Activists
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COSA Connector Tour Part 3
shawné michaelain holloway (US)
Engage with the third of three playlists from our COSA Connectors, exploring open-source tools for artists. We have curated useful selections from across the internet of free software to help you express your creative side. The guided tours will focus on what the tool can do, what kinds of projects you might use it for, and quick tips and tricks for getting started.
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COSA Connector Tour Part 2
Aren Davey (US)
Engage with the second of three playlists from our COSA Connectors, exploring open-source tools for artists. We have curated useful selections from across the internet of free software to help you express your creative side. The guided tours will focus on what the tool can do, what kinds of projects you might use it for, and quick tips and tricks for getting started.
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Meter machen
Maria Anna Eckerstorfer, Sabine Touzimsky-Köstler, Wolfgang Schreibelmayr, Lisa Wieder/ Kunstuniversität Linz, Projekt Abteilung Bildnerische Erziehung (AT)
Das Abstandhalten ist eine sehr wichtige Regel. Aber wie wir Menschen so sind, ergeben sich daraus Situationen, die zum Schreien komisch, super lustig oder total verwirrend sind. Am diesjährigen Ars Electronica Festival wollen wir genau solche Szenen sammeln. Schicke uns dazu ein selbst-inszeniertes Foto oder einen ganz kurzen Text über dein Erlebnis per mail und folge uns auf Instagram unter kunstuni.linz.metermachen
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future walk
Bettina Gangl (AT), Birgit Pölz (AT), Helmut Doblhofer (AT) –TeilnehmerInnen Virtual Office FAB Linz (AT)
Die jungen Leute im Virtual Office haben über Autonomie nachgedacht und darüber, wie automatisierte Prozesse und KI unser Leben in Zukunft beeinflussen werden. Mittels verschiedener Strategien visualisieren sie ihre Fantasien, Träume und Ängste. Sie lassen das Publikum bei einem Augmented-Reality-Spaziergang an ihren Gedanken und Zukunftsvisionen teilhaben.
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Tourismus von morgen
Ars Electronica, Oberösterreich Tourismus (AT)
Im Rahmen des Langzeitprojekts „Tourismus von morgen“ wurden Einreichungen aus dem Pool der Kategorie *u19 – create your world* des Prix Ars Electronica gemeinsam mit Oberösterreich Tourismus für ein Auftragsprojekt ausgewählt.
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Reparatur der Zukunft
Ö1
Mit der Initiative *Reparatur der Zukunft* will Ö1 die Fragen der 20- bis 30-Jährigen aufgreifen und ihren Ideen mehr Raum geben. Ars Electronica präsentiert zwei Projekte zu diesem Thema
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Tagtool Connect
Bei ihrem vierten Auftritt beim Festival Ars Electronica präsentieren OMAi die erste öffentliche Online-Multiplayer-Tagtool-Session, bei der sich ausgewählte internationale Künstler*innen über das Internet zusammenschließen, um spontane Projektionskunst zu schaffen.
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Journey: Adriatic Garden | aqua_forensic 2.0
Adriatic Garden | aqua_forensic 2.0 connects two places by the Adriatic Sea: Dubrovnik (HR) and Koper (SI) and gives special attention to our commitment to the values of care, compassion, environmental justice, action-taking and cooperation with the Adriatic Sea and its creatures. The project framework is the aqua_forensic, an ongoing art and science research method developed by Robertina Šebjanič (SI) and Gjino Šutić (HR), which sheds light on the presence of invisible anthropogenic chemical pollutants in the water environment.
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The SonoAdriatic tales
The Adriatic Garden will host a wide array of activities: exhibitions, installations, panel discussions, workshops, and much more, while enabling audiences to immerse themselves in the underwater world of the sea. Art, science and citizen science coalesce within the framework of Adriatic Garden | aqua_forensic 2.0, opening up a wider discussion about our solidarity and empathy with waters beyond human perception. Within the project, we would like to give special attention to the values of care, compassion, environmental justice, action-taking and cooperation with the Adriatic sea and its creatures.
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The Aqua_forensic Workshops at the Adriatic Garden
With it, we wish to help illuminate the human impact on our waters at the micro / macro level and provide a guideline to the fascinating world of aquatic flora, fauna and minerals and its plight. The aqua_forensic project is known for its special devotion and affinity to participatory engagement through workshops. We all have the capacity to pause, listen, observe and recognize the diversity and quality of the present environment. The aqua_forensic aims to encourage global and local audiences to familiarize themselves with the topics of water pollution and climate change, as well as actively engage in community work on these issues through citizen science oriented workshops. Scientific environments provide the sophisticated tools needed to undertake analysis and build predictive ecological models.
