Industry
The Philosopher’s Roundtable: Social Impact and Ethics in AI
FNDMT (PT)
Roundtable: Garden Porto by FNDMNT ventures to the beyond: they’re asking the big questions and sharing the big stories in a series of roundtables with international and Porto based though leaders.
State of Presence (How to find Opportunity in Chaos)
FNDMT (PT)
This roundtable focuses on how the innovation industry is overcoming the challenges of this crisis through collaboration, empathy and more.
Meet the Makers
FNDMT (PT)
Let us introduce you to Porto, a city of makers. Artists, creators, artisans and technologists will give you an insight into their work and creative spaces in this video series.
Art for Future: CO-IMAGINATIONS and CO-PRODUCTIONS for TOMORROW’S WORLD
Filmuniversity Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF (DE), Institute for Art and Innovation (DE)
Workshop - The zone that enables life and makes the planet unique is thinner than previously thought. How should we shape the future positively when conventional visions mainly depict hopeless and bleak dystopias? What we collectively want, what we can imagine, is strongly shaped by the media that surrounds us in our visual-addictive century. Can we imagine futures that serve the common good as well as the regeneration of the planet? How can we create synergies to work less, but be productive together?
Transmedia Storytelling: Camilla Plastic Ocean Plan - Exhibition Opening + Guided Tour Video
Filmuniversity Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF (DE)
Exhibition Opening + Guided Tour Video - The project started at Filmuniversity Babelsberg because the worldwide media often present environmental problems in a way that makes us feel gloomy and hopeless. Consequently, people start ignoring facts. However, what about the future we want to live in? Can’t we use the expertise of storytelling in movies to design pictures of a desirable world? New things are very often created by a combination of things that have never been combined before.
Supraspectives
Quadrature (DE)
Audiovisual installation, developed with local (citizen) science and astronomy community during an Art-and-Science Residency at the Medialab of Tabakalera, Spain.
Tabakalera San Sebastian and Ars Electronica Linz
Tabakalera (ES)
Tabakalera is celebrating together with Ars Electronica its 5 years celebration. This installation will be the centerpiece of the program to celebrate the fifth anniversary, during the weekend of Sept. 11 and 12.
Uncertainty with AI-terity
Koray Tahiroğlu (FI/TR)
The composition Uncertainty keeps the musician in a hesitant state of performance, providing a non-rigid but identifiable musical events, followed by ever shifting new sounds. Uncertainty is a composition written for the AI- terity instrument that comprises computational features of a particular artificial intelligence (AI) model to generate relevant audio samples for real- time audio synthesis. The unusual behaviour of the Al-terity puts the performer in an uncertain state during performance. Together with being able to move through timbre-changes in sonic space, the emergence of new sounds allows the musician to explore a whole new range of musical possibilities. Composition turns into a continuous state of playing, reformulating an idiomatic relationship with the Al-terity and opening up a fresh variety of musical demands.
#festivalstories
Lennard Barth (AT), Celine Fahrngruber (AT), Samuel Gerersdorfer (AT), Joshua Haiden (AT), Elias Illig (AT), Sophie Kaufmann (AT), Irina Pitterle (AT) Xaver Quintus (AT)
Junge Filmemacher*innen, junge Talente, Young Professionals sind aufgefordert, Minidokumentarfilme zu drehen, die ihre Perspektiven und Eindrücke von den Themen des Festivals festhalten. Anstelle einer allgemeinen Festivaldokumentation werden acht Kurzgeschichten produziert, die verschiedene Slots und Protagonist*innen enthalten.
Baukasten der Zukunft
Louise Amcha (AT), Hannah Ertl (AT), Leonid Stanislav Lang (AT) und Marlene Urban (AT)
Der Baukasten der Zukunft ist ein interaktives Gedankenexperiment einer jungen Künstler*innen-Gruppe. Das Projekt besteht aus einem großen, einladenden Holzmodell einer Landschaft, in welcher die Besucher*innen ihre eigene Stadt planen können. Ergänzend dazu baut ein Computerprogramm per Knopfdruck unter denselben Bedingungen auch eine Version einer Stadt. Anschließend gilt zu bewerten, welche Vor- und Nachteile jede Version mit sich bringt und welche Lösung die beste für unsere Zukunft wäre.
