Scientists

KI-Wahrheitsmaschine

LIT Law Lab, Johannes Kepler Universität (AT)

Vom „gläsernen Bürger“ und „Social Scoring“, über KI-gestützte Wahrheitsfindung im Gerichtssaal, bis zum maschinell erstellten Bescheid: Die Digitalisierung der Verwaltung und der Gerichtsbarkeit kennt viele Facetten. Sie bedarf nicht nur einer Betrachtung des technisch Möglichen, sondern auch des rechtlich Erlaubten und rechtspolitisch Gewollten. Vor diesem Hintergrund widmet sich das LIT Law Lab mit zwei Installationen den (grund- und datenschutz-) rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen, Problemen einer sowie Lösungsvorschlägen für eine digitalisierten Vollziehung.

Biocomputer Rhythms

Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR), University of Plymouth (UK), Eduardo Reck Miranda (BR/UK)

Biocomputer Rhythms is a piece for prepared piano and percussion. It is a musical duet between a pianist and an intelligent interactive biocomputer. The biocomputer listens to the piano and produces musical responses during the performance. The responses are played on percussion instruments and on the piano by the pianist. The piano is prepared with electromagnetic actuators positioned inside the instrument to vibrate its strings. Electromagnetic actuators are also used to vibrate percussion instruments.

Performance Workshop: Enacting Innovation

Judith Igelsböck (AT), Friedrich Kirschner (DE), Sarah Buser (CH), Mónica Rikić (ES), Leoni Voegelin (CH), Tomás Montes Massa (CL), Laura Zoelzer (DE)

Die partizipative Inszenierung "Enacting Innovation" setzt sich mit dem sozio-materiellen Gefüge auseinander, das gegenwärtige Innovationspraktiken umgibt.

Dancing Water - sichtbare elektrostatische Energie

Leon Kainz (AT)

Diese Installation basiert auf einem einfachen physikalischen Prinzip, das mittels Wasser elektrostatische Aufladungen erzeugt. Die geladenen Wassertropfen wirbeln in dynamischen Bahnen um Kupferstangen herum und reagieren auf nahe befindliche Körper. Die gesammelte Ladung kann eine Glühbirne zum Leuchten bringen und zentimeterlange Blitze erzeugen.

The Wild State

Campus

THE WILD STATE is the title of this year’s Kunstuniversität Campus activities at Hauptplatz Linz during Ars Electronica Festival 2020 from 9. – 13. September 2020. Existing since 2002, the intention of the Campus format is to invite outstanding international universities working in the academic fields of media arts and design. This year with an exhibition with contributions by various partner universities, as well as the departments Interface Cultures, Visual Communication, Fashion&Technology, Art Education, and Design: Tech.Tex. Special events comprise façade projection “Interfacing Hauptplatz”, the Internet flea market “Yami-ichi”, discursive format “Agora Digitalis” and the top notch nightline “Sound Campus”.

JKU LIT @ Ars Electronica

Digitale Revolution, demographischer Wandel, Klimakrise – die komplexen Konfliktfelder unserer Zeit bedürfen einer akademischen Landschaft voller Grenzüberschreitungen. Das Manifest „Innovation durch Universitas“ ist ein Aufruf für eine neue, transdisziplinäre Universitätskultur. Es bildet den Auftakt einer Allianz für kreative Innovation zwischen der Johannes Kepler Universität Linz und der Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien.

The Night Sky: Unveiling What Only the Dark Reveals

Open Science Hub - Portugal, Municipality of Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo (PT)

Open Science Hub - Portugal (OSHub-PT; Plataforma de Ciência Aberta) is a social innovation project that brings together science, technology and innovation with the daily life of local and regional communities, supporting schools and societal actors in tackling local relevant challenges. It is a project of the Municipality of Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo, in collaboration with Leiden University.

Achaeoscillator_Towards incorporeal forms of sensing listening and gaze

Terra Australis Ignota Research Group (CL) with Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC)

Achæoscillator displays the drastic weather conditions of the southernmost island in the world on a virtualized representation of the end/beginning of the Americas. A one-person experience, where the research presents traces and connections between the ancestors of the Yagán community, the Kawesqar and Selk’nam and the Antarctic, Scotia and South America continental plates, offering an inestimable and uncontrollable source of Gaia's power.

Speculating on the Future

Centre for Fine Arts (BOZAR) (BE)

BOZAR explores the role of scientific and technological research as an engine for creativity. The meeting of science, technology and the arts is the favoured basis for finding innovative responses to the social, ecological, and economic challenges that Europe will be facing in the near future. BOZAR joins the Ars Electronica Festival with its own interpretation of the Kepler’s garden, through the curation of 3 online events under umbrella name "Speculating on the future".

Art and Nanotechnology

gnration (PT) and INL – International Iberian Nanotechnology Institute (PT / EU)

gnration presents a virtual tour of The Invention of Sense by Marcel Weber. The exhibition explores extrasensory perception and a new sensuality. In the featured works, as well as in their presentation, Sensing, Discovering and Exciting are discussed, stimulated and elevated. The exhibition takes the premise further by extending the established restrictions of gallery space and turning the room itself into a medium and a stimulating, visceral experience.