Gardens

Lost Interferences

Proiect 2 (RO), Rezidența BRD Scena9 (RO), UNATC IL Caragiale – CINETic Centre (RO), CCRMA (RO)

Telematic art is called to technologically heal our loss of body, our loss of senses, our loss of meaning. Tuning into the lost interferences which were never heard, into our own lives, and into all the lost possibilities, the audience will join the performers into making sense of everything we lost. We will emerge through a digitally connected body having gained a collective self.

Punkte Radio

Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Art (ENSA) – Bourges (FR), Antre Peaux – Bourges (FR)

The collective of eight emerging artists PUNKTE is researching and working within the field of sound and beyond. During the festival, they will be offering two hours of radio streaming daily. Each daily session will be based on a cacophony of radio voices, flutes, revox, metal plates, screams and whispers to fabricate the unexpected. On Saturday evening, Punkte will invite other sound artists to join them in inventing new play situations.

From Idea to Ecosystem – lessons from STEAMhouse, Birmingham

STEAMhouse (GB)

Explore the Ars Electronica Garden STEAMhouse and uncover how an idea can be developed into an entire ecosystem through the power of STEAM.

Artificial Reality – Virtual Intelligence

University of Applied Science Berlin – School of Culture and Design, Department of Communication Design (DE)

Works that explore the tension between objectively perceived realities, their virtual extensions, and their cross-pollination in the age of digital transformation.

HYBRID TIMES – INTERDEPENDENCE

Institut Ramon Llull (CAT), Hac Te – Barcelona Art Science and Technology Hub (CAT), UOC – Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (CAT), HANGAR – Center for Art Research and Production (CAT), NewArtFoundation (CAT), .BEEP { collection;} (CAT), ESPRONCEDA – Institute of Art & Culture (CAT), La Caldera – Center for the Ceation of Dance and Performing arts (CAT), Canòdrom – Digital and Democratic Innovation Centre (CAT)

The main challenge of the new digitality is to resist the transhuman capitalist dream of the digital as utopia so as to configure a hybrid problematic via metastable and interdependent approaches to digital media.The new digital deal for our hybrid times will be marked by a heterogeneity that is itself produced by a combination of distinct elements in mutual interdependence.

Roots & Seeds XXI. Biodiversity Crisis and Plant Resistance

Quo Artis (ES), Leonardo/Olats (FR), Ars Electronica (AT), University of Barcelona (ES)

Roots & Seeds XXI. Biodiversity Crisis and Plant Resistance aims to reflect on the biodiversity emergency by analyzing the transformation, adaptation and resilience of the plants while promoting the intersection of art and science as the main platform to raise awareness about these issues.

Walk Like a Bee

Invisible Flock – Land Body Ecologies, Ban Nong Tao (TH), Jennifer Katanyoutanant (TH)

Ars Electronica Garden Ban Nong Tao is a living documentary about fire, rebirth, and Pgak’yau folk wisdom.

theatrics of interspace

University of Innsbruck, Institute für Gestaltung – Studio 2 (AT), AUF! AUF! Residency (AT)

Theatrics of interspace brings digital competence into dialogue with the heritage Lehar theatre to stimulate creativity and open new perspectives for understanding and sharing heritage elements and technology. The garden negotiates the concept of interspace between the actor and performer, subject and object, analogue and digital, real and virtual, the past and the present, the old and the new.

Ars Electronica Garden Aotearoa

arc/sec Lab (University of Auckland (NZ) and DARA (Victoria University of Wellington (NZ)

The Ars Electronica Garden Aotearoa is a cyber-physical exhibition that creates a bi-directional portal to the technology scene of the south Pacific. The Garden hosts performances, music events and prototypical installations, tours through research laboratories and visits to cultural sites and extraordinary landscapes.

The Algorithm and the Park

Onassis Stegi (GR)

A garden of digital delights, unexpected encounters, and new ideas aiming at cultivating the desire for the uncommon commons.