Gardens
Sonic Garden
Beshknow Radio (IR)
Beshknow radio contributes to this edition of the Ars Electronica festival by presenting the work of Iranian artists who utilize sound as a primary medium.
The "Entrance and Distancing" Deals in the Digital Era
Center for Technology and Art, National Tsing Hua University - NTHU, (TW); Department of New Media Art, Taipei National University of the Arts - TNUA, (TW)
We propose The Entrance and Distancing Deals in the Digital Era as the lens through which to address different social issues and the threat of COVID-19 in NTHU x TNUA TechArt Festival in Hsinchu / Taipei Garden. Eleven artworks integrate the project in the festival.
Werkleitz Festival 2021 move to …sociosphere ecosphere bodydatasphere
Werkleitz Gesellschaft e.V. (DE), Ars Electronica, Linz (AT), Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT), Liverpool (UK), IMPAKT, Utrecht (NL), Antre Peaux, Bourges (FR), LABoral, Gijón (ES), Kontejner, Zagreb (HR), WRO Art Center, Wrocław (PL), RIXC, Riga, (LV), Onassis Stegi, Athens (GR), m-cult, Helsinki (FI)
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.
Tour de Force
Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden (DE)
How can a museum transfer its authentic on-site experience into the digital world? Join a virtual live tour through the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum!
Hybrid Knowledge Spaces
Industrial Design Engineering TU Dresden (DE), Communication Networks TU Dresden (DE), Deutsches Hygiene Museum Dresden (DE), SLUB (DE)
Discover different hybrid knowledge spaces in the TU Dresden garden, from digital communication to material databases to piano playing digital twins!
Disconnected Experiences
CLIC Cuba-Europe, EUNIC Cuba, European Union, Oficina del Historiador de la Ciudad de La Habana (CU), Habana Espacios Creativos (CU), Asociación Hermanos Saíz (CU), !!!Sección ARTE (CU)
Disconnected Experiences proposes an approach to cultural experiences and digital practices based on the confluence of offline and online space (virtual and physical) in the Cuban context. In parallel to its online presence in Ars Electronica, Disconnected Experiences will be exhibited offline through !!!Sección ARTE, in the Paquete Semanal, with a reach of 10 million users in Cuba.
Where we emerge
Art & Technology Studies Department of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (US)
This year the Art and Technology Studies (ATS) department of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) presents the work of its community through a series of online and in-person events. The ATS garden seeks to engage in a multidisciplinary dialogue and become a physical and virtual space where the SAIC and the Chicago communities can reflect on our roles in this digital world and rethink ways to engage with these digital systems.
TeleAbsence
Tangible Media Group / MIT Media Lab (US)
The Portuguese term saudade refers to a nostalgic longing for someone or something one cares for. We propose TeleAbsence as a counter concept to Telepresence. If Telepresence connects people who are separated but still reachable, the ultimate goal of TeleAbsence’s is to soothe saudade by providing the illusory experience of communicating and interacting with people who are no longer among us.
Ars Semantica
Mariano Sardón (AR)
Six people with different backgrounds from Buenos Aires, Madrid and Linz, share common intuitions and questions as artists, curators and data scientists constituting Ars Semantica Garden. Using Deep Learning tools for semantic analysis of texts, they explore correlations and visualizations of Ars Electronica archive by comparison with Artistic and Techno-Scientific textual corpuses along time.
The Pulse of Earth
UAI Universidad Abierta Interamericana (AR), LatBiolab – Laboratorio Latinoamericano de Bioarte (AR), Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust (PR)
Is the Earth alive? This project resorts to the blockchain to explain how our body constitutes a sort of cryptobody, and uses NFTs to approach the micro and the macrocosm, whether to share our DNA or the pulsating of the stars.
