Program

Conflicts in IP & copyrights in art & science collaboration
In interdisciplinary collaboration, the creation of an appropriate legal framework is essential not only for the cooperation during a project but also for the exploitation of innovative results.

Sounding Linz: Performing Architecture
As a foretaste of this event, the two artists Sam Auinger and Wolfgang "Fadi" Dorninger will set off in the direction of Klangwolke with their "Performing Architecture".

VALIE EXPORT. Collection Care - Exhibition
On the occasion of the artist's 80th birthday, the Landesgalerie Linz honors the Austrian artist VALIE EXPORT with a comprehensive exhibition from its own collection.

sounding garments & sound-gardens: emotional interface zones as auditory spaces
Hana Zeqa, Laura Thaçi, Elisabeth Mirnig & Werner Jauk
the transparency of envelopes of the body as social interfaces amplifying the hedonic body

Das HOUSE 2.0 - in Keplers Gardens
Das HOUSE von minuseins ist eine Einladung in eine so atmosphärische wie rätselhafte Zwischenwelt. Das Projekt beginnt mit einem begehbaren Teaser und öffentlichen Testlauf, später soll das Projekt als theatrale VR-Serie fortgeführt werden. Der Kern des Projekts ist dabei immer die Fragestellung: Wie geht Gemeinschaft online? Wie funktioniert digitale Kopräsenz? Was verschwindet dabei?

Tribute to VALIE EXPORT
Crossing Europe, VALIE EXPORT Center
This year, CROSSING EUROPE will dedicate its Tribute section to one of the most important representatives of international media, film, and performance art: VALIE EXPORT. She was born in Linz in 1940, where she also grew up. On the occasion of her 80th birthday, and on the initiative of the VALIE EXPORT Centre Linz in cooperation with CROSSING EUROPE and sixpackfilm, a comprehensive program of VALIE EXPORT’s films and videos will be shown for the first time in her place of birth at this year’s edition of CROSSING EUROPE.

Pianographique

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

ONLINE GALLERY - 360° Garden View
This an online panorama gallery showcasing nearly 20 sights in our campus. NTHU has plenty of lakes and forests which constitute a big and beautiful garden. NTHU has a wide range of academic fields, converging creativities in science, technology, humanity and art.

Pianographique

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

Catalogue Presentation: FASER FADEN FIKTION | Märchen, Mythen und Materie
Tech.Tex, Robert Angerer, Michaela Haager, Sofie Lüftinger, Neriman Polat, Andreas Schmied, Alessandra Steiner
New objects, discourses and visions have emerged from the process of spinning fabrics into fibres and spinning them, in turn, into fictions, and these have all been documented as travel guides for future travelers. The Ars Electronica Center will also be showing works that have emerged from the project Märchen, Mythen und Materie (Fairy Tales, Myths and Matter), directed by Johanna Pichlbauer and Isabel Prade.

Magister Raffaello 2020 - Talk
Magister Art (IT), Jelena Jovanovic (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.

Immersify: The Translucent St. Stephen’s Cathedral – Artist Presentation
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.

Creating a New Normal: Arts, Design, Humanities and Social Sciences 4 Emergency?
Eveline Wandl-Vogt, Nirmala Menon, Dario Rodrighiero, Elian Carsenat
Panel discussion: As this virus, and maybe further to come, affects the world and our way of living, we are aiming to explore pioneering research and action based art and design. During the time of social distancing and quarantining, it has become evident that even with the principles of science and technology that provide us with access to practical methods for securing our lives, humanities-based principles and skillsets have played a key role in enabling us to evolve. In light of this, we might want to rethink our approach to future living.

Join our VR guided tours to Leonardo da Vinci's studio
Explore Leonardo da Vinci’s studio, see artefacts from his time that capture some of the doubts we assume he had about his life and work, and learn about the concept of "doubt" during the renaissance.

Metaverse
A metaverse for sound art and music EXHIBITION & CONCERTS.

Our Spaceship Garden
This year, we join Ars Electronica In Kepler's garden online program, a collective effort among the global to reconnect. We created a digital spaceship to share the diverse portfolio from the initiative. Audiences are invited to immerse themselves in this digital world, walk around and encounter each other.

SOUND CAMPUS day 3
Live: TechnoGAN, Trial#1, DJ3XXICA + Shinsekai

Closing Session - Ars Electronica Festival 2020
Every now and then you can't believe how fast time passes at a five-day festival. Those responsible for the festival, Gerfried Stocker, Martin Honzik, Veronika Liebl and Christl Baur, review the festival days.