Theme Exhibition
Fascination Robotic
Daniel Hoeller (AT), Dominic Koll (AT), Alexander Koll (AT), Helmut Rohregger (AT), Robert Sturmlechner (AT), Amir Bastan (IR)
At the Ars Electronica Festival, Spot the Robot Dog will take visitor groups into the world of robotics — or rather, show them around it. For this purpose, he will be trained in his own Training School at JKU. Spot will autonomously guide visitors around the grounds and between the stations, and also react to gestures.
VIBRATIONS
Moritz Simon Geist (DE)
Vibrations is an AI-controlled robotic sound instrument reflecting on minimal music.
Festival Community Projects
Throughout its history, Ars Electronica has been continuously working to build a vital community. Community Love Projects is a concept that intends to bring together partner gardens from all over the world in different events.
The Wandering Mind
Gershon Dublon (US), Xin Liu (CN), with guest artist Xiao Xiao (US/FR)
Shape your dreams with the sounds of our world. The Wandering Mind is an AI-powered micro-sampler that assembles winding soundscapes from thousands of global field recordings found online. In curated performances, group naps and guided mind-wanderings, we convene collective actions of sleeping together. In this special series for Ars, entitled “Field Sketches from Imaginary Travels,” guest performer Xiao Xiao combines the ambient soundscapes of Wandering Mind with improvisational theremin, keyboard, and vocals.
Voidopolis
Kat Mustatea (US), Process Studio (AT)
Voidopolis is a digital performance about loss and memory presented as an AR book with a limited lifespan. A loose retelling of Dante’s Inferno informed by the grim experience of wandering through NYC during a pandemic, the book’s garbled pages can only be deciphered with an AR app which, after enough readings, decays the images and words just as memory would.
Made to Measure
Group Laokoon (DE): Cosima Terrasse (FR), Moritz Riesewieck (DE), Hans Block (DE)
Is it possible to create a doppelganger of someone using only their personal Google data? The artistic data experiment MADE TO MEASURE allows viewers to tangibly experience what conclusions can be drawn about a person's character, psychology and future behavior through algorithms. Who determines who we are and who we think we are?
IntraBeing
Eli Joteva (BG/US)
What lies within the bounds of being? IntraBeing envisions enigmatic spaces beyond the capacities of medical imaging tools. The project employs MRI-acquired data to reveal alternative time scales inside the human body; digitized flesh, nerve fibers and hydrogen atoms unveil magnetic potentials that augment our material sense of being.
The Chiromancer
Matthias Pitscher (DE), Giacomo Piazzi (IT)
The Chiromancer is an AI that mastered the art of palm reading to predict the future. The machine extends the ancient practice of chiromancy by combining biometric data with cloud-based knowledge. Like so many other devices we use today, it collects, stores, and extrapolates user data to generate hopes and wishes with technical prediction systems.
your unerasable text
Stefan Tiefengraber (AT)
your unerasable text is an installation dealing with the topics of data storage and elimination. The participant is asked to send a text message to the number written on a sign next to the installation to get it erased.
Grammophon – Unerhörtes - Zitate von 1924-2018
Alice Hulan (AT)
By turning the crank, political quotations from the 1920s and 30s as well as from the present can be heard on the gramophone. Recipients will not find it easy to assign the respective quotes to the correct era.
