Streaming
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.
Lecture: Authors of the Future. Re-imagining Copyleft
Constant (BE)
Video recorded lecture with Q&A from the artists The Authors of the Future. Re-imagining Copyleft, by Constant (BE), seeks to address burning issues around licensing and collective creative practices. How can we limit predatory practices without blocking the generative potential of Free Culture? What would a decolonial and feminist license look like, and how could we propose entangled notions of authorship? Constant is a non-profit, artist-run organisation based in Brussels since 1997 and active in the fields of art, media and technology.
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?
On a Journey with Alma
Giulia Tomasello (IT)
Alma is a wearable biosensor designed to monitor vaginal fluids. We strive to support and educate women about their intimate health through technology. Giulia Tomasello, designer and co-founder of Alma, will guide you through the research and prototype development at the Fraunhofer IZM TexLab in Berlin.
Fermenting Futures
Prof. Diethard Mattanovich (AT), Prof. Ingeborg Reichle (DE), Anna Dumitriu (UK), Alex May (UK), Sonja Schachinger (AT)
The project will introduce some of the thousands of yeast species and their characteristics, as well as synthetic biology methods to create new yeast strains with exceptional capabilities to make our lives better while preserving the planet.
Eebo Video Tutorial
eebo (AT)
Eebo is a video platform in Uganda which aims to help creators market their content to viewers who pay for access to their work directly. For users to access said content without internet cost, its strategy is to open up as many public WiFi hotspots as possible.
Communication with the Invisible
Pei-Ying Lin (TW)
Uncertainty is everywhere. It is what we experience when facing the unknown, but also when trying to communicate or negotiate with the invisible. It also shows up during the artist’s process of a creating a project. Pei-Ying Lin’s journey explores this aspect by exposing the process of creation of her project “Proposal of Collaboration with the Viral Entities.”
Between
BeAnotherLab (INT)
As a collective practice, Beanotherlab exists in the spaces between disciplines, communities, geographies, and methodologies. Distributed, but interdependent. This tour presents a meditation on the uncertainties and sensitivities inherent in transdisciplinary collaboration.
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.
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.
Adriatic Garden
Robertina Šebjanič (SI), Gjino Sutic (HR)
Adriatic Garden will take viewers on a journey of the Adriatic Sea.
Artist Talk: Natural Glitch
Kasia Molga (PL/UK), Ivan Henriques (BR/NL)
Live Stream Artist Talk
Live Performance: Augmented Empathy
Live-streamed public outdoor performance
Morphing Matter is ?
Morphing Matter Lab (US)
As a physical embodiment of AI, morphing material is an emerging concept in science and technology. However, solely technological-driven solutions are often short-sighted, biased, and sometimes misled.
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.
Live Panel: On Roots and Fruits
This panel is a collection of talks from some of the founding members of FEMeeting regarding the impact of the conferences and other community activities, as well as their perspective on the future development of women in art, science and technology.
On the eve of uncertainty
Charlotte Jarvis (UK)
The location for our tour is sunset on and in my 39-weeks-pregnant body. The tour examines the project In Posse, in which I am collaborating with scientists to make the world’s first ‘female’ semen. It also reflects on how watching my body mutate during 2020 – this most mutable of years – has been a uniquely queering experience, which has changed my perspective on my practice, politics, patriarchy and society.
A Journey into Ai Hasegawa's practice
Ai Hasegawa (JP)
In this video, Ai Hasegawa talks to collaborators, scientists and experts about her projects around science, sexuality, life, politics and institutions. She discusses her approaches to Human X Shark, (IM)POSSIBLE BABY, The Extreme Environment Love Hotel, Shared Baby, I Wanna Deliver a Dolphin, among others.
Terra Australis Ignota Research Group Round Table
A Conversation between the different areas involved in the Terra Australis Ignota project. Nicolas Spencer, Artist and Director of Terra Australis Ignota project Víctor Mazón Gardoqui, Researcher and artist Alfredo Prieto Iglesias, Archaeologist and researcher at University of Magallanes Gerd Sielfeld, Geologist and scientist council of Prisma Austral Foundation Paula López Wood, Writer and travel Journalist Alessandra Burotto, Curator of Museum of Contemporary Art Catalina Montero, Producer of Terra Australis Ignota project and talk moderator
The future crashes into the present
Karen Palmer (UK)
As the Storyteller from the Future, Karen Palmer takes the viewers on a journey through a series of broadcasts beamed back from the future, warning us of what’s to come through her immersive film experiences.