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FAiR 2026

Law, Technology and Humans Journal


HUMAN OVERS[A]IGHT:
THE OPS ROOM

Aarhus 25 / Paper

VINCI 25 / Paper
VINCI 25 / Art Track

OIC Masterclass
re:publica / Panel
STS Hub / Panel


Teaching
Fundamentals of Innovation

Interdisciplinary Projects I

Evolution of Disruptive Technologies


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Metaverse Lab


Linz Institute for Transformative Change [LIFT_C]
Johannes Kepler University Linz

LIT Open Innovation Center
Altenberger Straße 69
4040 Linz


Metaverse Lab is a research group at the Johannes Kepler University Linz. This is an online portfolio and an archive of research projects, conferences, papers and teaching that is developed at the Metaverse Lab up-to-date.

The digital space, along with its interfaces to the analog world, can be understood as the "Metaverse"—a space beyond ("meta") the (physical) universe ("universe"). Social media, AI-driven chatbots, and cryptocurrencies are current manifestations of the Metaverse. In this space, there are no (state) borders, meaning that state sovereignty, with its power to enact laws, can only be exercised in a very limited way. In practice, sovereignty primarily lies with the tech giants of Silicon Valley, which has significant consequences for the rule of law and its liberal democratic order. Led by Professor Meinhard Lukas, the goal of the Metaverse Lab is to explore the transformation within and through the Metaverse using a radical, root-focused, interdisciplinary approach.
 

TEAM


Univ.- Prof. Dr. Meinhard Lukas / head of the lab
Dr. Joaquín Santuber / research group lead
Kristina Tica MA MA / university assistant
Mariana Costa Morais MSc BSc / university assistant

Further Links:
metaverselab [at] jku.at
jku.at 



NEWS



19 July 2026
CONFERENCE PRESENTATION
Kristina Tica presenting Art Paper "From Computer Vision to the Vision of Law: Human Overs[a]ight" at SIGGRAPH 2026, Los Angeles, CA. Tica, K., Santuber, J. 2026.
https://s2026.conference-schedule.org/presentation/?id=artpl_233&sess=sess232

29 June 2026
ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN ACM DIGITAL LIBRARY
From Computer Vision to the Vision of Law: Human Overs[a]ight. Tica, K., Santuber, J. 2026. Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, Vol. 9, No. 3, Article 37, pp. 1–10.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3816088

25 June 2026
BOOK PUBLISHED
The Socio-Politics of Legal Design and its Epistemic Consequences. Edited by Siddharth Peter de Souza and Joaquín Santuber. Oñati International Series in Law and Society, Bloomsbury.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/sociopolitics-of-legal-design-and-its-epistemic-consequences-9781509990085/
 

26 March 2026  AI Cafe #3: Your Machines, Their Rules? – Legality, Rights, and Accountability in Algorithmic Society // with Kristina Tica, Raphael Albert & Joaquín Santuberservus x theater phoenix / stadtwerkstatt | 18:00-19:30

15 March 2026
Article published in Law, Technology and Humans Journal
Dis/ordering AI–Human Oversight: Materialities, Aesthetics and Contestability. 2026. J. Santuber, M. Morais, K. Tica.
https://doi.org/10.5204/lthj.4170 

4 March 2026 BOOK LAUNCH
Mariana Morais had launched as co-writer and co-editor the book “Legal Design > Visual Law: a prática do Design Jurídico” in Brazil.

March 2026
VISITING PROFESSORSHIP
Joaquin Santuber has been appointed Visiting Professor at the School of Design of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
14 February 2026
CONFERENCE PRESENTATION
Reading the EU AI Act as a Cultural Artefact
Joaquín Santuber, 2026, presented at  the 9th International Conference “Legal Perspectives on the Internet” (COPEJI 9.0), hosted by the  Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Romania.
13 February 2026
GUEST LECTURE
Law, Design, and Transformative Change
Joaquín Santuber, 2026, at the Go Digital with Law Winter School, hosted by the  Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Romania.
https://www.jku.at/ec2u/news-events/news/detail/news/gemeinsam-eine-digitale-zukunft-gestalten-highlights-der-ec2u-winter-school-in-iasi/ 


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ARCHIVE



19 December 2025
RESEARCH ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN ACM DIGITAL LIBRARY
Visualizing AI Operations for Human Oversight: The Ops Room.
Joaquin Santuber and Kristina Tica. 2025.
In Proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI '25).
Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 39, 1–5.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3769534.3769580

HUMAN OVERS[A]IGHT: THE OPS ROOM. [Art Track]
Joaquin Santuber and Kristina Tica. 2025.
In Proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI '25).
Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 75, 1–3.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3769534.3769583

