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Hannes Hoelzl (IT), Dirk Erdmann (DE), Vinzenz Aubry (DE), Ólafur Arnalds (IS), Robert Schnüll (DE), Alberto de Campo (AT), Jussi Ängeslevä (FI), Andi Ruckel (DE)
Webbasierte digitale Kondolenzseite und räumliche Audioinstallation, die über den persönlichen Einfluss des verstorbenen Medienkünstlers und Designers Joachim Sauter auf viele von uns kontempliert.

Sound performance “Insects Orchestra: Underground”
Andrey Bundin (RU), Roman Smirnov (RU), Ksenia Bahtina (RU), Evgenii Khlopotov (RU), Anton Shchegolev (RU), Natalia Grishina (RU), Anastasia Birulia (RU)
A performance of a laptop orchestra is based on the research and artistic reflection of the underground world's sonic nature. Acoustic material of the work consists of sounds recorded using contact microphones attached to the ground, trees, rocks. In addition, performers use musical expression interface and sound synthesis engine, specifically developed for this performance. Every performer plays a specific part, and then all parts are combined into a complex spatial sound field.

Sustainable Futures & New Pathways to Innovation
Sustainable Futures & New Pathways to Innovation is an interactive online experience that explores three concrete challenges tackled by artists who have participated in S+T+ARTS across three thematic areas: Tangible Data, Sustainable Futures and Navigating the Digital Realm.

MIRO Board Garden Araucania + Green Art Lab Alliance (GALA) Virtual Encounters: Viewing, Transforming, Creating Landscapes Through Art
Durch die Partner des Green Art Lab Alliance wurden Videos, Bilder, Worte und Formen aus Europa, Asien und Lateinamerika auf einem Whiteboard miteinander verbunden, um Fragen zum Umgang mit natürlichen Lebensräumen und Nachhaltigkeit nachzugehen. Die Besucher können sich aktiv an dieser virtuellen Übung beteiligen und der Einladung folgen, virtuell durch diese experimentelle Kartierung von Verbindungen und Austausch zu reisen.

Roots & Seeds XXI: Campus Cartographies
Veronika Krenn (AT), masharu (NL/RU), Raphael Perret (CH), Tiziana Centofanti (IT), Andreas Zingerle (AT), Markus Puschenreiter (AT), Franz Stürmer (AT)
The Campus Cartographies are an exploration of plant diversity in and around the Kepler Gardens taking place during this year’s Ars Electronica Festival in the framework of Roots & Seeds XXI. Together with host Veronika Krenn, the participants dive into one aspect that has a critical impact on our plant life: the soil that is its basis for growth.

Roots & Seeds XXI - What is the Biodiversity Crisis?
Lucio Montecchio (IT)
During the last years, the discourses around the loss of biodiversity and more sustainable production and consumption models have advanced widely in the fields of natural sciences, social sciences and new technologies. How can we change this and co-create a more sustainable future?

Roots & Seeds XXI - ABOUT_ Multidisciplinary Garden Cartography
Claudia Schnugg (AT)
During the Roots & Seeds XXI workshops, participants from different fields (artists, scientists, philosophers, researchers, curators, cultural agents, and others), whose practices are linked to the plant world in different ways, will analyze the crisis of biodiversity with the intention of proposing sustainable ways of relating to nature. Through these workshops, Roots & Seeds XXI seeks to safeguard and promote botanical heritage, weaving scientific knowledge with storytelling and humanities.

School of the Future - Open Studio
TOKYO MIDTOWN (JP)
Als globale Autorität für Medienkunst und elektronische Musik arbeitet Ars Electronica seit 2017 gemeinsam mit TOKYO MIDTOWN an dem Projekt School of the Future. Im Rahmen des diesjährigen Ars Electronica Festivals 2021 – A New Digital Deal – findet eine spezielle Online-Talk-Session SCHOOL OF THE FUTURE –OPEN STUDIO– statt. Auf Einladung von Daito Manabe, Künstler und Jurymitglied des diesjährigen Prix Ars Electronica, diskutieren Mitglieder von Ars Electronica und TOKYO MIDTOWN über die Kulturtechnologie der Zukunft und blicken dabei auf die preisgekrönten Projekte dieses Jahres zurück.

Art & Science in Times of Complexity and Crisis
Andrew Newman
It may seem unfathomable that we could ever grasp the sheer complexity of the interdependencies of Ecosystem Earth. Each and every one of our quantum computers would crash when faced with the task of mapping all interactions from our microbiomes to the zonobiomes. One human mind cannot comprehend it all, but multitudes of minds have tirelessly worked towards contributing to a shared scientific knowledge that together unravels these interdependencies.

Theme Exhibition Live Guided Tour I: Dataspheres Observed
Martin Honzik, Christl Baur
The digital world includes everything around us, even that which we do not see. As technology evolves, we are led to question what is real and the line between biological and virtual, emotional and logical, right and wrong becomes more blurred.