Festival for Digital Communities

Doing something together without being together – worldwide networking makes physical locations obsolete and connects people all over the world. The community events at the Ars Electronica Festival 2021 show just how diverse this can be.

Online

AI x Civil Society: How AI infrastructures can advance the public good

Caroline Sinders (US), Kilian Kleinschmidt (DE), Glacier Kwong (HK), Simon Weckert (DE), Julia Kloiber (AT)

A panel dealing with political, societal and cultural changes and challenges brought on by artificial intelligence.

Architecting Global Communities

LASER Auckland (NZ), LASER New York City (US), LASER Nomad (DE), LASER Pasadena (US), LASER Rio de Janeiro (BR), LASER Santa Fe (MX), LASER St. Petersburg (RU)

Through interdisciplinary collaboration, transnational communication and planetary citizenship, how do we build stronger communities committed to social justice, elevating underrepresented voices, and bridging the digital divide?

Branch Magazine Symposium: Intercitizenships and the Internet(s) of Solidarity and Care

Speakers: Eliza Anyangwe (CM/UK) Storyteller and editor. Founder of The Nzinga Effect, Felipe Castelblanco (CO/US) Multidisciplinary artist, researcher and initiator of The Para-site School, Pia Mancini (IT) co-founder & CEO at Open Collective, Host: Andres Colmenares, Co-director, IAM & The Billion Seconds Institute (CO/ES)

In this panel we will discuss how words can help us shape better worlds and become thinking tools to address the ongoing crisis of imagination by cultivating a shared sense of identity and belonging to Planet Earth. We’ll explore this idea through a set of hypothetical questions around the concept of intercitizenships.

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.

Exhibition Teaser – Art Thinking et al.: Garden Newcastle December Highlights

Feature Artists include Andrew Styan (AU), Caddie Brain (AU), Theresa Schubert (DE), The Cuddle Coin Collective (AU), Maria José Sanchez Varela Barajas (MX) and many more

The Newcastle Garden feature exhibition will focus on work that fuses local talents with national and international media artists that all have a connection to the Newcastle and Hunter region. Includes Prix Ars Electronica and ST+Arts Prize winners.

Galactic Wine Sharing Party

Pop by Hong Kong for a virtual drink with the Galactic media art community? 50% of what Festivals are about, is meeting friends and discovering new people, and this is what has been lost in the circumstances of the pandemic. But the technologically mediated routes, which we are forced to stick to, funnel us toward a more extensive intermixing of people who are usually distanced geographically, and culturally.

RECONNECTING ORLAN AND THE ORLANOÏDE

ORLAN (FR)

In this pivotal new work developed in collaboration with Science Gallery Dublin, ORLAN will join us virtually from Paris in a brand new performance through a connection between the artist and the artist’s replica: ORLANOÏDE, who will perform live from the stage in the Paccar Theatre at Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin.

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.

On-Site in Linz

AI x Civil Society: How AI infrastructures can advance the public good

Caroline Sinders (US), Kilian Kleinschmidt (DE), Glacier Kwong (HK), Simon Weckert (DE), Julia Kloiber (AT)

A panel dealing with political, societal and cultural changes and challenges brought on by artificial intelligence.

AVATAR ROBOT CAFE DAWN ver.β

Ory Yoshifuji (JP)

Avatar Robot Cafe is a social implementation project to develop “OriHime,”an avatar robot that can be operated by people who have limited mobility and help people with disabilities to have jobs. We are presenting questions and solutions for a society where employment of the disabled is not enough. Join us at the demonstration and find out more about our cafe and its cause.

Branch Magazine Symposium: Intercitizenships and the Internet(s) of Solidarity and Care

Speakers: Eliza Anyangwe (CM/UK) Storyteller and editor. Founder of The Nzinga Effect, Felipe Castelblanco (CO/US) Multidisciplinary artist, researcher and initiator of The Para-site School, Pia Mancini (IT) co-founder & CEO at Open Collective, Host: Andres Colmenares, Co-director, IAM & The Billion Seconds Institute (CO/ES)

Spaces Camouflaged by AI

KyungJin Jeong (KR)

As a highly developed photographic technology, image distortion can be created via photo-editing software. With enough pictures, machine learning can determine attributes. I will explore the gap between advertising and reality by visiting a common room in a single house in Seoul.

Symphony of Absence

The Experts of the Future

Festival for Digital Communities

Online

Caroline Sinders (US), Kilian Kleinschmidt (DE), Glacier Kwong (HK), Simon Weckert (DE), Julia Kloiber (AT)

LASER Auckland (NZ), LASER New York City (US), LASER Nomad (DE), LASER Pasadena (US), LASER Rio de Janeiro (BR), LASER Santa Fe (MX), LASER St. Petersburg (RU)

Feature Artists include Andrew Styan (AU), Caddie Brain (AU), Theresa Schubert (DE), The Cuddle Coin Collective (AU), Maria José Sanchez Varela Barajas (MX) and many more

ORLAN (FR)

Museum of Edible Earth (NL)

Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)

On-Site in Linz

Caroline Sinders (US), Kilian Kleinschmidt (DE), Glacier Kwong (HK), Simon Weckert (DE), Julia Kloiber (AT)

Ory Yoshifuji (JP)

KyungJin Jeong (KR)

Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)

A NEW DIGITAL DEAL

#arselectronica21
#newdigitaldeal

Online

Caroline Sinders (US), Kilian Kleinschmidt (DE), Glacier Kwong (HK), Simon Weckert (DE), Julia Kloiber (AT)

LASER Auckland (NZ), LASER New York City (US), LASER Nomad (DE), LASER Pasadena (US), LASER Rio de Janeiro (BR), LASER Santa Fe (MX), LASER St. Petersburg (RU)

Feature Artists include Andrew Styan (AU), Caddie Brain (AU), Theresa Schubert (DE), The Cuddle Coin Collective (AU), Maria José Sanchez Varela Barajas (MX) and many more

ORLAN (FR)

Museum of Edible Earth (NL)

Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)

On-Site in Linz

Caroline Sinders (US), Kilian Kleinschmidt (DE), Glacier Kwong (HK), Simon Weckert (DE), Julia Kloiber (AT)

Ory Yoshifuji (JP)

KyungJin Jeong (KR)

Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)

A NEW DIGITAL DEAL

#arselectronica21#newdigitaldeal

#arselectronica21
#newdigitaldeal