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15 December 2025
OIC MASTERCLASS #2: CREATIVE PRACTICES AS KNOWLEDGE GENERATION
JOAQUÍN SANTUBER AND KRISTINA TICA
/ BLOG POST

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01-03 December 2025VINCI 2025 Conference, Linz
Visualizing AI operations for Human Oversight: The Ops Room (short paper) /
Human Overs[a]ight: the Ops Room (art track)
Joaquín Santuber and Kristina Tica

–27 November 2025 OIC MASTERCLASS #2: CREATIVE PRACTICES AS KNOWLEDGE GENERATION
JOAQUÍN SANTUBER AND KRISTINA TICA
LIT OPEN INOVATION CENTER  JKU
 LIT Open Innovation Center 
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14-16 October 2025X Coimbra International Conference on Human Rights (CIDHCoimbra 2025)
Paper presentation: How user-centered design drives neoliberal logic in public institutions.
Mariana Costa Morais


September 2025  PANEL Legal Design Summit 2026, Helsinki
Opening Up Possibilities for Legal Design,
Joaquín Santuber

–03-07 September 2025 EXHIBITION
HUMAN OVERS[A]IGHT: THE OPS ROOM at the Ars Electronica Festival Kristina Tica & Joaquín Santuber, 2025

18 August 2025
RESEARCH ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN ACM DIGITAL LIBRARY:
COMPUTING HUMAN OVERS[A]IGHT:LAW/APPARATUS\VISION/AGENCY / 
Proceedings of the sixth decennial Aarhus Conference: Computing (X) Crisis

19-22 August 2025COMPUTING HUMAN OVERS[A]IGHT:LAW/APPARATUS\VISION/AGENCY
research paper 
presented at The sixth decennial Aarhus Conference: Computing (X) Crisis




KRISTINA TICA



Interdisciplinary artist and researcher, with most recent practice centred on the artistic and theoretical exploration of the aesthetics and ethics of machine learning applications in visual computational processes. Tracing the impact of emergent technologies in popular culture under critical theory and philosophy in media and arts, her work spans various disciplines - from visual arts to coding, writing, and music.

Currently pursuing her practical and theoretical PhD research at the intersection of critical AI, computational image and its aesth-ethics, media theory and law, between the Department of Media Theory at the University of Applied Arts (die Angewandte) Vienna and the Metaverse Lab [LIFT_C] at the Johannes Kepler University Linz. Formerly a Lecturer in Feminist Hacking Strategies, MA Postdigital Lutherie at Tangible Music Lab, Kunstuniversität Linz.

Exhibited at festivals such as Ars Electronica, Speculum Artium, ESOF Trieste, and The Wrong. Since 2024, collaborating with Obi Blanche as a duo, DJ-ing and performing in Obi Blanche & B.O.B, as a vocalist and bass player [BRAKE], and being a co-author of the postdigitalpunk research and music project. Works recently published in ACM Journals, Leonardo Journal (Vol. 57), and The Practice of Art and AI by Hatje Cantz.
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postdigitalpunk.cargo.site

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EDUCATION

2025-29 PhD Candidate, University of Applied Arts Vienna (Media Theory Dept.) & JKU Linz (Metaverse Lab [LIFT_C])
2020-23 MA Interface Cultures, Institute for Media, Kunstuniversität Linz
2017-20  MA Digital Arts, Faculty of Media and Communications, Singidunum University Belgrade
2013-17  BFA Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Arts Belgrade

2017  Summer Programme: The Expanded Field of Drawing, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London
2016  Study Abroad Programme: Contemporary Fine Art Practice, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London

EMPLOYMENT

2025-29 Research/University Assistant / Metaverse Lab, Linz Institute for Transformative Change [LIFT_C], JKU Linz
2023   Project Coordinator | Exhibition Producer / communale oö, Landes-Kultur OÖ, Linz/Peuerbach
2022   Project Manager / Ars Electronica Festival, Linz
2019-22  Gallery Assistant / Eugster || Belgrade, Belgrade
2016-17 Art Director / Hadži atelier-bar-gallery, Belgrade

ACADEMIC TEACHING / WORKSHOPS

SS25/26 Lecturer: Evolution of Disruptive Technologies / BA ArtxScience Transformation Studies, Johannes Kepler University Linz & University of Applied Arts Vienna

WS25/26 Assistant Lecturer: Fundamentals of Organization and Innovation for transformation /
BA ArtxScience Transformation Studies, Johannes Kepler University Linz & University of Applied Arts Vienna

SS24/25 Guest Workshop/Lecture: Computational Aesth-ethics / BSc. Creative Computing/MSc. Creative Technologies, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton

WS24/25 Lecturer: Feminist Hacking Strategies / MA Postdigital Lutherie, Tangible Music Lab, Kunstuniversität Linz

