Guided Tours
INTERPLAY
Manuela Hillmann (DE), Hortense Boulais-Ifrène (FR)
Manuela Hillmann, producer of festival gardens and Hortense Boulais-Ifrène, garden project coordinator invite you to travel from Moscow to London following an engaging participatory path. Moscow opens 3d virtual environment portal to rethink online human conditions to London “Desktop Cinema” series of moving personal works about loose, hope and mystery.
Networked Bodies: Body, embodiment and New Media
Katerina Gnafaki
Body, embodiment and New Media gives insight into three Ars Electronica Festival projects that address the body in the digital sphere.
Theme Exhibition Live Guided Tour II: Enabling Digital Empowerment
Martin Honzik, Karla Spiluttini
Phones and computers are no longer mere devices but extensions of ourselves, used in everyday life. Who gets to decide how these tools are used? Technology can expose truths, enlightening and empowering us towards a more sustainable digital future.
Women in Media Arts - Female Directors
Manuela Hillmann (DE), Maaya Makino (JP)
Manuela Hillmann and Maaya Makino invite you to a tour about women in Media Arts in particular female directors in the framework of Garden Tokyo - The Power of the Unseen and Garden Barcelona Hybrid times.
LIMEN
Hortense Boulais-Ifrène (FR)
In psychology, “Limen” defines the threathold in perception, a margin that brings us back to explore hybrid objects, projections in the dreamspace and chimerical objects. To guide us through this journey RIXC Center for New Media Culture in collaboration with The Art, Culture and Technology Program at MIT will dive into this in-between space that emerges at the border of the virtual and the actual, to the “Uncanny Dreams” of Garden Moscow curated by Helena Nikonole and Oxana Chvyakina.
Where are we standing? A guided tour from Atacama to Araucanía
Christl Baur (DE), Manuela Hillmann (DE)
You are invited to wander through the Polygonal Forest, a protected area in the Andean Araucanía, dedicated to preserving ecosystems. In the Atacama Desert we shift our eyes towards distant galaxies, while talking about landscapes of the 21st century and hearing from devices, that are witnesses of Chile’s social movements.
Intersectional Feminism / Feminism tour in Prix Ars Electronica 2021
Helen Starr (TT), Anna Bunting-Branch (GB)
The concept of intersectionality, which was first conceived by Black feminist legal scholar Kimberlé W. Crenshaw, has become a vital tool for navigating relational identities including race, class and gender in contemporary political discourse.
Artistic Journalism Tour led by Karen Palmer
Karen Palmer (UK)
The information and surveillance society, climate change, human rights issues... Artists are addressing social questions in an artistic way and asking us questions in the form of their artworks. It can be called artistic journalism. In this tour, we will take a look at some of the prize-winning works from the Prix Ars Electronica 2021 that address journalism from an artistic perspective and method, and talk to the artists about their work.
My Shoes, Your Walk
Jonas Sun
This video depicts a revisit of a soundwalk that provided me countless inspiration and solace during the past year. Recorded with contact microphones chiseled and wired in the soles of my shoes, the soundtrack brings us back to last autumn, whereas my camera dangles in the summer heat, and my mind wanders across time.
Bartlett IAL in Conversation
Interactive Architecture Lab & Partners
Peeking behind the doors of London’s creative industry, this film is a collection of interviews and studio visits led by students. Interview partners and studios visited include Alexander Whitley Dance Company, Jason Bruges Studio, Marshmallow Laser Feast, and other friends of the Interactive Architecture Lab.
