Technology
ARTISTIC WARMING!
Round table KompleX KapharnaüM (KxKm) is hosting a discussion, focusing on how artistic production takes environmental challenges into account.
Emergence & Convergence: An Online Guided Tour
PHI (CA)
PHI is thrilled to present an online guided tour of Emergence & Convergence, the PHI Centre’s current exhibition in Montreal. Emergence & Convergence is an invitation to immerse ourselves completely in the works. This exhibition investigates our humanity in relationship with our planet and all living beings.
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.
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.
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.
Real Feelings – A Talk on Vibes with Lauren Lee McCarthy, Kyle McDonald and Ariane Koek
Lauren Lee McCarthy (US), Kyle McDonald (US), Ariane Koek (GB)
Sabine Himmelsbach, Ariane Koek and Angelique Spaninks, the curators behind the exhibition Real Feelings at HeK Basel in conversation with the American artist Lauren Lee McCarthy. This Artist Talk allows insights into the work of a highly interesting and relevant artist, examining social relationships in the midst of surveillance, automation and algorithmic living. Her interactive installation Vibe Check, especially commissioned for the exhibition at HeK, consists of a series of cameras capturing and analyzing the visitors emotional reactions to each other, ultimately presenting the results to them individually.
AI x MUSIC: Artificial Creativity or Enhanced Humanity
The Grid (US/EU), Christine Payne (US), Monica Dinculescu (US), Ali Nikrang (AT), Clara Blume (AT/US)
The music industry was transformed drastically over the past couple of decades. For better or worse, these developments are tied to technological advancements and a rapidly adapting consumer behavior. Tech companies are invested in a future where AI forms an indispensable part of the creative process. Recent breakthroughs are already paving the way for music that is entirely created and performed by algorithms. But does that make AI an artist?
Space in your Living Room!
Space in Your Living Room! is an online program that brings astronauts, artists, space scientists and engineers, into living rooms across Europe and beyond. It is a series of fun activities, exciting challenges with amazing prizes, and live events for young people, families and educators. At Ars Electronica Festival we will share conversations between astronauts and artists, and the youth art projects created during the program: including stories, speculative design and young reporters stories.
Step into Space
Online Exhibition
Step into Space is an exciting exhibition developed by Ars Electronica, Science Gallery Dublin and University Leiden that brings together space sciences and art to inspire youths and their families. Space mission will lead you through the story.
CONVERSATION WITH THE MAKERS OF VIRTUAL BLACK OUT: EXPERIMENTS IN THE FUTURE OF FORM Exhibition
Panel with the artists of the Virtual Black Out: Experiments in the Future of Form that took place at the National Arts Festival and includes discussion on the outcomes and collaborative procedures
QUINTESSENCE PRIZE
Quintessence Dome Lab Award Ceremony Award ceremony/ curated visit to the winner installation/ panel discussion. QUINTESSENCE DOME LAB is a 4 weeks artist residence organized by Espronceda, Institute of Art and Culture (IMMENSIVA) in collaboration with Mira Festival, UCA, MEET Digital Center Milan, Helsinki XR Centre and with the funding of Institut Ramon Llull. The participants will create an immersive project in different teams. In this ceremony the winner will be announced and the work showcased in a live connection.
Garden of Third Life Conference
The Online Lecture Series aims to share the main discourse on the “Garden,” the central theme of Ars Electronica, and the “Third Life” of the Korea National University of Arts.
