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Abandoned IBM Country Club, Endicott NY

Tega Brain, Sam Lavigne, Hannah Jayanti (US)

Die Künstler Tega Brain und Sam Lavigne diskutieren mit der Filmemacherin Hannah Jayanti über Daten, KI und die toxischen Hinterlassenschaften von IBM, während sie den verlassenen IBM Country Club in Endicott, New York, erkunden.

The Robot Suit

Mimi Onuoha (US)

Anfang 2020 nahmen Jess Myers und ich an Safar teil, einem performativen Gespräch im öffentlichen Raum. Das vom Kunstduo aghili/karlsson veranstaltete Ereignis beinhaltete ein Live-Streaming-Gespräch zwischen uns, als wir vom Zentrum Stockholms in das Studio des Duos am Stadtrand zogen. Unsere physische Reise reflektierend, unterhielten wir uns über Grenzgebiete, Technologie, Architektur, Schwarz-Sein und die Räume, in denen wir - und andere wie wir - uns ständig bewegen, sowohl in wie auch zwischen ihnen.

!brute_force: Workflow Reflections – Panel

Speakers: Alen Balja (SI/CH), Martí Sànchez-Fibla (ES), Maja Smrekar (SI), Tina Šolar (SI), Mia Zahariaš (SI), Moderation: Tatiana Kourochkina (RU)

Responding to the coronavirus pandemic, the !brute_force project focuses on the future of market-driven diagnostic wearables and AI-based health monitoring technologies. A human and dog performer climb through an installation of platforms and empty spaces. Both wear Electrocardiograph ECG/EKG diagnostic wearables, used for the medical monitoring of chronic heart and respiratory conditions.

!brute_force

Maja Smrekar (SI)

Als Reaktion auf die Coronavirus-Pandemie konzentriert sich das *!brute_force*-Projekt auf die Zukunft marktbestimmter diagnostischer Wearables und AI-basierter Technologien zur Gesundheitsüberwachung.

From Art to Innovation: Do They Really Need Us?

Gašper Beg (SI), Luka Frelih (SI), Miha Horvat (SI), Janez Janša (SI), Jurij Krpan (SI), Marko Peljhan (SI/US), Irena Pivka (SI), Marko Pritržnik (SI), Peter Purg (SI)

Despite the widely embraced opinion that involving artists and creatives in innovation processes contributes to better results, very few research and development platforms are employing artists or art thinking in their innovation teams. Die talk's participants will discuss the challenges for artists, scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs stemming from essentially non-existing collaborative/open innovations.

Jugend hackt remote: digital gardening

Jugend hackt Austria (AT), c3 (HU), mb21 (DE), ArtechLAB (NL), Ars Electronica (AT)

Wir präsentieren das Ergebnis von Jugend hackt remote: digital gardening, einem Hackathon für Jugendliche von 12 bis 18 Jahren. Er fand am 29. August statt und lud junge ProgrammiererInnen aus Österreich, Deutschland, Ungarn und den Niederlanden ein.

Young Animations

Jedes Jahr reichen junge begabte FilmemacherInnen ihre schrägen, subtilen, witzigen, utopischen, kritischen und dystopischen Arbeiten für die Kategorie "u19-create your world" des Prix Ars Electronica, für den Wettbewerb mb21(DE) und den c<19 (HU) ein. Sie zeigen uns ihre starke Vorstellungskraft, ihr tiefes Verständnis für bestimmte Themen, und das alles ausgedrückt mit ihren Fähigkeiten innerhalb eines Mediums.

Award Ceremony der Kategorie „u19–create your world"

Die u19-Zeremonie ist der eigentliche Höhepunkt des Festivals create your world. Hier werden die Preise an alle 24 Siegerprojekte vergeben. In diesem Jahr dient die Veranstaltung auch als Auftakt für die anschließenden Networking-Möglichkeiten im Rahmen des Festivals create your world.

A Centaur Journey

Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm (DK)

Wie können wir die Herausforderungen und Möglichkeiten von künstlicher Intelligenz in der Kunst besser begreifen? Und wie verändern Mensch-Technik-Hybride die künstlerische Praxis?

Creative Question Challenge: Hybrid forms of being together

3 137 (GR), Audrey-Flore Ngomsik (FR), Christos Carras (UK/GR)

"Lasst uns beenden, was wir begonnen haben." Auf diese Weise stellt die UNO ihr erstes Ziel für nachhaltige Entwicklung vor - das Ende der Armut in allen Formen und Dimensionen bis 2030. Die 17 Ziele der Nachhaltigen Entwicklung und ihre 169 Teilziele wurden als ein ausuferndes, missverständliches Durcheinander großer Absichten beschrieben. Allein der Titel der Entwicklungsagenda - "Unsere Welt umgestalten" - verströmt utopische Ambitionen. Er wurde 2015 von 193 Nationen angenommen. Fünf Jahre später und mit zehn verbleibenden Jahren: Wie wird sich unsere Welt verändern?

