Program
SOUND CAMPUS day 2
Live: merge and dissolve, FlashRust, Paul Gründorfer, A distributed location performance (2020)
Inside Festival: Documentary
During the 5-day festival, filmmaker Yazdan Zand and his team set out with their cameras to capture the festival events from a variety of angles. The main actors of the film are Leonhard Lass and Gregor Ladenhauf. They both form the artist duo DEPART.
Gustav Klimt’s “Kiss” as Gigapixel – On the Cooperation between Google Arts & Culture and the Belvedere in Vienna
SOUND CAMPUS day 1
Live: Fantasy Island, A Certain, Christoph Punzmann, Duo 3-Kanal, Reclaiming Time - ElektroMagnetikSpektrum
Immersify: The Translucent St. Stephen’s Cathedral
Inside Festival: Joanna Bryson / Gerfried Stocker
Joanna Bryson, professor at Hertie School in Berlin working on Artificial Intelligence, ethics and collaborative cognition, in conversation with Gerfried Stocker, artistic director of Ars Electronica.
Harmony
Team Members: Clara Roth, Robbie Ierubino, Peter Sauleda, Maria Kallionpää, Kathi Schulz
Harmony fosters an inclusive atmosphere among strangers, reframing the concepts around co-creation and collaboration. Co-composing can be intimidating at times, as there is pressure to perform.
Project Home
Team Members: Esma Bosnjakovic, Max Haarich, Barbora Horská, Nicole Schanzmeier
Project Home aims to redefine this almost utopian narrative through collecting and sharing personal stories of people who relocated by choice or necessity or struggled with the traditional concept of home for any other reason. By that, we hope to inspire others to question some of the limiting beliefs and recognise their own unique way “to home”.
[Un]seen Sacred Spaces
Team Members: Asma Aiad, Parisa Ayati, Rebecca Merlic, Ines Mahmoud, Mateja Rot
(Un)seen Sacred Spaces is a project that deals with the (in)visibility of different sacred buildings in the cityscape. It questions why some sacred buildings are visible and others are not and why are some deliberately made invisible and what does this do to their communities?
VirtualPolitik
Neo Christopher Chung
The world is at a critical junction where polarizing forces are working hard to keep us divided and troubled. We are witnessing the rise of exclusionary laws and policies, fueled by the dark side of the Internet and algorithms. Across Europe and beyond, the challenges of civil unrest and human rights are negatively affecting marginalized populations and creating intractable divisions. How can we use public platforms and new media to create inclusive outlooks and to create new political spheres?
Future of Inclusion Lab
Rashin Fahandej (US)
American Arts Incubator is a creative exchange program that utilizes community-driven digital and new media art projects to instigate dialogue, build communities, bolster local economies, and further social innovation while addressing a local social or environmental challenge. This year’s iteration in Austria was led by artist Rashin Fahandej, who ran the “Future of Inclusion Lab,” a series of co-creation workshops that provided technology and resource access to Austria-based creatives.
Kepler‘s Garden Tour Keplerhall & Park
Watch the Ars Electronica Kepler's Garden tour to Kepler‘s Garden Tour Keplerhall & Park
Kepler‘s Garden Tour Somnium & LIT
Watch the Ars Electronica Kepler's Garden tour to Somnium & LIT
Kepler‘s Garden Tour Learning Center
Watch the Ars Electronica Kepler's Garden tour to Learning Center
Kepler‘s Garden Tour Science Park & Lui
Watch the Ars Electronica Kepler's Garden tour to Science Park and Lui
Keynote Lynn Hershman Leeson
Lynn Hershman Leeson (US)
In this lecture, Lynn Hershman Leeson will give an overview of her work, particularly related to cyborgs, from 1966’s Breathing Machines , to 2018’s Antibody and 2020’s Gravity’s End.
Uncanny Fictions
Jiré Emine Gözen, Barbara Eder, Barbara Eggert, Gloria Meynen
Moderation: Gloria Meynen
Keynote Janina Loh
Janina Loh (DE), Thomas Matzner
Loh’s research interests lie in the field of trans- and posthumanism (espe- cially critical posthumanism), robot ethics, feminist philosophy of technology, responsi- bility research, Hannah Arendt, theories of judgement, and ethics in the sciences.
Uncanny Agents
Gunter Lösel, Pamela Scorzin, Anna Bromley, Marcus Burkhard
Moderation: Marcus Burkhard
Keynote Thomas Macho
Thomas Macho (AT), Gloria Meynen
Since 2016 Thomas Macho has been director of the International Research Centre for Cultural Studies (IFK) at the University of Art and Design Linz in Vienna. In 2019 he was awarded the Sigmund Freud Prize for scholarly prose by the Ger- man Academy for Language and Poetry, and in 2020 the Austrian State Prize for Cultural Journalism.