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The Sonic Adriatic Garden
In this 40-minute-long program, we will present fragments of compositions by selected artists, which showcase the above or underwater sonic scapes of the Adriatic Sea. All of the featured sound works can be listened to in their entirety within the sonoAdriatic tales program. The Sonic Adriatic Garden is a special part of the project, devoted to the sonic wilderness of the Adriatic Sea, which offers the audiences a chance to immerse themselves into under/above water soundscapes of the region. Audiences are invited to open their ears and listen to the vast array of sounds, among them the sound mapping of the Korčula Island, an artist’s reflection on the tides, the circulation of the water body, and the melodies of diving in submerged caves of the Quarner bay area. Some of the tales deal with underwater noise pollution and showcase the human sonic impact on the underwater habitat and marine life, as well as the presence of morphologies hidden in the palimpsests of memory of the places once heavily exploited in the name of urbanization, tourism and industrial progress that marks the Adriatic Sea
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The “Aquaformations” Roundtable
The round table Aquaformations, (International S.A.I.N.T. Caffe) which is part of the Adriatic Garden project, will extensively focus on the values the project aims to stress, namely care, kindness, compassion, environmental justice, action-taking, and cooperation with the Adriatic Sea and its creatures. In discussion with local and international experts and citizens, we will delve into the anthropo-socio-technological relationship with the sea, describe the impact our enterprises have on waters, as well as address the issues we have to tackle to achieve sustainable collaboration among researchers, artists, institutions and citizens, who work in the field of maritime research and conservation. We will also point out how the collaborative endeavors of artists, scientists, citizen scientists and active individuals have the potential to provide excellent support to their local communities. We will host experts on environmental law, biodiversity, marine science, artists addressing ecological / environmental topics, experts working in the commercial sector, educators and many more.
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COSA Connector Tour Part 1
Everest Pipkin (US)
Engage with the first of three playlists from our COSA Connectors, exploring open-source tools for artists. We have curated useful selections from across the internet of free software to help you express your creative side. The guided tours will focus on what the tool can do, what kinds of projects you might use it for, and quick tips and tricks for getting started.
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The “Aqua_Forensic” Exhibitions
Aqua_forensic is an artwork that will be exhibited at various locations during the Ars Electronica 2020: This includes the group exhibition Living Objects at the City Art Gallery in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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An Online Tour of Dublin’s Tech Infrastructure
Dublin is host to the European headquarters of many of the most powerful and influential tech companies of the modern era, and has become an important strategic location within the context of debates surrounding data sovereignty, privacy and security. By connecting our own personal interactions on digital platforms to the corporate offices in the city centre and to the data centres that surround the city, this tour critically engages with these debates, whilst also reflecting on our relationship with our personal data as it passes through the many visible and invisible networks that surround us.
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Axis - Harvesting isolation
Víctor Mazón Gardoqui (ES/DE)
7-day trip from Punta Arenas, 32-hour waiting in front of the Yelcho scientific station Waiting on the high seas for a favorable climatic window to continue sailing, supposes a dislocation of space and time. The parallel 66° 33′ 46″ passes in front of us. A still image exposed to 24 hours of light, on a 360° horizon. The staticity of the sea in the bay of Yelcho. An abrupt and mountainous environment added to the roar of the katabatic winds generates a rupture of perception in scale and distance. The wait. Advancing a small way to the base. Space for registration. The devices -through their sensors- capture the sense of place. A viewing angle of 46° in contrast with the spherical and immersive recording of the hertziosphere, where the alterity of bodies and anthropogenic frequencies in contrast with the autochthonous ones.
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Axis - Antena system
Víctor Mazón Gardoqui (ES/DE)
Audiovisual Immersive AR/VR piece Axis research builds a dialogue that both explores and critically addresses the sphere of Earth’s natural energy phenomena, in contrast to the human impact on Antarctica and its implications for living systems and their biopolitical interconnections. A series of actions with the first study for an ice logarithmic periodic antenna to capture the EM phenomena, combining reception/transmission through custom-made electronic devices and site-specific interventions on the Antarctic Hertzian space.
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Re-Textiles 3D
Ganit Goldstein (IL)
Das Projekt Re-Textiles 3D hat zum Ziel, ein neues Produktionssystem für die Modeindustrie zu entwickeln, das auf einem spezifischen Körperscan unter Verwendung der neuesten Tiefenkamera-Technologie basiert. Das Projekt erforscht digitale Messsysteme, die die genaue Größe bestimmter Personen ohne jegliche menschliche Berührung bestimmen können. Das Projekt verwendet recyceltes Filament, das zu 100 % aus Wasserflaschenabfällen durch ein FDM-3D-Druckverfahren hergestellt wird. Dieses fördert den Umschwung der Produktion in Richtung Kreislaufwirtschaft und nachhaltiger Systeme.
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aqua_forensic - Underwater Interception of Biotweaking in Aquatocene
Robertina Šebjanič (SI), Gjino Šutić (HR)
aqua_forensic beleuchtet die unsichtbaren anthropogenen pharmazeutischen Schadstoffe - Rückstände des menschlichen Konsums. Das Projekt verbindet Kunst/Wissenschaft/Citizen Science in einer "Jagd nach einem Monster" und eröffnet die Diskussion über unsere Solidarität und Empathie mit Gewässern jenseits der menschlichen Wahrnehmung.
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Hybrid Living Materials
The Mediated Matter Group (INT)
Hybrid Living Materials (HLMs) weisen auf eine aufregende Zukunft für DesignerInnen an der Schnittstelle von Biologie und Technologie hin, wenn es darum geht, Produkte zu entwickeln, die auf eine bestimmte Form sowie auf ein bestimmtes Material, eine bestimmte chemische und sogar genetische Zusammensetzung zugeschnitten sind.