Program

Update: Augmented Reality – reality meets style

Augmented Reality is more than just Pokémon Go and Snapchat filters! Sandra will show you how it works – and where this tech is already being used – in our latest Update.

At home with… Yazdan Zand

This time Manuela Naveau welcomes Yazdan Zand into the studio for a conversation about his life and work.

Deep Space: Gustav Klimt's "Kiss" as Gigapixel – on the cooperation between Google Arts & Culture and the Belvedere in Vienna

Using technology developed by Google Arts & Culture, it is possible to experience and enjoy Klimt’s painting up close and personal in gigapixel resolution. Marzia Niccolai (Google Arts & Culture), Belvedere curator Franz Smola and Florian Waitzbauer (Digitales Belvedere) explain the technology behind the project and give art historical insights into this iconic painting.

Update: Mindbeagle – communication with locked-in syndrome patients

What can be done if a person is not able to move? Patients with so-called locked-in Syndrome are conscious but unable to move. BCIs can help to enable communication.

Deep Space LIVE: Exoplanets – in search of a second Earth

The talk with Peter Habison will highlight the current state of exoplanetary research and the search for Earth-like planets around other stars.

Deep Space LIVE: The altar of the Master of Mondsee

The winged altar of the Mondsee monastery, created around 1497 by the unnamed "Master of Mondsee", becomes a gigapixel in Deep Space, which can be admired down to the smallest details – and Home Delivery brings you the compelling talk about this masterpiece live to your home.

Deep Space: Pianographique

During the Ars Electronica Festival 2020 Pianist Maki Namekawa was back with Cori O’Lan in Deep Space for another concert of contemporary piano music, accompanied by stunning realtime visualisations.

Deep Space: Climate change from space – 360 degrees

Ars Electronica Solutions present their work on multimedia centre Φ-Experience in Italy.

Update: recoveriX – stroke rehabilitation with neurotechnology

Every year, millions of people suffer strokes and permanent physical damage – the brain-computer interface recoveriX can be used for motor rehabilitation.

At home with… Emiko Ogawa

For today's talk Emiko Ogawa, a Japanese curator and artist, joins us in our studio to speak about her work and experiences with curation, creative direction and media arts.

Deep Space: FOR FOREST – The Unending Attraction of Nature

This temporary art intervention of a real forest at the soccer stadium in Klagenfurt gained worldwide attention in 2019 and its digital laser scan was for the first time presented in the impressive Deep Space 8K visualization environment at the Ars Electronica Festival 2020.

Update: Brain-computer interaction - the interface between brain and machine

In this Update, Erika Mondria and Martin Španka offer an overview of bioelectrical signals and the anatomy of our brains and provide fascinating insights into these neuro-technologies.

Deep Space LIVE: Inside Bruegel

With gigapixel images and the website Inside Bruegel, Sabine Leidlmair and Armin Pils take a close look at Bruegel's iconic works inside the Deep Space.

Deep Space: Climate emergency in Vorarlberg – a trip to the exhibition “Global Shift – Die Welt im Wandel” in Bregenz

Michael Mondria, Senior Director of Ars Electronica Solutions, presents the exhibition “Global Shift – Die Welt im Wandel (engl.: Global Shift – The World in Transition)” in Deep Space 8K.

Concert: 4 Cities

Pianist Suyang Kim and cellist Barbara Körber take you on a musical journey across Anatolia, accompanied by visualizations by Christian Philip Berger.

Deep Space LIVE: Glaciers – symbols of ongoing transformations

During this event, glaciologist Kay Helfricht from the Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences will answer your questions about glacier research and the state of glaciers.

Artistic Journalism 3/3: Deep Issues

This experimental series of classes with Ars Electronica Futurelab director Hideaki Ogawa envisions artistic journalism as a new media, place, and system for broadly experiencing and discussing the future.

Artistic Journalism 2/3: AI x Music

This experimental series of classes with Ars Electronica Futurelab director Hideaki Ogawa envisions artistic journalism as a new media, place, and system for broadly experiencing and discussing the future.

Artistic Journalism 1/3: Understanding AI

This experimental series of classes with Ars Electronica Futurelab director Hideaki Ogawa envisions artistic journalism as a new media, place, and system for broadly experiencing and discussing the future.

Electrified Feedback Cello

An electromagnetic device brings the completely acoustically functioning cello into new aesthetic areas and new sound spheres are created.