Creative Question Challenge: Quietly Subversive
Ciprian Mureșan (RO), Sanneke Stigter (NL), Corina Bucea (RO)

"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: Embodied perception and life as movement
Alexandra Pirici (RO), Paco Calvo (ES), Corina Bucea (RO)

"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?

Community Creates Mobility: Participatory Speculative Critical Design beyond dream-making for the City.
Eveline Wandl-Vogt, Niki Ernst, Claudia Falkinger, Peter Zehetbauer, Wolfgang Preisinger, Elisabeth Füssl, Penesta Dika, Aleyda Rocha Sepulveda; lightning talk: Jeffrey Schnapp

Co-Envisioning Mobility Infrastructures - The challenges facing cities around the globe are complex and multidisciplinary by nature. Attempting to solve them in conventional linear ways is insufficient for addressing these manifold human-environment relationships that are at the heart of these challenges. Alternative approaches are necessary.

Affordances of spaces
Elena Cologni

Accelerating Knowledge for the SDGs: Life streamed session - The work developed from a two-year long investigation into ‘architectures of difference’, is based on a postcard in sculptor Barbara Hepworth’s collection (circa 1952), in a note she refers to this in terms of the space between people: it’s relational and social aspects. The piece also evolved from considering the punctuations found in our cities’ grounds, and how these contribute to developing a sense of attachment and belonging, which is at the basis of wellbeing (eg. Lived Dialectics, 2016, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna; Seeds of Attachment, 2016/18, New Hall Art Collection, Cambridge).

CURATORIAL A(I)GENTS
metaLAB (at) HARVARD

Eight experiments in the computational curation of collections - Curatorial A(i)gents consists in eight machine-learning-based experiments in and around museum collections and data sets developed by members and affiliates of metaLAB (at) Harvard, an idea foundry, knowledge-design lab, and production studio experimenting in the networked arts and humanities.

Co-Design Workshop: Humanizing the Internet of Skills
Technische Universität Dresden (DE)

The design approach of the Industrial Design Engineering Chair at TU Dresden connects a user-centered design perspective with the engineered development of product-service systems by placing the human experience at its center. Taking into consideration customers, market and corporate requirements, we are able to develop technically, ergonomically and aesthetically convincing products and innovation studies for tomorrow’s working environment. We strive for a better understanding of the design and development process. Relevant issues relate to the connection of product and service design. In addition, we apply design methods as catalyst in diverse interdisciplinary research and innovation projects. With the help of our demonstrators, interdisciplinary research is accelerated and research results are clearly communicated and successfully transferred to other researchers, industry and/or society.

STEAM Education in Europe II
Participating Gardens: Birmingham - STEAMhouse, Castelo di Rodrigo - Open Science Hub, European Platform for Digital Humanism - Creative School

Die Frage, was Kreativität und Vorstellungskraft ausmacht, ist ein potenziell strittiger Punkt. Trotzdem kann eine Sichtweise, die sich auf Überschneidungen von Kunst und Wissenschaften konzentiert, kann zu bestimmten, konkreten Vorteilen führen. Dazu gehören Techniken der interdisziplinären Zusammenarbeit, die Fähigkeit, unterschiedliche Perspektiven zu berücksichtigen, und die Fähigkeit, Gemeinsamkeiten zu erkennen. Solche Kompetenzen sind kombinatorischer Natur und können, wenn sie in einen Hochschullehrplan integriert werden, zu einer Beschleunigung der transdisziplinären Innovation führen. Besuchen Sie uns in unserem Birmingham Garden, wenn wir mit einigen der führenden transdisziplinären Institutionen in Europa Ansätze für die STEAM-Ausbildung erkunden.

STEAM Education in Europe I
Participating Gardens: Birmingham - STEAMhouse, Amsterdam - NXT Museum, European Platform for Digital Humanism - STEAM INC

Die Frage, was Kreativität und Vorstellungskraft ausmacht, ist ein potenziell strittiger Punkt. Trotzdem kann eine Sichtweise, die sich auf Überschneidungen von Kunst und Wissenschaften konzentiert, kann zu bestimmten, konkreten Vorteilen führen. Dazu gehören Techniken der interdisziplinären Zusammenarbeit, die Fähigkeit, unterschiedliche Perspektiven zu berücksichtigen, und die Fähigkeit, Gemeinsamkeiten zu erkennen. Solche Kompetenzen sind kombinatorischer Natur und können, wenn sie in einen Hochschullehrplan integriert werden, zu einer Beschleunigung der transdisziplinären Innovation führen. Besuchen Sie uns in unserem Birmingham Garden, wenn wir mit einigen der führenden transdisziplinären Institutionen in Europa Ansätze für die STEAM-Ausbildung erkunden.

