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Frau Sammer

Frau Sammer

A very old lady with dementia, Ms. Sammer was born in Graz an der Mur in 2016. It's about everyday neighborhood conflicts, hipster cults and sometimes even love. With synth sounds, electric bass, two voices, rap and assi-sacral hymns the four Sammers show themselves shrill and quiet, virtuosic and virtual, amateurish and absolutely professional.

Pianographique 2021

Maki Namekawa (JP)

Maki Namekawa has created a new program for this year's Ars Electronica, bringing music by György Ligeti, Chick Corea and, for the first time, Polish composer Hania Rani to the visual arena of the Deep Space venue. She will be visually accompanied by Cori O'Lan, who will once again connect the Deep Space’s high-end graphics cards with his real time visualization system to provide an immersive visual interpretation of Maki Namekawa’s performance.

Sound Park - auditory scenes

In einer von visuellen Reizen dominierten Welt kann die auditive Wahrnehmung eine Oase der Ruhe sein. Der Klangpark - im Keplergarten der Johannes Kepler Universität Linz - bietet die Möglichkeit, sich zu entspannen und sich auf einen aktiven Hörprozess einzulassen. Die BesucherInnen sind eingeladen, die Augen zu schließen und ein klangliches Bewusstsein für einen ihnen unbekannten Raum entstehen zu lassen.

STARTS Prize '21 Exhibition

The Ars Electronica Festival will present the STARTS initiative and a selection of the award-winning and nominated works for the 2021 STARTS Prize: From Circular Economy to the Relationship between Ecology and Technology, from Digital Humanism to Empathic Approaches to Artificial Intelligence.

BIO AUSTRIA Farmer's Market

BIO AUSTRIA (AT)

BIO AUSTRIA Farmers’ Market: Organic grows on the best soil. Organic farmers from BIO AUSTRIA know the value of soil, because it is the basis for the production of our daily food. Plants, animals and humans benefit from healthy soil. Therefore, organic farms care for the soil — for the benefit of all.

Garden of … knowledge for humanity

Ars Electronica Research Institute “knowledge for humanity (k4h+)”

This work focuses on the following three core areas of the recently funded Ars Electronica Research Institute “knowledge for humanity (k4h+)”: Digital Humanism and critical reflections on technology; Knowledge for Emergency - COVID19 related experiments and interactions, Academic Knowledge and the Sustainable Development Goals. This series of diverse interactions of various formats is designed uniquely for Ars Electronica Festival 2021 and curated by Eveline Wandl-Vogt. You are invited on a journey of discovery, aiming to drive social innovation-based activism and critically reflect on what we call “intelligence” (artificial and human alike), where you can join k4h+’s learning journey in a community of purpose.

Re-THINK FASHION

Re-FREAM CONSORTIUM (INT)

The Re-FREAM Garden shows collaborative research projects where selected artists and designers teamed up with a community of scientists and technologists to rethink the manufacturing process of the fashion industry.

Gigapixel 3D Scan of Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring”

Emilien Leonhardt / HIROX EUROPE - JYFEL​

Johannes Vermeer’s masterpiece Girl with a Pearl Earring is known worldwide, but only a few people have seen its individual pigments. Discover the biggest microscopic gigapixel scan of a work of art, ever, to see the master's techniques! Explore the micro-panorama of the full painting captured by state-of-the-art Hirox 3D microscopes, with a custom XYZ stand at a resolution so high you can print it the size of a building, and true color 3D modeling as if you were holding the painting in your hands!

NOCTURNE

Mark Chavez (US/SG), Victoria Primus (AT), Ina Conradi (US/SG), Tate Chavez (US)

Nocturne is a reflection of the current state affairs after one year of pandemic. Created as a rite of spring, this large-scale, immersive installation uses interactive and audio-reactive visuals with emotive-abstraction animation, mapping emotions, and design with the real-time flow of a dance performance.

Gigapixel 3D Scan of Picasso’s “GUERNICA ”

Reina Sofia, Spanish Embassy

In collaboration with the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía Madrid, Ars Electronica, with the kind support of the Spanish Embassy in Vienna, will present a gigapixel image of Picasso's famous masterpiece, GUERNICA, as well as sketches created by photographers at the Reina Sofía.