Live public event
Garden Newcastle / Australia Official Opening
The official opening of the Ars Electronica Garden Newcastle / Australia will introduce the high-level government, academic, local and international partners that have made this program possible.
The Garden of Uncertainty
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana MX
The Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana opened a call for its community to contribute to the Garden. The resulting online exhibition encompasses the selected works, which present a variety of ideas that reflect the concerns of the Mexican community.
Online tour of the exhibition
Hugo Solís García (MX)
Hugo Solís, director of the Department of Arts and Humanities of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Lerma, will give an online live tour of the garden. He will be showing the works and explaining the concepts behind each one.
Digital Aesthetics
Michael Bromley (GB)
The Digital Aesthetics Garden will be at the National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci, with a specific program for the days of the festival. It will exploit “Chromata”, a work by Michael Bromley, to create an active experience of digital culture that integrates science, technology and aesthetics.
The View from Somewhere - Desktop Cinema Performances
Mat Denney (UK), Céleste Mueth (FR), Nella Piatek (PL), Joana Nuñes (PT), Qingyi Ren (CN), Jiayi Liu (CN), Em Argiro (US), Tinayi Ren (CN), Shrey Kathuria (IN), Shenghe Xuan (CN), Melissa Schwarz (DE)
During the UK lockdown of January 2021, the students of MA Interaction Design at UAL’s London College of Communication were isolated in their homes, most of them having only arrived in the country two months previously.
Unburn It
M Wingren (FI/US), Carl Victor Wingren (FI), Arto Chydenius (FI)
The interactive composition “Unburn It” approaches a digital new deal from the perspective of music. It begins by examining how music is played online; often echoing pre-digital constraints, such as linear recordings that are the same with each playback.
The film and discussion dedicated to the decade of art and science program in LAZNIA CCA
Ryszard W. Kluszczyński, Christa Sommerer, Chris Salter, Nina Czegledy, Jadwiga Charzyńska. Moderator: Aleksandra Hirszfeld
The Art+Science Meeting program was launched by the LAZNIA CCA in 2010 as an art and research project, which has offered exhibitions, conferences, debates, performances and other events within its frameworks.
Mapping the Memory by Means of Art
Krzysztof Wodiczko (PL) , Ryszard W. Kluszczyński (PL), Oksana Dovgopolova (UA), Moderator: Kateryna Filyuk (UA)
In the second half of the 20th century, after the atrocities of World War II, humanity faced the need to comprehend the indescribable. Figuring out how to live with the knowledge of terror and yet to remain human became a problem in and of itself.
Plant~Animals ~ Symbiosity of Creation
Elvin Flamingo (PL)
The work of Elvin Flamingo invites us to the world of the unique plant-animals Symsagittifera roscoffensis. In nature, these organisms most often occur as migrating communities. For the project, the artist created two incubators capable of accommodating 67 separate habitats, 100 colonies of the superorganism described above.
The Blue Humanities Archive
Justyna Górowska (PL)
DNA is capable of storing digital data better than silicon in our computers. It fits millions of terabytes in a few grams suspension in the water, minimizing the ecological cost of the global network of digital databases. The binary code only needs to be decoded into the synthesized DNA strands.
