Ecology

Upcycling Stadt

Lisa Marits (AT)

Young Creatives u12 recognition, Prix Ars Electronica 2021 | Lisa interessiert sich sehr für Upcycling und glaubt fest daran, dass es für unsere Zukunft immer wichtiger wird. Daher ist die Idee entstanden, dass wir Menschen auch in Upcycling-Gebäuden leben könnten. Die Teile der Stadt sind größtenteils aus upgecyceltem Material entstanden: ein Plastikflaschenhaus, in dem man wohnen kann; eine Innocent-Flasche, die zu einem Pool wurde; ein Amazon-Karton, den sie in einen Supermarkt verwandelt hat.

Xtal Castle

Katya Pravda (RU), Anna Novikova (RU), Yulia Yousma (RU), Alexey Ryumin (RU)

Katya Pravda’s art is viewer-oriented, it’s democratic. The parts this art is made of are a pleasure in themselves — flower petals, branches, stones, vegetables, mushrooms. But then vigorous intraframe editing jumps in the form of fake eyelash glue. The familiar is fading, giving way to the unknown.

Erster Plastikschlucker der Welt

Emilio Deutsch (AT)

Young Creatives u10 Award, Prix Ars Electronica 2021 | Emilio hat all die verschmutzten Strände gesehen, und dieser Anblick hat ihm nicht gefallen. Deswegen hat er den ersten Plastikschlucker der Welt erfunden. Damit kann man Müll, besonders Plastikmüll, innerhalb weniger Minuten auflösen. So könnte man die Umwelt wieder sauberer machen.

Urban Green: Bamboo Bicycle

Angelina Djukic (AT), Lukas Gabesam (AT), Japleen Khurana (AT), Alina Schweighofer (AT); Euregio HTBLVA Ferlach

Young Professionals Award, Prix Ars Electronica 2021 | Bei dem Projekt Urban Green: Bamboo Bicycle wurde ein umweltfreundliches Herstellungsverfahren von Bambusfahrrädern entwickelt. Die vier Künstler*innen wollten nicht akzeptieren, dass bei der herkömmlichen Bauweise von Bambusrahmen mit nicht umweltfreundlichen Verbindungselementen und giftigen Lacken gearbeitet wird.

EMAP Garden: move to… ecosphere

Kat Austen (GB/DE), Marco Barotti (IT), Florent Di Bartolo (FR), Gil Delindro (PT), Anna Dumitriu (GB) & Alex May (GB), Daniel Hengst (DE), Darsha Hewitt (DE), Konrad Korabiewski (DK/IS), Carolin Liebl (DE) and Nikolas Schmid-Pfähler (DE), MAEID (AT), Joana Moll (ES), Robertina Šebjanič (SI) & Gjino Šutić (HR), Taavi Suisalu (EE), Stefan Laxness (GB/IS)

The contributions of the ecosphere shed light on the consequences of the digitalization of our ecosystem, knowledge generated by a shift in perspective away from humans and towards other life forms, and the opportunities for “peaceful co-existence” and cooperation between species.

move to… EMAP Garden exhibition

Nico Angiuli (IT), Andrius Arutiunian (NL), Kat Austen (GB/DE), Marco Barotti (IT) / WRO Art Center (PL), Florent Di Bartolo (FR), Andrej Boleslavský (CZ), Clusterduck (FR/DE/IT), Gil Delindro (PT), DISNOVATION.ORG (FR), Anna Dumitriu (GB) & Alex May (GB), Adam Donovan (AU) & Katrin Hochschuh (DE), Mark Farid (GB), Doug Fishbone (GB), FLOW Architecture (IT), Forms of Ownership (HK/MK/IE/US), Moritz Simon Geist (DE), Daniel Hengst (DE), Darsha Hewitt (DE), Sophie Hoyle (GB), Konrad Korabiewski (DK/IS), Kentaro Kumanomido (DE) & Teaque Owen (DE), Chloé Galibert-Laîné (FR) & Kevin B. Lee (DE/US), Stefan Laxness (GB/IS), Carolin Liebl (DE) & Nikolas Schmid-Pfähler (DE), Karen Lancel (NL) & Hermen Maat (NL), Aay Liparoto (BE), MAEID (AT), Kasia Molga (PL/UK), Joana Moll (ES), Wouter Moraal (NL), Martin Nadal (ES), Robertas Narkus (LT), Aleksandra Niemczyk (PL), Margherita Pevere (IT), Liliana Zeic (PL), Anna Ridler (GB), Quimera Rosa (FR), Silvia Rosani (GB), Rybn.org (FR), Birk Schmithüsen (DE), Robertina Šebjanič (SI) & Gjino Šutić (HR), Taavi Suisalu (EE), Total Refusal (AT), uh513 (María Castellanos & Alberto Valverde) (ES)

The Werkleitz Festival 2021 move to... sociosphere ecosphere bodydatasphere is a correspondence location of the 2021 Ars Electronica. During the past 4 years, the artists and collectives at 11 institutions of the European Media Art Platform have been researching the most urgent challenges of our age. The virtual closing exhibition will feature 44 works produced with the support of Creative Europe.

