Ecology

AI x Ecology

Carla Gomes (US/PT), Tega Brain (AU), Mark Coeckelbergh (BE), Lynn Kaack (DE), Stafano Nativi (IT), Claire Monteleoni (US), Martina Mara (AT)

Das Panel AIxEcology befasst sich mit der Bedeutung computergesteuerter Systeme für Ökologie und Umwelt. Künstliche Intelligenz kann eingesetzt werden, um Wasser zu sparen, den Artenverlust zu stoppen oder bestimmte Pflanzen im Feld ausfindig zu machen. Die optimierte Überwachung von Ökosystemen kann wesentlich dazu beigetragen, die Risiken des Klimawandels zu verringern und diesen entgegenzusteuern, zumal immer mehr Projekte versuchen, Daten und künstliche Intelligenz dafür zu nutzen.

FOR FOREST - The Unending Attraction of Nature in DEEP SPACE 8K

Gernot Paulus (AT), Klaus Littmann (CH), Philipp Zebedin (AT), Günter Koren (AT), Roland Haring (AT), Roland Aigner (AT), Ulf Scherling (AT), Karl-Heinrich Anders (DE)

FOR FOREST von Klaus Littmann war eine temporäre Kunstintervention eines realen Waldes mitten im Fußballstadion in Klagenfurt, die weltweit Beachtung fand. Damit entstand nicht nur die größte ihrer Art im öffentlichen Raum in Österreich, sondern auch ein einzigartiges wissenschaftliches Labor im Kontext von Forstwirtschaft, Vermessung und digitaler Transformation. Das "Making of" dieser aus künstlerischer und wissenschaftlicher Sicht einzigartigen Zusammenarbeit wird im Rahmen des Ars Electronica Festivals 2020 erstmals im Deep Space 8K präsentiert.

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.

Tree of/and Life

Center for Urban History of East-Central Europe, Lviv, Ukraine (UA)

The film tells the story of a craftsman's creativity and his connection to a tree that extracts an invisible form from a material substance. The act of creating by a human being is subject to the power of the substance that governs the carver independently determining the result. The subjectivity of nature is also manifested in the film through chemical damage - images and memory are absorbed and disappear behind the veil.

Workshop: Pinecone Hygrometer, Seed Dispersal, and Fire Ecology

Helen Huang

In this lecture we will explore how seeding of plants respond to environmental triggers like fire and humidity changes. We will also learn some basic concepts in scientific research and how we can sense our environment through the observation of the plants around us.

Workshop: Sidewalk Herbarium

Alvaro Azcarraga with Terry Huang

We will be reconnecting with our local environments by collecting and identifying plant specimens from your neighborhood/sidewalk.

Future from the past: imaginations on the margins

Center for Urban History of East-Central Europe, Lviv, Ukraine (UA)

The Center for Urban History will make video journeys to two places, which are located in rural areas but reflect urban imagination. We will travel to the Center for Space Research and Communication of the National Center for Space Management and Testing of the State Space Agency of Ukraine.

Performance and Workshop: Calming the Sea - Sketch 2b

Christoph Killian, UCLA ArtSci Center Artist in Residence

We will play with multichannel near-simultaneity, exploiting transmission latencies and temporal offsets, experiencing destructive and constructive interferences, – overlapping, amplification and extinction of waves in a global disconcert.

Workshop: WATERBODIES

Claudia Jacques and Victoria Vesna

This workshop will introduce you to a variety of issues around water bodies around the world. Participants will develop and add their stories and / or artwork or scientific research related to a stream, lake, sea, ocean. Communities will form around specific water bodies that will become guardians and share up to date information about the status.

Workshop: Mycelial Landscapes: How Fungi Shape the World and Take the Shape of the Future

Kaitlin Bryson

This workshop explores the incredible world of fungi from their ecology to their biochemistry and explores how these amazing organisms shape and make the world around us. We will also learn about how we can work with fungi helping them take shapes and forms for building sustainable futures. We will do a simple exercise of making mycelium hands to stretch our notions of touch and physicality during the time of the pandemic.

