Democracy

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.

COVID-19 Crisis: Optionen der Zivilgesellschaft und der Sozialen Medien

Walter Ötsch, Renata Schmidtkunz, Leonhard Dobusch, Evelyn Bodenmeier

Experten und Expertinnen präsentieren ihre Sichtweisen, fordern einander heraus und vermitteln Anregungen zur Zukunft unserer Gesellschaft.

The Digital Anthropology Lab project

Live sessions Daily live stream that will run for an hour. During the hour of streaming different events will take place which will only be announced on the day. Many visitors can log in at once and will be able to switch cameras and views to experience different aspects of the space. The sessions are also meant as Q/A for people to ask questions about the Draping Interfaces project and the Digital Anthropology Labs.

COVID-19 Crisis: Zukunftszenarien

Walter Ötsch, Renata Schmidtkunz, Sighard Neckel, Antonia Birnbaum

Der Schock durch das Coronavirus wird die Gesellschaft verändern, und es wird nicht möglich sein, zum alten "Normalzustand" zurückzukehren. Es werden zwei Szenarien skizziert: (1) Im negativen Szenario wird der Coronavirus-Schock oberflächlich gesehen wenig Veränderung bringen, aber tatsächlich wird er die politische Hülle, die den Kapitalismus umgibt, grundlegend umgestalten. Dies wird in Analogie zu den Entwicklungen nach der Finanzkrise von 2008 erklärt, bei der die Eliten, die die Krise verursacht haben, nicht gefordert und zur Rechenschaft gezogen wurden. In diesem durchaus realistischen Szenario kann sich eine neue autoritäre Form des Kapitalismus herausbilden, in der die neue Macht für die Staaten auch in neue Formen der Überwachung ausgeweitet wird. (2) Das positive Szenario knüpft an viele historische Erfahrungen an, in denen die Welt nach Krisen verbessert wurde. Wir erleben derzeit eine Neugestaltung des politischen Handelns, die durchaus positive Momente hervorbringt, wie neue Formen des kollektiven Gesprächs über Ängste, neue Formen der Solidarität mit Fremden und die Erfahrung, wie wichtig und mächtig Politik sein kann. Vielleicht ist es in diesem Szenario möglich, den Coronavirus-Schock mit der Sorge über die kommenden ökologischen Krisen zu verbinden und wirksame Schritte zu deren Eindämmung zu unternehmen.

Symposium “Perspektiven politischer Bildung”

Arbeiterkammer OÖ (AT), Pädagogische Hochschule OÖ (AT)

Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) bzw. Artificial Intelligence (AI) ist allgegenwärtig, ohne dass wir sie immer bewusst wahrnehmen. Sie erleichtert uns schon viele Jahre den Alltag, wenn beispielsweise das Handy mittels Gesichtserkennung entsperrt wird oder uns individuelle Werbung durch das Dickicht des Internets steuert. KI kann uns Menschen manipulieren.

COVID-19-Krise

Walter Ötsch (AT), Renata Schmidtkunz (AT)

Experten und Expertinnen präsentieren ihre Sichtweisen, fordern einander heraus und vermitteln Anregungen zur Zukunft unserer Gesellschaft.

Live Program of Telluric Vibrations, UCLA Botanical Gardens – Los Angeles

Enjoy the extensive live Program of Telluric Vibrations, UCLA Botanical Gardens – Los Angeles

The Platform

UMPRUM, Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (CZ)

The crisis of recent months is forcing us to rethink topics that we until recently took for granted. One of them is the idea of public space as an open platform for meeting people and exchanging ideas, a space without borders that is suddenly confronted with security rules. Just as these risks first affected the public areas of airports and later social public events, now the public space in general is affected by strengthen security rules.

