Journey - Rediscovering our Art Culture and Heritage in a Digital Era
PRSTRT – Puerto Rico Science Technology and Research Trust, CHIP – Cultural Heritage Innovation Program (PR)

The Journey "Rediscovering our Art Culture and Heritage in a Digital Era" gives an impression of the garden Puerto Rico and its main topics.

Community Events

In connection with the core theme of our festival this year, one of our aims is to overcome distance in digital spaces and to support the community of all Online Festival attendees! For that reason, several interactive events will happen during the festival from 8th to 12th of September and we would like to invite you to participate.

Journey - Hybrid Creations
Alta Tecnología Andina – ATA (PE), Museo de Arte de Lima – MALI (PE)

The journey "Hybrid Creations" gives an impression of the garden Lima and its topics.

Journey - Digital Aesthetics
National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci (IT)

The journey "Digital Aesthetics" will give an impression of the garden Milan and its topics.

Journey - Danube Dialogues
Gallery Bel Art (RS)

The journey "Danube Dialogues" gives an impression of the garden Novi Sad and its topics.

PRIX Awards Ceremony

The award ceremony is a chance to see all of this year's award-winning works and winners together.

An hour of violence
Domestic Data Streamers (INT/ES)

In this workshop the creative team at Domestic Data Streamers will walk you through 8 invisible contemporary violences that have a great impact in our everyday lives. The team will talk about the conceptual research behind the project, how they’ve turned such complex information into an interactive exhibition and will end up with a live collective debate on meaningful questions around the topic.

Art and (invisible) technology: A closer look at Soft Evidence and On View
Ania Catherine (US), Dejha Ti (US)

In both  Soft Evidence (2021) and On View (2019), Ania Catherine and Dejha Ti incorporate advanced technologies into immersive works that appear to be non-digital—even though they are the opposite. In this talk, the duo dive into their approach to using technology both conceptually and technically in their practice. 

INTERPLAY
Manuela Hillmann (DE), Hortense Boulais-Ifrène (FR)

Manuela Hillmann, producer of festival gardens and Hortense Boulais-Ifrène, garden project coordinator invite you to travel from Moscow to London following an engaging participatory path. Moscow opens 3d virtual environment portal to rethink online human conditions to London “Desktop Cinema” series of moving personal works about loose, hope and mystery.

Networked Bodies: Body, embodiment and New Media
Katerina Gnafaki

Body, embodiment and New Media gives insight into three Ars Electronica Festival projects that address the body in the digital sphere.