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020  Digital Prayer, Remont Gallery, Belgrade
2019  Cabaret Mystique, Le Studio Theatre, Belgrade

FESTIVALS

2025  HUMAN OVERS[A]IGHT:THE OPS ROOM. Ars Electronica Festival, Linz

2024  aiamanai:loops. Speculum Artium, New Media Festival, DDT, Trbovlje

2022  PROMPT:WAR STORIES. Crossing the Bridge: Interface Cultures. Ars Electronica Festival, Linz
2022  PROMPT:WAR STORIES. Speculum Artium, New Media Festival / Digital Big Screen. DDT, Trbovlje
2022  PROSTHETIC #3: ZERO AGENCY, The Wrong, curated by Darko Vukić

2021  POWER STRANGERS. [w/Barbara Jazbec]. Speculum Artium, New Media Festival. DDT, Trbovlje
2021   FUTUREFALSEPOSITIVE. Interface Cult: Interface Cultures. Ars Electronica Festival, Linz

2020   DIGITAL PRAYER. Speculum Artium, New Media Festival. DDT, Trbovlje
2020   DIGITAL PRAYER. Ars Electronica Garden Belgrade, In Kepler’s Gardens, Ars Electronica Festival, online + Linz
2020   DIGITAL PRAYER. Both Ways, EuroScience Open Forum, Trieste, curated by Maja Ćirić and Dobrivoje Lale Erić

2019   The Wrong, Prosthetic Pavilion Vol. 2, online + Remont Gallery, Belgrade, curated by Darko Vukić
2019   DIGITAL PRAYER. Festival S.U.T.R.A., Museum of Science and Technology, Belgrade, curated by Ivan Stanić
2018   DOWN. 5th Mr Vorky International One-Minute Film Festival, Ruma
2017   The Wrong, Prosthetic Pavilion,  online, curated by Darko Vukić

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025   Occulture Conference Exhibition, Mahalla, Berlin
2024   entangled homes, FIFTITU%, Galerie WHA, Linz
2023   ARCADIA, group show, Queer Museum Vienna, curated by Ana Simona Zelenović
2023   Im Auge der Infodemie (In the Eyes of the Infodemic), SPLACE, Linz, curated by Simone Barlian and Fina Esslinger

2022  Remix Culture: Interface Cultures@the AI&ART pavilion for Esch 2022, Belval / Esch zur Alzette
2022  DWHX x IC : online studios | Rup†ure!, Das Weisse Haus, Vienna, online program
2022   refinerymonastery: 20th Pančevo Biennial, Pančevo, curated by Maja Ćirić
2022  An[Other] Creativity in AI, Wavelab, University of Theatre and Music, Munich, curated by Christl Baur
2022  Poetics of Obsolescence, Atelierhaus Salzamt, Linz, curated by Indiara Di Benedetto and Gebhard Sengmüller
2022  New ULUS Members Exhibition, Cvijeta Zuzoric Art Pavillion, Belgrade

2021  Things To Come, KC Dorcol, Belgrade, curated by Brajan Vojinović
2021  Entanglements, U10 Art Space, Belgrade
2021  Trijenale male platike i crteža, ULUS, Umetnički paviljon Cvijeta Zuzorić, Belgrade, curated by Kristina Sedlarević

2020  Sankt Interface, Interface Cultures, Kunstuniversität Linz, Linz
2020  Art+Science Lab, Magacin u Kraljevića Marka, Belgrade, curated by Maja Ćirić and Dobrivoje Lale Erić

2019  Phenomenon of Participation in Art, Remont Gallery, Belgrade, curated by Kristina Sedlarević
2014-19  Interventions 3 - 15, Magacin u Kraljevića Marka 4, Belgrade

2018  Bye, photography!, ARTGET Gallery, Belgrade Cultural Centre
2018  Department of Digital Arts Exhibition, Kvaka 22 [Catch 22], Belgrade
2018  [DE]Construction, Kvaka 22 [Catch 22] Gallery, Belgrade

2017  Lithography workshop’s 10th anniversary, Gallery of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Belgrade
2017  Drawings Exhibition, Cvijeta Zuzorić Art Pavilion, Belgrade
2017  The Expanded Field of Drawing Course Exhibition, Slade School of Fine Art, London
2017  3rd International Print Triennial, Instytut Sztuki, Cieszyn

AWARDS

2020  art+science AI Lab National Selection Award, Center for the Promotion of Science, Belgrade
2018  Best Student’s Project for MA Digital Arts, Faculty of Media and Communications, Belgrade
2018  Best Serbian Film, 5th Mr Vorky International One-Minute Film Festival, Ruma
2014  Best Student’s Drawing of The Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Arts, Belgrade

