound & Interaction Design presented in the exhibition can be found on the website www.overlays.at.
OVERLAYS was more than an exhibition—it was a space for exchange, experimentation, and shared experience. A snapshot of emerging design positions that demonstrated courage in interaction, collaboration, and creative overlap.
The exhibition took place from January 23 to January 27, 2026, at the esc medien kunst labor.
