STARTS

Face Lab

Håkan Lidbo (SE)

A series of projects exploring the outer limits of how we use our face as an interpreter of our environment—or for the surroundings to find out what is going on in our minds.

The Living Light

Nova Innova (NL)

There is a ground-breaking technology, called Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC) technology. This technology enables us to generate energy from organic waste: from compost to mud, from urine to plants. All organic waste streams are turned into sustainable energy sources thanks to this innovative technology.

Data Garden

Cyrus Clarke (UK), Monika Seyfried (PL), Jeff Nivala (US)

Working with nature to respond to the threat of Data Warming, Data Garden invites visitors to experience a new materiality around data, and explore a world in which data storage is truly green. This type of organism-based data centre is designed to inspire new models that bring principles of working with nature to data, creating regenerative data ecosystems.

Remix el Barrio, Food Waste Biomaterial Makers

Anastasia Pistofidou, Marion Real and The Remixers from Fab Lab Barcelona, IaaC (INT)

In Catalonia alone, every day, 720,000 kg of food is thrown away. This wasted food, totaling 260,000 tons per year, is equivalent to the food needs of 500,000 people for one year. Remix el Barrio was born with the ambition to propose a learning space to encourage and nurture new practices based on food-waste crafts.

Oceans in Transformation

Territorial Agency – John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Rönnskog (INT)

Oceans in Transformation investigates the impact of human activity on the world ocean. The global ocean is changing its circulations, energies, interactions, and ecologies. It is the most dynamic and sensitive component of our living planet. The ocean is in a new phase of its dynamic history, shaped by intensifications of the impact of human activities on planetary systems—the Anthropocene.

The Sea—Sounds & Storytelling II

TBA21–Academy, AT/ITA

The sea’s many sounds have often escaped human ears. The artists Binta Diaw, Tomoko Sauvage, and Julie Semoroz actively respond to these overlooked lives and enable us to listen and reconnect with the unheard.

In the Invisible Garden – where the magic happens…

University for the Creative Arts (GB)

For artists working at the intersection of art, science and technology, it is sometimes the smallest detail that sparks wonder – not always visible but conceptual. The imagination of artists collaborating with scientists or technology experts is free like that of a child in an unexplored garden full of exotic new possibilities - this is where the magic happens…

MindSpaces Garden

MindSpaces Consortium: Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (GR), University of Maastricht (NL), Pompeu Fabra University (ES), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GR), McNeel Europe SL (ES), Up2Metric (GR), Nurogames (DE), Zaha Hadid Architects (UK), Maurice Benayoun (FR), Analog Native (DE), Espronceda (ES), e-Sèniors (FR), Ajuntament de L'Hospitalet de Llobregat (ES), City University of Hong Kong (HK).

MindSpaces project tries to develop novel, art-driven design processes and technologies which build upon artificial intelligence, multimodal data analysis and fusion algorithms, and are augmented by data insights gathered through the collective social behaviour and responses of occupants experiencing dynamic and adaptive environments.

Robots Are People, Too

Waag (NL), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (ES)

Robots Are People Too will provide a sneak preview into an exploration of collaborative robotics within the VOJEXT project.