Exhibitions / Projects
Sociality
Paolo Cirio (IT)
This artwork documented over twenty-thousand patents of socially manipulative information technology. In Sociality, Cirio collected and rated Internet inventions submitted to the U.S. patent office. Subsequently, he invited the public to share, flag, and ban the technologies designed to monitor and manipulate social behaviors.
plasticpreneur
doing circular (AT)
The Austrian social & environmental start-up plasticpreneur by doing circular develops, produces and sells simple mobile plastics recycling machines and teaches social entrepreneurship skills that can be used to transform plastic waste into new products.
Perception iO
Karen Palmer (GB)
Perception iO (Input Output) is the future of Law Enforcement. An Artificial Intelligence data set emotionally responsive to the participant and potentially their bias.
c o m p u t e r 1. 0
Julian Goldman (US), Victoria Manganiello (US) aka SOFT MONITOR
Full or empty; color or clear; zero or one; under or over – c o m p u t e r 1.0 imagines a display for the future, by looking at displays from our past. Artists Julian Goldman and Victoria Manganiello create a large-scale textile woven by hand using hollow polymer tubing and natural fiber thread. A patterned series of colored liquid/oil/air pixels will be pumped into the tubes in a sequence dictated by data from adjacent motion sensors and a series of computer-controlled valves, air compressors, and pumps. This textile will function as a lo-fi computer display, made with ancient natural materials and techniques juxtaposed with contemporary digital technologies.
EDEN – Ethics - Durability - Ecology - Nature
Olga Kisseleva (RU)
The project EDEN Ethics - Durability - Ecology – Nature touches on a range of issues, including the protection of endangered plant species and interspecific communication between living subjects that are placed in the “inhuman”category.
Design by Decay, Decay by Design
Andrea Ling (CA)
Design by Decay, Decay by Design is a series of artifacts that exhibit designed decay. They were done for the 2019 Ginkgo Bioworks Creative Residency on how to design a world without waste. As an architect and artist, I recognize that most of what I create goes to landfill. If that is the case, let me design waste that I can live with, garbage that retains some desirability as it degrades in sight and on site. Let me design waste as nature designs it, not only as the product of breakdown and destruction but also as input for renewal and construction.
Marinero - Tailored by weather
Jef Montes (NL)
The focus of Marinero is to create an architectural blueprint that transforms organically over the course of time. The vision is to design a new kind of production system resulting in adaptive garments that grow with us individually. The weavings have a warp of monofilament and a weft of integrated variable threads. The combination of these threads causes friction and results in dynamic shapes during different meteorological conditions such as: rain, heavy wind or drought.
Air on Air
Yasuaki Kakehi (JP), Daisuke Akatsuka (JP), Juri Fujii (JP), Yoshimori Yoshikawa(JP), Joung Min Han (KR)
This work is an installation that connects distant places online. Bubble machines at the installation site then creates soap bubbles based on the breath data of online participants in real time. Through a web browser, they can see the bubbles floating in the air as if they are blowing in person at the venue. This work allows participants to feel the air in a remote location. And it also gives them a way to communicate to the remote location ”physically” in these times of restricted mobility.
Kōrero Paki (Our stories of the legends)
Yinan Liu (NZ), Jermaine Leef (NZ), Uwe Rieger (DE/ NZ), Holly White (NZ)
Kōrero Paki takes key moments from the Maori mythology and transforms them into 3D holographic sculptures displayed on personal handheld devices. Using a simplified motion capture process, a performer transforms the drawings into animated narratives. Viewed with simple red/cyan cardboard glasses, these sculptures are perceived as hovering above the surface of a smartphone and appear to be dancing in the viewer’s hand.
Ethereal Fleeting
Lukas Truniger (CH), Itamar Bergfreund (CH), Bruce Yoder (US)
Eine Serie von Wolken, erzeugt von einer maschinenähnlichen Skulptur, schwebt in ihrer Umgebung und löst sich langsam wieder in Luft auf. Dieses vermeintlich natürliche Phänomen zeigt sich in merkwürdig wiederholenden Mustern.
Machine in Flux - Wood
Sunjoo Lee (KR), Ko de Beer (NL)
A documentation and cartography of time and environment inspired by the growth mechanism of the tree’s annual rings. The machine sensitively responds to changes of light, wind, temperature, humidity and sound – and inscribes these influences using ink on paper.
Earth Water Sky Artist Residency
Haseeb Ahmed (US)
2020 Earth Water Sky artist in residence Haseeb Ahmed (Sky) will present his film “The Wind Egg” and discuss his body of work, notably on particulates and the particular narratives carried by the wind, which is also the subject of his residency at Science Gallery Venice. The presentation will be followed by a question and answer session open to the public, moderated by residency producer/curator Ariane Koek.
A Diverse Monoculture
Jip van Leeuwenstein (NL)
”A Diverse Monoculture” is a new family of artificial species, which together form a hive of new predators. These predators are used in an attempt to restore the balance within our ecosystem. The first robot predator in the family is the Dionea Mechanica Muscipula, a creature designed to attract and digest oak processionary moths. The Dionaea Mechanica Muscipula is developed to reduce the population of oak processionary moths, an increasing plague.
lovesmenot
Sebastian Wolf (DE)
lovesmenot is part of an ongoing series of automata exploring our relationship with machines and the absurdity of over-automation. In this work, a machine plucks the petals of a daisy one by one, looking for answers to a question that will never be revealed to the observer. It hereby imitates a typically human action, a rite of sorts that usually attains its meaning solely through the human element. The machine does not serve anyone but itself, the answers obtained are never revealed.
Still There
Marlene Reischl (AT)
"Still There" is a video installation dealing with irritation as a state. Manipulated through Frame Blending, the computer transforms the images it has been given to generate new intermediate ones by itself.
Meter machen
Maria Anna Eckerstorfer (AT), Sabine Touzimsky-Köstler (AT), Lisa Wieder (AT), Wolfgang Schreibelmayr (AT) / Department of Art Education / Bildnerische Erziehung
Keeping a distance is a very important rule. But as we humans are, situations arise that are hilarious, super funny or totally confusing. At this year's Ars Electronica Festival we want to collect exactly such scenes. Send us a self-produced photo or a very short text about your experience by mail and follow us on Instagram on @kunstuni.linz.metermachen. So until then - let the penguins dance!
Derotation
Domas Schwarz (AT)
“Derotation” is an installation about a looping video of a windmill shown on a screen rotating at the same speed in the opposite direction. The movement of a wind wheel, known for generating electricity, is visually stopped and derotated by the motion of a motor, known for consuming energy. Two different aims lead to a standstill: another instance of power wastage in media art?
Zugzwang - The Compulsion to Find a Common Baseline in Sound
Christina Gruber (AT), Samuel Hertz (US)
Zugzwang explores how a non-human centered approach to the use of technology can help us tune in to our companion species & environments. Though sound is omnipresent, we have problems understanding. Miscommunication and distortion happen constantly. Can listening become a central asset in learning about our environment?
Elsa On The Moon
Mathieu Zurstrassen (BE)
Elsa on the Moon is a kinetic sculpture tribute to Elsa Von Freytag Loringhoven, eccentric baroness and contemporary of Marcel Duchamp; ambiguously attributed with the creation Fountain, in 1917. Or was it Louise Norton? The work consists of a robotic leg capped with a ceramic urinal. The device is balanced with counterweights through an extended aluminum arm.
God is Dog spelled Backwards
Mathieu Zurstrassen (BE)
God is dog spelled backwards is a 360° kinetic artwork, and a tribute to Guy Debord’s La société du Spectacle, first published in 1967.
