Ars Electronica Garden

What is Noise? Interdisciplinary Discussion
Marc Aguilar and Víctor Jiménez (ES)

Das Team hinter Noise Maps lädt internationale Expert*innen für Geräusche und Klänge ein, um unsere Einstellung zu Geräuschen, ihren Wirkungen und Auswirkungen sowie unsere Handlungsfähigkeit bei der Gestaltung von Klanglandschaften zu diskutieren. Bei dieser Podiumsdiskussion bleibt auch Zeit für Fragen aus dem Publikum.
Art and Nanotechnology - Marcel Weber
gnration (PT) and INL – International Iberian Nanotechnology Institute (PT / EU)

For its Ars Electronica Garden, gnration will present a virtual tour of The Invention of Sense, by German artist Marcel Weber.
Sonic Heritage of Inner City Barcelona
Marc Aguilar and Víctor Jiménez (ES)

Bit Lab Cultural Cooperative arbeitet mit Anwohner*innen von Raval an Noise Maps (Lärmkarten), um Audioaufnahmen mit Hilfe von in der Stadt aufgestellten Audio Moths zu sammeln und zu lernen, wie man städtischen Lärm am besten untersucht.
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.
Tired Moths and Quiet Stars
Sibylle Schroer (DE)

Das Projekt Tatort Straßenbeleuchtung arbeitet mit Bürger*innen und Schulen zusammen, um die Auswirkungen des Designs von Straßenlampen auf fliegende Insektenpopulationen zu erforschen. Schließe Dich dem Team im brandenburgischen Makerspace Verstehbahnhof an, wo Teenager aus der Umgebung Daten zur Umweltverschmutzung sammeln, bevor sie die vier Standorte von Tatort Straßenlampen besuchen und lernen, wie man Fluginsekten erkennt.
Drums Radio
Aurore Balsa (FR), Delphine Dora (FR), Ambre Dourneau (FR), Romain Gaudillière (FR), Céline Jiang (FR/CN), Pauline Mikô (BE), Nina Queissner (DE), Natalia Rivera Riffo (CL), Victor Villafagne (FR)

The DDD is a conceptual analytical system where the association of three words in D creates a tridimensional investigation space. As sound matter is a mechanic wave working in three dimensions, we assign it to a tridimensional physical space. Thereby, we want to construct a autonomous reflective space where sound projects itself.
Street Spectra – Join the Streetlights Hunting!
Lucía García (ES)

Verwandel Dein Smartphone mit Hilfe eines billigen Beugungsgitters in ein wissenschaftliches Instrument. Mit dem Citizen Science Projekt Street Spectra erhältst Du überraschende Bilder von den bunten Spektren, die die Straßenlaternen in Deiner Nachbarschaft erzeugen.
Acte de Fe
Marc Vilajuana, Adrià Grandia, Carlos Martorell

Act of faith (Acte de Fe) is an exploration of our relationship with technology, its similarities with the one we have with religion, the tools involved in both processes, and its impact on us and in our sacred/private space. Mise-en-scène will consist in a liturgy performed by Marc Vilajuana (voice, effects, hand drum), Adrià Grandia (acoustic and MIDI hurdy-gurdy, modular synth, laptop, aerophones), Carlos Martorell (coding, synths, motion sensors, artiphon) and a real-time reactive AI trained with religious scores.
Interdependence with Richie Hawtin: AI for humans
Holly Herndon, Matt Dryhust

In dieser Diskussion sprengen wir die binäre Trennung von Mensch und Maschine im Prozess des Musikmachens, untersuchen Möglichkeiten, wie KI-Systeme dazu beitragen könnten, dass mehr Menschen bezahlt werden, anstatt verdrängt zu werden, und diskutieren die Notwendigkeit, dass KünstlerInnen im Prozess der Entwicklung von KI-Tools teilhaben.
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.
CNMAT ODOT
John MacCallum(USA), Jeff Lubow (USA) 

In diesem Workshop geben wir eine kurze, praktische Einführung in ODOT, eine dynamische, multiparadigmatische Programmierumgebung, die mit Open Sound Control arbeitet. ODOT wurde Anfang 2007 an der CNMAT entwickelt und hat sich zu einer leistungsstarken und robusten Suite von Werkzeugen entwickelt, die in einer Vielzahl von Kontexten nützlich sind, von der Signalverarbeitung für Gesten bis hin zur computergestützten Komposition. Während dieses Workshops werden wir den aktuellen Stand des Pakets und die Zukunft des Projekts diskutieren.
The QuBits VR Space
Jon Kulpa

Jon Kulpa is available to host a live online demonstration/performance of QuBits VR. The QuBits project is a virtual reality (VR) environment built by the composer that offers an expanded medium for musical experience with integrated space and visuals.  The environment was designed to explore a musical aesthetic valuing sound mass, spatial sound, evolving sound, and algorithmically generated sonic structures.  The user of the VR system plays a key role in shaping these musical elements.  The user first discovers what behaviors are possible through exploration and chance encounters.  They can then shape each discovered behavior with nuance if they choose.  The system provides a unique experience each time it is run.  The sounds are a mix of real world sampled sound, granular synthesis, and real-time generated synthetic sound.
Synthesizing / Distancing - Video
UMPRUM, Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (CZ)

Two recent installations exhibited in different locations in Prague introduce the works The Platform, by Shota Tsikoliya and David Kovařík, and Photosynthetic Landscapes, by Veronika Miškovicová, which were created at the Studio of Architecture III at UMPRUM, the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague.
The Garden of Curiosity
Mariano Sardón (AR), Mariano Sigman (AR/ES), Marcos Trevisán (AR), Bruno Mesz (AR), Intercambios Transorgánicos (AR), Sebastian Tedesco (AR), Leandro Garber (AR), Tomás Ciccola (AR), Lucía Kuschnir (AR), Josefina Schmipp (AR), Viviana Ramos Di Tommaso (AR), Diego De Benedetto (AR), Maximiliano Perez (AR)

The Garden of Curiosity is a “visual and sound objects” web support scenario. By clicking on specific objects, visitors can access audiovisual content corresponding to different Art-Science research projects linked to Muntref Arte y Ciencia. 
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?
Performance of CORAIL
Edmund Campion

There is no pre-defined score for CORAIL (CORAL). CORAIL is a software environment that performs audio analysis of an incoming live signal that generates and organizes sound through the computer and the CORAIL algorithms. Persistence inside any one environment causes the program to move toward greater sound generation and machine autonomy.
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.
ORCHIDEA with Composer and Lead Researcher at CNMAT
Carmine Cella

Carmine Cella is available to host a live online demonstration/workshop for ORCHIDEA, a framework for static and dynamic computer-assisted music orchestration. Orchestration consists largely of choosing combinations of sounds, instruments, and timbres that support the narrative of a piece of music. The ORCHIDEA project assists composers during the orchestration process by automatically searching for the best combinations of orchestral sounds to match a target sound, after embedding it in a high-dimensional feature space.
Journey by MUNTREF Arte y Ciencia

In order to protect the public health against the spread of COVID-19, our National Government established the regulations of social, preventive and mandatory isolation. Argentine citizens must remain in their homes and may make minimum and essential outings of no more than 500 meters. In our Journey Delivery Video, students, researchers, and other participants of MUNTREF Arte y Ciencia, made a 500-meter journey walk in their close surroundings, showing fragments of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and of it's different landscapes.