Ecology

HSE Animation Garden
Varvara Fomicheva (RU), Polina Nevozhay (RU), Daria Ivanova (RU), Nastya Panina (RU), Maria Maximova (RU), Elena Charobay (RU)

HSE Animation department displays the work of young female directors: Varvara Fomicheva, Daria Ivanova, Nastya Panina, Maria Maximova, Elena Charobay. This part of the HSE Garden Pavilion flourishes in diversity: from a remake of a classic Russian fairytale in a setting of an environmental catastrophe to an intimate story about a mysterious digital garden.
Emergence & Convergence: Interviews
Katherine Melançon, George Fok, Daniel Corbeil, Sabrina Ratté

In these interviews, Katherine Melançon, George Fok, Daniel Corbeil and Sabrina Ratté explain the scope of their works, the subtle links they made between technology and ecology, and their vision of the future as seen through this lens.
Emergence & Convergence: Art as prophetic and responsive
Katherine Melançon, George Fok, Moritz Wehrmann, Cheryl Sim

In this live conversation, Cheryl Sim, managing director and curator at the PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art, and artists from the exhibition Emergence & Convergence will discuss their work, which meets at the intersection of the self, digital technology, the built environment and the natural world.
Sound works
Ailís Ní Ríain (IE), Carol Anne Connolly (IE), David Stalling (IE), Kennedy Browne (IE), Kevin Barry (IE), Magz Hall (UK), Robertina Šebjanič (SI)

Presentation of sound works by participating artists.
Remote sensing: research and collaboration
David Stalling (DE/IE), Prof Sergei Lebedev (RU/IE)

Sound artist David Stalling and Prof. Sergei Lebedev discuss David’s work and his time on board the RV Celtic Explorer during the SEA-SEIS research survey in 2018. Led by Prof. Lebedev, DIAS scientists have been collecting first of a kind seismic data across a vast area of the North Atlantic. Since 2018, David has worked closely with Sergei and his team on the development of his sonic composition which translates sampled data from deep sea monitors deployed on the research survey.
Remote sensing: mythologies and sciences
DR Chris McGonigle (IE) Robertina Šebjanič (SI), Louise Manifold (IE)

Dr. Chris McGonigle, artist Robertina Šebjanič and artist / curator Louise Manifold discuss the importance of the age-old relationship between people and the sea, and how sonic folklore plays a fundamental role in shaping our connection to ocean space.
Remote sensing: Deep Sea Observations and the limits of life
Professor Andrew Wheeler (IE), DR Aaron Lim (IE), Ailís Ní Ríain (IE/UK)

Professor Andrew Wheeler, Dr. Aaron Lim and composer Ailís Ní Ríain discuss their experiences of deep sea observation using Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) to film deep sea habitats and its impact on both creative and science practices.
ARTISTIC WARMING!

Round table KompleX KapharnaüM (KxKm) is hosting a discussion, focusing on how artistic production takes environmental challenges into account.
Emergence & Convergence: An Online Guided Tour
PHI (CA)

PHI is thrilled to present an online guided tour of Emergence & Convergence, the PHI Centre’s current exhibition in Montreal. Emergence & Convergence is an invitation to immerse ourselves completely in the works. This exhibition investigates our humanity in relationship with our planet and all living beings.
PRESTIGE Art & Science Residency

Migration – Sunshine Architecture explores the idea of energy autonomy while questioning our apparent ease of access to it. To reconsider our relationship with energy and its consumption, it is interesting to present energy as a limited, thereby precious, resource. Discover how Migration – Sunshine Architecture has been developed by KompleX KapharnaüM (KxKm), a French team comprised of video makers, musicians, technicians, writers, performers, and makers that performs in public space.
Configurations around the Environment, the Amazon and New Media
Nancy La Rosa (PE), Beno Juárez (PE)

An exploration of the socio-environmental conflicts derived from the extraction of common goods in Peru and the power relations implied in traditional representations of the territory. And on the other hand, a technological proposal seeks to solve the main challenges of the world: social inclusion and climate change.
Learning from The Commons: a keystone towards a rewildered Future
Stefan Laxness (UK)

Identity and Aesthetics in a Rewilded Europe - ​Exploration of the potential of rewilding Europe as an operative territorial strategy with far reaching consequences for how we occupy space and engage as citizens.
Future Life Exhibition
Curated by: Karin Ohlenschläger

Marco Barotti (IT), Clams, interactive installation, 2019 Disnovation.org (FR), Online Culture Wars (in collaboration with Baruch Gottlieb, 2018/19; The Persuadables), video, 2019 Quimera Rosa (ES/FR), Trans*Plant: May the Chlorophyll Be With/In You, mix-media installation, work in progress since 2016 Anna Ridler (GB), Mosaic Virus, GANs generated video installation, 2019 Robertina Sebjanic (SI) & Gjino Sutic (HR), Aqua Forensic, installation, 2018
Creative Question Challenge: The Organ of Consciousness
Oswaldo Maciá (CO/UK), Chris Bean (IE), Emilia Leszkowicz (PL)

"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?
Newcastle Garden CQC Session 2: The invisible and inner Ecology
Louisa Magrics (AU), Andrew Lloyd (AU)

This session will address themes of nuclear medicine, epidemiology, biological art and nano art. How can artists play an important role in making the invisible visible?
Newcastle Garden CQC Session 1: Re-indigeni(z)ing Ecology
Rewa Wright (NZ), Daryn McKenny (AU)

The first CQC session kicks off with important indigenous perspectives on ecology past, present and future. Traditional knowledge and stories are not locked in the past, but have the power to inform present and future ways of living. What perspectives and approaches can indigenous knowledge offer the planet as we move toward the future?
Ars Electronicas Garden Newcastle: We Guide You Tour
University of Newcastle (AU), FASTLab (AU), Art Thinking Australia (AU)

A tour of the Ars Electronica Garden Newcastle that focuses on the overarching theme of Ecology that spans both the natural and artificial world. Inspired by the Ars Electronica We Guide You format, the tour also provides a unique lens into the Newcastle culture.
Opening of Ars Electronica Garden Newcastle
University of Newcastle (AU), FASTLab (AU), Art Thinking Australia (AU)

Official opening of BIOMES & Ars Electronica Newcastle Garden 2020.
The Traveling Plant Video Tour
Annick Bureaud (FR); Tatiana Kourochkina (ES/RU); Marta de Menezes (PT); Claudia Schnugg (AT); Robertina Šebjanič (SI), Michael Marder (ES)

In a short video, the Seeds organizations, curators and artists, joined by special guests, present the project, with its different routes and hopes, to the public and the imaginary plant itself, through a tour of an Italian garden, an underwater garden, a hydroponic greenhouse, and more.
The Traveling Plant – Preparatory Log Book

A collective compilation of recommendatons and advice from people who, in the spirit of hosting, are asked to tell the plant what she may expect to discover and experience in her voyage, and what and whom she may encounter. Invited contributors and open contributions worldwide. A selection of the contributions will be published in an online PDF publication.