Ars Electronica Center
Alchemists of the Future – The Journey
Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)
In this journey, the Ars Electronica Futurelab’s Alchemists of the Future invite you to embark on a tour through their vision and ideas for the future, which are distributed throughout the Ars Electronica Center. Take a peek inside the black box of the technologies of the future to uncover what is behind them. Gain in-depth knowledge about contemporary trends and how they are being applied in broad areas of our daily lives. 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.
Futurelab Day: Night Performances
Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)
Embedded in an electrifying atmosphere of visualized sound and electric noise, from the render engines of artists, researchers and deep neural networks, the celebration of the 25th anniversary is approaching its climax and indicates the way to a potential future in this performance program in Deep Space 8K. Join us in celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Ars Electronica Futurelab on Futurelab Day, September 9, in the Ars Electronica Center's Deep Space 8K or participate online.
Futurelab Day: Morning Inspirations
Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)
Climate change, migration, and digital transformation. We all face major challenges - and there are no simple solutions to the world's big problems. Technological progress in our society must therefore be entirely in the interest of the planet and humanity.
Pianographique 2021
Maki Namekawa (JP)
Maki Namekawa has created a new program for this year's Ars Electronica, bringing music by György Ligeti, Chick Corea and, for the first time, Polish composer Hania Rani to the visual arena of the Deep Space venue. She will be visually accompanied by Cori O'Lan, who will once again connect the Deep Space’s high-end graphics cards with his real time visualization system to provide an immersive visual interpretation of Maki Namekawa’s performance.
Gigapixel 3D Scan of Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring”
Emilien Leonhardt / HIROX EUROPE - JYFEL
Johannes Vermeer’s masterpiece Girl with a Pearl Earring is known worldwide, but only a few people have seen its individual pigments. Discover the biggest microscopic gigapixel scan of a work of art, ever, to see the master's techniques! Explore the micro-panorama of the full painting captured by state-of-the-art Hirox 3D microscopes, with a custom XYZ stand at a resolution so high you can print it the size of a building, and true color 3D modeling as if you were holding the painting in your hands!
NOCTURNE
Mark Chavez (US/SG), Victoria Primus (AT), Ina Conradi (US/SG), Tate Chavez (US)
Nocturne is a reflection of the current state affairs after one year of pandemic. Created as a rite of spring, this large-scale, immersive installation uses interactive and audio-reactive visuals with emotive-abstraction animation, mapping emotions, and design with the real-time flow of a dance performance.
Gigapixel 3D Scan of Picasso’s “GUERNICA ”
Reina Sofia, Spanish Embassy
In collaboration with the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía Madrid, Ars Electronica, with the kind support of the Spanish Embassy in Vienna, will present a gigapixel image of Picasso's famous masterpiece, GUERNICA, as well as sketches created by photographers at the Reina Sofía.
Transient
Quayola (IT) / Seta (IT)
Transient - Impermanent paintings is an audiovisual concert for motorized piano and conductor in collaboration with generative algorithms. Hyper-realistic digital brushstrokes articulate endlessly on a large-scale projection as if on a real canvas. Each brushstroke is sonified with a piano note, creating polyphonic synesthetic landscapes. Transient starts a new direction in Quayola Studio, where experimentation extends to sound through unconventional generative systems. This project features Quayola’s studio collaborator and musician Andrea Santicchia aka Seta.
Through the eyes of AI: Historical 3D pictures from Linz
Dr. Walter Schuster (AT), Ali Nikrang (AT)
We present photographs taken around 1900 with a special camera using two lenses that have a distance roughly equal to that of the human eye. The images show panoramic views, well-known buildings and everyday scenes in Linz and the surrounding area at the time. As the original images are in black and white, we use AI technology to identify the correct colors for each pixel in the image. The result can be seen in high resolution in Deep Space 8K.
Post-Dervish Chant: WORKSHOP
Smirna Kulenovic (BA)
Post-Dervish Dance Method Workshop offers the participants a chance to experience a contemporary approach to the ancient methodology of Dervish Dance as an active meditation form, while immersed in the visualization of their movement in Deep Space 8K Studio. This form aims to improve one’s physical, emotional and psychological awareness by introducing trance states of interconnectedness with the environment and oneself. As participants learn how to continuously whirl for an extended period of time, they gain a novel perception of what is transpiring as they are whirling. For both dancers and people without previous movement experience, this workshop encourages to follow intuitive and instinctual movement and vocalization, without any expectations of the outcome.
