Linz

COVID19 Insights: Mapping Diversity and Community

Dario Rodrighiero, Elian Carsenat, Gabriel Carsenat, Eveline Wandl-Vogt

COVID19 is a fire accelerator. We were using the time of the lockdown to deepen our transnational collaboration and think on how we can apply our knowledge and skills to current real world problems related to the pandemics. This visualization based on the recently developed biocultural diversity index and lexical distances. This work is unpublished up to now and unique.

DARV_ Abandoned Land

Lee Jung In (KR/AT) Mihaela Kavdanska (BG/RO/AT) Violeta Ivanova (BG/AT) Florian Weinrich (AT)

DARV_ Abandoned Land is an intermedia dance performance which sprouts connections between analog and digital. The performers interact with large-scale objects and video projections, resembling the endless migration from one world to another in search for the better. The DARV team and eight dancers perform in various locations in Austria, South Korea and Bulgaria, guiding the audience through dystopian realities and abandoned sites. Drained-off utopias, failed social mechanisms and ideologies are embodied, explored and ultimately abandoned.

Mirage – An Interactive Experience

Carolina Bischof (AT), Andreas Dorner (AT), Lena Kalleitner (AT), Adam Lamine (AT), Thomas Tippold, Matthias Husinsky (AT), Clemens Scharfen (AT)

In Mirage – An Interactive Experience, Deep Space 8K visitors find themselves in an alien world, where they collectively partake in a story appealing to multiple senses. Up to 16 persons can actively participate in this encounter. In this abstract-looking world, visitors must find hidden pathways to a portal through teamwork, solve puzzles cooperatively and avoid manifold hazards.

Jan van Eyck was here, there and is now everywhere …

Till-Holger Borchert (DE)

On the occasion of the Van Eyck Year 2020, Ars Electronica, in cooperation with the General Delegation of Flanders, Musea Brugge and with the kind support of the Belgian Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA) and Art in Flanders; high-resolution images will be shown of Jan van Eyck's most famous masterpiece, the Ghent Altarpiece, as well as other images made by KIK-IRPA for the VERONA Project (Van Eyck Research in OpeN Access).

Of Peacocks and Men

Irena Birsa (SI), Simona Korošec (SI)

"Of Peacocks and Men", an interdisciplinary project by Irena Birsa is all about fear and what we could have been without it. Original text and pre-stored sounds are the main items. The relationship between music and text is submissive, the sonic atmosphere of electronic sounds is merely accompanying the story and reacting to actress' sometimes improvised gestures. The text, music and light are working together to create an almost garish space for the audience in which little clicks can occur.

Gustav Klimt's "Kiss" as Gigapixel - On the Cooperation between Google Arts & Culture and the Belvedere in Vienna

Belvedere, Franz Smola (AT)

At the presentation initiated by ARS Electronica, experts from Google Arts & Culture will explain the technology of the Art Camera and its application in cooperation with museums worldwide in a vivid way. Belvedere curator Franz Smola, responsible for the scientific expertise and supervision of the project, will also explain the art historical aspects of Klimt's painting "The Kiss".

Pianographique

Maki Namekawa (JP/AT), Cori O'Lan (AT)

Philip Glass' piano solo piece Passacaglia: After a tranquil opening, we break into boiling and purely pianistic passages of arpeggios and scales. Philip Glass' trusted pianist Maki Namekawa (who has premiered several of his piano pieces) performs this work in its Austrian premiere.

VALIE EXPORT Center Linz – Guided Tour

The managing director of VALIE EXPORT Center Dagmar Schink will host the special guided tour during the Ars Electronica Festival.

Magister Raffaello 2020

Magister Art (IT)

Conceived to celebrate the 500th death anniversary of the renaissance artist Raphael, Magister Raffaello is a new cultural project by Magister Art, digital innovators in cultural heritage content creation, production and promotion. It combines the high scientific value with the constant experimentation of new languages and media, to create an ‘augmented narration’ and a ‘total’ cognitive experience. Magister Raffaello is shown in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in Vienna.

TOC ONE

Moritz Simon Geist (DE)

The Music Robotic System TOC ONE explores the sound properties of physical objects. It can be used to squeeze sound and rhythms out of almost everything - from music instruments like drums to experimental materials like metal sheets, household items or old car parts. The robotic actuators are mounted on clamps, to be attached in a free manner to surfaces, objects and instruments. The robotic actuators are controlled with standard music systems like Ableton Live or a keyboard.

