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Ars Electronica Garden Aotearoa

arc/sec Lab (University of Auckland (NZ) and DARA (Victoria University of Wellington (NZ)

The Ars Electronica Garden Aotearoa is a cyber-physical exhibition that creates a bi-directional portal to the technology scene of the south Pacific. The Garden hosts performances, music events and prototypical installations, tours through research laboratories and visits to cultural sites and extraordinary landscapes.

The Algorithm and the Park

Onassis Stegi (GR)

A garden of digital delights, unexpected encounters, and new ideas aiming at cultivating the desire for the uncommon commons.

NETWORKED

ALMA Observatory and Fundación Mustakis (CL)

By considering the extreme weather conditions in the Atacama Desert alongside ALMA Observatory, located at more than 5000 metres above sea level, the garden uses the notion of ‘landscape’ in the context of the digital world to rethink how we understand the concept under the influence of the digital revolution.

Polygonal Forest

Fundación Mar Adentro (CL)

Four paths of sensory contemplation will guide you through the different visual and symbolic layers that compose this virtual analogous forest. It is an invitation to reflect on our role as humans upon entering these ancient natural spaces.

La Fabulosa República de la Montaña

The Chilean Corporation of Video and Electronic Arts (CChV) (CL)

Cycles are the center of life and an ever-changing, repeating process. Life cycles unceasingly, plants and animals have stages including a fertilized egg or seed, immature juvenile, and adult, old, cycling also with our own death, and birth. It’s happening every second to all creatures, from the tiniest to the biggest. Our heartbeat cycles to give oxygen to our cells so we breathe, our planet itself fluctuates as the sun comes and goes with every season.

Robots Are People, Too

Waag (NL), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (ES)

Robots Are People Too will provide a sneak preview into an exploration of collaborative robotics within the VOJEXT project. 

Hybrid Forms Lab

VU – Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL)

Presenting projects from a unique artscience laboratory in the faculty of Sciences at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, checking out plants dancing to jazz or voodoo rituals to understand artificial intelligence.

Collaborative Nature of Robots

JetBrains Techlab (NL)

JetBrains Techlab is a new educational initiative by JetBrains based in Amsterdam. In our Ars Electronica garden, we will give you a guided tour and introduce you to our lovely staff with a short lecture series, and you will meet our robots-in-residence.