Transculturalism: The Space in Between
Amelia Jones, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Behnaz Farahi

In this panel discussion Amelia Jones (USC); Krzysztof Wodiczko (Harvard GSD), Behnaz Farahi (CSULB) are discussing "Transculturalism: The Space in Between". As utopian fantasies of "global" interconnectedness fade on relation to a global pandemic and burgeoning nationalisms, it is important to develop strategies to foster a sense of inclusion and overcome a culture of exclusion. This panel discussion addresses what role might art and design play to maintain a sense of transculturalism and how they might allow us to see things differently.

Genetic Biotech through the Eyes of Artists

BOZAR presents a talk on genetic modification, featuring Sandra Lorenzi (FR), Kuang-Yi Ku (TW), Christophe De Jaeger (BE), and 2 scientists from the Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie – VIB. The talk will be preceded by a video streaming of a guided tour in the VIB facilities in Gent (BE), with Sandra Lorenzi (FR – artist of the Studiotopia programme), Kuang-Yi Ku (TW – artist of the Studiotopia programme), Sofie Bekaert (BE – VIB) and VIB scientists Roosmarijn Vandenbroucke and Sofie Goormachtig, presenting their current research.

Panel: Surveillance, Gaze and Ways of Seeing
Lauren McCarthy, Memo Akten, Behnaz Farahi 

In this panel discussion, Behnaz Farahi, Lauren Lee Carthy and Memo Akten are discussing the notion of "gaze", "ways of seeing" and "surveillance" in the context of this group exhibition.

Q&A with Man & Wah

Moderated by independent curator and creative director working in the field of digital/new media arts, Lubi Thomas (AU/UK), this live Q&A event will explore the creative practice and process of artists Man & Wah. Covering topics of nature, the cosmos, information and interdisciplinary artistic practice, Man & Wah will respond to live questions alongside a discussion with Lubi about their narrative video piece, CELESTON, and physical exhibition at Museum of Brisbane.

CyberBallet
CyberRäuber (DE)

With the public rehearsals ending, the work will premiere in September 2020 at Ars Electronica Festival, in front of an audience that can join the performance via livestream.

Loss of the Night
Helga Kuechly, Chris Kyba (DE)

Das Team von Loss of the Night erklärt, wie Lichtverschmutzung unsere Sicht auf den Nachthimmel beeinflusst und unsere Erfahrungen in Daten umgewandelt werden können. Die Präsentation bildet den Auftakt zu einer 24-stündigen Aktion zur Beobachtung des Nachthimmels, bei der Teams rund um den Globus mit Hilfe der App "Loss of the Night" zugeschaltet werden und uns zeigen, wie der Nachthimmel an ihrem Standort aussieht.

Dance the distance
Ariella Vidach (IT), Claudio Prati (CH), Paolo Solcia (CH), Riccardo Santalucia (IT), Sebastiano Barbieri (IT), Francesco Luzzana (IT), Giovanni Landi (IT)

Live Guided Tour in a Dance Virtual Studio. MEET’s second project Dance the distance is a live guided tour through a virtual dance studio. Participants as avatars will be able to meet the virtual dancers and join an open rehearsal for a VR dance performance in progress.

Meet the Media Guru
William Myers (US/NL)

Within its Meet the Media Guru format, MEET presents a talk by William Myers about the emerging practice of integrating biological processes into art and digital creativity. An exhibition curator and lecturer based in Amsterdam (NL), Myers is the author of two widely acclaimed books about the intersections of design, art, and science: Biodesign and BioArt.

Sounding Linz - DIE LINZER KLANGWOLKE 2020
presented by Sparkasse OÖ and LINZ AG

Kreative Kraft aus der Region, große künstlerische Expertise und besonders viel Interaktion mit der oberösterreichischen Bevölkerung - das Brucknerhaus Linz schafft gemeinsam mit heimischen KünstlerInnen und den Kooperationspartnern Universität für künstlerische und industrielle Gestaltung Linz und Ars Electronica auch in außergewöhnlichen Zeiten Einzigartiges: Eine Liebeserklärung an Linz.

Photosynthetic Landscapes
UMPRUM, Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (CZ)

The technologization of the natural element is a phenomenon closely connected with the present time, and in addition to the increased efficiency of plant production, it is also negatively associated with the loss of the "natural" at the expense of the "technological". What happens if these elements support each other?

