Theme Exhibition: Digital && Life

Marina Freccia (DE), Thomas Schneider (AT), Felix Zabel (AT), Tore Minte (DE), Wolfgang Fiel (AT), NANK Co:llaboratory arteq.io

Creative community production needs a fair model of synchronisation, hierarchy and remuneration, and it should also be cool. 1HWork updates the production operating system with the ΚΔ index, which pursues a fairer remuneration of work, and with the currency to go with it-the CO฿IE- machine hours can then be purchased in the Fablab or art in the NFT community arteQ.

Celeste Rojas Mugica (CL/AR)

Ejercicios de aridez (Aridity Exercises), a project developed between 2017 and 2021, is focused on the image of a 2 kilometer long “corvo” knife, a historic emblem of the Chilean Armed Forces, meticulously drawn with chalk on the surface of the Atacama Desert, the driest place on earth. There is no certainty as to the drawing’s authorship, though the image demonstrates intent, and the persistence of the physical territory where it’s etched.

Sustainable and fairer Internet for everybody

Branch is an online magazine written by and for people who dream of a sustainable and just internet for all. The internet is the world’s largest fossil fuel-powered machine. If we continue business-as-usual, the IT sector will be responsible for 14% of the world’s carbon emissions by 2040.

Maja Smrekar (SI), Jonas Jørgensen (DK)

A soft robot with mesh reinforced silicone that morphs and deforms from a flat 2D surface into ever-changing 3-dimensional organic abstract shapes, through the use of pressurized air. Rather than mimicking the abstraction of capital that thrives from all life– through work and force–being directly transformed into (inflated) power, the intercrossing human-dog-AI-robot constellation establishes frames of reference that assert the distributed, networked, and open-ended character of evolution, turning segregation into autonomy and circumventing emergent technologies and their aims.

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.

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.

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.

IP Group (PL): Jakub Lech, Bogumił Misala, Dominika Kluszczyk & Ania Haudek

Lumen is an interactive, site-specific immersive environment, a cognitive experiment in which light beams trigger a series of perceptual illusions. Interactions in this environment question existing spatial rules, eluding attempts at definition and description. The participants of the experiment discover new elements of a disturbing, new environment in isolation and solitude.

Andres Bosshard (CH)

The architecturally constructed echo reflection space of the library’s inner courtyard becomes an acoustically transformed dream space for flying sound flags in a glass quadrant. Shadowy, recognizable reverberations from Bruckner’s 9th and Lux Eterna are reanimated by a virtual sound mobile into a phatamorgana of space and time.

Vanessa Graf (AT)

The project Material Internet Field Kit: Linz is a collection of stories and images, a list of GPS coordinates, a map, and above all, an attempt to meet the embodied Internet in Linz.

Kyriaki Goni (GR)

Just before being shut down, an Intelligent Personal Assistant (IPA) exhibits odd behavior. For a brief period of time every day, for seven consecutive days, it goes into a monologue introducing itself, talking about its skills, its ancestors, its anatomy and origins, and about voice and its significance. It reveals data regarding the listening infrastructure, as well as the social dysfunctions and bias on which its programming and training are based. On the last day, it shares a set of tips on how not to be heard.

Hana Zeqa, Laura Thaçi, Elisabeth Mirnig & Werner Jauk (2021)

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.

h.o (INT)

Wanderline is a project to transform the world’s transportation networks (buses, streetcars, trains, roads, routes, walkways, etc.) into a new musical experience. After having experienced profound isolation and travel restrictions, what kind of journeys will we make when we emerge from this pandemic? Wanderline is a location-based, audiovisual application that allows new travelers to enjoy music which can only be heard in a specific place. Wanderline can be experienced by installing the app on a smartphone and physically traveling along the featured “line” in geographic space.

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.