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Lennard Barth (AT), Celine Fahrngruber (AT), Samuel Gerersdorfer (AT), Joshua Haiden (AT), Elias Illig (AT), Sophie Kaufmann (AT), Irina Pitterle (AT) Xaver Quintus (AT)
Junge Filmemacher*innen, junge Talente, Young Professionals sind aufgefordert, Minidokumentarfilme zu drehen, die ihre Perspektiven und Eindrücke von den Themen des Festivals festhalten. Anstelle einer allgemeinen Festivaldokumentation werden acht Kurzgeschichten produziert, die verschiedene Slots und Protagonist*innen enthalten.
From Art to Innovation: Do They Really Need Us?
Gašper Beg (SI), Luka Frelih (SI), Miha Horvat (SI), Janez Janša (SI), Jurij Krpan (SI), Marko Peljhan (SI/US), Irena Pivka (SI), Marko Pritržnik (SI), Peter Purg (SI)
Despite the widely embraced opinion that involving artists and creatives in innovation processes contributes to better results, very few research and development platforms are employing artists or art thinking in their innovation teams. Die talk's participants will discuss the challenges for artists, scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs stemming from essentially non-existing collaborative/open innovations.
Baukasten der Zukunft
Louise Amcha (AT), Hannah Ertl (AT), Leonid Stanislav Lang (AT) und Marlene Urban (AT)
Der Baukasten der Zukunft ist ein interaktives Gedankenexperiment einer jungen Künstler*innen-Gruppe. Das Projekt besteht aus einem großen, einladenden Holzmodell einer Landschaft, in welcher die Besucher*innen ihre eigene Stadt planen können. Ergänzend dazu baut ein Computerprogramm per Knopfdruck unter denselben Bedingungen auch eine Version einer Stadt. Anschließend gilt zu bewerten, welche Vor- und Nachteile jede Version mit sich bringt und welche Lösung die beste für unsere Zukunft wäre.
robodrum
Das Projekt robodrum ist ein Roboter-Setup, das aus vier mit Trommeln ausgestatteten KUKA-Roboterarmen besteht. Es geht nicht darum, eine menschliche Leistung exakt nachzubilden oder besser oder schneller als ein Mensch zu sein. Stattdessen handelt es sich um ein algorithmisches System, das es den Besucher*innen ermöglicht, akustische Spuren zu hinterlassen.
Unnatural Language: Botanic Quartet
Scott Kildall - Xenoform Labs (US), Michael Ang (CA)
Botanic Quartet is a generative musical composition by four plants endemic to Thailand. The results constitute a sort of ecospheric sentience as the plants don’t only respond to the sensed data, but communicate it to each other. This is a project under the umbrage of Unnatural Language, an ongoing collaboration between Scott Kildall and Michael Ang. Scott Kildall has been working with art, technology and education for over 15 years, looking at the interplay between territory and technology.
MESSE: Molecular Encoding Storage for Space Exploration
Spaceth.co (TH)
MESSE is an anti-disciplinary payload aboard the New Shepard spacecraft, launched into a sub-orbital trajectory 100 kilometers above, and explores weightlessness in the space environment. The payload contains bio-synthetically created DNA encoding “Kwam-Fhan-Kab-Chakarawan” (Aspiration and the Universe), a famous Thai song by artist Bodyslam, to demonstrate the algorithm that can encode and decode data into DNA. The science experiment will be conducted both before and after the spaceflight to study the products of DNA assembling in space and its preservation on several sample materials. This will allow the researchers to understand the possibility of DNA storage as a form of preserving knowledge or sending any data in the form of a molecular encoding message. This mission represents aspects of science and humanity and guidelines for future citizen space exploration in Thailand.
ANYWHERE
During the Ars Electronica Festival visitors in Linz will be transported virtually to Luxembourg to explore the exhibition ANYWHERE by Mary-Audrey Ramirez in Esch-Belval. Through an interactive multimedia experience and real-life online game, the Festival public will be able to discover sections of a retired blast furnace at the site of a former steel plant in Esch
Making of Lunar Pearl
Henryandpartners (TH), SpaceZab (TH)
Pearl of Lunar explores infrastructural desire and the future of Belt-and-Road Initiatives as seen through wealth accumulation, labor infiltration, and geopolitical control; but also, more ephemerally, the affective meshwork of possessiveness and greed that functions at the individual and corporate level. Lunar Rock is a project by SpaceZab, a group of young scientists’ journey into Trad city, a rocky seaside landscape. They wade through rocks and the oceanside, excavating magmatic rock from the shore and the sea. The quest is to discover earth elements resembling moon dust for their future research and experiments.
