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COMMUNITY PARCOURS
On September 7 and 8, the Festival invites you to free guided tours in Bulgarian, Greek, Austrian Sign Language, Persian, Russian, Spanish, Czech, Turkish, Plain Language as well as inclusive courses.
Expert Tour: Music Monday
Werner Jauk (AT), Tilman Hatje (DE)
The Sound Art Course “Music Monday” is a longstanding Ars Electronica tradition. The tour is a listening journey through the plurality of relationships between music / sound art and the media arts.
Content One Campus – Network Intelligence
Organized by Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of the Republic of Korea (MCST) and Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA) (KR)
With its disruptive AI, robot, data, 3D, and VR technologies, the Fourth Industrial Revolution has triggered a fundamental change in the way we live, work and relate to one another. The speed and breadth of the economic, political, social, and cultural changes produced by technology are literally beyond our comprehension. It is time to think, act, and collaborate to bring about new methodologies for the coming age. What, then, will be the best strategic approach? What manners of collaboration are necessary? How can we educate our talented creators?
Zen Machine
CAFA, Central Academy of Fine Arts Beijing (CN)
This year’s exhibition revolves around neuroscience and artificial intelligence. Based on the theme of all things Zen, works in this exhibition reflect on how human thought may change under the influence of external equipment such as brain-computer interfaces, as well as the possibility that computers will develop the same capacity for thought as humans.
Gluttonous Snake
Jin Ni (CN), Huang Mingyuan (CN), Zhengren Chen (CN)
Our emotions can be conveyed through expressions and have the power to influence people around us. How do different emotions affect each other when they are together? Will happiness and sorrow counterbalance? Does anger cause a butterfly effect? Which kind of emotion will make the snake grow stronger rather than kill it? The answer is simple, happiness. We are generating emojis based on facial expressions. Different emojis have different powers. Try to keep growing the snake with happiness.
You Don’t Know Me
Wang Shuyin (CN), Sun Xun (CN), Huang Rong (CN), Hu Ziping (CN), Xiangdong Lu (CN)
Cultural differences often lead to many misunderstandings. The installation deals with mixed cultural - misunderstanding phenomena and multiple-realities interpretations, opening a new world of contrasts and alternatives. In the boxes are videos with multiple meanings which could be easily (mis)interpreted differently based on different cultural backgrounds. Visitors are challenged to guess the meanings. If they are wrong, the installation responds with - You Don't Know Me
SIX MOVEMENTS
Interactive Architecture Lab, The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL (UK)
SIX MOVEMENTS showcases six individual student projects centered around different types of movement. The work takes a critical stance and reflects on past and current developments across art, science, and technology to spearhead thinking on emergent themes of the 21st century.
EXPERTS TOURS
Every day, experts and artists offer guided tours at festival locations. They provide an opportunity to take a new look at the festival theme “Out of the Box - The Midlife Crisis of the Digital Revolution” and current trends in art, technology and society.
Angry Bubble
Wang Shuyin (CN), Sun Xun (CN), Huang Rong (CN), Hu Ziping (CN), Xiangdong Lu (CN)
Anger is often contagious. When a person's anger reaches a certain level, his behavior and speech will always hurt or affect others. But if a person expresses anger in a language or ridiculous behavior that you don't understand at all, you may not be affected by anger, but you may find it interesting. When visitors stand in front of the installation, the angry face spits cheerful bubbles on them, making the angry facial expression hard to interpret and ultimately pointless.
Peer
Liu Kexu (CN), Ye YiChen (CN), Zheng Jiang (CN), Dong Geng (CN), Wenjie Liang (CN)
Peer is a work based on exploration, which uses symbolic snooping movements to explore unusual images in the real world. By looking through a tubular structure, the undefined view causes people’s desire to snoop. The mechanical structure inside the black box rotates the screen to the corresponding location based on the visitor’s position. At the same time, the film images of the six pipelines share the same theme: the multifaceted nature of human beings in society.
