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Hannes Hoelzl (IT), Dirk Erdmann (DE), Vinzenz Aubry (DE), Ólafur Arnalds (IS), Robert Schnüll (DE), Alberto de Campo (AT), Jussi Ängeslevä (FI), Andi Ruckel (DE)
Web-based digital condolence and contemplative spatial audio installation reflecting on the personal impact late media artist and designer Joachim Sauter had on many of us.
Sound performance “Insects Orchestra: Underground”
Andrey Bundin (RU), Roman Smirnov (RU), Ksenia Bahtina (RU), Evgenii Khlopotov (RU), Anton Shchegolev (RU), Natalia Grishina (RU), Anastasia Birulia (RU)
A performance of a laptop orchestra is based on the research and artistic reflection of the underground world's sonic nature. Acoustic material of the work consists of sounds recorded using contact microphones attached to the ground, trees, rocks. In addition, performers use musical expression interface and sound synthesis engine, specifically developed for this performance. Every performer plays a specific part, and then all parts are combined into a complex spatial sound field.
Sustainable Futures & New Pathways to Innovation
Sustainable Futures & New Pathways to Innovation is an interactive online experience that explores three concrete challenges tackled by artists who have participated in S+T+ARTS across three thematic areas: Tangible Data, Sustainable Futures and Navigating the Digital Realm.
MIRO Board Garden Araucania + Green Art Lab Alliance (GALA) Virtual Encounters: Viewing, Transforming, Creating Landscapes Through Art
Through the partners of the Green Art Lab Alliance, videos, images, words and forms from Europe, Asia and Latin America have been connected on a whiteboard to explore questions about the management of natural habitats and sustainability. Visitors can actively participate in this virtual exercise and accept the invitation to travel virtually through this experimental mapping of connections and exchanges.
Roots & Seeds XXI: Campus Cartographies
Veronika Krenn (AT), masharu (NL/RU), Raphael Perret (CH), Tiziana Centofanti (IT), Andreas Zingerle (AT), Markus Puschenreiter (AT), Franz Stürmer (AT)
The Campus Cartographies are an exploration of plant diversity in and around the Kepler Gardens taking place during this year’s Ars Electronica Festival in the framework of Roots & Seeds XXI. Together with host Veronika Krenn, the participants dive into one aspect that has a critical impact on our plant life: the soil that is its basis for growth.
Roots & Seeds XXI - What is the Biodiversity Crisis?
Lucio Montecchio (IT)
During the last years, the discourses around the loss of biodiversity and more sustainable production and consumption models have advanced widely in the fields of natural sciences, social sciences and new technologies. How can we change this and co-create a more sustainable future?
Roots & Seeds XXI - ABOUT_ Multidisciplinary Garden Cartography
Claudia Schnugg (AT)
During the Roots & Seeds XXI workshops, participants from different fields (artists, scientists, philosophers, researchers, curators, cultural agents, and others), whose practices are linked to the plant world in different ways, will analyze the crisis of biodiversity with the intention of proposing sustainable ways of relating to nature. Through these workshops, Roots & Seeds XXI seeks to safeguard and promote botanical heritage, weaving scientific knowledge with storytelling and humanities.
School of the Future - Open Studio
TOKYO MIDTOWN (JP)
A global authority in media art and electronic music, Ars Electronica has been working on the School of the Future project together with TOKYO MIDTOWN since 2017. In connection with this year’s Ars Electronica Festival 2021－A New Digital Deal－, a special online talk session SCHOOL OF THE FUTURE -OPEN STUDIO-, will be held. Inviting Daito Manabe, who is an artist and one of the jury in this year's Prix Ars Electronica, members from Ars Electronica and TOKYO MIDTOWN discuss the cultural technology of the future while looking back over this year's award-winning projects.
Art & Science in Times of Complexity and Crisis
Andrew Newman
It may seem unfathomable that we could ever grasp the sheer complexity of the interdependencies of Ecosystem Earth. Each and every one of our quantum computers would crash when faced with the task of mapping all interactions from our microbiomes to the zonobiomes. One human mind cannot comprehend it all, but multitudes of minds have tirelessly worked towards contributing to a shared scientific knowledge that together unravels these interdependencies.
Theme Exhibition Live Guided Tour I: Dataspheres Observed
Martin Honzik, Christl Baur
The digital world includes everything around us, even that which we do not see. As technology evolves, we are led to question what is real and the line between biological and virtual, emotional and logical, right and wrong becomes more blurred.
