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art+science lab 2020 – virtual exhibition

Using Mozilla Hubs, the content of the exhibition in Belgrade will be transformed into a virtual art+science exhibition which anyone can visit and explore.

better off online. World Wide Webb. Curated by Anika Meier

KÖNIG GALERIE - Berlin / Tokyo / London / Digital

World Wide Webb by the British artist Thomas Webb is a virtual world the digital visitor enters through the browser on a smartphone. It is a multiplayer video game, a digital exhibition space and a world full of art and characters the visitor is invited to interact with. Webb recreates the social spontaneity of the world pre-Covid-19. He built a virtual world for new media artists to share their thoughts on what technology is and could be. The visitor meets AI avatars designed by Webb, to reflect the human nature and to question the use of technology in the digital age. Net art is presented in its genuine medium, the digital realm, where video art is also easily accessible.

PRESTIGE Art & Science Residency

Migration – Sunshine Architecture explores the idea of energy autonomy while questioning our apparent ease of access to it. To reconsider our relationship with energy and its consumption, it is interesting to present energy as a limited, thereby precious, resource. Discover how Migration – Sunshine Architecture has been developed by KompleX KapharnaüM (KxKm), a French team comprised of video makers, musicians, technicians, writers, performers, and makers that performs in public space.

The Woman-Machine: Performance

Golem Mécanique (FR)

Watch this performance on Ars Electronica Voyages Channel and the Livestream.

The Woman-Machine: Performance

Félicia Atkinson (FR)

Watch this performance on the Livestream.

The Woman-Machine: Panel II

Aude Bernheim, Sophie Sakka

The second day of “The Woman-Machine” will feature panels from with Aude Bernheim on AI and ethics and Sophie Sakka on therapeutic robots and autism.

The Woman-Machine: Panel I

Clotilde Chevet, Oulimata Gueye

On Firday the event “The Woman-Machine” will start with talks from Clotilde Chevret about AI and gender, followed by another panel with Oulimata Gueye on afrocyberfeminism.

Transcendence

LMU Munich and TUM/MCTS: Melissa Mueller (LMU), Selma Causevic (LMU), Julia Delacor (LMU), Finja Hinrichs (LMU), Melike Mesin (LMU), Annabelle Andres (LMU), Yvonne Creter (LMU), Maximilian Reiner (TUM), Clara Valdés Stauber (TUM) Supervisors: Dr. Karin Guminski, Aida Bakhtiari, Jan-Hendrik Passoth

TRANSCENDENCE: presents an VR environment in form of a serene and magical forest, that strives to provide a safe mental space for people, who are burdened during times of uncertainty and constant change. A carefully curated selection of visuals and sounds encourage the user to leave everyday stress and anxiety caused by Covid-19 behind. The VR experience aims to support people, to clear their mind in order to better process the pressure of the global pandemic crisis. Transcendence attempts to guide the user through a meditative, calming environment, that speaks to mind and body. The combination of anxiety soothing nature as well as precisely arranged sounds and colours turn Transcendence into a safe haven – transcending the user from the physical realm into the

TRACK_48N10E

University of Applied Sciences Augsburg and TUM/MCTS: Adrian Ludwig (HS Augsburg), Florian Kapaun (HS Augsburg), Johannes Weigele (HS Augsburg), Codrin Podoleanu (HS Augsburg), Benedikt Friedl (HS Augsburg), Simon Hofmeister (HS Augsburg), Linda Ma (HS Augsburg), Dennis Appelt (TUM), Carmen Bozga (TUM), Paola Segovia Alvarado (TUM), Xinghan Liu (TUM) Supervisors: Prof. Andreas Muxel, Elias Naphausen, Jan-Hendrik Passoth

TRACK_48N10E is a location-based, real-time application, mapping your surroundings to a virtual synthesizer. The mobile, web-based reality extension enables users to perceive their sonified environment while strolling. The soundscape is dynamically generated by urban and rural features of site-specific map data and changes with every single step. TRACK_48N10E encourages the exploration of known and unknown places by ear. Two places never look the same and therefore never sound the same. With each step the listener dives further into a unique, extended reality.

STORIES OF AN INSTANT

LMU Munich and TUM/MCTS: Lucas Fellner (LMU), Viktoria Lubomski (LMU), Claudius Budcke (LMU), Lorenz Meyn (LMU), Ferdinand Domes (LMU), Joanne Arkless (TUM), Cynthia Yee Ting Ng (TUM) Supervisors: Dr. Karin Guminski, Aida Bakhtiari, Jan-Hendrik Passoth

STORIES OF AN INSTANT exemplifies a variety of perspectives created by the societal circumstances of COVID-19. To stimulate a change of perspective and awake empathy the project includes voice recordings of people affected by the crisis. By assigning different stories to meaningful objects, STORIES OF AN INSTANT creates separated areas, each defined by a strong symbolic language. Based on exploration of situated knowledges and the duality of objectivity-relativism, the project challenges one's view of their own truth – striving to showcase considerable perceptions of others.

