Kaleidoscope of Culture Pavilion for New Media Arts
European Capital of Culture Novi Sad 2022, Center for the Promotion of Sciences, VisitNS.rs

With a national open call, we invite everyone to experiment and to explore the transmedial nature of art and science to extend and redefine what it is and can be.

PostSensorium
RIXC Center for New Media Culture (LV) in collaboration with The Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) Program at MIT (US)

Reconditioning our sensorial experiences as well as “more than-human” sensoriums through the latest immersive art-tech tools, RIXC Garden presents Live Concert PostSensorium from RIXC Greenhouse, an experiential art program (Stranger Senses) by young and emerging artists from Riga / Liepaja (LV), Boston (US) and Karlsruhe (DE), and a virtual room for spatial webVR experiences and networked interactions.

Danube Dialogues
Gallery Bel Art (RS)

The presence of a pandemic, “raging” capitalism, and accelerated technological development are disturbing the customary dialectic flow: a “society inside a forced reality” has been imposed on the world, where the human personality is neglected and abused. That is why art is exceptionally important today. It becomes the guardian of human souls striving to make the world more humane and more bearable.

Greetings from the Future IV
University of Nova Gorica School of Arts, Nova Gorica (SI)

The University of Nova Gorica School of Arts has several exploratory academic programs: Animation Film Photography, New Media Contemporary Arts, Scenographic spaces, and Art-Science-Technology. It was established on the Slovenian-Italian border and now is a meeting point for local and international students residing and studying on both sides of sister-towns Nova Gorica-Gorizia.

Art Thinking et al. - Recalibrating the Compass
Art Thinking Australia (AU), FASTlab: Future Art, Science & Technology Lab (AU), University of Newcastle (AU), City of Newcastle (AU)

The Hunter is a region quickly evolving into a new Australian epicenter for collaboration between Art, Science, Technology & Society. Curated by Art Thinking (Ambassador of Ars Electronica) and FASTlab (University of Newcastle), our garden brings together committed local and national partners across academia, governance, industry and the arts to promote action with the community on our increasingly digital world.

gREen
Muffathalle Munich (DE)

With monumental biotechnical installations (Thomas Feuerstein), olfactory portraits of trees (Agnes Meyer-Brandis) and the chemical re-enactment of ancient toxic pigments (Adam Brown), the “gREen” garden proposed by Muffathalle Munich challenges the uncritically accepted symbolism of “green” - as a RE-mix and RE-evaluation of contradictions and paradoxes.

MUTEK Edition 22
MUTEK (CA/QC)

As part of the Garden, MUTEK will showcase a selection of the festival’s 2021 artistic programming, which featured about 80 live performances of digital art and electronic music, intertwining in-venue shows and a free virtual component via the virtual.mutek.org platform. Launched in the year 2000, MUTEK is dedicated to the presentation of live electronic music and real-time audiovisual performance.

EMERGENCE/Y
Hexagram (CA/QC), Université du Québec à Montréal (CA/QC), Concordia University (CA/QC)

In 2021/2022 Hexagram explores the Emergence/y entangled in today’s troubled socio-technical and cultural fabric. The program brings together Network members and collaborators whose critical artistic and technical-material approaches are dedicated to addressing these complex challenges through research situated at the intersections of the arts and social/human/natural sciences.

Digital Aesthetics
National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci (IT)

The Digital Aesthetics Garden invites the visitors of the National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci to explore digital culture physically and creatively through Michael Bromley’s ”Chromata” installation, integrating science, technology and aesthetics.

Meet in real, in web, in world
MEET Digital Culture Center (IT)

An inspirational journey through immersive realities and hybrid scenarios exploring the new artistic languages of VR and XR across exhibitions, performances, installations and laboratories. MEET will present the variegated and multifaceted ecosystem of immersive realities with a critical and international profile.