Mozilla Hub

Design for Performance and Interaction / Interactive Architecture Lab HUB

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

IAL Hub Space showcases student projects. The space takes a critical stance on developments across art, science, and technology to spearhead thinking in the 21st century. The projects presented are films and virtual prototypes. We have come to realize that now, more than ever, boundaries which define the arts and sciences no longer hold. To address the changing political, ecological, and technological landscapes, we engage in dialogues that are unfamiliar or uncomfortable.

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.

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

A Fungus Garden Manifesto (2020)

Museo del Hongo community

How would a fungus-only garden look like? A fungus garden Manifesto calls upon the local community of mycophiles that have collaborated within Museo del Hongo throughout its history. Converging perspectives from a variety of disciplines and research, in this round table we bring together ideas on how can we shape a sustainable, mycocentric future.

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.

Mapu Kufüll

Sebastián Calfuqueo (CL)

Digital video installation that reflects on the cosmological perspective of the Mapuche people in relation to mushroom harvesting. The artist will showcase his recent investigation at Museo del Hongo through an animated ‘Tale’, portraying mushrooms as a symbol for resistance for their communities post the “Araucania Pacification” period.

Sun Sun (2020)

Konantü (Courtney Smith & Iván Navarro)

In these dark pandemic times, Sun Sun invites us to invoke the sun and its light through an interactive poetry game that defies syntax logics, imagining new ones under a limited series of 8 words and their mutual combinations. The exhibition includes a set of 64 cards to print and play at home, a selection of songs that are related to the sun and videos to demonstrate and exemplify how the game goes.

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.

360º tour of Vigilantes (2018)

Iván Navarro (CL)

Immersive footage of Vigilantes, Museo del Hongo’s second exhibition at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Valdivia. Three species of mushrooms were grown from scratch and displayed in the museum’s underground vaults, with illumination from Navarro’s light sculptures, to create a biomimetic exhibition related to the cultivation of fungus gardens by ants and termites.

Local Fungi That Look Like Human Body Parts (2020)

Juan Ferrer (CL)

Digital installation composed of 3D models and a video that puts human body parts in conversation with a variety of mushrooms that grow in Chile. Our bodies are a fertile substrate for a complex microbiota that makes us who we are; this work aims to recreate a fungus garden within them, and to generate consciousness about the interconnection mycelium provides in nature.

AIxMusic

In diesem Jahr konzentriert sich das AIxMusic-Festival auf einen tiefen Einblick in die neuesten Forschungsergebnisse und künstlerischen Praktiken, die in Verbindung mit künstlicher Intelligenz entwickelt wurden und legt besonderes Augenmerk auf deren Potenzial, die vernetzte Zusammenarbeit zwischen Musikern aus der Ferne zu erleichtern.

A Utopian Post-Colonial Future – Victoria, Australia 2027

Melbourne School of Design (MSD), The University of Melbourne (AU)

Can we imagine a utopia that creates a post-colonial social and political framework and overcomes the concept of land as commodity, inspired by indigenous concepts of relationship to country? Emerge yourself in VR to engage in a multitude of future scenarios that sketch out the potential to reflect on these questions.

AFTER PARTY: MEET THE CREATORS

Garden Bavaria After Party Hosted by XR HUB Bavaria Supervisors: XR HUB Bavaria: René Kasperek, Silke Schmidt

Have fun and mingle! XR HUB Bavaria is hosting an after party in Mozilla Hubs, where you can meet the creators and artists of Garden Bavaria. Let´s talk, discuss and ideate with virtual drinks at a virtual bar and find out fascinating insights or connect with like-minded people!

We Come From Our Stories I and II

Platfontein is the residence of the !Xun and Khwe people, first-nation inhabits from Southern Africa. FSAH, under the direction of the former Programme Manager MC Roodt, initiated a youth print-project, in partnership with the William Humphreys Arts Gallery and the Isibindi Youth Centre. Fourteen young artists translated traditional narratives into linocut editions during April of 2017. The print portfolio was titled Ons Kom Vanaf Ons Stories (We Come From Our Stories). All proceeds from sales were funnelled back to the Platfontein artists to support their continued growth as voices from the next generation.

Ars Electronicas Garden Newcastle: We Guide You Tour

University of Newcastle (AU), FASTLab (AU), Art Thinking Australia (AU)

A tour of the Ars Electronica Garden Newcastle that focuses on the overarching theme of Ecology that spans both the natural and artificial world. Inspired by the Ars Electronica We Guide You format, the tour also provides a unique lens into the Newcastle culture.

Opening of Ars Electronica Garden Newcastle

University of Newcastle (AU), FASTLab (AU), Art Thinking Australia (AU)

Official opening of BIOMES & Ars Electronica Newcastle Garden 2020.

WADS (↑ ← → ↓) Exhibition in Mozilla Hub

RISE ITICA (CY)

WADS, a digital garden of commoning formed by 21 local artists, sets out to explore the potential of digital hubs as grounds of artistic and technological co-creation. The digital exhibition is created and experienced in the online environment of Mozilla Hubs and will be accessible through the Ars Electronica Digital Platform.

create your world 2020

Kepler's Garden am Campus der JKU

Das Festival create your world lädt junge Menschen und Junggebliebene ein, soziale und kreative Nähe zu schaffen – mit physischer Distanz. In einem Netzwerk des Austauschs werden Projekte, Ideen und Talente geteilt. Diese Plattform für Bildung, Experimente und verschiedene Zukunftsszenarien wird eine große Vielfalt junger Expert*innen präsentieren, die alle voneinander lernen können.

Garden Exhibition

Kepler's Garden am Campus der JKU

Die Garden Exhibtion am Campus der JKU in Linz widmet sich dem Zusammenspiel von Kunst, Forschung und Industrie/Design. Ausgewählte Kunstwerke greifen die Metapher des Gartens spielerisch und in unterschiedlicher Weise auf.