Transient - Impermanent paintings

Quayola (IT)

Transient - Impermanent paintings is an audiovisual concert for two motorized pianos and two conductors in collaboration with generative algorithms. Hyper-realistic digital brushstrokes articulate endlessly on a large-scale projection as if on a real canvas. Each brushstroke is sonified with a piano note, creating polyphonic synesthetic landscapes.

Representations about the indigenous Amazon

Matías Vega Norell (PE), Etsa Nantu, Fátima Rodrigo (PE)

These two projects around the narrative of Amazonian representations address sociocultural problems, including the presentation of director Matías Vega Norell of the bilingual radio soap opera Etsa Nantu, passion in the Amazon; and artist Fatima Rodrigo will present UNAP (National University of the Peruvian Amazon), a video piece that dissects part of the physical makeup of the brutalist University built in the Peruvian Amazonian rainforest.

Configurations around the Environment, the Amazon and New Media

Nancy La Rosa (PE), Beno Juárez (PE)

An exploration of the socio-environmental conflicts derived from the extraction of common goods in Peru and the power relations implied in traditional representations of the territory. And on the other hand, a technological proposal seeks to solve the main challenges of the world: social inclusion and climate change.

Migratory Movement and preservation of the Amazonian Memory

Olinda Silvano (Reshinjabe) (PE), Elena Valera (Bawan Jisbe) (PE)

Migrants and descendants of the native Shipibo-Konibos reflect on life in the urban settlement of Cantagallo, on how they preserve collective Amazonian memory, and on the risk of COVID-19 contagion while living without access to essential resources like sewage, running water, and electric power.

Learning from The Commons: a keystone towards a rewildered Future

Stefan Laxness (UK)

Identity and Aesthetics in a Rewilded Europe - ​Exploration of the potential of rewilding Europe as an operative territorial strategy with far reaching consequences for how we occupy space and engage as citizens.

The Grid: Full Festival Experience

The Grid (US/EU), Gray Area (US), Codame (US), ZERO1 (US), MUTEK.SF (US), EUNIC Silicon Valley (US), EUNIC Washington DC (US), EUNIC New York (US), Ars Electronica AIxMusic Festival (AT), STARTS, European Commission (EU), Center for Humane Technology (US), Salesforce (US)

By mobilizing artists, technologists, and policy makers from around the world, Exposure reimagines interdisciplinary and international collaboration to overcome deadlock and siloed thinking. Through 4 days of art, panels, performances, interactive experiences, talks, and workshops, Exposure works towards shaping technological development for the benefit of all. Be part of it and join in on four livestreams!

Real Feelings – A Talk on Work and AI with Simone C. Niquille and Sabine Himmelsbach

Simone C. Niquille (CH), Sabine Himmelsbach (DE)

The curators behind the exhibition Real Feelings at HeK Basel in conversation with the participating Swiss artist Simone C. Niquille. Her work Elephant Juice, specifically commissioned for the show, explores artificial emotional intelligence being used in employment procedures. The work follows a character preparing for an upcoming automated job interview, reflecting on the limits of objectivity and automatic categorization of deeply personal and delicate matters of emotion.

Real Feelings – A talk on Survival with Lucy McRae and Angelique Spaninks

Lucy McRae (GB), Angelique Spaninks (NL)

Sci Fi Artist and Body Architect Lucy McRae in conversation with the curators behind the exhibition Real Feelings. Her new work Solitary Survival Raft, shown at HeK, is an inflatable, reactive, breathing sculpture, inviting visitors to crawl into it for safety. The outbreak of Covid-19 has made our digitalized societies evade the human touch even more. Going against the idea of a future without being touched, McRae builds machines that gently embrace and hold the body.

AIxLITERATURE: Poetry Is A Machine

The Grid (US/EU), Vikram Chandra (IN/US), Bryan McCann (US), Andrew Piper (CA), M Eifler (US), Clemens J. Setz (AT), Clara Blume (AT/US), Vanessa Chang (US/SG/AU)

How does the algorithmic contour the lyrical? Nearly a century ago, William Carlos Williams declared, “A poem is a small (or large) machine made out of words.” As artificial intelligence becomes a writing tool, his words take on a new resonance. Some critics of algorithmic literature decry the incursion of automation into this essentially human creative practice.

Future Life Exhibition

Curated by: Karin Ohlenschläger

Marco Barotti (IT), Clams, interactive installation, 2019 Disnovation.org (FR), Online Culture Wars (in collaboration with Baruch Gottlieb, 2018/19; The Persuadables), video, 2019 Quimera Rosa (ES/FR), Trans*Plant: May the Chlorophyll Be With/In You, mix-media installation, work in progress since 2016 Anna Ridler (GB), Mosaic Virus, GANs generated video installation, 2019 Robertina Sebjanic (SI) & Gjino Sutic (HR), Aqua Forensic, installation, 2018