S+T+ARTS Talk: Art & Tech for Urban Resilience
How can artists help to create new collective imaginaries and participatory systems, spaces for reflection and criticism for the future of our cities? How can urban planners and policy makers be inspired by these scenarios and reflections on urban citizenship in the light of digital innovation? Discover the full line-up of this talk.
Expanded Animation Symposium at UCA
The symposium Synaesthetic Syntax examines the interactions between animation and audio from a scientific perspective. Researchers and artists were asked to submit contributions on the subject of Synaesthetic Syntax: Sounding Animation/Visualising Audio. This scientific/artistic survey is kicked off by the media artist Rose Bond, who offers insights into her artistic work in public spaces, followed by panel discussions on the topics of "Hearing Color Seeing Sound", "In Front of Your Eyes and Ears", and "The Kinaesthetics of Music and Vision".
S+T+ARTS at UCA: Understanding complex data in COVID times + Fashion: Materialising Numbers
As a specialist arts institution, UCA is 100% creative. UCA students develop their skills and thinking in environments that replicate the studios found within the creative industries, alongside peers on courses spanning arts, business and technology.Oscar-winning film makers and animators, world-renowned fashion designers, television presenters and Turner-Prize nominees are just some of UCA's high-profile graduates who have enriched the world with their creative talents. Taught and guided by experienced, industry-connected academic staff, students reap the benefits of studying at the highest-ranked creative specialist in the UK.
Leonardo S+T+ARTS: A conversation on "What's next? Art-Science ideas emerging from lockdown."
Camille Baker (CA/UK), Danielle Siembieda (US), Aurelie Delater (FR) and Marie Albert (FR)
During lockdown, Leonardo and STARTS collaborated to exchange and reflect, together with their wider communities, on how COVID-19 is impacting Art-Science/Art-Technology innovation and co-creation.
Machine folk music school
Bob L. T. Sturm (US)
Die "Machine Folk Music School" wird von Bob L. T. Sturm (US) per Videokonferenz geleitet. Er lehrt eine KI-generierte Volksmelodie in der klanglichen Tradition. Alle Musikinstrumente sind willkommen.
Folk the Algorithms
Bob L. T. Sturm (US)
Sturm builds, learns from and collaborates with AI systems trained on transcriptions of traditional music. These systems effectively generate an unlimited supply of new tunes imitating traditional ones. Sometimes these tunes are perfect as they are, and sometimes they are imperfect in interesting ways, but they all lack the credentials of “real” traditional tunes.
Musik als Erlebnis im Zeitalter von künstlicher Intelligenz und kreativen Computern
Kingston University and Durham University (UK), New York University (US), Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Stuttgart (DE), University of Music and Performing Arts of Vienna (AT), KTH Stockholm (SE)
In diesem Panel werden wir erörtern, wie KI menschliche Kreativität fördern beziehungsweise einschränken kann. Wie kann KI beim Musizieren eingesetzt werden? Sollte KI überhaupt zum Musizieren verwendet werden? Sollte mit KI gemachte Musik einen Warnhinweis tragen? Inwieweit ist KI nur ein Marketinginstrument? Was kann KI zur eigenen kreativen Praxis beigetragen? Was sind die ethischen Fragen im Zusammenhang mit KI beim Musizieren? Welche potentiellen Gefahren birgt die KI für die Musik (MusikerInnen als auch HörerInnen)? Wie könnten wir Risiken reduzieren?
DïaloG Livestream
Refik Anadol (TR) and Maurice Benayoun (FR)
DïaloG is an urban media art installation developed by Maurice Benayoun (MoBen/CityU HK) and Refik Anadol: In the public space (L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain) two “living” entities face each other. They don’t look like the living beings we know. They don’t speak any language we know. They are aliens, strangers, immigrants. Facing each other they gradually mutate.
DïaloG
Refik Anadol (TR) and Maurice Benayoun (FR)
DïaloG is an urban media art installation developed by Maurice Benayoun (MoBen/CityU HK) and Refik Anadol: In the public space (L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain) two “living” entities face each other. They don’t look like the living beings we know. They don’t speak any language we know. They are aliens, strangers, immigrants. Facing each other they gradually mutate.
MindSpaces platform
Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH) (GR), Maastricht University (NL)
The MindSpaces platform, encompassing the technologies of the project, will be demonstrated, showing how to design solutions for both indoor and outdoor environments using data from emotional, behavioral and discourse analysis.
