Highlights

AIxMusic - Artificial Stupidity

Moisés Horta-Valenzuela (MX/US), Artemi-Maria Gioti (GR), Ali Nikrang (AT), Alex Braga (IT) and Portrait XO (US)

Das Panel "Artificial Stupididity" lädt KünstlerInnen des Ars Electronica Festivals ein, ihre Erfahrungen im Kontext von AIxMusic auszutauschen. Das Thema KI bekommt aktuell große Aufmerksamkeit in den Medien und wird kontrovers behandelt.

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.

sound:frame & Pausanio virtual – Area for Virtual Art

sound:frame / Eva Fischer (AT), Marijn Bril (NL), Angie Pohl (AT)

sound:frame together with Pausanio presents the Area for Virtual Art – an online platform for digital art and virtual formats. Discover current artistic approaches in virtual exhibitions and meet people in discussion programs and live events to exchange thoughts and create new ideas and concepts. The Area for Virtual Art develops into an international hub, giving a platform to current digital art forms and connecting people all over the world.

STARTS Prize Forum: Andrea Ling

Andrea Ling (CA)

Andrea Ling, Gewinnerin des diesjährigen Grand Prize für Artistic Exploration (künstlerische Erforschung), stellt ihr Siegerprojekt Design by Decay, Decay by Design vor, eine Reihe von Artefakten, die gestalteten Verfall zeigen, entwickelt für die Ginkgo Bioworks Creative Residency 2019. Sie stellt vor, wie man eine Welt ohne Verschwendung gestalten kann und spricht über ihren künstlerischen und kreativen Prozess.

STARTS Prize Forum: Olga Kisseleva

Olga Kisseleva (RU)

Olga Kisseleva (RU), Gewinnerin des diesjährigen Grand Prize für innovative Zusammenarbeit, und Andrea Ling (CA), Gewinnerin des Grand Prize für künstlerische Erforschung, geben Einblick in ihre Praxis.

Art Thinking Forum: Humanizing Technology

Mara Balestrini (IT), Olga Kisseleva (RU), Alexander Mankowsky (DE), Hideaki Ogawa (JP/AT)

Art Thinking ist eine Diskussionsplattform zur künftigen Rolle der Kunst im Kontext von Industrie, Gesellschaft und Ökologie. Das Forum wird vom innovativen Kommunikationsdesign-Unternehmen Hakuhodo unterstützt. Zusammen mit dem Interesse der Ars Electronica an neuen Technologien und deren Auswirkungen auf die Gesellschaft ergänzt ihr zukunftsweisender kreativer Ansatz das Thema des Panels: die Zukunft der Kunst und wie innovative und kreative künstlerische Beispiele zur Humanisierung der Technologie und zur Verbesserung der Gesellschaft genutzt werden können.

Postmasters presents Nicola Verlato, Donato Piccolo and Kristin Lucas

Paulina Bebecka - Postmasters Gallery, PostmastersROMA, Rome (IT)

​In the current uncertain climate of physical disconnection, hyper digital connection and distortion of life as we know it, I wanted to express that humanity is still at the very core of our increasingly technological experience on earth. The chosen artists bring about an examination of reality and the need to cherish our humanity through various digital media, such as artificial intelligence, 3D scanning, 3D gaming software, generative 360 WebXR animation, drones, and techno.

Garage Digital: Worlds beyond Worlds

Garage Museum of Contemporary Art / Nikita Nechaev, Moscow (RU)

Works and practices of several artists and collectives, that participate in Garage Digital program, reflect on the different types of networks, infrastructures, ecologies and algorithms, and pose questions of the possible tactics and strategies to reassemble these systems with new types of communities, modes of rationality and production in mind —cunning, poetic, speculative and emergent.

COVID-19 Crisis: Wie könnte/kann sich die Gesellschaft ändern?

Walter Ötsch, Renata Schmidtkunz, Antonia Birnbaum, Evelyn Bodenmeier, Leonhard Dobusch, Sighard Neckel

Walter Ötsch entwickelt zwei Szenarien für die Zukunft der Gesellschaft: ein positives und ein negatives und gibt einen Überblick, welche positiven und negativen Vorstellungen über die Zukunft im Workshop erörtert wurde. Gemeinsam werden Hindernisse und Optionen für die Zukunft diskutiert.

Heterotopias

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

Roundtable + Q&A - As we collectively detangle our own perceived ‘normal’, how might this shape speculative design and the worlds that come with it? Is Heterotopia an alternative to the utopia/dystopia narrative?

re.riddle presents Falling Up

re.riddle, California, San Francisco (US)

re.riddle presents unique programming showcased in site-specific exhibitions and pop-up events worldwide. The itinerant gallery curates socially engaging and multidisciplinary exhibitions of contemporary art. Its mission is to contribute to the discourse on contemporary art in thought provoking and playfully subversive ways. Via new modes of production, reception and consumption, re.riddle places an emphasis on the whimsical, in hopes that art continues to arouse curiosity and promote an awareness of its profound impact on our daily surroundings and lives.

Guided virtual tour of Popa Nan neighborhood of H3 Studio

A guided live tour of H3 Studio and surroundings, situated in a special part of Bucharest that was on the periphery in the early 20th century and is a place of real estate development in 2020. The urban landscape combines residential houses from the early 20th century with factories and warehouses, communist blocks of flats with new residential and office buildings, in a space trying to find its identity for more than a hundred years.

Who am I?

A human-robot performance Who Am I? is a performative art installation that traces the relationship between a robot and the human body, between programmed and spontaneous, reproducible and irreproducible. The project takes the myth of Pygmalion as a starting point and investigates the relationship between creator/creation and their perception in a world of AI. Who Am I? is based on the interaction between human and robot, by mirroring the relationship between natural and artificial as a deep meditation on human nature.

AI x Music Festival: Bot Bop Musikalisches Gestalten und Innovation mit AI

Andrew Claes (BE) and Dago Sondervan (NL)

Musical phrases are fed in real-time to a live coded machine learning model. The emerging virtual agent reacts and is again reacted to, creating an organic feedback loop. Utilising improvisational, instant composing and algorithmic musical techniques, listen to the duo becoming a trio during the course of this performance.

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.

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.

Rotten Body (2020)

Alexandra Mabes (CL), Nicolás Oyarce (CL), Ana Rosa Ibáñez (CL)

Dance installation inspired by the decomposing course of action which fungi encourages. The shape of the body is deformed through the materials to portray the transformation and reconfiguration of matter in the decay.

Adriatic Garden

Robertina Šebjanič (SI), Gjino Sutic (HR)

Adriatic Garden nimmt die ZuschauerInnen mit auf eine Reise durch das Adriatische Meer.

SEAWEED SALON

Lichen Kelp, Jessie French

A two-part workshop series by the Seaweed Appreciation Society International that invites you on a field trip to another world - an alternate seaweed reality, where edible algae bioplastics are mixed up alongside refreshing seaweed cocktails. By speculating on a radically sustainable seaweed future, we will be asking if biomutualism can play a part in our everyday lives in the future. A radical sustainable seaweed intervention has never felt more urgent.