Linz

AI Lab Exhibition

What visions, expectations and fears do we associate with the idea of a future, all-encompassing artificial intelligence? In the AI Lab Exhibition, various artists address this question with their works.

from freeze to flow

Borg Bad Leonfelden (AT)

Activities that induce a flow state increase mental well-being in uncertain times. Designing, creating and coding were a welcome change in the lockdown and the possibility to create something in the rigidity. Students of the BORG Bad Leonfelden developed a 3D model of the school in a collaborative project, which can be explored on your own at the festival.

Deeper

Jakob Loidl, Ines Pfeffer, Fabian Derfler, Maximilian Strobl, Raphael Weinmesser, Sandra Kerschner, Michael Gastecker, Elisa Holzer, Amelie Guger, Jana Gastecker, Endrit Rexhepi

The film "deeper" shows different opinions from the point of view of young people about the current situation in Austria. Both political decisions and corona measures are presented critically and sometimes exaggerated. In the short film one accompanies a student in his everyday life at home and at school. To illustrate the contrast between the present and the time before the pandemic, flashbacks to moments in the past are incorporated into the film.

Social Intelligence Agency (S.I.A.)

Landestheater Linz (AT)

The digital revolution is in full swing. Between smartphone and tablet, between VR and AI, the longing rises in us for what our modern technology cannot (yet) offer: Social intelligence. Because without it, the world threatens to become a dark place. A group of teenagers and young adults are tackling this problem, dealing with current issues and ideas for a better world (or at least a better Linz) and creating performances around the theme of social intelligence.

FEST.ENGAGIERT

ULF - Unabhängiges LandesFreiwilligenzentrum (AT)

FEST.ENGAGIERT is the ideal meeting place for everyone who wants to volunteer and institutions that are looking for volunteers. Here, Upper Austrian institutions, associations and volunteer projects can present the diverse opportunities that open up for volunteers under their roof.

Back to the illusion

Sophie Dögl (AT)

The pandemic has given us a respite from this frenzy. In this silence many have begun to feel their own inner selves again for the first time in a long time.

Play with Pixels

Anna Oelsch, Gerda Lechner und Maria Binder / students of the University of Art and Design Linz

It is impossible to imagine our hands without screens. We have come to appreciate the benefits of digital communication and its diversity, especially in the past year and a half of distance. While modern technology cannot replace the analog world with its haptic experience, it can complement it wonderfully.

I AM (NOT) A ROBOT

create your world (AT), mb21 (DE), <19 (HU), ArtechLAB Amsterdam (NL)

Homeschooling, distance learning and social distancing bring our society into close contact with Artificial Intelligences in everyday life. We use it, we rely on it, but most of the time, we don’t recognize it. This international challenge is aimed at experimenting with AI by exploring the limits of humanness and robotness.

Talent Talks

The “Talent Talks” offer the opportunity to gain in-depth insights into some of the artworks in the u19-create your world exhibition by this year's Prix Ars Electronica winners. In the course of short interviews, the artists will talk about the genesis of their projects and their ideas, about creativity and visions for the future.

Call to Action!

At the Call to Action! panel discussion, young artists and political activists will explore protest culture and forms of civil disobedience. The starting point for the discussion will be two film works that won awards in the Prix Ars Electronica's u19-create your world category.