STEAM Education in VR + AR
Participating Gardens: Birmingham - STEAMhouse, Sydney - Tactical Space Lab, European Platform for Digital Humanism - STEAM INC

Wie können wir belastbare institutionelle Strukturen schaffen, die sich selbst anpassen? In dieser Tour werden wir eine Auswahl der teilnehmenden Gärten besuchen, die mit institutionellen Modellen experimentieren, die sich an zukünftige Herausforderungen anpassen können.

OK Night 2020
OÖ Landes-Kultur GmbH AT

OK Night ist ein alljährlich am Ars Electronica-Samstag im OÖ Kulturquartier präsentiertes Nightline-Format. Ursprünglich konzipiert, um performative Werke aus dem Spektrum der ausgezeichneten Arbeiten des Prix Ars Electronica zu präsentieren, widmet sich die Nacht auch der lokalen und internationalen Clubkultur.

CON- - -TACT

CON- - -TACT is an improvised performance developed during the CINETic residency program, exploring the possibilities of remote contact.

‘site inspection’ – Virtual cocktail party & FM4 Radio Show in VR
sound:frame / Eva Fischer (AT), Marijn Bril (NL), Angie Pohl (AT)

For this year’s Ars Electronica, sound:frame and Pausanio invite the audience to join an exclusive virtual cocktail party in the Area for Virtual Art’s mozilla hub space. Together we will teleport from one artist’s space to another and have a virtual toast.

'site inspection' - Virtual exhibition tour
sound:frame / Eva Fischer (AT), Marijn Bril (NL), Angie Pohl (AT)

The sound:frame curators Eva Fischer and Marijn Bril will guide through the Area for Virtual Art and talk with the exhibiting artists and some of the Area’s team members, about their approaches to virtuality and digitality.

Dialogue#4 – shifting perspectives
HKU University Of The Arts Utrecht (NL)

In Dialogue#4 we talk about shifting perspectives. With several artists involved in the exhibition we discuss the aspect of “reality” and in what way art should contribute to a broader perspective on reality. Things we take for granted are maybe not what they seem, or at least there is another way of looking at them. When looking at it this way then there is no fake news as it is just another perception of reality. In a world fixed on maintaining certainty, and thus one perspective as the truth, how can artists fight against this narrow minded view on reality?

Dialogue#2 – imagining tomorrow
HKU University Of The Arts Utrecht (NL)

Dialogue#2 is called imagining tomorrow. Nobody can deny our world is in a huge transition. We live in an age of uncertainty where we are forced to rethink basically every aspect of our society from the personal to the governmental to the spiritual. We discuss with artists how they look at the responsibility of creatives when it comes to changing the world. And, is it just about exposing the problems we face or can you do more as an artist?

Dialogue#1 – data driven art
HKU University Of The Arts Utrecht (NL)

The dialogues are moderated sessions to have a more in depth look at and discussion on the underlying themes of the works at the exhibition. Dialogue#1 is about data driven art. With artists involved in the exhibition we discuss the need to make the invisible world behind technology in our society visible.

Online Exhibition NEW CONNECTIONS
HKU University Of The Arts Utrecht (NL)

The opening night will feature several live performances all related to the theme “new connections”. This for example by revisiting and passing on music traditions through electronic means, new tactile electronic instruments and an AV show performed by live coding artists.

Workshop: Solidarity Through Sound and Time
Ivana Dama and Clinton Van Arnam

In this workshop, participants would have the unique chance to reconsider their ideas of what constitutes sound and music compositions. Throughout the day we are exposed to countless amounts of sounds and noises, but it is only valuable if we can isolate these specific sounds and separate their relationship from emory to their pure tonal structure.

Workshop: Pinecone Hygrometer, Seed Dispersal, and Fire Ecology
Helen Huang

In this lecture we will explore how seeding of plants respond to environmental triggers like fire and humidity changes. We will also learn some basic concepts in scientific research and how we can sense our environment through the observation of the plants around us.

Workshop: Psychobiotonic: Microbiome Anthropothagy
Clarissa Ribeiro

Imagine a fictional scenario in which you can choose one personality to ‘embody’ a time having access to encapsulated microbiome samples (mixed cultures i.e. microbial associations or communities) of donors that have specific personality types. “Transplanting the Self: microbiome anthropophagy” (2018-present) is a reflection on the limits of microbiome manipulation inviting the online audience to become ‘personality donors’ in a collaborative performance.