We opened the LINZ ZINE editorial room at HP23.
Then we carried the magazines to a café near OK PLATZ and turned a table into a temporary bookstore.
The explanation is simple:
We make a magazine about Linz.
Every day.
100 copies. Five issues.
It’s free. Take one.
People stop.
They pick up a ZINE.
They ask what it is.
Then they start telling us about Linz.
One local man told us he had visited Ars Electronica before, but mostly at night. This was his first time slowly exploring the festival and the city during the day.
He said:
“I hope to meet with new things happening.”
That stayed with us.
Local knowledge is not only for tourists. Even people who live here are still discovering their own city.
Coffee. Beer. Hamburgers. Ordinary shops. Local habits. Small places that rarely appear in a tourist guide.
These conversations are already becoming material for future issues.
The bookstore is therefore not just a place to distribute LINZ ZINE.
It has become a temporary editorial space.
Someone picks up a magazine.
A conversation begins.
We learn something about the city.
That becomes the next story.
Normally, a city magazine is made by people who know the city.
We are doing almost the opposite.
We don’t know Linz.
So we observe it.
AI helps us read it.
We publish what we find.
Local people respond.
Then we look again.
The magazine is not only the result.
The publishing process itself is becoming a way to learn a city in public.
Five days. Five issues. 100 copies a day.
Linz, published daily.
