Live public event

Garden Aotearoa Artist Talks and Demonstrations

Garden Aotearoa (NZ)

The Ars Electronica Garden Aotearoa assembles selected projects from New Zealand’s technologists, artists and University researchers. The artist talks will be a chance to get to know more about the projects on display.

Garden Aotearoa Exhibition

Garden Aotearoa (NZ)

The Garden Aotearoa Exhibition showcases over 20 projects from New Zealand’s artists, musicians, scientists and researchers in the form of prototypical installations, performances and talks.

Tumor Evolution in Extended Reality (XR)

Network! (NZ), arc/sec Lab (NZ), Centre for eResearch (NZ)

The exhibition is a digital, social and spatial environment that immerses users from a range of backgrounds (clinical, biological, and technical) deeply in the data.

Aotearoa Concert Night

An evening of experimental electronic live musical performance.

Garden AOTEAROA - Opening night

Uwe Rieger (DE/NZ), Marc Aurel Schnabel (DE/NZ), Tane Moleta (NZ), Yinan Liu (NZ)

Following a traditional pōwhiri (welcoming), the opening event brief overview of the development of digital expression, research and exploration in Aotearoa and will introduce the works of the 20 selected projects for Ars Electronica AOTEAROA.

Art in the Cloud | Panel Discussion II

Jeffrey Geiringer (US/HK), Joanna Hoffmann (PL), Tobias Klein (GR/HK), Cédric Maridet (FR/HK), Ellen Pau (HK), Yu-Chuan Tseng (TW), Ken Ueno (US), Alvaro Cassinelli (UY/HK)

The development of media art and the online art space are both tightly enmeshed with the technological innovations of their times. Art in the Cloud is curatorial research that explores how the sudden growth of online art spaces contributes to the transformation of the presentation of media artworks. Specifically, we question how inherent characteristics such as interactivity and immersion shift in online exhibitions. How does today's online space contribute to, or limit, artistic creativity? What are some of the unexpected challenges that artists have encountered? What are some of the new potentials that emerge from the technological impediments we come across?

Art in the Cloud | Panel Discussion I

Tuçe Erel (DE), Ryo Ikeshiro (JP/UK/HK), Vincent Ruijters (Nl/JP), Tsui Ka Hei, Haze (HK), Elaine Wong (HK), Viola Yip (HK/GR), Damien Charrieras (FR/HK)

EASEAS: Experiments in Art, Science and Ethology of the Art-Subject

Maurice Benayoun (HK/FR), Refik Anadol (US), Nicolás Mendoza (CO), Tobias Klein (HK/DE)

The birth of the art-subject and its proliferation in the art world exemplifies a clear departure from the traditional status of artworks as objects. It enables artists to explore divergent paths as the behaviour of artworks goes beyond biomimicry and the mirroring of human attitudes, making disjuncture a powerful means through which to interrogate different levels of social concern and human belief.

Robots are people, too

Miha Turšič (NL/SI), Madeline Gannon (US), Francesco Rea (IT), Miquel Cantero (ES), Maria Eugenia (Xenia) Beltrán (ES)

During the event, Waag showcases collaborative robotics as they are getting developed through the VOJEXT project.

Galactic Wine Sharing Party

Pop by Hong Kong for a virtual drink with the Galactic media art community? 50% of what Festivals are about, is meeting friends and discovering new people, and this is what has been lost in the circumstances of the pandemic. But the technologically mediated routes, which we are forced to stick to, funnel us toward a more extensive intermixing of people who are usually distanced geographically, and culturally.