STARTS

Syntropia
Sophia Guggenberger (AT), Eugenia Morpurgo (IT)

In their collaboration, Sophia Guggenberger and Eugenia Morpurgo are working on sustainable shoes made from materials that are harvested in a regenerative field, including digital technologies in the fabrication process of the shoes. They are researching not only the technical aspects of these specific processes but also the wider implications of employing different production methods, industrial strategies and digital fabrication.
Needs-Based Bra Alternative
Silke Hofmann (DE)

Silke Hofmann is rethinking the conventional post-mastectomy bra on a structural level to co-create a wearer centric, modular and customizable bra alternative supporting women’s individual needs following breast cancer. In her design practice, Hofmann is interested in the wearer-garment relationship, and in conceptualising garment development processes that advocate consumer participation and co-creation.
Re-THINK FASHION
Re-FREAM CONSORTIUM (INT)

The Re-FREAM Garden shows collaborative research projects where selected artists and designers teamed up with a community of scientists and technologists to rethink the manufacturing process of the fashion industry.
STARTS Prize '21 Exhibition

The Ars Electronica Festival will present the STARTS initiative and a selection of the award-winning and nominated works for the 2021 STARTS Prize: From Circular Economy to the Relationship between Ecology and Technology, from Digital Humanism to Empathic Approaches to Artificial Intelligence.
Re-THINK FASHION
Re-FREAM CONSORTIUM (INT)

The Re-FREAM Garden shows collaborative research projects where selected artists and designers teamed up with a community of scientists and technologists to rethink the manufacturing process of the fashion industry.
In Event of Moon Disaster
Halsey Burgund (US), Francesca Panetta (GB)

In Event of Moon Disaster invites you into this alternative history and asks us all to consider how new technologies can bend, redirect, and obfuscate the truth around us. The project has a physical installation as well as an online component.
TheirTube
Tomo Kihara (JP/NL)

Theirtube is an open-source web service that provides a look into how videos are recommended on other people's YouTube. Users can experience how the YouTube starting page would look for six different personas: Conspiracist, Climate Denier, Conservative, Liberal, Prepper, and Fruitarian.
mEat me
Theresa Schubert (DE)

As an artistic research project, mEat me applies innovative biotechnological advancement beyond a scientific purpose or monetary intent. For the lab process, a serum, gained out of her own blood, was used to reproduce her muscle cells that had previously been extracted. The resulting cultured human meat shifts normative borders and dissolves the consumerist hierarchy between humans and animals.
In a Small Room
KyungJin Jeong (KR)

In a Small Room focuses on two social issues, the first being the problem of poor living conditions in modern metropolitan areas, such as London and Seoul. The demand for housing in large cities, such as London, has greatly increased, but supply has not caught up with demand, a problem that has given rise to a cramped, prison-like residential environment.
ELEVENPLAY x Rhizomatiks "border 2021"
MIKIKO (JP), ELEVENPLAY (JP), Daito Manabe (JP), Motoi Ishibashi (JP), Rhizomatiks (JP), Takayuki Fujimoto (JP), evala (JP)

The dance company, ELEVENPLAY, the director-choreographer, MIKIKO, and the collective led by Daito Manabe and Motoi Ishibashi, Rhizomatiks, presented a dance piece border in 2015. We developed and updated our experiment of 2015 to establish a new expression model for both online and on-site experience for the post-COVID-19 era.