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Alchemists of the Future
Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)
The Ars Electronica Futurelab turns 25 – a good reason to look back to the future. The digital revolution has been shaping our everyday lives for many years now and will continue to do so in future. To find out what role we humans want to play in a highly technologized world of tomorrow, we develop visions and ideas to shape our future.
Performance 'The Purpose of the Talchum'
Insun Park(KR)
Insun Park’s 'The Purpose of the Talchum' (2021) approaches the Korean traditional mask dance from a modern perspective, focusing on the roles of women and disability in the mask dance. It also poses questions on how the mask dance can reach out to and interact with audiences.
Online Showcase 'Interactive +'
Hop Step: Doyeon Kim(KR), Minjae Kwak(KR), Jungsoo Lee(KR), Hyun Cho(KR) / Ingrowing Liaison Office: Seuli Lee(KR), Teo Bahk(KR), Moses Yu(KR), Jiwon Kwak(KR), Jinkyung Her(KR) / No-Normal: Eunkyeong Kang(KR), Jihye Park(KR), Bora Youn(KR), Jisoo Lim(KR)
'Interactive +' is an online showcase to introduce the creation of the K-arts X Ars Electronica Academy, a creative education program run in cooperation with the Ars Electronica Export.
Online Lecture Series 'Code: Humor'
Chanho Kim(KR), Yongho Heo(KR), Young Yim Doh(KR), Sun Park(KR) Jing Yang(HK), Clarence Ng Kian Peow(SG), Gilles Jobin(CH), Kiheon Shin(KR)
The Online Lecture Series 'Code: Humor' focuses on humor, a trait unique to humans, and “play,” which is an extended act of enjoying humor in the post-COVID situation where the rapid transition to a digital society is underway. Seven talk programs were set up to share the various discourses surrounding humor as a language of empathy and communication.
STARTS Tour
Kristina Maurer, Karla Spiluttini
The STARTS Tour showcases best practice examples at the intersection of science, technology and art. From scenarios for local, circular economies based on food-waste craft, to large-scale data driven explorations of the condition of our oceans and visionary new scenarios for sustainable data storage, the artistic perspectives at the heart of this tour tackle the big challenges that lie ahead of us through both a microscopic and a macroscopic lens.
The intersection between Art and Industry
Rodolfo Groenewoud van Vliet (NL), Marco Duarte (PT), Ali Muhammad (FI)
In this workshop, we will dive deep into the RAMP initiative and the Better Factory project underlying collaboration opportunities and challenges between industry and arts. We will do this with the help of the STARTS Collaboration Toolkit and the Art-Enabled Prototyping process within Better Factory.
STARTS Day: Afternoon Session
Anastasia Pistofidou (GR), Marion Real (FR), Lucas Evers (NL), Michela Magas ( UK/SE/HR), Areti Markopoulou (GR), Karin Fleck (AT), Silke Hofmann (DE), Sophia Guggenberger (AT), Eugenia Morpurgo (IT), Filippo Nassetti (IT), Vincenzo Reale (IT), Malou Beemer (NL), Anke Loh (DE), Sandra Nicoline Nielsen (DK), Tim van der Loo (NL), Loreto Binvignat Streeter (CL/ES), Alexander Bello (BE/MX/US/CA)
STARTS Talk: In Conversation with Anastasia Pistofidou & Marion Real; Fabrication Deep Dive: On the future of sustainable manufacturing; MADE IN YOUR CITY A NEW VALUE CHAIN FOR FASHION
STARTS Day: Morning Session
Territorial Agency (INT), Lucas Evers (NL), Mar Santamaría-Varas (ES), Tactical Tech (INT), Geocinema (INT), Julie Freeman (UK), Mariana Lanari (BR/NL), Obvious Collective (FR), Prof. Elena Simperl (UK), Helene Guillaume (UK/USA), David De Roure (UK)
STARTS Talk: In Conversation with Territorial Agency; Data Deep Dive; Creating with Data: From Arts to Entrepreneurship
Open Science Hub BLAST
Brendan Owens (IE) and Róisín McGannon (IE)
In this participative workshop Science Gallery facilitators will playfully introduce the topics of BIAS and AI. You’ll then embark on a journey of co-creation to gather specific problems with respect to these issues and rapidly ideate solutions with specific users in mind.
OnlyBans: A Playthrough and Discussion on the Policing of Bodies
Science Gallery at Michigan State University (US) featuring work by Lena Chen (US/CN), Maggie Oates (US), Goofy Toof (US)
Created by sex workers and allies, OnlyBans is an interactive game that critically examines the policing of marginalized bodies and sexual labor to empathetically teach people about digital surveillance and discrimination faced by sex workers.