Workshop: Follow the Fibers: Weaving as a Method of Inquiry

Monica LoCascio, Artist and Member of ArtSci Collective

Fascia and Mycelium through the lens of Anni Albers and weaving

Workshop: Microbial Theater

Mick Lorusso and Joel Ong

In this workshop participants will learn about the microbiome to develop their own stories about microbes, collect and observe samples using microscopy, and create short performances based on their stories and findings.

Workshop: Remote Sensing the Red Planet

Shane Houchin

Remote sensing is the acquisition of information about an object, area, or phenomenon without making physical contact. Typically performed by satellite or aircraft that measure the reflected or emitted electromagnetic radiation from a surface. Applications of remote sensing include, Geology, Hydrology, Agriculture, Conservation, Urban Planning, Transportation, Glaciology, Forestry, Ecology, to mention a few.

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.

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.

Creative Question Challenge: Can unheard signals inspire change?

Siobhán McDonald (IE), Chris Bean (IE), Adriaan Eeckels (BE)

"Lasst uns beenden, was wir begonnen haben." Auf diese Weise stellt die UNO ihr erstes Ziel für nachhaltige Entwicklung vor - das Ende der Armut in allen Formen und Dimensionen bis 2030. Die 17 Ziele der Nachhaltigen Entwicklung und ihre 169 Teilziele wurden als ein ausuferndes, missverständliches Durcheinander großer Absichten beschrieben. Allein der Titel der Entwicklungsagenda - "Unsere Welt umgestalten" - verströmt utopische Ambitionen. Er wurde 2015 von 193 Nationen angenommen. Fünf Jahre später und mit zehn verbleibenden Jahren: Wie wird sich unsere Welt verändern?

Genetic Biotech through the Eyes of Artists

BOZAR presents a talk on genetic modification, featuring Sandra Lorenzi (FR), Kuang-Yi Ku (TW), Christophe De Jaeger (BE), and 2 scientists from the Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie – VIB. The talk will be preceded by a video streaming of a guided tour in the VIB facilities in Gent (BE), with Sandra Lorenzi (FR – artist of the Studiotopia programme), Kuang-Yi Ku (TW – artist of the Studiotopia programme), Sofie Bekaert (BE – VIB) and VIB scientists Roosmarijn Vandenbroucke and Sofie Goormachtig, presenting their current research.

Complex Thoughts Lab

In the post-coronavirus scenario, The Complex Thoughts Lab invites to think outside the box to put together a model of the new world after COVID-19. Are we willing to rethink our nature, the concept of well-being? Will we be able to commit ourselves to bequeath a better world to future generations? The students share ideas to build a world model facing the next generations and transforming the Covid-19 crisis into an opportunity.

Cellular Seeds – Inexorable futures

Alejandra Marinaro (AR)

The Latinamerican Bioarte Lab (LatBioLab) explores more than 12 years of Bioart in Argentina. From ‘The Biosphere Project‘, Joaquín Fargas (AR), a simple way to show the world ecosytem,  until ‘Colony‘, Darío Sacco (AR) that connects technology with biology and ‘Cellular Seeds - Inexorable Futures‘, Aleandra Marinaro (AR) that generates a new kind of “tech-life“. The Biosphere Project launches the adoption program of small worlds: ¨Adopt a World, adopt your World¨. 

Q&A with Man & Wah

Moderated by independent curator and creative director working in the field of digital/new media arts, Lubi Thomas (AU/UK), this live Q&A event will explore the creative practice and process of artists Man & Wah. Covering topics of nature, the cosmos, information and interdisciplinary artistic practice, Man & Wah will respond to live questions alongside a discussion with Lubi about their narrative video piece, CELESTON, and physical exhibition at Museum of Brisbane.