Creative Question Challenge: Examining organic and digital ecosystems

Hypercomf (GR), Markos Digenis (GR)

Will there be no poverty and zero hunger across the world in ten years? Is this planet to be populated in ten years by billions of healthy and educated humans? Is comfortability or autonomy more important to well-being? Can you be comfortably autonomus? These are the questions scientists were asked who applied to an open call to collaborate with artists in the STUDITOPIA residency program.

Unnatural Language: Botanic Quartet

Scott Kildall - Xenoform Labs (US), Michael Ang (CA)

Botanic Quartet is a generative musical composition by four plants endemic to Thailand. The results constitute a sort of ecospheric sentience as the plants don’t only respond to the sensed data, but communicate it to each other. This is a project under the umbrage of Unnatural Language, an ongoing collaboration between Scott Kildall and Michael Ang. Scott Kildall has been working with art, technology and education for over 15 years, looking at the interplay between territory and technology.

3D–Tour: Experience the Art Collection Deutsche Telekom in Nîmes and in Budapest

Deutsche Telekom AG, Bonn (DE)

A 3D tour of an exhibition can never convey the sensual presence and aesthetic power of its works of art. The physical presence in a real exhibition space, the complexity of looking and the experiencing the environment, cannot yet be conveyed through digital technology. Such a tour, however, can be an essential tool in documenting past events, and it serve as an additional platform for mediating content.

MESSE: Molecular Encoding Storage for Space Exploration

Spaceth.co (TH)

MESSE is an anti-disciplinary payload aboard the New Shepard spacecraft, launched into a sub-orbital trajectory 100 kilometers above, and explores weightlessness in the space environment. The payload contains bio-synthetically created DNA encoding “Kwam-Fhan-Kab-Chakarawan” (Aspiration and the Universe), a famous Thai song by artist Bodyslam, to demonstrate the algorithm that can encode and decode data into DNA. The science experiment will be conducted both before and after the spaceflight to study the products of DNA assembling in space and its preservation on several sample materials. This will allow the researchers to understand the possibility of DNA storage as a form of preserving knowledge or sending any data in the form of a molecular encoding message. This mission represents aspects of science and humanity and guidelines for future citizen space exploration in Thailand.

ANYWHERE

During the Ars Electronica Festival visitors in Linz will be transported virtually to Luxembourg to explore the exhibition ANYWHERE by Mary-Audrey Ramirez in Esch-Belval. Through an interactive multimedia experience and real-life online game, the Festival public will be able to discover sections of a retired blast furnace at the site of a former steel plant in Esch

Making of Lunar Pearl

Henryandpartners (TH), SpaceZab (TH)

Pearl of Lunar explores infrastructural desire and the future of Belt-and-Road Initiatives as seen through wealth accumulation, labor infiltration, and geopolitical control; but also, more ephemerally, the affective meshwork of possessiveness and greed that functions at the individual and corporate level. Lunar Rock is a project by SpaceZab, a group of young scientists’ journey into Trad city, a rocky seaside landscape. They wade through rocks and the oceanside, excavating magmatic rock from the shore and the sea. The quest is to discover earth elements resembling moon dust for their future research and experiments.

Creative Question Challenge: Human being and "soft" technologies

Christiaan Zwanikken (NL), DM Hoyt (US), Emmanuel Grimaud (FR)

Garlic Med.Eat.Ation

Jennifer Katanyoutanant (US/TH), Grace Cong Xin Wong - Art Farm (US/HK), Zden Brungot Svíteková (SK)

The first chapter in our continuing Remote Intimacy series, Garlic Med. Eat. Ation creates sensory solidarity by exploring how intimacy can be shared remotely/virtually through touch and taste. Please bring a clove of garlic to experience the exhibit.

Rebecca Merlic - The City as a House

VENT gallery (AT)

Vast amounts of pictures, sounds, videos and 3D scans are organized as environments in Rebecca Merlic’s The City as a House, in form of an interactive visual novel. A work about the experiment of a white European 30-year-old heterosexual human living in Tokyo without inhabiting a private apartment over a period of time. A speculative exploration of the possibilities of abolishing known forms of habitation.

Creative Question Challenge: Between scientific discovery and perceptual expansion

Dmitry Gelfand & Evelina Domnitch (NL/BY), Guillaume Schweicher (BE/LU), Florian Schreck (DE)

Let us finish what we started'. This is how the UN introduces its first Sustainable Development Goal - to end poverty in all forms and dimensions by 2030. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals and their 169 targets have been described as a sprawling, misconceived mess of grandiose intentions. The title of the development agenda itself - 'Transforming our World' - oozes utopian ambition. It was adopted by 193 nations in 2015. Five years later and with ten years left, how do you think our world will transform?