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AIxDemocracy by IMPAKT: Radicalization by Design

Richard Rogers (US/NL), Bharath Ganesh (US/NL), Marc Tuters (CA/NL), Arjon Dunnewind (NL)

Social media platforms are feeding the raw material of youth culture directly into the nationalist populist insurgency that is currently sweeping through the planet. Evoking the fear of an existential enemy at the gates of Fortress Europe – or more often, an enemy within – this new political style is especially successful in the online culture wars. Radicalization by Design will discuss the question of whether our media are radicalizing us. In connecting us, are social media also tearing us apart? How do trolls, conspiracy theories, memes and fringe platforms impact politics today? The panel discusses issues of freedom of speech, extreme speech and deplatforming.

Gallery Performances III

Jaskaran Anand, Vicky Michalopoulou, Razieh Kooshki & Vahid Qaderi, Afra Sönmez & Nursinem Aslan

In-between Privacy, Happy 365, Vivid Q, Onisma - Livestream.

Bring Your Own Art

You!

Bring Your Own Art is the open stage for artists, students and researchers, who want to present their current works in 5-10 minutes, after the ‘first come, first present’ principle - Livestream.

State of Online Communities

Carla Zamora, Indiara Di Benedetto, Tiia Suorsa, Iosune Sasarate, Smirna Kulenović, Vicky Michalopoulou, Artemis Gryllaki, Rita Graça

COCO-lands, Happy 365, Syster Papyri Magicae, Networks of Care - Livestream.

Gallery Performances II

Jaskaran Anand, Alejandro Quiñones Roa, Octavian Albu

In-between Privacy, Cascada, Reconnect

State of Online Culture

Tiia Suorsa, Balínt Budai, Mario Romera, Pedro Sá Couto, Giulio Interlandi

Under the Rock, #beatthefuckathome, Proof of Consensus, Tactical Watermarks, Designing Interaction for Enactive Storytelling Experiences - Livestream.

Intimacy, Embodiment & Technology

Jaskaran Anand, Indiara di Benedetto, Nomi Sasaki, Octavian Albu, Gabriele Ragusa

In-between Privacy, Track-track: Let’s Follow the cat!, Reconnect, Untitled at the Strafsachengallery - Livestream.

Gallery Performances I

Alejandro Quiñones Roa, Razieh Kooshki & Vahid Qaderi, Afra Sönmez & Nursinem Aslan

Cascada, Vivid Q, Onisma - Livestream

Inside Festival: Morning Sessions

The festival team welcomes you at the beginning of each festival day, gives an outlook on the highlights of the day, but also looks back on what has happened so far. Live from Kepler's Garden on the JKU campus - Ars Electronica Festivals main location in Linz 2020.

Uncertainty with AI-terity (Music Performance)

Koray Tahiroğlu (FI/TR)

The composition Uncertainty keeps the musician in a hesitant state of performance, providing a non-rigid but identifiable musical events, followed by ever shifting new sounds. Uncertainty is a composition written for the AI- terity instrument that comprises computational features of a particular artificial intelligence (AI) model to generate relevant audio samples for real- time audio synthesis. The unusual behaviour of the Al-terity puts the performer in an uncertain state during performance. Together with being able to move through timbre-changes in sonic space, the emergence of new sounds allows the musician to explore a whole new range of musical possibilities. Composition turns into a continuous state of playing, reformulating an idiomatic relationship with the Al-terity and opening up a fresh variety of musical demands.

Key Note: Neri Oxman

A multi-disciplinary designer, Oxman founded The Mediated Matter Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2010 where she established and pioneered the field of Material Ecology, fusing technology and biology to deliver designs that align with principles of ecological sustainability. Oxman became a tenured professor at MIT in 2017.

Creative Harmony

Julien Lomet (FR), Bastien Daniel (FR), Timothée Durgeaud (FR), Johan Julien (FR), Pierre Huyghe (FR), Ronan Gaugne (FR), Valérie Gouranton (FR), Joël Laurent (FR), Bruno Bossis (FR)

Creative Harmony is a networked virtual reality artwork, inviting spectators from different cities to co-create a virtual environment in real time through gestures. With motion capture, each participant is led to create the landscape of a marine universe, to find a connection with nature. Through letting go, music and virtual dancers, spectators will be able to express themselves with their bodies and connect with each other to evolve the world in which they find themselves immersed.

Art in Flux Live: Autonomy @ Flux' channel

The Art in Flux founders introduce the ethos of the organisation and their own practices through live video tours.

Geophysics, drones, laser scans… tracking the ancient Romans with hightech

Stefan Traxler (AT)

In this segment, expert on ancient Rome Dr. Stefan Traxler (OÖ Landes-Kultur GmbH) will give you an overview of current projects.

STEAM Innovation and Curriculum

Laura Veart (UK), Tom Cahill-Jones (UK)

The conference offers inspirational examples of integrative and interdisciplinary education and explores how they be could be further adapted and implemented within other educational and cultural contexts.

Boost of the digital economy in times of crisis

Jan Trionow (AT)

Jan Trionow, CEO of Hutchison Drei Austria, will take an optimistic glance into the future and give viewers an idea of how 5G will connect Europe. He will also comment on the massive opportunity inherent to the current crisis, and how it can be the ultimate starting point for the digital economy.

Demystifying AI with Music

Roberto Viola (IT), Elaine Chew (US/UK), Patrick van der Smagt (DE), Matthias Röder (DE)

What could be the role of AI in music then? The conversation will reflect on these questions also in the light of a European vision on ‘trustworthy AI’.

Electronic Theatre @ Online

Since 1987, the Electronic Theatre has compiled a large number of submissions from all over the world, providing an up-to-the-minute survey of animation art in the context of technology and society. It impressively illustrates the dynamic development of artistic computer animation over the past three decades as well as the expansive growth of various fringe areas. A glance at the works selected this year shows a broad range, from animation in the context of performance and installations to real-time animation and multifaceted, subject-based discussions.

Acquired Immunity. Beyond Cultivamos Cultura

Virtual tours of the natural and social landscape around Cultivamos Cultura.

Creative School

Ars Electronica (AT), Dedale (FR), Cap Sciences (FR), Michael Culture Association (BE), STePS (Italy), Radiona Makerspace (HR), Heretic (UK), Chester Beatty Library (IE), Finnish Museums Association (FI).

In 2020 a generation of Europeans born during the dawn of social networking graduated into an era of social distancing and isolation. For many of them, their last days of school took place not in the classroom but on their digital devices. While the circumstances that led to this definitely were not normal, the student experience of inhabiting and interacting in the digital space was.