POSTCITY
Sensory autonomy
Ophélie Demurger (FR), Valentin Godard (FR)
A microphone recorder has slipped in between whispers and the ear canal. Those who operated from afar are now before your eyes: the humanoids of BoTaG are there for you. Enigmatic and secret creatures, they then return behind their screens, for a filmed ASMR session that is broadcasted continuously throughout the duration of the exhibition.
Sigils
Alix Desaubliaux (FR)
In Sigils, a speculative archeology takes place in an abandoned metal factory. Industrial blueprints gathered on the spot as well as exchanges between engineers and commercials, clients and operators host new fictions where obsolescence sets up a magical dimension. From those clues and artefacts, several videographic and plastic objects are conceived: aluminum sheets laser-engraved with magical inspired drawings, generative sounds made by converting the blueprints into audio specter, and video exploration of the place.
Havoc
Tomáš Červený (CZ/SK)
A mythological comics wall exploring a combination of contemporary CGI technologies with the topics of heroic epic tradition, kitsch, pathos, violence and mythology. What is “violence”? What is “justice”? What does it mean to be a “hero” and what is the hero’s mission in society? These are the questions the author raises in his digital tapestry Havoc.
Earth Radio
Zbyšek Semelka (CZ)
Experimental videos focusing on things that are hidden: the naturally occurring electromagnetic radiation in the atmosphere, differences of video compressions so the final artwork is the compression itself, visualization of a traffic landscape, and expression through structures and patterns.
Community Parcours: Spanish
This tour will take you through the POSTCITY free of charge in Spanish language.
Origin
Refik Anadol (TR/US)
Origin is an immersive installation that narrates the incredible cultural and scientific legacy of Ars Electronica. Using archival information from the past 40 years, this piece aims to tell the story not only the story of the institutions’ foresight and innovation but also use this history to visualize future trends and realities.
In Posse
Charlotte Jarvis (UK)
In Posse is an attempt to make the world’s first “female” semen using the artist’s own stem cells and material donated by multiple women, trans and gender-non-binary people. *In Posse* seeks to use science and art to undermine traditional notions of patriarchal power and to examine the meaning of gender now and in the future.
Sas (Social Adaptation System)
Lorène Ceccon (FR)
Today, good mood is the sine qua non condition of the terrifying “soul of the company,” and inconsistency of mood is deemed unacceptable. Starting from the digital shift of the French Labor Agency, Sas is an extravagant AI which establishes an impossible dialogue with the spectator. It underlines the absurdity of automation and the normalization of our feelings, but also our confidence in a computer system that does not know what it is calculating.
Long Night Talks. For Robert Adrian
Roberto Paci Dalò (IT)
Long Night Talks. For Robert Adrian is an 8-channel sound work dedicated to Robert Adrian X (1935-2015), a pioneer in art and telecommunications. For more than two decades, Adrian and Paci Dalò shared a close friendship, punctuated by long night talks on everything. In this piece, Roberto Paci Dalò worked with Adrian's voice, using it as his installation’s main material.
Platforms of Differential Growth
Studio Architecture III (CZ)
Design based on the algorithmic evolution of geometries represents machine production without need for human intervention. Such systems are capable of self-reproduction and self-reparation. The exhibited concrete elements are cut-outs of an endless structure.
