Bio Art

Site specific performance in Alto Patache

Mauricio Lacrampette (CL), Sebastian Arriagada (CL)

We are taking advantage of the coincidence of the festival’s date with one of the best times of the year for observing camanchaca in abundance, to show the KMNCHK ScanLab functioning on-site and the multiple artefacts spread upon this particular landscape, used to monitor and harvest the cloud, such as weather stations, fog catchers and scientific settlements.

Life in Space: Philosophical Perspectives for the Future of (Para)Humanity

Roberto Campos, Gonzalo Díaz Letelier, Luis Guzmán, Jazmín Adler

This round table discussion highlights philosophical concepts and theories referred to life in space, simbiopolitics, ontological migration, and the envision of the new world to come.

Space Exploration at the Crossroads of Art and Astronomy

Marcos Díaz, Luis Guzmán, Nicole L`Huillier, Jazmín Adler

Space exploration, life in the Universe and the encounter with the unknown raise thought-provoking questions for both artistic and scientific fields. Throughout this conversation, artists Luis Guzmán and Nicole L´Huillier talk with scientist Marcos Díaz about the significance of fiction, speculation, hypothesis and error in their own work.

SPACE (Cosmoecology)

Luis Guzmán (CL)

This axis presents an art and science project by Luis Guzmán which consists of taking Phaeodactylum tricornutum diatoms (microalgae) to the International Space Station and subjecting them to Martian microgravity and zero gravity. The project has been part of Sojourner 2020 (MIT), the first ultraterrestrial museum of post- human art. In PRISMA´s garden, the artist presents the outcomes of his research after the Sojourner experience.

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.

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.

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.

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?

Fermenting Futures

Prof. Diethard Mattanovich (AT), Prof. Ingeborg Reichle (DE), Anna Dumitriu (UK), Alex May (UK), Sonja Schachinger (AT)

Das Projekt wird einige der Tausenden von Hefespezies und ihre Eigenschaften sowie Methoden der Synthetischen Biologie vorstellen, um neue Hefestämme mit außergewöhnlichen Fähigkeiten zu schaffen, die unser Leben besser machen und gleichzeitig den Planeten erhalten.

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.

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.

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.

Could an insect, human and android communicate through dance?

Prue Lang, Mathieu Briand, Mark Elgar and Alicia Sometimes

Join choreographer Prue Lang, artist Mathieu Briand and evolutionary ecologist Prof Mark Elgar as they discuss their journey with phasmids and BODY / INSECT / MACHINE, a work that explores the body/androids/artificial movement/intelligence on the one side and the body/human instinct/natural movement/nature on the other.

BODY / INSECT / MACHINE

Prue Lang, Mathieu Briand

BODY/ INSECT /MACHINE is a movement experiment between Prue Lang’s choreography, artist Mathieu Briand’s androids and a Phasmid (stick insect). The work explores the body/androids/artificial movement/intelligence on the one side and the body/human instinct/natural movement/nature on the other.

On the eve of uncertainty

Charlotte Jarvis (UK)

Der Ort für unsere Tour ist meinem 39 Wochen schwangeren Körper entnommen. Die Tour befasst sich mit dem Projekt In Posse, bei dem ich mit Wissenschaftlern zusammenarbeite, um den weltweit ersten ‘weiblichen’ Samen herzustellen. Sie reflektiert auch darüber, wie die Beobachtung der Wandel meines Körpers während des Jahres 2020 - dieses wandelbarste aller Jahre - eine einzigartig ‘queering experience’ war, die meine Perspektive auf meine Praxis, Politik, das Patriarchat und die Gesellschaft verändert hat.

FEMeeting Seeds

The seeds of our garden, the aromatic herbs and giant sequoias growing within FEMeeting the year throughout, are the members of our worldwide community. This part of our garden’s program includes video testimonies, images and sounds expressing the character and souls of some of the extraordinary women working today in art, science and technology.

A Journey into Ai Hasegawa's practice

Ai Hasegawa (JP)

In diesem Video spricht Ai Hasegawa mit MitarbeiterInnen, WissenschaftlerInnen und ExpertInnen über ihre Projekte rund um Wissenschaft, Sexualität, Leben, Politik und Institutionen. Sie bespricht unter anderem ihre Ansätze zu Human X Shark, (IM)POSSIBLE BABY, The Extreme Environment Love Hotel, Shared Baby, I Wanna Deliver a Dolphin.

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.

[Dis]possess

Jason Zhao, et al.

[Dis]possess highlights the contradictory forces of capital and progressive politics within the artworld, simulating a coworking space in downtown Chicago that sells twenty-first century indulgences for the price of a cup of coffee.