PUBLISHED TEXTS

2025  Visualizing AI operations for Human Oversight: The Ops Room. Santuber, Joaquin and Tica, Kristina. ACM Journal Publication. VINCI 2025. In Proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction, Linz. December 2025.  https://doi.org/10.1145/3769534.3769580. 
2025  COMPUTING HUMAN OVERS[A]IGHT: LAW/APPARATUSVISION/AGENCY. 2025. Kristina Tica and Joaquín Santuber. In Proceedings of the sixth decennial Aarhus conference: Computing X Crisis (AAR '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 244–251. https://doi.org/10.1145/3744169.3744187.
2025   Kristina Tica. 2025. Interview. [O]GLED. Anica Tucakov. https://ogled.org/intervjui/kristina-tica/

2024   “Computational Aesth-ethics (Thesis Abstract)”. Top-Rated LGA Abstracts 2023. Leonardo 540–546. Leonardo 2024. https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_02565.
2023   Queertopia by Ana Simona Zelenovic. Fräulein Magazin, “Fantasy”, ISSUE #36. Berlin
2023   Leonardo Graduate Abstracts Service 2023 / Computational Aesth-ethics: Understanding visual computation processes between the image and its context [abstract]
2023   Computational Aisthēsis: The Ideology of Prediction in Algorithmic Text-to-Image Processing Models. Kristina Tica. In Proceedings of xCoAx 2023, Weimar. https://doi.org/10.34626/xcoax.2023.11th.72.
2023   Computational Aesth-ethics: Understanding visual computation processes between the image and its context [full thesis]. Kristina Tica. https://doi.org/10.57697/8wk2-b258.
2022   06 International Conference of Photography and Theory, Expanded Visualities: Photography and Emerging Technologies [abstract]
2021   The Practice of Art and AI, Ars Electronica, Hatje Cantz (p.113)
2020   Fantazija o kiborgu?, Tag Net Magazine [srb] / Cyborg Fantasy?, Tag Net Magazine [eng]

CONFERENCES / PANELS

2025  18th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI 2025), Linz
2025  Creative Practices as Knowledge Generation [w/ Joaquín Santuber], Open Innovation Center, JKU Linz | masterclass
2025  The sixth decennial Aarhus Conference: Computation X Crisis  | paper presenter
2025   re:publica 2025: Generation XYZ, STATION Berlin | panel presenter
2025   STS Hub 2025: Diffracting the Critical, Humboldt University Berlin | panel presenter
2024   pecha kucha, 20 years of Interface Cultures, Ars Electronica Festival | presenter
2023   xCoAx 2023, 11th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X, Weimar | paper presenter
2022  06 International Conference of Photography and Theory (ICPT), Expanded Visualities: Photography and Emerging Technologies,  Nicosia | paper presenter
2022  Social Marginalisation and Machine Learning: Defying the Labels of the Machinic Gaze, Autograph ABP Gallery, London + online | keynote presenter
2022  Digital Day 2022 Conference: The end of the world as we know it, Belgrade | panel moderator
2022  Artificial Creativity, Wavelab: University of Music and Theater Munich, | guest presenter
2022  ART IN STEAM Conference 2022, Johannes Kepler Universität + online, Linz | keynote presenter
2021  Follow the Current, panel discussion, Ars Electronica, Belgrade Garden | moderator, organiser

MEDIA: TALKS / INTERVIEWS / VIDEO

2025  [O]GLED: Kristina Tica: Interview
2024  Feminist Approaches to AI [52 Radiominuten. Jerneja Zavec.] FIFTITU% / Radio FRO. 23/12/2024
2022  DORFTV, Crossing the Bridge: Interface Cultures @Ars Electronica Festival
2022  ARA: Bistro, Luxembourg | exhibition introduction, 28/06/2022
2022  Kulturni Centar, RTS2 11/05/2022 [10’ 15” rs]
2021  FUTUREFALSEPOSITIVE, short interview, Interface Cultures @ Ars Electronica Festival
2020  Inside Festival: Serbia, Helsingør: From AI Lab to Collective Memories and Garden of Digital Prayers
2020  Artist Talk - Ars Electronica / In Kepler’s Gardens / Youtube
2020  Kulturni Dnevnik RTS 01/09/2020 [rs]
2020  Radio Beograd 2 emisija Digitalne Ikone 25/08/2020 [40’ rs]
2020  radio elementi: RadioAparat 28/06/2020 [rs]
2020  online razgovor o izložbi Digital Prayer u galeriji Remont 03/07/2020 [rs]

WORKS IN PUBLIC SPACE

2017   Mural Chess game, Market Road Gallery, London

ARTISTIC WORKSHOPS AND OTHER PROJECTS
2014-19  Interventions 3 - 15, Magacin u Kraljevića Marka 4, Belgrade
2017 Creative Workshop assistance, Royal Docs Learning and Activity Centre, London