Gardens

NewMusicSA Indaba Garden

Supported by: National Arts Council, Rupert Music Foundation, Arts & Culture Trust – Nedbank, SAMRO In partnership with: ISCM – International Society for Contemporary Music, National Arts Festival – Makhanda, Ars Electronica – Festival for Art, Technology & Society

In Garden Gauteng / iKapa at Ars Electronica 2021, NewMusicSA will show a selection of previously presented highlights from the Digital Indaba 2021, and will premiere new collaborative performances in response to this year´s festival theme, A New Digital Deal.

We Are Data

Cairotronica (EG), IMPAKT (NL)

Data is the new gold of our technology-driven world. How does that manifest itself? How and why do we use new technologies? Following the Cairotronica Festival 2021 (26 April – 1 May), IMPAKT and Cairotronica proudly presented the new web project We Are Data: the result of the collaboration between Cairotronica in Egypt and IMPAKT in Utrecht, the Netherlands, that started in 2019.

HSE Garden Pavilion

HSE Art and Design School (RU)

HSE Garden Pavilion is a platform which presents the diversity of young artists’ views on Ars Electronica2021 key topic—A New Digital Deal. The Pavilion’s agenda includes digital exhibitions, sound performance, and a collection of in-browser games. All projects are created by students and alumni of HSE University, one of the leading young universities worldwide (QS 50 Under 50), and the best Russian school in the field of Art & Design (QS-2021).

PolySocial Realities and Virtualities

Bartlett School of Architecture [MArch Design for Performance and Interaction Interactive Architecture Lab] & Partners (UK)

Design for Performance and Interaction at the Bartlett School of Architecture will form its contribution around contemporary PolySocial Realities. We will use concepts of interconnectivity to have real and virtual events and platforms talk to each other to form polysocial interaction; through the communication of physical and digital participants within a fragmented exhibition environment, we will ask questions and explore answers and experiences together with festival goers.

art+science2021 AI Realities

Center for the Promotion of Science (RS)

Belgrade Garden introduces the Festival audience to the sixth art+science edition of the Center for the Promotion of Science, which focuses on the creative and critical reading of AI-based systems, their value and possibilities.

What is our digital humanity?

Open Austria Art + Tech Lab (US/AT)

What is our digital humanity? The Ars Electronica Garden Silicon Valley, hosted and curated by the Open Austria Art + Tech Lab, engages with artists curators and cultural facilitators as well as technologists, tech executives, think tanks, diplomats, and policymakers to pose this question in a variety of settings through art panels, workshops, immersive experiences, and keynotes.

Code H

Korea National University of Arts (KR)

K-Arts' 2021 Ars Electronica Garden Seoul festival will rediscover the value of humor in overcoming the post-COVID-19 era through various programs including interdisciplinary talks, online exhibits, performances and workshops.

BIAS

Science Gallery Dublin, Science Gallery International, Science Gallery at Michigan State University, ADAPT Centre

The BIAS garden at Ars Electronica will interrogate how bias moves from human to machine and how persuasion, preference, motivation and misinformation contribute to our individual societal and digital biases.

HYDRA

Sevkabel Port (RU), NADO Curatorial Agency (RU)

New Media Art in the Context of Eco-Anxiety

konS ≡ Garden for Contemporary Investigative Art and Tactical Media

Kersnikova Institute [Kapelica Gallery + Rampa + BioTehna + Vivarium] (SI), Projekt Atol Institute (SI), Ljudmila Art and Science Laboratory (SI), Aksioma Institute (SI), Cona Institute (SI), University of Nova Gorica – School of Arts (SI), Youth Cultural Centre Maribor (SI), Youth Centre Velenje (SI), LokalPatriot Novo mesto (SI)

Educational and production laboratories that create excellent conditions for contemporary art creation, audience development, and art market development in the field of contemporary investigative art. The network of laboratories is set up in five Slovenian cities (and open to new partners in the initiative). They enable the establishment of a critical mass for sustainable functioning of the entire field of intermedia art in the country. In this way, we create excellent conditions for supporting the production of art projects from all over the world.