Art in Flux: Media Arts Now
Art in Flux is a charitable organisation committed to furthering the development of the media arts community in the UK. The online exhibition will present the organisation to the public featuring photographs and video of key projects by ART IN FLUX. The exhibition will also showcase key works by the Art in Flux founders and a moving image program.
Art in Flux Live: Autonomy @ Ars Electronica Channel
The Art in Flux founders introduce the ethos of the organisation and their own practices through live video tours.
Gare Loch Duality and the #UndesiredLine - Live
B.D. Owens, Donna Holford-Lovell
Two new films by B.D. Owens followed by a live Q&A with the artist and NEoN Director, Donna Holford-Lovell.
The Welcome Chorus
Yuri Suzuki (JP)
Ein Werk, das aus 12 interaktiven Hörnern besteht und bei Turner Contemporary, einer Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst in Kent, Großbritannien, aufgestellt wurde. Es verwendet zwei Methoden - eine besteht darin, Texte und Melodien von Musikern in die KI einzuspeisen und die andere besteht darin, eine kurze Melodie zu erzeugen.
Gare Loch Duality and the #UndesiredLine
B.D. Owens, Donna Holford-Lovell
B. D. Owens takes the viewer on an interactive wander through the landscape, artistic process and historical context of his ongoing, multifaceted project Gare Loch Duality and the #UndesiredLine.
What is Sound – Alpha blending
Luana Lojić (HR)
What is Sound: Alpha blending is an audio-visual performative search for available information on the smallest things and units ever recorded or seen based on internet stored data (ex. bits, nanobes, phonemes, photons, atoms, etc.). Its constant is made of endless improvised medial translations formed from free online available generative tools and starts with a question posed into a search engine, building informational layers of text, sound, pictures and moving images.
EMAP group exhibition: Quarantine
Robertina Šebjanič (SI), Gjino Šutić (HR), Anna Dumitriu, Alex May (UK), Tiziano Derme, Daniela Mitterberger (AT), Taavi Suisalu (EE), Quimera Rosa (FR/AR/ES), Kat Austen (UK/DE)
Over the last few years, the EMAP/EMARE network of media arts organizations have produced a multitude of works dealing with life-science and cybernetics that examine the fragile ecological equilibrium of life on Earth. A few of these artists find inspiration from scientific discoveries like archaea, a group of unicellular micro-organisms believed to be the oldest form of life on Earth. Other sources of inspiration include the impact of pharmaceuticals on life in the water and the sonic vision of bats. These artistic explorations envision future evolution in magical and often transgressive ways.
Identifying Successful STARTS Methodologies: Exhibition and Research Project
Pei-Ying Lin (TW), Giulia Tomasello (IT), Jen Keane (UK)
The exhibition presents the activities of the project, four of the eight case studies undertaken, and includes an installation of one of this years STARTS Prize 2020 Honorary Mention, Pei-Ying Lin’s Virophilia (2018-2020), an installation of Future Flora by designer Giulia Tomasello and winner of the STARTS Prize 2018 for Artistic Experimentation, alongside work from designer Jen Keane’s This is Grown project who received an Honorary Mention in 2019.
Ars Electronica .ART Gallery
.art Domains (UK), Ars Electronica Linz (AT)
Together with Ars Electronica, the team behind .art Domains hopes to open a dialogue with digital artists about the possibilities created by the introduction of new tools for online certification of artworks using the DNS system.
Expanded Animation Symposium at UCA
The symposium Synaesthetic Syntax examines the interactions between animation and audio from a scientific perspective. Researchers and artists were asked to submit contributions on the subject of Synaesthetic Syntax: Sounding Animation/Visualising Audio. This scientific/artistic survey is kicked off by the media artist Rose Bond, who offers insights into her artistic work in public spaces, followed by panel discussions on the topics of "Hearing Color Seeing Sound", "In Front of Your Eyes and Ears", and "The Kinaesthetics of Music and Vision".
S+T+ARTS at UCA: Understanding complex data in COVID times + Fashion: Materialising Numbers
As a specialist arts institution, UCA is 100% creative. UCA students develop their skills and thinking in environments that replicate the studios found within the creative industries, alongside peers on courses spanning arts, business and technology.Oscar-winning film makers and animators, world-renowned fashion designers, television presenters and Turner-Prize nominees are just some of UCA's high-profile graduates who have enriched the world with their creative talents. Taught and guided by experienced, industry-connected academic staff, students reap the benefits of studying at the highest-ranked creative specialist in the UK.
Leonardo S+T+ARTS: A conversation on "What's next? Art-Science ideas emerging from lockdown."
Camille Baker (CA/UK), Danielle Siembieda (US), Aurelie Delater (FR) and Marie Albert (FR)
During lockdown, Leonardo and STARTS collaborated to exchange and reflect, together with their wider communities, on how COVID-19 is impacting Art-Science/Art-Technology innovation and co-creation.
