Technology
Ethereal Fleeting
Lukas Truniger (CH), Itamar Bergfreund (CH), Bruce Yoder (US)
Eine Serie von Wolken, erzeugt von einer maschinenähnlichen Skulptur, schwebt in ihrer Umgebung und löst sich langsam wieder in Luft auf. Dieses vermeintlich natürliche Phänomen zeigt sich in merkwürdig wiederholenden Mustern.
Machine in Flux - Wood
Sunjoo Lee (KR), Ko de Beer (NL)
A documentation and cartography of time and environment inspired by the growth mechanism of the tree’s annual rings. The machine sensitively responds to changes of light, wind, temperature, humidity and sound – and inscribes these influences using ink on paper.
Calvaria – Participatory Walk
Vitalij Červiakov (LT)
Heart rate, blood pressure, temperature, blood oxygen level - all those things we are measuring and recording with portable and simple designed devices and sharing that information for analysis and storing to contemporary or future big data wealthiest. How are different processes of our body and mind changing during walking?
Artist Talk: How the brain works?
Marek Chołoniewski (PL), Chris Cutler (UK), Piotr Madej (PL), Artur Lis (PL)
Folded Maps of Time performance backstage
Folded Maps of Time
Marek Chołoniewski (PL), Chris Cutler (UK), Piotr Madej (PL), Artur Lis (PL)
Folded Maps of Time (FoMaTi) is an immersive audio-visual performance that integrates biosensoric electromagnetic systems (MC) and object-oriented electrified percussion (CC).
A Diverse Monoculture
Jip van Leeuwenstein (NL)
”A Diverse Monoculture” is a new family of artificial species, which together form a hive of new predators. These predators are used in an attempt to restore the balance within our ecosystem. The first robot predator in the family is the Dionea Mechanica Muscipula, a creature designed to attract and digest oak processionary moths. The Dionaea Mechanica Muscipula is developed to reduce the population of oak processionary moths, an increasing plague.
Political Atmosphere
Felix Lenz (AT)
“Political Atmosphere” is an experiential installation amplifying the invisible connections between flight turbulence, climate change and war. It consists of a data-driven mechanical siren and an ADS-B antenna, which allows for receiving, processing and visualizing the surrounding flight traffic. Each flight slowly accelerates the latent build-up of potential until a threshold is passed and a mechanism releases the siren.
Ars Electronica AIxMusic Online Hackathon
Philippe Esling (FR), Lamtharn Hanoi Hantrakul (TH), Carmine Cella(IT), Edward Tiong (US) and Yishuang Chen (US)
For the occasion of the first online Festival, Ars Electronica will host its first international AIx Music Hackathon as part of the AIxMusic Festival 2020. The hackathon will take place online during the Ars Electronica Festival from 9-13 September 2020. Join our workshops and engage with other hackers, develop prototypes that musicians will be able to integrate, stimulate the use of open data and public resources!
Hybrid Experiences: A Journey with Tangible Media Group, MindSpaces and MEET Digital Culture Center
Tangible Media Group (US), MEET Digital Culture Center (IT), MindSpaces (INT)
This tour takes us to Garden Cambridge, Milan and Thessaloniki, as Tangible Media Group, MEET Digital Culture Center and European project MindSpaces give us an insight into their projects working with VR, multisensing technologies and telepresence. Artists, researchers and scientists take a deep dive into their practice and unique perspectives of creating hybrid experiences between physical and digital space.
site-inflexion
Fulldome / VR & AR Lab
The immersive installation site-inflexion invites visitors to take part in a site-specific virtual and acoustic journey. The scenery and soundscapes of the JKU campus are the main actors in the work, alluding to Johannes Kepler's activity as a landscape mathematician. A laser-scanned topographic survey of Kepler’s gardens becomes an audio-visual environment transfigured by the everyday sounds that inhabit them. Oscillating between urban pollution and phantasmagoria, structures and lawns bend and curve under the effect of sound waves, reaching their inflection point by tipping towards the unknown.
Cross Perception - work in progress
Fulldome / VR & AR Lab
A limitless space. Everything moves—light, shapes and colors. Human and machine let their sight wander and try to recognize something. The human beings search for orientation, the device calculates.
Future Room and Liminal Spaces (re-edited) 360˚ film screening
Fulldome / VR & AR Lab
The Fulldome Program of the Digital Arts Department at the University of Applied Arts Vienna presents experimental immersive works, collaborations between the Department and the University’s Science Visualization Lab, Trans-Media Academie Hellerau, and the transdisciplinary performance company, kondition pluriel. Future Room and Liminal Spaces (re-edited) reveal the artistic potential of the fulldome, as does the 360˚ film screening selection of works by researchers, teachers, and students.
Ars Electronica Export - Tour and Networking
Ars Electronica Export is travelling to Nikosia (RISE), Dresden (Hygienemuseum), Esch-sur-Alzette (Cultural Capital2022) and San Sebastian (Tabakalera) to talk about the collaboration and projects not only we can see during Ars Electronica Festival 2020.
Women in art, science and technology
Bridging the North Europe to Latin America in Ars Electronica Festival 2020
Such communities are formed in various places, providing a wide range of encouragement and support to their members. What particular issues are considered the most important? Are they similar for women coming from different backgrounds, and how specific are they depending on geographical location?
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.
Visit the Moon with an astrophysicist!
Cité de l’espace (FR)
Come visit the Moon with French astrophysicist and co-discoverer of ice on the Moon, Sylvestre Maurice! He will guide you through the “Moon exhibition” in Cité de l’espace, the space museum in Toulouse, France. These 4 videos were made as part of the “children’s science conference” that invited pupils to imagine their schools on the Moon. Through the eyes of an astrophysicist who has dedicated his life to solar system exploration, click and discover step by step the immersive "Moon exhibition".
Expert Tour: Technology and Uncertainty with a glass of wine
Maurice Benayoun Olga Vad & Helena Nikolone, Bohdan Shumylovych
This tour is dedicated to the theme of Technology and Uncertainty, which are one of the concise, red threads running through this year's Ars Electronica Festival. Together with project coordinator Manuela Hillmann, you'll get a detailed look at it through the organizers of selected online gardens. We will start with a glass of wine at a wine tasting party in Hong Kong and look ahead to Moscow and Lviv. You'll explore a wide variety of approaches to this theme and be surprised at the variety of ways in which it can be illuminated from artistic, scientific and social perspectives.
Austria in Space Garden
Austria in Space (AT)
Austria in Space is more than just another website. It is THE place for Space in Austria. At the Ars Electronica Festival, the Austria in Space initiative will present some of their program highlights and show how relevant Austrian innovations are to the global space exploration sector.
Robots in Action - fast and sensitive!
Institute of Robotics, Johannes Kepler University Linz (AT)
Robots can be strong and sensitive at the same time! They can move extremely fast but also handle fragile objects like champagne glasses. Imagine you want to carry a tray with several glasses of filled liquid without spilling –and you may even be adventurous and try to wave the tray over your head. Most of us will fail to perform such a stunt without breaking some glasses, but our robots are smart and agile enough to do just this. The Institute of Robotics at Johannes Kepler University will open its lab and showcase what modern industrial robotics are, and how fun they can be.
The Woman-Machine
le lieu unique (FR)
The Woman-Machine is a two-day event on the main stage of le lieu unique. In response to La Mettrie (and Kraftwerk) le lieu unique invites artists, scientists and performers to discuss the relationship between AIs and gender, robots and feminism, machine learning and the world after the pandemic.