Best of Deep Space 8K

Best of Deep Space 8K offers a bilingual overview (German and English) of the highlights from the Ars Electronica Center’s regular Deep Space 8K program.

Daily Selection

You don’t have time to watch the complete Deep Space program during the festival? In the Daily Selection you can experience the highlights.

Austria makes Sense - Trip to the Austrian Pavilion at the World Expo in Dubai

The world exhibition Expo 2020, bearing the motto Connecting Minds, Creating the Future, is the first world exhibition in an Arab country. The "Expo" is one of the major international exhibitions recognised by the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE).

Cubo Negro: Live-Duet Cubo Negro Culiacán and Deep Space 8K Linz

Centro de Ciencias (MX), Ars Electronica Solutions (AT)

Last year Ars Electronica replicated Deep Space 8K in Mexico, Culiacan, where the replica is called “Cubo Negro”. For the Festival the main advantage of Deep Space 8K, namely community experience will be brought to a new level. There will be a Duett between the Deep Space Mexico and the Deep Space in Linz. Visitors from Cubo Negro in Mexico and Deep Space 8K in Linz will be able to play together, live. Same environment, same time, only different destinations.

Immersify: The Translucent St. Stephen’s Cathedral

ScanLAB Projects (UK), RIEGL Laser Measurement Systems (AT), Dombauhütte St. Stephan zu Wien (AT), Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)

The Translucent St. Stephen’s Cathedral invites Deep Space 8K visitors to an interactive 3D-journey through high-resolution 360° images of the Viennese St. Stephen’s Cathedral. The images, consisting of more than 21 billion laser points, together make up the multiple layers of transparency of the beautiful sacred building.

Climate Change from space - 360 degrees

ESRIN, ESA Centre for Earth Observation (IT), Ars Electronica Solutions (AT)

ESA’s Earth Observation Facility (ESRIN) in Frascati, Italy hosts the Φ-Experience – an multimedia centre, comprising an Earth observation data visualization facility. The objective of the “Φ-Experience” is to use interactive display technologies to increase awareness and visibility of ESA’s Earth observation programs and applications.

Climate emergency in Vorarlberg: a trip to the exhibition "Global Shift - Die Welt im Wandel" in Bregenz

The climate emergency in Vorarlberg, declared in 2019, not only addresses politics, but also the art and cultural scene have to make a contribution against global warming. The exhibition "Global Shift – Die Welt im Wandel (engl.: Global Shift - The World in Transition)" includes various interactive and participatory stations. These stations observe, document and comment on the traces left using our natural resources.

Cinematic Rendering – Dissecting Theatre of the Future

Prim. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Franz Fellner (DE), Dr. Klaus Engel (DE)

Considering how computer tomography (CT) makes it possible to peer inside the human body without resorting to a scalpel is actually quite fascinating in its own right, but the app “Cinematic Rendering” at the Deep Space 8K takes the teaching of the anatomy of the human body to the next level.

FOR FOREST - The Unending Attraction of Nature in DEEP SPACE 8K

Gernot Paulus (AT), Klaus Littmann (CH), Philipp Zebedin (AT), Günter Koren (AT), Roland Haring (AT), Roland Aigner (AT), Ulf Scherling (AT), Karl-Heinrich Anders (DE)

FOR FOREST by Klaus Littmann was a temporary art intervention of a real forest at the soccer stadium in Klagenfurt gaining worldwide attention. This art intervention in fall 2019 not only created the largest of its kind in public space in Austria, but also a unique scientific laboratory in the context of forestry, surveying and digital transformation. The “Making of” this unique collaboration from the artistic and scientific point of view is for the first time presented in Deep Space 8K at the Ars Electronica Festival 2020.

CyberArts 2020 - Prix Ars Electronica Exhibition

The OK im OÖ Kulturquartier has been presenting the CyberArts exhibition since 1998. As a showcase for the Prix Ars Electronica winners, it is an excellent platform from which to observe current developments and trends in our digital age, with a special focus on their social and economic impact. The selected works exemplify the social dynamics and issues that are dominating today’s discourse.