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Stefan Tiefengraber (AT)

Following the no-input approach, Stefan Tiefengraber is generating sound and video using only the inherent noise from two devices, a digital video mixer and a digital audio mixer. New and unexpected results are achieved – a continuous blast of pure noise and flickering images.

Spaces In Between
Ivo Rick (DE)

“Ivo Rick’s work begins – at an intersection – defying the obvious. Many of his works are reminiscent of appliances that are meant to fulfil a purpose or a function. [...]"

Animation Festival Screenings

The seventeen programs of this year’s Ars Electronica Animation Festival are once again an international showcase of excellence in current digital filmmaking. Visitors can experience these programs in several screening rooms at the POSTCITY, Art Thinking House.

Vladislav Delay & AGF present Rakka
Antye Greie-Ripatti (DE), Vladislav Delay (FI)

The Wire described Vladislav Delay as “one of the most consistently creative artists working today.” Reinventing himself regularly, he takes electronic music where he pleases with a unique blend of depth and detail. His music is like a non-existing soundtrack for the underworld; murky, dark and constrained. Antye Greie-Ripatti (also known as AGF) is a music producer, sound artist & curator, poet, gender activist. Her artistic tools are language, sound, listening, voice, and communication which she expresses in mixed media. Since 2011, she is the organizer and co-founder of Hai Art in Hailuoto. Antye campaigns for diversity in the arts with the women’s collective female:pressure. She runs her own music publishing label AGF Producktion and has collaborated with Eliane Radigue, Gudrun Gut, Kaffe Matthews, Craig Armstrong, and Ellen Allien amongst many others.

Electronic Theatre

The program shows the prize-winning works selected by the jury and showcases current productions from an artistic, substantial, cultural, and cutting-edge technological perspective.

Art & D Lab : Significant Other
Jonas Lund (SE) x Televic (BE)

The artist Jonas Lund collaborated with the Belgian telecommunication company Televic in the framework of Gluon’s Art & D Labs. He realized the work Significant Other, an intelligent, networked sculptural display installed in two locations in Belgium and Bulgaria. Descending from the ceiling, two cameras and flat-screens are programmed to read the “emotional state” of each person crossing their pathway.

The Internet Yami-Ichi
IDPW (JP), Sofia Braga (AT)

The Internet Yami-Ichi, from the Japanese “Internet Black Market,” but also “sickness” and “addiction,” is a flea market where people consumed by the Internet can share and buy Internet-related things in real life. In this weird market, you can browse through the booths and find the amazing and the useless—in an ironic and humorous atmosphere reminiscent of the early Internet era.

arebyte Gallery, London

arebyte Gallery is a London-based art organization which supports the development of artists working across digital and emerging artforms. Following in the long tradition of artists experimenting with new technologies, arebyte Gallery has led a pioneering program since 2013, to much acclaim.

V E N T Gallery, Vienna

Vienna based V E N T gallery promotes international and local rising artists in contemporary visual arts, curated in solo and group exhibitions as well as performative formats. The program of V E N T gallery is focused on research into the artificial meaning of media, through the implementation of technologies from the late 20th and the 21st century into the artistic process and the analysis of their social potential. V E N T gallery focuses on the artistic and curatorial exploration of futurality. Futurality describes future incidents that are already inscribed into the present as a diffuse phenomenon of so-called “hyper-objects.”

Behind the Robots Eyes
Daman Diawara (US)

In the framework of the Scientist in Residence Program, Gluon launched a project with artist Manthia Diawara and researchers Tarek Besold (Alpha Health AI Lab) and Raoul Frese (Faculty of Sciences, Physics and Astronomy, VU Amsterdam). The first meeting took place at Manthia’s residency in the village of Yenne, near Dakar, Senegal. The artist and the researchers reflected together on the relationship of Senegalese people with technology and artificial intelligence, and they carried on interviews with women working on the market, fishermen and a traditional healer. The project will be further developed over the course of 2019 and will result in a movie.