Interactive Art
Austria makes Sense - Trip to the Austrian Pavilion at the World Expo in Dubai
The world exhibition Expo 2020, bearing the motto Connecting Minds, Creating the Future, is the first world exhibition in an Arab country. The "Expo" is one of the major international exhibitions recognised by the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE).
Cubo Negro: Live-Duet Cubo Negro Culiacán and Deep Space 8K Linz
Centro de Ciencias (MX), Ars Electronica Solutions (AT)
Last year Ars Electronica replicated Deep Space 8K in Mexico, Culiacan, where the replica is called “Cubo Negro”. For the Festival the main advantage of Deep Space 8K, namely community experience will be brought to a new level. There will be a Duett between the Deep Space Mexico and the Deep Space in Linz. Visitors from Cubo Negro in Mexico and Deep Space 8K in Linz will be able to play together, live. Same environment, same time, only different destinations.
Immersify: The Translucent St. Stephen’s Cathedral
ScanLAB Projects (UK), RIEGL Laser Measurement Systems (AT), Dombauhütte St. Stephan zu Wien (AT), Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)
The Translucent St. Stephen’s Cathedral invites Deep Space 8K visitors to an interactive 3D-journey through high-resolution 360° images of the Viennese St. Stephen’s Cathedral. The images, consisting of more than 21 billion laser points, together make up the multiple layers of transparency of the beautiful sacred building.
Exhibition: Augmented Empathy
As part of The Living Planet, FACT’s programme focusing on the non-human, the artist collective Keiken have developed a multi-layered participatory project called Augmented Empathy in collaboration with FACT’s Learning team.
Exhibition: And Say the Animal Responded?
This immersive exhibition brings you face to face with animals from around the world through film, art and creative technology.
CyberArts 2020 - Prix Ars Electronica Exhibition
The OK im OÖ Kulturquartier has been presenting the CyberArts exhibition since 1998. As a showcase for the Prix Ars Electronica winners, it is an excellent platform from which to observe current developments and trends in our digital age, with a special focus on their social and economic impact. The selected works exemplify the social dynamics and issues that are dominating today’s discourse.
Falling Up Exhibition
re.riddle, California, San Francisco (US)
Amidst riots and racial tensions, divisive political rhetoric and a global pandemic, the past half year has been a time of turbulent uncertainty. These acute ruptures and moments of pain, conflict and unknowingness have inadvertently led to a mode of seeing our former and current realities anew, which may more or less best be described as “surreal”.
Artist Talk: Cheng Guo (CN)
Artist Talk byCheng Guo (CN) about her project 'The Net Wanderer - A tour of suspended handshakes' which got the Honorary Mention in the Interactive Art + category of the Prix Ars Electronica 2020.
Artist Talk: Constanza Piña Pardo (CL)
Artist Talk by Constanza Piña Pardo (CL) about her project 'khipu / Electrotextile Prehispanic Computer' which got the Honorary Mention in the Interactive Art + category of the Prix Ars Electronica 2020.
‘site inspection’ – Virtual cocktail party & FM4 Radio Show in VR
sound:frame / Eva Fischer (AT), Marijn Bril (NL), Angie Pohl (AT)
For this year’s Ars Electronica, sound:frame and Pausanio invite the audience to join an exclusive virtual cocktail party in the Area for Virtual Art’s mozilla hub space. Together we will teleport from one artist’s space to another and have a virtual toast.
'site inspection' - Virtual exhibition tour
sound:frame / Eva Fischer (AT), Marijn Bril (NL), Angie Pohl (AT)
The sound:frame curators Eva Fischer and Marijn Bril will guide through the Area for Virtual Art and talk with the exhibiting artists and some of the Area’s team members, about their approaches to virtuality and digitality.
sound:frame & Pausanio virtual – Area for Virtual Art
sound:frame / Eva Fischer (AT), Marijn Bril (NL), Angie Pohl (AT)
sound:frame together with Pausanio presents the Area for Virtual Art – an online platform for digital art and virtual formats. Discover current artistic approaches in virtual exhibitions and meet people in discussion programs and live events to exchange thoughts and create new ideas and concepts. The Area for Virtual Art develops into an international hub, giving a platform to current digital art forms and connecting people all over the world.
Artist Talk: Sissel Marie Tonn (DK)
Artist Talk by Sissel Marie Tonn (DK) about her project ‘The Intimate Earthquake Archive’ which got the Honorary Mention in the Interactive Art + category of the Prix Ars Electronica 2020.
Artist Talk: Dasha Ilina (RU)
Artist Talk by Dasha Ilina (RU) about her project 'Center for Technological Pain' which got the Honorary Mention in the Interactive Art + category of the Prix Ars Electronica 2020.
Online Exhibition NEW CONNECTIONS
HKU University Of The Arts Utrecht (NL)
The opening night will feature several live performances all related to the theme “new connections”. This for example by revisiting and passing on music traditions through electronic means, new tactile electronic instruments and an AV show performed by live coding artists.
CINETic Residencies
Kıvanç Tatar (CA/TR), João Tragtenberg (BR), Saint Machine (RO), Leonard Nicola Hein & Claudia Schmitz (US/DE)
Due to COVID travel restrictions, the program for residencies that was supposed to take place at CINETic, has moved to an online collaborative program. Four artists around the world collaborated with CINETic researchers and artists. The talk with the online residents will focus on the experience of developing work for online interactions in a long-distance collaborative process.
Distant Art
National University for Theatre and Film IL Caragiale Bucharest (RO)
Distant Art is an open-air exhibition of interactive installations and online works developed by digital artists and students during and after the lockdown experience. Art practice struggled to find its own path in the times of limited direct contact. Telematic presence became a must for most forms of expression, creating A Distant Art.
Artist Talk: Mario Klingemann (DE)
Artist Talk by Mario Klingemann (DE) about his project 'Appropriate Response' which got the Honorary Mention in the Interactive Art + category of the Prix Ars Electronica 2020.
Workshop: Solidarity Through Sound and Time
Ivana Dama and Clinton Van Arnam
In this workshop, participants would have the unique chance to reconsider their ideas of what constitutes sound and music compositions. Throughout the day we are exposed to countless amounts of sounds and noises, but it is only valuable if we can isolate these specific sounds and separate their relationship from emory to their pure tonal structure.
Artist Talk: Lynn Hershman Leeson (US)
Artist Talk by Lynn Hershman Leeson (US) about her project 'Shadow Stalker' which won the Award of Distinction in the Interactive Art + category of the Prix Ars Electronica 2020.
