Community Projects
Dear Joachim, …
Hannes Hoelzl (IT), Dirk Erdmann (DE), Vinzenz Aubry (DE), Ólafur Arnalds (IS), Robert Schnüll (DE), Alberto de Campo (AT), Jussi Ängeslevä (FI), Andi Ruckel (DE)
Web-based digital condolence and contemplative spatial audio installation reflecting on the personal impact late media artist and designer Joachim Sauter had on many of us.
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.
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.
KEHAI: Liquid Mirror Series - Square -
Kaito Sakuma (JP)
With the isolation due to COVID-19, we have become too dependent on what we see on monitors; we have lost the opportunity and the ability to perceive the invisible. People will hear the sounds from the Mirror and may sense the same “kehai (sign).” This mirror may be a new way of communicating. This project will explore the nature of communication that is non-verbal and common to all living things.
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.
Algaphon
Harpreet Sareen (US/IN/JP), Franziska Mack (DE/US), Yasuaki Kakehi (JP)
Algaphon is a hybrid installation where algae bubbles that ring at Minnaert frequency near algal filaments are rendered audible through a hydrophone. Online visitors can leave a voice message that is translated into photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) variations in a remote aquarium. The response of the algae bubble response to human speech is then recorded and sent back to the visitor to engage in a reflective dialog with algal species.
