Lectures & Talks
Panel 1: CIFO & Ars Electronica: Latin American media art. History and praxis.
Rafael Lozano Hemmer (MX), Martin Honzik (AT), Rodrigo Alonso (AR), Tania Aedo (MX), Jose-Carlos Mariategui (PE), Maria Fernandez (NI)
The virtual event will concentrate both on exploring the rich set of historical precedents in pioneering experimental practices in Latin America, and on recent productions in the fields of media art such as AI and ML, robotics and drones, VR and AR, AV sculpture, and landscape, blockchain and metaverse, biotech and biomimesis, NetArt, hacking and viruses.
CIFO & Ars Electronica
The Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO) and Ars Electronica have joined forces to highlight and support the production of digital art in Latin America. CIFO’s continuous support of Latin American artists and curators meets Ars Electronica’s unique understanding of technology in the age of globalization and post-humanism.
Siri, such "Programmiererin": Was tun gegen den Digital Gender Divide in Österreich?
Ars Electronica x Initiative Digitalisierung Chancengerecht, Ingrid Brodnig (AT), Christiane Spiel (AT), Gerfried Stocker (AT), Carina Zehetmaier (AT), Mariana Karepova (AT), Martina Mara (AT), Doris Schmidauer (AT)
In the context of Ars Electronica 2021, the "Initiative Digitalisierung Chancengerecht" (IDC) launched by Doris Schmidauer invites high-ranking experts from the fields of education, technology, business, culture and media to a panel discussion, which we will address the following questions: What are the causes of the digital gender divide? What concrete measures need to be taken in Austria to create digital equality of opportunity for women?
Art Thinking Forum
Hakuhodo x Ars Electronica
The Art Thinking Forum is a platform created jointly by Ars Electronica and Hakuhodo to discuss and exchange ideas on how to utilize art for a better society. The forum will discuss the role of art in the future through cutting-edge examples of creative chemical reactions between various fields and art.
Future Humanity Journey
Kyungjin Jeong (KR), Ali Nikrang (AT), Farah Salka (LB), Simon Weckert (DE)
This is the second edition of the event in which four experts from diverse backgrounds are invited to discuss the future of humanity, from global-scale issues to more subtle daily joy. This discussion is integrated into a short film that shows an imaginary day in 2041. This year, after a year in which the world experienced a pandemic, how will innovators view the future of Humanity?
Prix Forum: A Pandemic Didn’t Stop the Sound
Alexander Schubert (DE), Rashin Fahandej (US), Douglas McCausland (US), Cedrik Fermont (CD/BE/DE)
The Prix Forum – Digital Musics & Sound Art is an open discussion between the top three winners of Prix Ars Electronica 2021 and the jury.
Prix Forum: Im/Material Infrastructures
Samaneh Moafi / Forensic Architecture (FA), masharu (NL/RU), tranxxeno lab / Adriana Knouf, PhD (US), Jens Hauser (DE/FR/DK)
The Prix Forum – Artificial Intelligence & Life Art is an open discussion between the top three winners of Prix Ars Electronica 2021 and the jury.
Prix Forum: The Re-enchantment of Humanism
Guangli Liu (CN), Veneta Androva (BG), Erick Oh (KR/US), Helen Starr (TT)
The Prix Forum – Computer Animation is an open discussion between the top three winners of Prix Ars Electronica 2021 and the jury.
Prix Forum
The Prix Forum is an open discussion between the top three winners of Prix Ars Electronica 2021 and the jury.
Synaesthetic Syntax: Panel III
Juergen Hagler (AT), Juan Manuel Escalante (US), Yin Yu (US), Sarah Groff Hennigh-Palermo (DE), Melody Loveless (US), Kate Sicchio (US), Michael Century (US), Shawn Lawson (US)
With a perceived disparity between the slow time taken to create animation and the instant time taken to perform music, how can animation be performed live? Can the audio and the visual be combined in improvised performance? How can live, hand scribing or music notation or coding or drawing be used to conjure spontaneous audio-visual performance? What is gained from real-time, instant creation in the present moment? What does it mean for ‘liveness’ to experience this at home through a screen rather than being fully present at the event?