The Platform
UMPRUM, Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (CZ)

The crisis of recent months is forcing us to rethink topics that we until recently took for granted. One of them is the idea of public space as an open platform for meeting people and exchanging ideas, a space without borders that is suddenly confronted with security rules. Just as these risks first affected the public areas of airports and later social public events, now the public space in general is affected by strengthen security rules.

PLA(N)Tform – Growing, Sensing and Making Kin-Ship
Virtual BioSensing project group

Online exhibition of artistic biosensing experiments in virtual space and at BioDesign Lab HfG Karlsruhe

Live Performances in occasion of the AIxMusic Opening ceremony
Edmund Campion, CORAIL with Steve Adams of the Rova Saxophone Quartet, and Andrew Blanton, WAVEGUIDE, Claudia Hart, Edmund Campion

Edmund Campion, CORAIL with Steve Adams of the Rova Saxophone Quartet, and Andrew Blanton, WAVEGUIDE, Claudia Hart, Edmund Campion WAVEGUIDE - 2017 - percussion, distributed audio and electronics: Music composition and performance by Andrew Blanton  Text by Yvette Granata  Composition and software by Andrew Blanton  Special thanks to Neal Riley for technical support.  CORAIL - version 2020 - improvising saxophonist and interactive computer system: Composition and computer environment design by Edmund Campion, Director, CNMAT  Tenor Saxophone by Steve Adams  Software contributions by Manuel Poletti, Matthew Wright, Edmund Campion (and a host of others)  This concert is being streamed live from the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) and made possible by CNMAT Researcher and Technical Director, Jeremy Wagner

Forest Garden Greenhouse Concert
Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits / RIXC with Platons Buravickis, Ivo Taurins, Lauris Smits, Daniel Hengst

Live concert for 'plants and people' from Riga, RIXC Fields Residency greenhouse.

Turbulent Flow: Chaos Theory and Camanchaca´s Behavior in Atacama Desert
Mauricio Lacrampette, Alejandro Jofré, Jazmín Adler

Nebula project, the chaotic inner geometry of camanchaca´s water droplets in motion unfolds a thorough investigation on mathematical notions, which may explain natural behaviours such as the dynamic of this very particular coastal fog.

Site specific performance in Alto Patache
Mauricio Lacrampette (CL), Sebastian Arriagada (CL)

We are taking advantage of the coincidence of the festival’s date with one of the best times of the year for observing camanchaca in abundance, to show the KMNCHK ScanLab functioning on-site and the multiple artefacts spread upon this particular landscape, used to monitor and harvest the cloud, such as weather stations, fog catchers and scientific settlements.

CALM #2 | Decomposition (2020)
José Bidegain (CL), Futuro Fósil (CL)

Performative installation that reconfigures the value of the parts that constitute us as a living ecosystem. From the micro-political action of the arts and the organic macro of the fungi kingdom, this transmedial live experience uses sound to create new perspectives for physical and spatial perception.

Live Coding ALGORAVE
Antonio Roberts, Alex McLean (UK)

Live performance at the Piksel Cyber Salon and Twitch Live coding is a performance practice that revolves around the real-time creation and modification of code and algorithms. These events are also known as ALGORAVE, by joining the words algorithm and rave. On 13 September, we welcome artists Antonio Roberts and Alex McLean and their live audiovisual performance, taking place in parallel at the Twitch Pikselfest and the Piksel Cyber Salon.

Presence of Absence: Guided Tour & Demo
by Prof. Hiroshi Ishii, Liang Zhipeng

We will host a live talk featuring some selected projects inside Tangible Media Group | MIT MediaLab in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In the end audiences are invited to have an open conversation with us.

COPY PASTE Curator's Tour
Antonio Roberts (UK)

Video recorded lecture with Q&A from the curator Antonio Roberts will guide us through each work at the Piksel Cyber Salon exhibition. If you are an artist, then you have no doubt copied the work of others. This copying can range from using pages from a magazine in a collage to adopting the style of another artist, or simply being inspired by their work. This natural process of copying, taught to us at every stage of our artistic development, is burdened with a very complex and messy set of laws and social conventions which define and limit how we can use copying in our practices. They don't account for exceptions or nuances, and come from a historical world in which artworks were scarce physical objects, not translating well into a world in which culture is abundant and can be accessed and copied at will.