Ars Electronica Garden
JKU LIT @ Ars Electronica
The digital revolution, demographic changes, and the climate crisis–addressing the complex, conflicting fields of our time requires an epistemic landscape that is conducive to traversing academic parameters. Crossing the borders between disciplines should be considered a starting point for possibilities – even essential as a to interlink them – rather than an act of deconstruction.
FEMeeting 2020 Garden
FEMeeting (PT), Cultivamos Cultura (PT), Ionian University (GR), The Sanctuary for Independent Media (US), Leonardo/OLATS (FR)
FEMeeting 2020 Garden presents the harvest of the works conducted by the international community FEMeeting: Women in Art, Science and Technology since its inception. FEMeeting aims to disseminate projects carried out by individuals who identify as women to contribute to (a) the development of research methodologies in art and science and (b) the development of collaboration strategies that can increase knowledge-sharing and bring communities together.
Pavilion of Knowledge Garden
Pavilhão do Conhecimento - Ciência Viva (PT)
Ars Electronica Lisbon Garden will take us on a virtual tour of the Pavilion of Knowledge exhibits. Rui Agostinho, together with Ana Noronha, will co-host a live virtual presentation, answering questions and explaining how we can know the chemical composition of stars from their light. Ars Electronica Garden Lisbon will link to Ars Electronica spaceEU for the launch of spaceEU Toolkit, a ready-to-use digital collection of space-centered activities. Both gardens will host the world-famous Sarah Petkus’s Noodle.
Ars Electronica Garden Lima
Museo de Arte de Lima – MALI, Alta Tecnología Andina – ATA (PE)
The Peruvian Garden is an ecosystem structured to bring together artistic creators and social scientists whose projects propose a look at the Amazon, a historically relegated geographical and social space that occupies a vast portion of the Peruvian territory. The Amazon region is a crucial site for debates central to contemporary life. A selection of documentaries and video artworks that collect a detailed record of life and events in the Amazon, showing the dynamics between modernity, tradition and the customs of the region.
Planting a Resort for Mental Ecology
MPLab – Liepāja University Art Research Laboratory (LV)
People of Liepāja know very well that a garden is essential – without planting a park along the coast, the little seaside town would be consumed by sand, wind and water. The roots of trees keep the structure of the dunes stable, and people of Liepāja can retreat from the everyday struggles and storms in a safe garden environment.
Finding Amir / From Jerusalem to the Judaea Desert, Israel
Musrara, the Naggar School of Art and Society (IL)
The day that Covid19 sent us all into isolation, Amir Meir, a member of the Musrara Sonic Art Research Group׳ announced he was going to spend the quarantine in one of the many caves in the Judean Desert near Jerusalem and disappeared ever since. With the aid of space and sound illusions practices, the film "Finding Amir" tries to touch on the in-depth questions about the imagined realities that lie behind the walls of digital and symbolic representation.
remote/displaced
Äänen Lumo (FI), Aalto University (FI), quietSpeaker (FI)
remote/displaced allows for an immersive exploration of a virtualized physical space: Öljysäiliö 468, a vast, decommissioned oil tank in East Helsinki. It takes the shape of a small collection of brief immersive audio-visual visits to this special remote place, exploring ways to listen to the encounter between sound, technology, space and landscape, as it emerges like a precarious ecosystem, where the boundaries between natural and artificial are constantly renegotiated and deformed by technology.
Chronicles of an Art and Science Collaboration, Otaniemi-Espoo, Finland
Aalto University (FI)
The project highlights the use of autoethnographic narrative as tool for artistic and design research. It brings together self-reflections from three scientists who participated in an art and science collaboration dealing with the use of bio-cellulose for art and design purposes. Through their stories we learn about what inspired them to follow careers in science and how the making of a contribution to sustainability and the good of humankind sustains their work objectives.
Uncertain Practices
Aalto University (FI)
Uncertainty requies that one be able to cope with doubt, something that 2020 took to unusual lengths. uncertainty is also the basis for experimental art practices. The Aalto Garden presents three artists ―Koray Tahiroğlu, Laura Beloff and Andy Best― working through AI, music, artificial biology and an art-science network platform through studio visits, talks and a performance. The Aalto Garden events are produced by Aalto Studios at Aalto University.
The Night Sky: Unveiling What Only the Dark Reveals
Open Science Hub - Portugal, Municipality of Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo (PT)
Open Science Hub - Portugal (OSHub-PT; Plataforma de Ciência Aberta) is a social innovation project that brings together science, technology and innovation with the daily life of local and regional communities, supporting schools and societal actors in tackling local relevant challenges. It is a project of the Municipality of Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo, in collaboration with Leiden University.
