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The Art of Doubt

Matteo Lonardi, Velasco Vitali, Michel Reilhac, Marco Faini

Doubt has played a critical role in both society and art, since the time of the renaissance, when it first entered the public sphere as a distinct concept. Ca’ Foscari University of Venice researcher Marco Faini will explain the concept of doubt, while Matteo Lonardi, Francesco Lonardi, and Velasco Vitali will speak about the role of doubt in the artistic process from Leonardi Da Vinci to contemporary artists.

Fertile Methodologies

Tactical Space Lab (AU)

The Tactical Space Lab is a research initiative focusing on the intersection of art and technology. We are committed to expanding the diversity of stories and voices represented through new technologies via collaborative projects and educational programs across all ages, with the aim of ‘demystifying’ VR, not just for artists, but for the wider community.

Garden of Third Life​

Korea National University of Arts (KR)

Ars Electronica Garden Seoul metaphorizes Seoul's natural, social and technological environment as a garden, human-made nature in the overall sense. We focus on the future garden we'll have in the era of Third Life, where reality and virtual integrate. Through various programs such as conference, online exhibition, performance, workshops and research on Seoul's urban garden in Mozilla Hubs, we experiment with the possibility of coexistence between humans, nature and digital networks.

Acquired Immunity

Cultivamos Cultura (PT)

Acquired Immunity is the immune response to a new environmental challenge, like a virus or an allergen. It is a creative response based on the production of antibodies never before seen in nature. Cultivamos Cultura provides conditions to foster the creative response of artists towards new challenges through social and natural environment, local activities, and the influence of colleagues. It shows those challenges and creative outcomes in virtual and real space.

A Fungus Garden

Museo del Hongo (CL)

A Fungus Garden is a digital exhibition that invites you to know more about the importance of Fungi and the beautiful metaphors they provide to interpellate our own existence. Through 3D models of mushrooms, a 360º tour, videoart, live and sound performance, A Fungus Garden reclaims attention for these largely invisible organisms that are essential to life as we know it.

Valparaíso Brushwood Garden

CIA-UV University of Valparaíso Artistic Research Center (CL)

Valparaíso Brushwood Garden is an exercise to conceive an architectural common space for many artworks that symbolize different creative forms of life. Virtuality links artworks as different kinds of brushwood (words, images, sounds, letters, gestures…). Each brushwood tells a precarious story as a gesture of resistance and infinite value beyond artistic activity. The sprouted garden is the communication spot between all artworks, a place that allows them to live in dignity, opening a possible future for arts and better ways of inhabiting.

Igniting Creativity and Discovery where Science and Art Collide - Venice

Science Gallery Network (Int. - Atlanta/Dublin/Venice/Melbourne/London/Bengaluru/Detroit)

The Science Gallery Garden at the Ars Electronica Festival will explore trust, technology, global challenges, arts innovation and new forms of digital storytelling. A showcase from the world’s only university network dedicated to public engagement with science and art, it will feature interactive workshops, experimental audio and visual experiences, livestreamed events and a specially-curated digital archive.

from groves to grooves at SODAS2123

Instituto Media, LTMKS / Letmekoo (Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association), Ūmėdė / MENE, VDA PhAMA (Department of Photography and Media Art at Vilnius Academy of Arts

Garden unfolds at the new SODAS2123 cultural complex (in Lithuanian SODAS means GARDEN), in downtown Vilnius and online. A few dozen artists, researchers, students and professors perform in the hybrid reality grove that merges the physical with the perspectives of creatures living in and around it: from the artists themselves to microorganisms.

WADS (↑ ← → ↓)

RISE ITICA (CY)

WADS (↑ ← → ↓) speaks of plurality and plentifulness, of conjoining principles, disciplines and possibilities. As a virtual space compiled of local artists, it sets out to explore the potential of digital hubs as grounds of artistic and technological co-creation. It imagines a garden of commoning where artists pollinate the digital by employing a technique derived from gardening: namely, grafting.

Open Futurelab Exhibition

The Open Futurelab Exhibition showcases the current research approaches and projects by the Ars Electronica Futurelab – Ars Electronica's Research and Development department.

Telluric Vibrations, UCLA Botanical Gardens - Los Angeles

UCLA ArtSci Center (US)

The UCLA ArtSci Center presents Telluric Vibrations: a festival with an exhibition and symposium based at the UCLA Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Gardens and in virtual venues. Each activity and artwork is generated around the Ecology of Earth and Ether, considering how we tend to both the ground and the sky and looking closely at their imbrications. The exhibition will feature work by the UCLA ArtSci Collective, an intergenerational group of current students, recent graduates and practicing artists. Keynote lectures and panels with renowned scholars, artists and scientists will provoke dialogue about this time of inherent uncertainty.

The London Garden of Heterotopias

The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (UK)

In Technology and the Lifeworld: from garden to earth Don Ihde discusses how life in a mythical Garden of Eden would not be human life without technology. Things and artifacts make life and form an integral part of the ontological trinity of human-technology-world. The Bartlett School of Architecture, along with its partners, centers its contribution to Ars Electronica around arts and technologies of care in a Garden of Heterotopias to create an environment of inclusion and inspection.

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.

Fashion.Technology.Sustainability.

Re-FREAM CONSORTIUM (INT)

Re-FREAM is exploring the interaction between the domains of Fashion, Design, Science, Craft and Technology, promoting a space for co-creation and research, where experimental projects will be connecting artists and professionals from the fashion sector with scientists and technologists for better human-centered and sustainable solutions.

Fak’ugesi Pan-African Garden

Fak'ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival, Johannesburg & Pan-African Creative Exchange (PACE), Bloemfontein (ZA)

Fak’ugesi Pan-African Garden is a collaboration of partners, notably Vrystaat Arts Festival, the Program for Innovation in Artform Development (PIAD) and Fak’ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival. It will bring new digital work and a series of Pan-African conversations. Aligning with aims to power up Africa’s digital creative resolution, ignite imaginations, bridge divides and hardwire local talent.

PRISMA GARDEN, Media Art Globale (MAG)

Media Art Globale (MAG) by Connected Art Platform (CAP) (ID)

PRISMA GARDEN,Media Art Globale (MAG) by Connected Art Platform showcases five distinct Indonesian artists whose work depicts their views on the current situation of society and projects interpretations of their ideal world. Prisma Garden brings together multi-disciplinary Indonesian artists whose common messages on social issues and their impact on the environment and our future are creatively conveyed through various art mediums, including digital art applications, presentations and installations.

Sensory Orders

ŁAŹNIA Centre for Contemporary Art (PL)

The Ars Electronica Garden Gdańsk, hosted by ŁAŹNIA Contemporary Art Centre, features Sensory Orders, a project examining the different orders of sensemaking taking place under our (current) conditions of extreme precariousness and uncertainty.

Aerial/Sparks :: New Reports on Waves

Aerial/Sparks and Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture (IE)

Aerial/Sparks artist created work from time spent on the Irish research vessel The RV Celtic Explorer. Each artists experience of ocean and water masses around Ireland and Europe shaped the production of each artists individual work for sound and radio listening.

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.