#21xoxo & Mosaic @ Deep Space 8K + Artist talk and Q&A
Imge Özbilge (TR), Sine Özbilge (TR)

#21xoxo (2019) is an experimental animated short film that reflects on the influence of social media and mobile devices in relation to self-expression, intimacy, love and relationships. The recent film Mosaic (2020) tells the story of a Kurdish student, a Muslim musician and a Christian girl in a fictional Middle Eastern city.

Dirtscraper @ Deep Space 8K
Peter Burr (US)

Peter Burr's installation Dirtscraper (2020) is both a generative animation and a computer game, and has already been exhibited in various forms, such as a live stream or a multiple projection. Using text pop-ups and audiovisual grids, the artwork sketches a dystopian world in which the individual seemingly perishes in the struggle against given structures.

TRUE NORTH - Screening at the Ars Electronica Center

TRUE NORTH is a feature-length 3D animated film telling the story of a family held captive in a brutal North Korean political prison camp. Based on years of research and interviews with former political prisoners who defected to South Korea, the film incorporates elements of the real-life experiences of individuals who endured some of the worst human rights abuses of our time.

Austria@Expo Dubai: The Austrian Pavilion
Ars Electronica Solutions (AT)

The pavilion is dedicated to climate change, renewable energies, resource conservation and digitalization. The architecture itself and the interior design reference the theme of sustainability by using a sustainable ventilation system as well as clay cladding to cool the building.

Samurai Museum Berlin - Behind the Scenes
Ars Electronica Solutions (AT)

The future meets the past — the permanent exhibition planned and conceived by Ars Electronica Solutions will use new and spectacular technologies, interactive concepts and staging to take visitors on a breathtaking journey through time from the emergence of the samurai as a warrior caste to modern-day Japan.

The Art of Swarms x Poetic Systems
Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)

Deep Virtual places the protagonists in an immersive environment that provides an appropriate backdrop for the future alchemists of the Ars Electronica Futurelab. Conceived to produce hybrid media formats, it also allows viewers a joint immersion within a new dimension of virtual worlds, and thus represents a step into the future of Deep Space 8K and Ars Electronica Home Delivery.

Humanity & Robotinity x Virtual Worlds
Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)

Deep Virtual places the protagonists in an immersive environment that provides an appropriate backdrop for the future alchemists of the Ars Electronica Futurelab. Conceived to produce hybrid media formats, it also allows viewers a joint immersion within a new dimension of virtual worlds, and thus represents a step into the future of Deep Space 8K and Ars Electronica Home Delivery.

Creative Intelligence x Art Thinking
Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)

Deep Virtual places the protagonists in an immersive environment that provides an appropriate backdrop for the future alchemists of the Ars Electronica Futurelab. Conceived to produce hybrid media formats, it also allows viewers a joint immersion within a new dimension of virtual worlds, and thus represents a step into the future of Deep Space 8K and Ars Electronica Home Delivery.

CoBot Studio
LIT Robopsychology Lab, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz (AT), Center for Human-Computer Interaction, Universität Salzburg (AT), JOANNEUM RESEARCH – ROBOTICS (AT), Polycular OG (AT), Österr. Forschungsinstitut für Artificial Intelligence OFAI (AT), Blue Danube Robotics GmbH (AT), Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)

When humans and robots work side by side, it’s not always easy: widespread skepticism and a lack of communication paradigms will create new challenges in future work environments. How can trust and acceptance be established in the workplace of the future? How can human-robot work environments be designed?

Alchemists of the Future: (Special) Guided Journey
Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)

Demystify for yourself what future basically means and let yourself be taken into the future through Guided Journeys by our info trainers, Special Guided Journeys by artists and researchers from the Ars Electronica Futurelab or online.