BALANCE-UNBALANCE: THE FUTURE STARTED NOW

Andrés Felipe Gaviria (CO), Gabrielle Couillard (CA), Kasey Pocius (CA), Mario H Valencia (CO), Oscar Ceballos (CO), Leah Barclay (AU), Ricardo Dal Farra (AR/CA), Rob La Frenais (UK/FR), Felipe Londoño (CO), Roger Malina (US), Pablo Suarez (AR/US)

“Balance-Unbalance: The Future started Now” is the second encounter in a series of roundtables gathering scientists, artists, architects and curators to help us think about what we should do today to change course and to have a possible future, considering the serious risks we face given the growing environmental crisis.

Material Workshops

Brice Ammar-Khodja (FR), Vanessa Mardirossian (CA), Matthew Halpenny (CA)

Sensitive membranes, Textile Dyes Workshop, Workshop on Open-Source Microbial Fuel Cells

Research-creation 01: CONNECTING MILIEUX + Hexagram Showcase

Gisèle Trudel (CA), Maya Lamothe-Katrapani (CA), Alessia Zarzani (IT), Orit Halpern (CA), Jean-Denis Milette (CA), Gabriel Payant (CA), Marius Senneville (CA), Alessandra Ponte (CA), Kim Laneuville (CA), Adriana Menghi (CA), Delphine Ducharme (CA), Meryem Sekhri (CA), Alexandre Asselin (CA), Anna Paola Bossi (IT/CA), Baptiste Kauffmann (FR/CA), Millie-Ann Grenon (CA), Rachel Ducharme (CA), Charles Antoine Poulin (CA), Fannie Hébert (CA), Ikram Haffaf (CA), Liliane Hamelin (CA), Marie-Ève Fortier (CA), Jill Didur (CA), Tony Higuchi (ES), AELab (CA), Fossilation (CA), Andrée Martin (CA), Estelle Schorpp (FR/CA), Marc-André Cossette (CA), Sandra Volny (CA), Ahreum Lee (KR/CA), Émilie Morin (CA), Erin Gee (CA), Guillaume Pascal (CA), Juliette Lusven (FR/CA), Maxime Boutin (FR/CA), Olivia Mc Gilchrist (JM/FR), Rilla Khaled (CA), Enric Llagostera (BR), Jess Rowan Marcotte (CA), Steven Sych (CA), Jean Dubois (CA), Ghyslain Gagnon (CA), Ké Medley (CA), Louis-Philippe Rondeau (CA), Yan Breuleux (CA), Nicolas Bernier (CA), Nicolas Reeves (CA), David St-Onge (CA), Chris Salter (US/CA), Dietmar Lupfer (DE), Sofian Audry (CA), TeZ (IT)

Documentation of the first art installation of the Canada Research Chair MÉDIANE, presented outdoors in July 2021 at Jardin botanique Montréal. The installation experiments artistically with the ecophysiological data of three species of trees collected by the research programme SmartForests.

Extractivism. Operations and Practices

CENEx Collective (Lucía Egaña, Isabel Torres, Juana Guerrero), TRIMEX Collective (Andrés Terrisse, Juan José Aldunce, Bernardita Pérez), Regina de Miguel, Ignacio Acosta, Felipe Rivas San Martin, Claudio Celis, María Jesús Schultz, Celeste Rojas, Paula Baeza Pailamilla, Cristian Ochoa, Felipe González, Claudia Pool, Martin Arboleda

Extractivisms: Operations and Practices is a curatorial proposal introducing the idea of an "expanded extractivism". To do so, it connects works by creators such as Ignacio Acosta, Jota Aldunate, Paula Baeza Pailamilla, Claudio Celis and María Jesús Schultz, Regina de Miguel, Lucía Egaña, Juana Guerrero, Bernardita Pérez, Celeste Rojas, Felipe Rivas San Martín, Andrés Terisse and Isabel Torres, to reflect on and discuss how to foment the questioning and exploration of these transversal practices and operations.