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Virus Buster Offline – The marvels of Code Violet
Gluccie Collaborations (JP)
The scene of *Virus Buster Offline* takes place in Japan in the near future. Through an avatar, people can dive into the Internet world, which has been infected by a brutal computer virus, Code Violet, which must be defeated by the players. The aim of this project is to allow participants to increase their physical activity by using elements of gamification. Participants wear an activity meter to collect points. With continuous participation, points accumulate and characters in the game evolve. This device art work combines the fields of medicine and art.
Gallery Spaces Panels
At the Gallery Space Panels 2019, experts will discuss the transformation and future of the media art market. The interaction between science, art and the market will be analysed from a variety of perspectives in seven prominent discussion rounds.
It started with Cassette Culture!
Wolfgang Dorninger (AT)
At this year's Ars Electronica Festival, Wolfgang Dorninger will setup a sound installation based on tape loops, self-soldered autogenerative music machines, synthetic bird sounds and algorithmic sound creations which will be amplified with tactile speakers, horns and subwoofers to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Ars Electronica.
Che si può fare
Monica Vlad (RO), Johanna Falkinger (AT)
The theme of this performance is based on feelings of melancholy, sadness, fear of loss, meditation and anger and how music can be used in any way to express and release these emotions.
underbody
Silke Grabinger (AT)
This 15-minute performance follows on from last year's cooperation with Johannes Braumann and the Ars Electronica Futurelab. It is based on Gertrud Bodenwieser's play “Dämon Maschine” (1923), in which five dancers turned into one machine. Now, five machines play one dancer. Whereas in the original performance each person controlled a part of a machine, an industrial Kuka robot now controls a body part. Choreographer and dancer Silke Grabinger goes into a dance with this marionette.
Symmetry
Lee Sooyeun (KR)
An animation that considers the reflections of the media façade in the Danube. Simple shapes, sinus waves, mandala patterns that double in the water.
Natural History of the Enigma, Plantimal #4
Eduardo Kac (BR/US)
The central work in the Natural History of the Enigma series is a plantimal, a new lifeform the artist created and that he calls “Edunia,” a genetically engineered flower that is a hybrid of himself and Petunia. The Edunia expresses his DNA exclusively in its red veins.
Expert Tour: Shared Habitats – Bauhaus-Universität Weimar@aecampus
Ursula Damm (DE), Mindaugas Gapševičius (LT/DE)
The guided curators tour offers the unique opportunity to learn more about the background of the Shared Habitats exhibition, as well as artworks and artistic practices emerging from the Bauhaus-University’s Faculty of Art and Design. The artists will also be present to discuss with the public and share insights about their artistic research.
Mahler Remixed
Christian Fennesz (AT), Lillevan (SE/IE)
Austrian guitarist, composer, and electronic musician Christian Fennesz is recognized as a key figure in electronic music. The basis for his new performance is Mahler Remixed, which was recorded live at Radiokulturhaus, Vienna by Christoph Amann, in May 2011.The recording is mostly based on samples taken from Gustav Mahler’s symphonies.
Tape
Kudo Mayuko (JP)
In Tape, the AEC is transformed into an oversized, sparkling ribbon-wrapped box. If you point an AR-app on it, the ribbon disengages and opens a gate that reveals the content: fleeing color dots, which slowly form figures that rise from an intangible, all-energy world into our reality.
