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robodrum

The robodrum project is a robotic setup consisting of 4 KUKA robotic arms equipped with drums, which doesn’t aim to replicate a human performance exactly, nor to be better or faster than one. Instead, it becomes an algorithmic system that allows visitors to leave acoustic traces.

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.

3D–Tour: Experience the Art Collection Deutsche Telekom in Nîmes and in Budapest

Deutsche Telekom AG, Bonn (DE)

A 3D tour of an exhibition can never convey the sensual presence and aesthetic power of its works of art. The physical presence in a real exhibition space, the complexity of looking and the experiencing the environment, cannot yet be conveyed through digital technology. Such a tour, however, can be an essential tool in documenting past events, and it serve as an additional platform for mediating content.

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.

Creative Question Challenge: Human being and "soft" technologies

Christiaan Zwanikken (NL), DM Hoyt (US), Emmanuel Grimaud (FR)

'Let us finish what we started'. This is how the UN introduces its first Sustainable Development Goal - to end poverty in all forms and dimensions by 2030. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals and their 169 targets have been described as a sprawling, misconceived mess of grandiose intentions.

Garlic Med.Eat.Ation

Jennifer Katanyoutanant (US/TH), Grace Cong Xin Wong - Art Farm (US/HK), Zden Brungot Svíteková (SK)

The first chapter in our continuing Remote Intimacy series, Garlic Med. Eat. Ation creates sensory solidarity by exploring how intimacy can be shared remotely/virtually through touch and taste. Please bring a clove of garlic to experience the exhibit.

Ricercar: An AI-Based Music Companion

Ali Nikrang (AT)

Ricercar is an interactive AI-based music composition system being developed by Ali Nikrang at the Ars Electronica Futurelab.

Rebecca Merlic - The City as a House

VENT gallery (AT)

Vast amounts of pictures, sounds, videos and 3D scans are organized as environments in Rebecca Merlic’s The City as a House, in form of an interactive visual novel. A work about the experiment of a white European 30-year-old heterosexual human living in Tokyo without inhabiting a private apartment over a period of time. A speculative exploration of the possibilities of abolishing known forms of habitation.

How Machines See Music

Ali Nikrang (AT)

This installation visualizes some aspects of the inner life of a deep neural network for music composition called Ricercar that is being developed at Ars Electronica Futurelab.

Somnium

Ali Nikrang (AT), Martin Honzik (AT), Alexander Wöran (AT)

Somnium is an installation playing with the ambience of the stunning location at the JKU TNF-tower and hymns, a musical form specifically written for the purpose of adoration or prayer.

Creative Question Challenge: Between scientific discovery and perceptual expansion

Dmitry Gelfand & Evelina Domnitch (NL/BY), Guillaume Schweicher (BE/LU), Florian Schreck (DE)

Let us finish what we started'. This is how the UN introduces its first Sustainable Development Goal - to end poverty in all forms and dimensions by 2030. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals and their 169 targets have been described as a sprawling, misconceived mess of grandiose intentions. The title of the development agenda itself - 'Transforming our World' - oozes utopian ambition. It was adopted by 193 nations in 2015. Five years later and with ten years left, how do you think our world will transform?

Pluvial

Kerstin Ergenzinger (DE)

Pluvial is a sono-tactile architecture that follows the associative and physical quality of rain noise.

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.

Psychological Impacts of Surveillance: within the context of Gare Loch Duality and the #UndesiredLine

B. D. Owens, David Harper, Darren Ellis (UK)

Multi-disciplinary artist, B. D. Owens, has a conversation with Professor David Harper & Dr Darren Ellis (University of East London) about the psychological impacts of surveillance, within the context of Gare Loch Duality and the #UndesiredLine.

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)

A work composed of 12 interactive horns, placed at Turner Contemporary, a contemporary art gallery in Kent, UK. It uses two methods – one is to feed lyrics and melodies by musicians into the AI and the other is to produce a short melody created by the AI recognizing vocal tone, tempo and specific words spoken into the sculptures by gallery visitors. Every few minutes, the work produces a unique chorus.

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.