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Live Performance: Augmented Empathy

Live-streamed public outdoor performance
Instagram Tour: And Say the Animal Responded

Our current exhibition presents work by six international artists who have captured animal voices and gestures through the use of human technology.
Morphing Matter is ?
Morphing Matter Lab (US)

Als physische Verkörperung der KI ist das Morphing-Material ein neues Konzept in Wissenschaft und Technik. Allerdings sind rein technologieorientierte Lösungen oft kurzsichtig, befangen und manchmal irreführend.
Could an insect, human and android communicate through dance?
Prue Lang, Mathieu Briand, Mark Elgar and Alicia Sometimes

Join choreographer Prue Lang, artist Mathieu Briand and evolutionary ecologist Prof Mark Elgar as they discuss their journey with phasmids and BODY / INSECT / MACHINE, a work that explores the body/androids/artificial movement/intelligence on the one side and the body/human instinct/natural movement/nature on the other.
BODY / INSECT / MACHINE
Prue Lang, Mathieu Briand

BODY/ INSECT /MACHINE is a movement experiment between Prue Lang’s choreography, artist Mathieu Briand’s androids and a Phasmid (stick insect). The work explores the body/androids/artificial movement/intelligence on the one side and the body/human instinct/natural movement/nature on the other.
Live Panel: On Roots and Fruits

This panel is a collection of talks from some of the founding members of FEMeeting regarding the impact of the conferences and other community activities, as well as their perspective on the future development of women in art, science and technology.
On the eve of uncertainty
Charlotte Jarvis (UK)

Der Ort für unsere Tour ist meinem 39 Wochen schwangeren Körper entnommen. Die Tour befasst sich mit dem Projekt In Posse, bei dem ich mit Wissenschaftlern zusammenarbeite, um den weltweit ersten ‘weiblichen’ Samen herzustellen. Sie reflektiert auch darüber, wie die Beobachtung der Wandel meines Körpers während des Jahres 2020 - dieses wandelbarste aller Jahre - eine einzigartig ‘queering experience’ war, die meine Perspektive auf meine Praxis, Politik, das Patriarchat und die Gesellschaft verändert hat.
FEMeeting Seeds

The seeds of our garden, the aromatic herbs and giant sequoias growing within FEMeeting the year throughout, are the members of our worldwide community. This part of our garden’s program includes video testimonies, images and sounds expressing the character and souls of some of the extraordinary women working today in art, science and technology.
Oribokit: Gardening for Robots
Matthew Gardiner (AU)

Robotic Origami Workshop with Matthew Gardiner. ’Oribokit: Gardening for Robots‘  introduces a new artscience kit by Ars Electronica Futurelab researcher Matthew Gardiner. The kit allows you to make your own robotic garden at home. The assembled kit grafts onto a tree branch and is designed to minimise material usage and maximise modular recyclability for robotic origami applications. Kits include 1,2 or 3 oribotic blossoms featuring easy-to-fold laser-cut paper, servo motors, drive wires, and Arduino compatible STM32 microcontroller plus open-source firmware.
A Journey into Ai Hasegawa's practice
Ai Hasegawa (JP)

In diesem Video spricht Ai Hasegawa mit MitarbeiterInnen, WissenschaftlerInnen und ExpertInnen über ihre Projekte rund um Wissenschaft, Sexualität, Leben, Politik und Institutionen. Sie bespricht unter anderem ihre Ansätze zu Human X Shark, (IM)POSSIBLE BABY, The Extreme Environment Love Hotel, Shared Baby, I Wanna Deliver a Dolphin.
Beside the Nibelungen bridge / Neben der Nibelungenbrucke
Matthew Gardiner (AU)

Festival, late, Golden Nicas delivered. A mixed hoard spill into Linz; eclectic electric musicians chattering in nihongo, intro-and-extro-verted artists and friends not seen for an age for the tyranny of distance. Drawn involuntarily to places warmer and happier than Hans in Glück, to a lone Würstlstand in Linz. Perhaps beside the Linzer Nibelungenbrucke.
Terra Australis Ignota Research Group Round Table

A Conversation between the different areas involved in the Terra Australis Ignota project. Nicolas Spencer, Artist and Director of Terra Australis Ignota project Víctor Mazón Gardoqui, Researcher and artist Alfredo Prieto Iglesias, Archaeologist and researcher at University of Magallanes Gerd Sielfeld, Geologist and scientist council of Prisma Austral Foundation Paula López Wood, Writer and travel Journalist Alessandra Burotto, Curator of Museum of Contemporary Art Catalina Montero, Producer of Terra Australis Ignota project and talk moderator
FEM Books

FEMeeting 2020 Garden has its own reading corners where you can find more information about the conferences and other meetings. Check out the abstracts for a concise idea on the rich variety of topics researched by the participants of FEMeeting gatherings.
Without water: between life and death
Shashi Thutupalli , biologist

Biologist Shashi Thutupalli questions our understanding of life and death in his Confluence lecture. His lecture is based on his exhibit FrankenShrimp where dehydrated brine shrimp remain dormant until they are placed in water. Once in water, they begin their life processes. He speaks about how cells in living beings need to be in a liquid state to be active, highlighting the importance of water in life sustaining processes.
A trip to the island
Alessandra Burotto (CL) / Paula Lopez Wood (CL) /Víctor Mazón Gardoqui (ES/DE) / Alfredo Prieto (CL) / Gerd Sielfeld (CL) / Nicolas Spencer (CL/AT) / Terra Ignota

An artistic, geological, archaeological and historical research trip into the southernmost continental island in the world before Antarctic; Cape Horn.
New Frontiers in Water Science
Veena Srinivasan, water researcher

In her Confluence lecture, water researcher Veena Srinivasan calls for a new approach to science that is problem driven, interdisciplinary and grounded in real-world questions. She presents three examples to illustrate why we must consider anthropologic changes in this new approach. She addressed the case of disappearing surface water in the Upper Arkavathy watershed near Bengaluru, the impact of droughts on Chennai and questions whether tree planting is good or bad for streams.
Antibodies
FEMeeting WEB 2020

set of short videos and audio podcasts
The future crashes into the present
Karen Palmer (UK)

Als Erzählerin aus der Zukunft nimmt Karen Palmer die ZuschauerInnen mit auf eine Reise durch eine Reihe von Sendungen aus der Zukunft und warnt uns durch ihre immersiven Filmerlebnisse vor dem, was noch auf uns zukommen wird.
Achæoscillator
Víctor Mazón Gardoqui (ES/DE), Nicolas Spencer (CL/AT)

Achæoscillator displays the drastic weather conditions of the southernmost island in the world on a virtualized representation of the end/beginning of the Americas. A one-person experience, where the research presents traces and connections between the ancestors of the Yagán community, the Kawesqar and Selk’nam and the Antarctic, Scotia and South America continental plates, offering an inestimable and uncontrollable source of Gaia's power.
!brute_force
Maja Smrekar (SI)

Als Reaktion auf die Coronavirus-Pandemie konzentriert sich das Projekt !brute_force auf die Zukunft marktgerechter diagnostischer Wearables und AI-basierter Technologien zur Gesundheitsüberwachung. Als Performer klettern ein Mensch und ein Hund durch eine Installation aus Plattformen und leeren Räumen.