Lectures & Talks
School of the Future - Open Studio
TOKYO MIDTOWN (JP)
A global authority in media art and electronic music, Ars Electronica has been working on the School of the Future project together with TOKYO MIDTOWN since 2017. In connection with this year’s Ars Electronica Festival 2021－A New Digital Deal－, a special online talk session SCHOOL OF THE FUTURE -OPEN STUDIO-, will be held. Inviting Daito Manabe, who is an artist and one of the jury in this year's Prix Ars Electronica, members from Ars Electronica and TOKYO MIDTOWN discuss the cultural technology of the future while looking back over this year's award-winning projects.
Journey - EMERGENCE/Y
Hexagram (CA/QC), Université du Québec à Montréal (CA/QC), Concordia University (CA/QC)
Journey - Rediscovering our Art Culture and Heritage in a Digital Era
PRSTRT – Puerto Rico Science Technology and Research Trust, CHIP – Cultural Heritage Innovation Program (PR)
The Journey "Rediscovering our Art Culture and Heritage in a Digital Era" gives an impression of the garden Puerto Rico and its main topics.
PRIX Awards Ceremony
The award ceremony is a chance to see all of this year's award-winning works and winners together.
An hour of violence
Domestic Data Streamers (INT/ES)
In this workshop the creative team at Domestic Data Streamers will walk you through 8 invisible contemporary violences that have a great impact in our everyday lives. The team will talk about the conceptual research behind the project, how they’ve turned such complex information into an interactive exhibition and will end up with a live collective debate on meaningful questions around the topic.
Art and (invisible) technology: A closer look at Soft Evidence and On View
Ania Catherine (US), Dejha Ti (US)
In both Soft Evidence (2021) and On View (2019), Ania Catherine and Dejha Ti incorporate advanced technologies into immersive works that appear to be non-digital—even though they are the opposite. In this talk, the duo dive into their approach to using technology both conceptually and technically in their practice.
CONNECT!
Liane Décary-Chen (CA) | Marina Díez Pereiro (ES/GB) | Moderator: Sara Lisa Vogl (DE/CA)
Initiated in 2020 by Sara Lisa Vogl, VR expert, artist and co-founder of Women in Immersive Tech Europe, and Goethe-Institut Montreal, these network meetings aim to highlight and virtually connect women and gender-marginalized people from Europe and North America working in the creative industries and around immersive technologies to create new international connections and foster potential cooperation.
Talking About Landscape in the 21st Century
Samuel Domínguez (CL), Leonor Merín (ES), Alicia Pedroso (CL), Valeria Foncea (CL), Diego Lara Koenig (CL), Sergio Martín (ES)
We are presenting a web-learning platform that gathers more than 50 references about our contemporary understanding of landscape. At the behest of Fundación Mustakis, this project was co-curated by Diego Lara Koenig (CL), with Sergio Martín (ES), invited by ALMA Observatory. The live video, with digital modelling and animation by Ming Rang Bai, will be broadcast during the festival.
Impact Art AT, Artist Talk
Patrícia J. Reis (AT), Shamsher Virk (US)
Join us online for a conversation with Patrícia J. Reis, an installation artist based in Vienna whose practice encompasses different formats and media to examine our relationship with modern technology. Through an ongoing investigation that destabilizes the boundaries between science, technology, magic, and spiritual beliefs, she explores questions “How do we believe in machines?” and “How technology is shaping us bodily?”
Panel 2: CIFO & Ars Electronica: Latin American media art. History and praxis.
Tania Aedo (MX), Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Amor Muñoz (MX), Eduardo Kac (BR), Ivan Abreu (CU), Oscar Santillan (EC), Patricia Dominguez (CL), Marcela Armas (MX), Tania Candiani (MX)
The second panel will gather Latin American media artists - Iván Abreu, Marcela Armas, Tania Candiani, Patricia Domínguez, Eduardo Kac, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Amor Muñoz, Oscar Santillan, et.al., that will present their oeuvre along with the work of various artists with similar creative journeys and common artistic scenes.
