Linz

Eurus

Aisen Caro Chacin (US/ES/VE), Christopher Zahner (US)

As a response to the global shortage of ventilators we created Eurus, an emergency ventilator designed for resilience, adaptability, and patient safety, with on-hand hospital medical supplies and common electronic components. It was designed as a low-cost automation device for manual resuscitators, actuated by a blood-pressure cuff, which provides Automated and Assist/Control emergency ventilation to be easily assembled by hospitals in need.

Ars Electronica ANIMATION FESTIVAL 2021

Based on the computer animation category of the Prix Ars Electronica international competition, animated pictorial worlds have been a cornerstone of the Ars Electronica media art festival and have been discussed and presented in various forms ever since.

Spaces Camouflaged by AI

KyungJin Jeong (KR)

As a highly developed photographic technology, image distortion can be created via photo-editing software. With enough pictures, machine learning can determine attributes. I will explore the gap between advertising and reality by visiting a common room in a single house in Seoul.

The Museum of Edible Earth

masharu (RU/NL)

The Museum of Edible Earth is a cross-disciplinary project with a core collection of earth samples which are eaten for various reasons by different people across the globe.

Baitul Ma’mur: House of Angels

Joe Davis (US), Sarah Khan (PK)

The project is about to keep 2.417 quintillion angels on the head of a pin.

Fascination Robotic

Daniel Hoeller (AT), Dominic Koll (AT), Alexander Koll (AT), Helmut Rohregger (AT), Robert Sturmlechner (AT), Amir Bastan (IR)

At the Ars Electronica Festival, Spot the Robot Dog will take visitor groups into the world of robotics — or rather, show them around it. For this purpose, he will be trained in his own Training School at JKU. Spot will autonomously guide visitors around the grounds and between the stations, and also react to gestures.

VIBRATIONS

Moritz Simon Geist (DE)

Vibrations is an AI-controlled robotic sound instrument reflecting on minimal music.

Symphony of Absence

As last year, the festival is being staged in a hybrid fashion. While the team in Linz is preparing a festival in the “traditional” sense, hundreds of partners in Ars Electronica's international garden network are also joining forces synchronously and in parallel to create the Symphony of Absence. This title stands for a very special place in Kepler's garden in Linz: the Keplerhall. It is dedicated exclusively to the contributions and programs of all those partners who run their own festival gardens and are unable to come to Linz.

The Experts of the Future

Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)

The Ars Electronica Futurelab is celebrating its 25th anniversary, and some of its young members – who have been a part of the team for less than 25 months–had a special idea to contribute to this event. Their goal was to collect the opinions of renowned futurologists from all over the world to speculate about possible future narratives for the next 25 years.

The Wandering Mind

Gershon Dublon (US), Xin Liu (CN), with guest artist Xiao Xiao (US/FR)

Shape your dreams with the sounds of our world. The Wandering Mind is an AI-powered micro-sampler that assembles winding soundscapes from thousands of global field recordings found online. In curated performances, group naps and guided mind-wanderings, we convene collective actions of sleeping together. In this special series for Ars, entitled “Field Sketches from Imaginary Travels,” guest performer Xiao Xiao combines the ambient soundscapes of Wandering Mind with improvisational theremin, keyboard, and vocals.