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Midlife Crisis of the Digital Revolution – Theme Conference
On Friday, the conference moves forward in time to explore current and future prospects of our increasingly digital world. Art and creativity have always been viewed as important contributors to ensuring that future technological implementations will happen under consideration of enlightened, critical and qualified perspectives.

Living Mirror
C-Lab – Howard Boland (UK), Laura Cinti (UK)
A mirror consisting of a liquid filled with bacteria. A camera scanning your face creates a magnetic field with the information, to which the bacteria respond. The result is that you look at a portrait of yourself, designed by bacteria.

The Ornaments of the Post-Anthropocene
The Academy of Arts Architecture and Design in Prague (CZ)
Smooth surfaces and glazed facades represented the challenges of modernist architecture. Architecture without ornaments or, as defined by Beatriz Colomina, “X-ray” architecture now faces the challenges of the post-Anthropocene. These are buildings not inhabited by people but by machines; built to produce, share, reorganize or store. It’s architecture without daylight, facades without windows, and floors without stairs. How do architects respond to the emerging challenges of the new era and their environment? The exhibition will present previously rejected ornaments as integrated parts of several projects designed for or by the machines.

Bunko Gakki
Maywa Denki (JP)
Bunko Gakki is a musical instrument that is the same size as a Japanese paperback (A5 size). The user can easily carry it. It has a modular structure that fits into a bookshelf.

Interplay; Exploring Telecommunications, Art, and Collaboration, 1978-1983
Bill Bartlett (CA), Doug Jarvis (CA)
Artist Bill Bartlett and Open Space Guest Curator, Doug Jarvis present archival materials that detail and support the international telecommunications projects that Bartlett developed between 1978 and 1983, and which contributed to the context in which Robert Adrian X’s ˟The World in 24 Hours˟ takes place.

European Platform for Digital Humanism - A conference by the European ARTificial Intelligence Lab
European ARTificial Intelligence Lab
The Sunday conference program will concentrate on European challenges to find a distinctly European approach to shaping our future. How can Europe guarantee that emerging technologies won’t lose touch with our humanity and humane values?

Expert Tour: ARS and Mariendom
Tilman Hatje (DE)
The expert tour with the project manager Tilman Hatje shows you the works of art in the Mariendom Linz as well as in the Salzamt. Berlin gallery YAIR is exhibiting five video installations by internationally renowned artists in the Mariendom, who enter into dialogue with the sacred environment. The gallery arebyte from London presents the virtual reality performance 'Seeing I' by Mark Farid at the Salzamt.

Solekit
Maywa Denki (JP)
*Solekit* is a craft kit that makes funny movements. It uses only one solenoid, driven by 5-volt power source.

Meandering River
onformative (DE), kling klang klong (DE)
Meandering River is an audiovisual art installation comprised of real-time visuals and music composed by an A.I. through machine learning. The piece reinterprets the shifting behavior of rivers in the landscape, regarded from a bird’s eye view. Minor changes of riverbeds are not visible for the bare eye, as they are gradually happening over time. Spanning over multiple screens Meandering River visualizes these altering landscapes and makes the changes visible. It leaves the observer with a unique perception of time.

Open the Boxes & Close the Gaps!
FH St. Pölten, Industry meets Makers, Tabakfabrik Linz, Zukunftsakademie Mostviertel
SAT 7.9. | 12:30 – 15:00 Co-ideation, information and experience exchange with forward and lateral thinkers for a sustainable digital future.