Uncanny Dream: Artist-talks with exhibition participants
Anna Shustikova (RU), Roman Solodkov (RU), Ivan Netkachev (RU)

Anna Shustikova (RU) – You can touch, You can play "Barbie Girl" by Aqua. Through the experiments with much-talked-about CLIP (text-to-image) AI architecture, this project explores the biases around concepts of "beauty" and "femininity" within machine's male gaze. And other projects...

Uncanny Dream: Online Curatorial Tour
Helena Nikonole (RU), Oxana Chvyakina (RU)

Curators of the “Uncanny Dream” exhibition will present the project, introducing young Russian new media artists and sharing their curatorial perspectives on digital art in times of the pandemic.

Uncanny Dream
Fedor Balashov aka wasdswag (RU), Katya Galitskaya (RU), Mitry Grankov (RU), Gray Cake (Kate Pryanik, Sasha Serechenko) (RU), Anastasia Koroleva (RU), Yuliya Kozhemyako aka supr (RU), Eugene Kruglov (RU), Ivan Netkachev (RU), Nika Peshekhonova (RU), Alexey Ryabov (RU), Pavel Seldemirov (RU), Vladimir Sheshak (RU), Anna Shustikova (RU), Roman Solodkov (RU), Xenia Obukhovskaya (RU)

The “Uncanny Dream” is an exhibition focused on how young Russian artists, as digital natives, explore the impact of new technologies such as AI, AR and video games on art, culture and society. The project unites artworks reflecting on issues of the Coronacene epoch.

Galactic Garden
FAB – Verein zur Förderung von Arbeit und Beschäftigung Linz (AT)

The Galactic Garden is an augmented reality walk developed by the young people of Virtual Office. Virtual Office offers computer training for young people with physical disabilities.

I AM (NOT) A ROBOT
create your world (AT), mb21 (DE), <19 (HU), ArtechLAB Amsterdam (NL)

Homeschooling, distance learning and social distancing bring our society into close contact with Artificial Intelligences in everyday life. We use it, we rely on it, but most of the time, we don’t recognize it. This international challenge is aimed at experimenting with AI by exploring the limits of humanness and robotness.

Groupthink
Ali Hossaini (GB), Olive Gingrich (GB), Mick Grierson (GB), Joshua Murr (GB), Shama Rahman (GB), Alan Renaud (HE)

An explosion of biohybrid technologies is bringing our bodies and brains online. What happens when we're all connected? Groupthink gives a glimpse into a future where art emerges from the heart. Audiences anywhere can join via webcam. Software detects their pulse and translates it into a visual score performed live by sitarist Shama Rahman and percussionist Mick Grierson.

Entrance Deal
Su-Ch Hsu (TW), Chen-Hua Lu (TW), FBI Lab (TW), Chiao-Chi Chou (TW), You-Yang Hu (TW), Jiahe Zhao (CN), Xuezhi Liu (CN), Shih-Hung Ku (TW), IoA/NTHU (TW), Yuan-Fu Yang (TW) & Iuan-Kai Fang (TW)

With the rapid development of science and technology, many changes have occurred in society, politics and life. There are many different “entrances” in science, in society, in emotion, and in ecology. Some of these entrances allow us to explore the roots of life, some make our society a paradigm shift, some make subtle changes in emotions between people, and some even bring a huge change in the world.

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: Online Video Journey
Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)

With this Online Video Journey, Hideaki Ogawa, Director at the Ars Electronica Futurelab invites you to become part of a shared mission. Find out what you can expect on your way through the ideas and visions from 25 years of the past, present and future of the Alchemists of the Future in this video tour that takes you through the exhibits in the Ars Electronica Center.

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.