Pre-recorded

Understanding Virtual Reality

Robin Kay (GB)

Robin Kay discusses how virtual reality and explores how startup companies and larger organizations implement augmented reality and VR to enhance their business.

Immersive Media

Poppy Wilde (GB)

When we say immersive media, what we are really talking about is more of a sensorial catchment Whether that’s your visuals/ sound all around, there may be extra things coming into the picture or coming into play with you that previous media may not have incorporated.

EMAP Garden: move to… bodydatasphere

FLOW Architecture (IT), Andrius Arutiunian (NL), Andrej Boleslavský (CZ), Adam Donovan (AU) & Katrin Hochschuh (DE), Mark Farid (GB), Moritz Simon Geist (DE), Sophie Hoyle (GB), Karen Lancel (NL) and Hermen Maat (NL), Kasia Molga (PL/UK), Margherita Pevere (IT), Quimera Rosa (FR), Silvia Rosani (GB), Birk Schmithüsen (DE), uh513 (María Castellanos & Alberto Valverde) (ES)

Our bodies are being measured and analyzed, dissected and optimized. What are the limits of our self-knowledge? What is the actual essence of human life or where is it to be found? Must we or do we want to transcend the familiar limits of our bodies and enter into a post or transhuman age in order to have any future at all? The bodydatasphere reveals the data and secretions of our bodies.

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.

EMAP Garden: move to… sociosphere

Nico Angiuli (IT), Clusterduck (FR/DE/IT), DISNOVATION.ORG (FR), Doug Fishbone (GB), Robertas Narkus (LT), Forms of Ownership (HK/MK/IE/US): Alan Cummingham; Vienne Chan & Boris Oistermann; OPA (Obsessive Possessive Aggression), Kentaro Kumanomido (DE) & Teaque Owen (DE), Aay Liparoto (BE), Martin Nadal (ES), Aleksandra Niemczyk (PL), Chloé Galibert-Laîné (FR) & Kevin B. Lee (DE/US), Total Refusal (AT), Anna Ridler (GB), Rybn.org (FR), Wouter Moraal (NL), Liliana Zeic (PL)

The works of the sociosphere contextualize our digital society from different perspectives. The film kiosk Artificial Intelligence by Doug Fishbone contains a selection of humorous short-film essays that are based on internet photo searches. Online Culture Wars by DISNOVATION.ORG and #MemeManifesto by Clusterduck Collective offer overviews of digital-political movements and memes.

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.

Research-creation 03: IMMERSION & INTERACTION + SCALABILITÉ

Puneet Jain (IN), Rilla Khaled (CA), Gina Hara (HU/CA), Allison Moore (CA), Ludovic Amaru (CA), Gabrielle Couillard (CA), Gaëlle Scali (FR/CA), Atypical (FR)

Umwelten, GAMERella 2021, CLOUD BODIES, SCALABILITÉ

Research-creation 02: MACHINE RELATIONS + REC Discussion

Joe Zeph Thibodeau (CA), Marc-André Cossette (CA), Alexandre Saunier (FR/CA), Ceyda Yolgormez (TR/CA), Evan Hile (CA), David Jhave Johnston (CA), Sofian Audry (CA), Ionat Zurr (AU), Cynthia Noury (CA), Paloma Leyton (AR/CA), Gaelle Scali (FR/CA)

Chronogenica, Poetics of Otherness, Harvesting Signs in Post-Semiocapitalism, REⓒ Discussion

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.