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FuneralPlay
Ruini Shi (UK)
A new technology start-up company claims to offer a certain kind of ”immortality”: users can choose between erasing the deceased’s electronic footprint or uploading it to the virtual heaven, permanently secured and published on an immutable blockchain, allowing the addition of remembrance NFTs to the memorial.
The Zizi Show - Enter the World of Deep Fake Drag Cabaret
Jake Elwes (UK)
Drag Queens, Drag Kings, Drag Things and Artificial Intelligence…Enter into the world of The Zizi Show (2020), a deepfake drag cabaret, a virtual online stage hosting a groundbreaking new show with a twist. It features acts that have been constructed using deepfake technology, learning how to do drag by watching a diverse group of human performers. The Zizi Show dissects one of the dominant myths about AI: the notion that 'an AI' is a thing we might mistake for a person.
Marine Caves Benthic Terrazzo
Hypercomf (GR), Markos Digenis (GR)
Project Marine Cave Benthic Terrazzo documents the first holistic field study of marine cave ecosystems in Chania, Crete and the artistic exploration of ecosemiotic links and physical interactions between human homes and marine caves.
How to Read Poetry to Cancer Cells?
Sandra Lorenzi (FR)
Sandra Lorenzi's artistic work explores the worlds of the living. She is a custodian of these fragile forces and entities that sometimes lack the ability to speak. This film takes you to the heart of her approach. As part of the Studiotopia Art & Science Residency Programme, she collaborates with scientist Jean-Christophe Marine (VIB Centre for Cancer Biology, Belgium). Their project How to Read Poetry to Cancer Cells is at the intersection of art and science, of the real and the unreal.
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.
Taste Your Soil
Museum of Edible Earth (NL)
Taste Your Soil is a series of activities and programs designed to express that digital space is not a place to escape the real. Rather, both places – digital and real – stand and act in direct and inseparable connection to each other. Moreover, the project displays the expansion of Ars Electronica's cultural mission itself: technology needs to be deployed in a sustainable, connective and responsible way.
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.
We are STEAMhouse
STEAMhouse (GB)
STEAMhouse sees that STEAM is centered on collaboration and openness, and believes that those principles are most fully realized when the arts and the sciences are allowed to collide, for the creativity embedded in both to be released.
KEHAI: Liquid Mirror Series - Square -
Kaito Sakuma (JP)
With the isolation due to COVID-19, we have become too dependent on what we see on monitors; we have lost the opportunity and the ability to perceive the invisible. People will hear the sounds from the Mirror and may sense the same “kehai (sign).” This mirror may be a new way of communicating. This project will explore the nature of communication that is non-verbal and common to all living things.
Algaphon
Harpreet Sareen (US/IN/JP), Franziska Mack (DE/US), Yasuaki Kakehi (JP)
Algaphon is a hybrid installation where algae bubbles that ring at Minnaert frequency near algal filaments are rendered audible through a hydrophone. Online visitors can leave a voice message that is translated into photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) variations in a remote aquarium. The response of the algae bubble response to human speech is then recorded and sent back to the visitor to engage in a reflective dialog with algal species.
