Location
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.
SOVAR
Ava Aghakouchak (IR)
Sovar is an active soft wearable that maps certain architectural elements on the wearer’s body. The cross-modal mapping of the space on the user’s back directs their attention to their surroundings and increases their sense of presence within a space.
Artist Walk - QUIMERA ROSA
QUIMERA ROSA (AR/ES/FR)
Join the Artist Walk with Quimera Rosa, who will introduce their work Trans*Plan – a transdisciplinary project that utilizes living systems and is based on self-experimentation: it is a process that involves a “human > plant” transition in various formats.
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
The Entangled Eye
Anne-Héloise Dautel (FR), Irem Bugdayci (TR), and Robert Wuss (USA)
The Entangled Eye is an exploration of visual perception through robotic motion. Luna and Laika are two robotic creatures with curious and animate behavior programmed to elicit your attention. As the whimsical creatures chase your eyes with unique kinematic expressions, the direction of your gaze orchestrates a conversation.
Transcrobial
Tal Danino (US)
Transcrobial incorporates machine learning and generative adversarial networks (GANs) to explore the emerging relationship of humans, microbes, and machines. These algorithms mimic and expand upon bacteria evolution and pattern formation beyond what is realizable in the physical world. Specifically, Transcrobial focuses on 'bacteria swarming' patterns, which are emergent behaviors that these microscopic organisms coordinate to form macroscale, fractal-like structures in an amazing feat of community intelligence.
Community Parcours: Bulgarian
This tour will take you through the POSTCITY free of charge in Bulgarian language.
In the Lab: Processing Fashion
Fashion & Technology, University of Art and Design Linz (AT)
The participatory workshop situation *In the Lab: Processing Fashion* aims to make alternatives to the system of fast fashion visible and tangible.
Radio Walk – Anton Lapov
Anton Lapov (UA)
Join Anton Lapov’s radio walk to hear a deep dive into the socio-cultural landscape in which Ars Electronica has existed for the past 40 years. You can listen to soundscape narration about historical changes in technological art representation forms – from the heyday of the digital revolution to the post-digital crisis – through the lens of critical observation of the Linz cityscape.
Human X Shark
Ai Hasegawa (JP)
A research project to develop a perfume that makes us strong and seduces male sharks. To explore a new aesthetic and (almost violent) chemical communication with another species for the upcoming “compost” era.
