Ars Electronica Garden London

Igniting Creativity and Discovery where Science and Art Collide - London

Science Gallery Network (Int. - Atlanta/Dublin/Venice/Melbourne/London/Bengaluru/Detroit)

The Science Gallery Garden at the Ars Electronica Festival will explore trust, technology, global challenges, arts innovation and new forms of digital storytelling. A showcase from the world’s only university network dedicated to public engagement with science and art, it will feature interactive workshops, experimental audio and visual experiences, livestreamed events and a specially-curated digital archive

Transformation & Transmission

MA Interaction Design Communication at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London (UK)

This online exhibition showcases 23 new works of interaction design from students of the MA Interaction Design Communication at the London College of Communication UAL. These works were all produced during the lockdown of March-May 2020, and demonstrate the shift from physical to digital practice demanded by the crisis, and the anxieties and uncertainties that the present and future held.

Draping Interfaces - London College of Fashion

Digital Anthropology Lab, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts (UK)

Draping Interfaces is an immersive physical/virtual installation that investigates the worlds that can appear when we mask or drape the physical with the virtual. How do images change when we zoom in and adjust our focus? What happens when we set the camera in a particular position?

The London Garden of Heterotopias

The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (UK)

In Technology and the Lifeworld: from garden to earth Don Ihde discusses how life in a mythical Garden of Eden would not be human life without technology. Things and artifacts make life and form an integral part of the ontological trinity of human-technology-world. The Bartlett School of Architecture, along with its partners, centers its contribution to Ars Electronica around arts and technologies of care in a Garden of Heterotopias to create an environment of inclusion and inspection.

The Garden of Forking Paths - London (UK)

Media and Arts Technology Centre for Doctoral Training at Queen Mary University of London (UK)

The Garden of Forking Paths showcases seven interactive artworks, demos and performances, all the product of current PhD research into Media and Arts Technology at Queen Mary University of London. Utilizing sound, image, text, materials, and structure, each artwork explores aspects of how we think, sense and act when physical and digital worlds collide. We invite you to follow the forking paths and explore our digital garden.

CONTAIN - Mobile COVID19 Emergency Testing Facilities

Open Cell (UK)

CONTAIN units are rapidly deployable COVID-19 testing laboratories housed in shipping containers. The design allows transportation to any location through standard shipping services. Automated RT-qPCR protocols can deliver 2,400 tests per unit in 24 hours.