Humanity

Die Menschine

Kommhaus (AT)

Die Menschine ist ein Buch über die Verbindung und Verschmelzung von Mensch und Maschine. Renommierte Experten verschiedener Disziplinen beleuchten in Texten Themen wie Digitalisierung, Vernetzung, Robotik, Künstliche Intelligenz, industrielle Revolution und Industrie 4.0.

A Fungus Garden Manifesto (2020)

Museo del Hongo community

How would a fungus-only garden look like? A fungus garden Manifesto calls upon the local community of mycophiles that have collaborated within Museo del Hongo throughout its history. Converging perspectives from a variety of disciplines and research, in this round table we bring together ideas on how can we shape a sustainable, mycocentric future.

Rotten Body (2020)

Alexandra Mabes (CL), Nicolás Oyarce (CL), Ana Rosa Ibáñez (CL)

Dance installation inspired by the decomposing course of action which fungi encourages. The shape of the body is deformed through the materials to portray the transformation and reconfiguration of matter in the decay.

Mapu Kufüll

Sebastián Calfuqueo (CL)

Digital video installation that reflects on the cosmological perspective of the Mapuche people in relation to mushroom harvesting. The artist will showcase his recent investigation at Museo del Hongo through an animated ‘Tale’, portraying mushrooms as a symbol for resistance for their communities post the “Araucania Pacification” period.

Sun Sun (2020)

Konantü (Courtney Smith & Iván Navarro)

In these dark pandemic times, Sun Sun invites us to invoke the sun and its light through an interactive poetry game that defies syntax logics, imagining new ones under a limited series of 8 words and their mutual combinations. The exhibition includes a set of 64 cards to print and play at home, a selection of songs that are related to the sun and videos to demonstrate and exemplify how the game goes.

CALM #2 | Decomposition (2020)

José Bidegain (CL), Futuro Fósil (CL)

Performative installation that reconfigures the value of the parts that constitute us as a living ecosystem. From the micro-political action of the arts and the organic macro of the fungi kingdom, this transmedial live experience uses sound to create new perspectives for physical and spatial perception.

Cairo is Data

Cairotronica (EG)

A film that shows Egypt through the eyes of 6 emerging new media artists sharing their grounds for inspiration. Their works that they are currently developing navigate the peculiarities, tensions and challenges that come at the intersection of technology, business, culture, and society.

360º tour of Vigilantes (2018)

Iván Navarro (CL)

Immersive footage of Vigilantes, Museo del Hongo’s second exhibition at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Valdivia. Three species of mushrooms were grown from scratch and displayed in the museum’s underground vaults, with illumination from Navarro’s light sculptures, to create a biomimetic exhibition related to the cultivation of fungus gardens by ants and termites.

Local Fungi That Look Like Human Body Parts (2020)

Juan Ferrer (CL)

Digital installation composed of 3D models and a video that puts human body parts in conversation with a variety of mushrooms that grow in Chile. Our bodies are a fertile substrate for a complex microbiota that makes us who we are; this work aims to recreate a fungus garden within them, and to generate consciousness about the interconnection mycelium provides in nature.

Worship - Dinner Performance (CH, KA, NO)

Video recorded lecture with Q&A from the artists. The Worship - Dinner Performance joins performers from Zurich, Almaty and Bergen. It is based on the exchange of food, gesture, rhythm and sensuality through a jistsi online meeting. It is a tangible stretch towards how sensuality is perceived in the digital realm through media.

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?

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.

Bengaluru: City of Water

Harini Nagendra, ecologist

Ecologist Harini Nagendra’s talk takes the audience on a journey through the history of water systems in Bengaluru - starting from the 6th century CE to the present day. She explains how lakes were built and how they became an important source of water for the city. Today they are used solely for recreation, environmental support and ornamental views. She argues that urbanization and water conservation can go together and that we need to look at our history to manage our future.

A new moon landing

Mehak Sarang

We are going to the moon again, and this time, to stay. But how should we do it this time and do it right?

Communication with the Invisible

Pei-Ying Lin (TW)

Ungewissheit ist überall. Sie ist das, was wir erleben, wenn wir dem Unbekannten gegenüberstehen, aber auch, wenn wir versuchen, mit dem Unsichtbaren zu kommunizieren oder zu verhandeln. Sie zeigt sich auch im künstlerischen Prozess, während ein Projekt entsteht. Pei-Ying Lins Reise erforscht diesen Aspekt, indem sie den Entstehungsprozess ihres Projekts Proposal of Collaboration with the Viral Entities (dt.: Vorschlag zur Zusammenarbeit mit den viralen Entitäten) offenlegt.

Interplanetary Time, Communication, and Longevity

Che-wei Wang, Sands Fish

When distance is measured by light years, how do we learn from the past and make decisions for the future?

Wellbeing in Extreme Environment

Maggie Coblentz

How do we adapt to extreme conditions and how we care for each other? In the time of pandemic and isolation, can we learn from astronauts and people who have lived through hardships?

Prosthetic Memory

M Eifler (US)

When I tell you I have memory loss, you'll likely say "I forget things all the time! A name, my keys, where I parked, constantly." But do you remember being a sticky wild-eyed kid? Or maybe you have a story from your early 20s you love to tell, laced with seedy details. I have none of that.

# MemóriasCOVID-19

The online platform # MemóriasCOVID-19 will be presented and promoted by the teachers Ana Carolina de Moura Delfim Maciel and Ana Gonçalves Magalhães, focusing on the concept of the Platform itself and its curatorial processes.

BIOMETRIC MIRROR

Lucy McRae, Natasha Greenhalgh, Dr Niels Wouters

Biometric Mirror is an immersive and at times controversial installation that blends the act of casually glancing at one’s reflection with modern algorithmic perspectives on facial perfection. The artwork explores the accuracy and flaws of artificial intelligence and the ‘uncanny valley’ of algorithmic perfection and its potential black mirror outcomes.