COPY PASTE Curator's Tour

Antonio Roberts (UK)

Video recorded lecture with Q&A from the curator Antonio Roberts will guide us through each work at the Piksel Cyber Salon exhibition. If you are an artist, then you have no doubt copied the work of others. This copying can range from using pages from a magazine in a collage to adopting the style of another artist, or simply being inspired by their work. This natural process of copying, taught to us at every stage of our artistic development, is burdened with a very complex and messy set of laws and social conventions which define and limit how we can use copying in our practices. They don't account for exceptions or nuances, and come from a historical world in which artworks were scarce physical objects, not translating well into a world in which culture is abundant and can be accessed and copied at will.

Digital Exhibition Sojourner 2020 – A conversation among all artists

Through the ages, artists, writers, and filmmakers have been inspired by space. Their visionary depictions of space as an environment for people have influenced the scientific and engineering feats we know so well today. How will artists continue to inspire the future of space exploration? What are the opportunities and challenges in the creation of art for our interplanetary futures?

COPY PASTE Exhibition at Piksel Cyber Salon

The COPY/PASTE exhibition features the work of nine artists and art collectives who make copying a core aspect of their work. Taking the form of an online exhibition at Piksel Cyber Salon, it aims to show that copying is natural, and to re-think how we create/share/copy and paste. If you are an artist, then you have no doubt copied the work of others. This copying can range from using pages from a magazine in a collage to adopting the style of another artist, or simply being inspired by their work. This natural process of copying, taught to us at every stage of our artistic development, is burdened with a very complex and messy set of laws and social conventions which define and limit how we can use copying in our practices. They don't account for exceptions or nuances, and come from a historical world in which artworks were scarce physical objects, not translating well into a world in which culture is abundant and can be accessed and copied at will.

On a Journey with Alma

Giulia Tomasello (IT)

Alma ist ein tragbarer Biosensor zur Überwachung von Vaginalsekreten. Wir engagieren uns für die Unterstützung und Aufklärung von Frauen über ihre Intimgesundheit durch Technologie. Giulia Tomasello, Designerin und Mitbegründerin von Alma, führt durch die Forschung und Prototypentwicklung am Fraunhofer IZM TexLab in Berlin.

Digital Exhibition: Sojourner 2020

In 2019, the Space Exploration Initiative announced an open call to invite artists to submit artworks for an exciting ISS launch opportunity. After three rounds of reviews, nine groups of artists are selected to be on board Sojourner2020, an international art payload. For this year's Ars Electronica In Kepler’s garden online program, we created a digital spaceship to share the diverse portfolio from the initiative. Audiences are invited to immerse themselves in this digital world, walk around and encounter each other.

Eebo Video Tutorial

eebo (AT)

Eebo ist eine Videoplattform in Uganda, die kreativ Schaffende dabei unterstützen soll, ihre Inhalte an ZuschauerInnen zu vermarkten. Die Strategie von Eebo besteht darin, so viele öffentliche WiFi-Hotspots wie möglich zu öffnen, damit die NutzerInnen ohne Internetkosten auf diese Inhalte zugreifen können.

Datasets vs Mindsets

Dmitry Bulatov, Lev Manovich, Alla Mitrofanova, Helena Nikonole, Daria Parkhomenko, Yanina Prudenko, Olga Vad

Public talks by the leading Russian-speaking thinkers and philosophers of new media.

Datasets vs Mindsets: Performance Program

Katarina Melik-Ovsepian + Nikita Prudnikov (aka monekeer) (RU), Maria Molokova (RU), Kira Weinshtein (RU), Nikolay Golikov, Yulia Glukhove (holoherz), EOLA

The project includes a one-day performance program using innovative forms of representation and interaction between online and offline formats, such as new approaches to webcasting and experimental web-interfaces, which create brand-new user experiences for online visitors.

The Woman-Machine: Performance

Golem Mécanique (FR)

Watch this performance on Ars Electronica Voyages Channel and the Livestream.

The Woman-Machine: Performance

Félicia Atkinson (FR)

Watch this performance on the Livestream.