Ars Electronica Garden

Calvaria – Participatory Walk

Vitalij Červiakov (LT)

Heart rate, blood pressure, temperature, blood oxygen level - all those things we are measuring and recording with portable and simple designed devices and sharing that information for analysis and storing to contemporary or future big data wealthiest. How are different processes of our body and mind changing during walking?

Microorganisms and their Hosts

Mindaugas Gapševičius (DE/LT)

The video Microorganisms and their Hosts proposes to reconsider the ecology of a human while questioning the impact of the microbiome, researching self-healing strategies, and experiencing the artwork in parallel to the changing environmental conditions. How can one experience their microbiome? Is there any dependence between what we eat, how we behave, and what we think?

Standing Waves

Ignas Pavliukevičius (LT)

Every living being on our planet is surrounded by an electrical field – whether generated by the organism itself, exuded by electromagnetic fields of forests, animals, man-made devices, or stemming from extra-terrestrial sources, such as outer space.

The World is Here For You

Eye Gymnastics (LT)

For the AE Garden Vilnius festival duo presents a two live vocals performance, subtle spoken melodies and soar beats in a dialog with Arturas Bumšteinas’ musical material. During the show, the performers connect eye exercises inspired texts with gradually evolving melodic inserts, spoken songs. In a midst of all suddenly accommodating autumn rush, repetitive, hypnotic recitation invites you to exercise your gaze and see through within.

Artist Talk: How the brain works?

Marek Chołoniewski (PL), Chris Cutler (UK), Piotr Madej (PL), Artur Lis (PL)

Folded Maps of Time performance backstage

Folded Maps of Time

Marek Chołoniewski (PL), Chris Cutler (UK), Piotr Madej (PL), Artur Lis (PL)

Folded Maps of Time (FoMaTi) is an immersive audio-visual performance that integrates biosensoric electromagnetic systems (MC) and object-oriented electrified percussion (CC).

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.

Mini concert for web applications

WRO Art Center team (PL)

Performed by the WRO Art Center team exploring the full potential of web applications by Paweł Janicki. Create your own scores for live audiovisual performances.

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.

Noumen Point at Szczytnicki Park

WRO Art Center team (PL)

Video documentation of the meeting accompanied with author’s introduction to the topic of Noumen sound universe. The event was organized at the Szczytnicki Park close to the plane tree, an example of Wrocław’s long-time signature species.

Noumen

Paweł Janicki (PL)

Sound artwork that combines three installations located physically in the public space of Wrocław. One of them is the plane tree, which was featured as the central component of the installation E.D.E.N. by Olga Kisseleva displayed at the Four Domes Pavilion during the 18th Media Art Biennale WRO 2019 CZYNNIK LUDZKI|HUMAN ASPECT.

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.

Mechanical Garden after Tytus Czyżewski

Paweł Janicki (PL)

Interactive installation inspired by visual poem Ogród Mechaniczny (Mechanical Garden”) by Tytus Czyżewski (1922) re-created in a contemporary medium (software). The work touches on issues of conditional arts, synthetic nature and the relation of art, nature and technology in general. Ogród Mechaniczny is a multiuser installation based on motion tracking, transforming the “frozen” image by Czyżewski into an amorphous, interactive and playable situation.

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?

quartets online

Otomo Yoshihide + Norimichi Hirakawa + Yuki Kimura + Ko Ishikawa + Yoshimitsu Ichiraku + Jim O’Rourke + Kahimi Karie + Sachiko M + Axel Dörner + Martin Brandlmayr + YCAM

"quartets" is a performance piece that happens only in the video streaming system. Eight musicians performed improvisation individually for the recording, as they imagined a session with the others. In this piece, the performances are blended or combined at random, and each time a whole new set of improvised music comes to exist. In "quartets", we will conceive the meaning of ensemble and questioning how we could imagine "others" in this isolated and increasingly complex situation.

Sound Tectonics #24: Mystic Rhythm

SENYAWA / Wukir Suryadi & Rully Shabara (ID) & Kakushin Nishihara (JP)

Sound Tectonics is a long-run series of live performances and music events that have been held by YCAM since 2004. This program emphasizes listening experience through a different aspect of music production, sound art, and stage production. This time, we want to highlight the possibilities between modern (audio) technology and traditional/ancient sounds by inviting Senyawa (Indonesia) and Kakushin Nishihara (Japan). Both musicians are known to combine those two aspects and bring a new sound.

#JapanRevisited202x: then-now-after

Austrian Cultural Forum Tokyo (JP)

#JapanRevisited202x gives a public forum to ambitious projects that help us understand and (re)visit your memories and interpretations of Japan that might sit somewhere between reality, nostalgia, and fantasy. Do we have to physically visit a place to experience it? How/where do my memories of Japan fit in between reality and dream? In what form can I imagine a Japan of the future?

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?

Ars Electronica Garden Yamaguchi

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