Presence of Absence
Tangible Media Group | MIT Media Lab (US)
The Cambridge Garden by Tangible Media Group for Ars Electronica Festival 2020, we will be featuring selected projects that materialize the Presence of Absence. Our garden introduces the latest in Tangible Telepresence research to engage people who collaborate across time and space with synchronized tangibles. We also feature a variety of dynamic computational materials we call Radical Atoms that foster a new form of human-material interactions.
Space Has Arrived
Space Exploration Initiative, MIT Media Lab (US)
At the Space Exploration Initiative, we are creating and deploying space technologies that envision a bold and culturally rich "new space age". The philosophy of "democratizing access to space exploration" - bringing moonshots and starshots into the purview of hackers and makers - courses through our work, and guides both our research platform and our extensive STEAM outreach efforts. In our garden, we will share the diverse portfolio of the initiative. As the audience "walks" around inside the garden, we want to immerse them in a digital space world: Wellbeing in Extreme Environment.
The Nature of our Nature
LatBioLab Latinamerican Bioart Lab, UAI Universidad Abierta Interamericana (AR)
The contribution of artistic creativity fosters thinking outside the box, and becomes an important ingredient in research groups. The increasing complexity in different disciplines leads us to think of the interdisciplinary as a fundamental tool to generate a synergistic effect, and art ―which has the quality of taking matter one step further, to the future― cannot be absent. This Garden hopes to sensitize us on our human condition and our relationship to the Earth Gaia, deepening the journey of discovery around The Nature of our Nature.
The Garden of Curiosity
Museo de la Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero – Centro de Arte y Ciencia (AR) Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (AR)
Muntref Arte y Ciencia can be thought of as a diverse ecosystem. Since 2011, it has been weaving connections with people from diverse disciplines, groups of students, different institutions and several technical environments. Inspirational and empathic relationships have also been grown through this developing network. We have created The Garden of Curiosity as an interactive navigable visualization to share this cultural diversity.
H3 Garden Before Detach ()
H3 Studio (RO)
Before Detach might be the final instruction of a new trip back to most of our familiar places. After a global lockdown, the question of Who am I? is more striking. Human-machine collaboration seems more and more tightly woven. While the advantages of the collaboration cannot be overstated, the fear of the power of a self-thinking machine seems to cloud the development. H3 – Before Detach brings together a human-robot performance, Who am I?, an exhibition of Interactive Installations produced in Bucharest – Before Detach, and a tour of the neighborhood of H3 Studio, a 20th century periphery invaded by the future.
UNATC Distant Art
National University for Theatre and Film IL Caragiale Bucharest (RO)
UNATC Garden presents an open-air exhibit of interactive and online works developed by digital artists and students during and after the lockdown experience in Distant Art. Art practice struggled to find its own path in the times of limited direct contact. Telematic presence became a must for most forms of expression creating a Distant Art.
CyberBallet
CyberRäuber (DE)
CyberBallet is a live performance in cyberspace: What does it mean to have a body, to move in space? Can AI truly grasp the basics of the human experience if it lacks a body?
art+science lab
Center for the Promotion of Science – CPN (RS)
The central segment of the Belgrade Garden is the premiere of the winning artwork from the national art+science selection for 2020. Digital Prayer by Kristina Tica uses ML techniques for establishing a connection between the canonical structure of an Orthodox icon and the image artificially generated by a computer program. The Garden will also host a musical performance I Sit and Worry About Her by Jasna Jovicevic (winner of the national selection in 2019), based on sonification of brain waves. Both works came out as results of interdisciplinary dialogues and an intensive scientific mentorship/residency program facilitated by CPN at principal national research centers.
Sónar+D: Future Perspectives of Music Technology
Sónar+D (ES)
Sónar+D contributes to this edition of Ars Electronica Festival by bringing an artists’ conversation on the future of music technology in the era of AI, and a video performance capsule uniting music and artificial intelligence.
Solar Orchard Garden
ESPRONCEDA - Institute of Art & Culture (ES), MIRA Festival (ES), Insitute Ramon Llull (ES), Helsinki XR Center (FI), ./studio3, Institut for Experimental Architecture (AT), MEET Digital Culture Center (IT), UCA (UK)
The Solar Orchard Garden is a complex system that activates the curiosity of visitors / participants by play with two complementary concepts: quintessence, the fifth element of alchemy, and the Gaia Hypothesis, which looks at Earth as a self-regulated complex system.
