POSTCITY

Math is the New Latin

Tomáš Staudek (CZ)

Algorithms in art are no longer mere visualization tools, but rather creative partners with a considerable share of aesthetic responsibility. The universal language of algorithms is math. Students of the subject put hands-on principles of mathematics in art, get acquainted with more than 50 creative software tools (visual grammars, fractals, chaos, tessellations, etc.) and learn how to understand and critically reflect on calculated creativity.

AIxMusic Industry Application Oriented Research

Vittorio Loreto (IT), Francois Pachet (FR), Akira Maezawa (JP)

SUN 8.9. | 13:15 – 14:45

Script for Basic Human Encounter

Maria McLean (IT), Eva Weber (DE)

A script can be a work instruction, a sequence of orders or a screenplay. The term also occurs in engineering and programming language. In the year 2019, we already seem to isolate ourselves from our surroundings and fellow human beings through and behind technology.

Creativity, Art & Education

FRI 6.9. | 12:00 – 13:30 Lynn Hughes (CA), Hermann Vaske (DE), Rachel Goslins (US), Joachim Sauter (DE)

Chilean Artists at the Ars Electronica Festival

The Chilean Artists at the Ars Electronica Festival program debuted in 2018 with a successful cooperation between the Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio, the Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores | Gobierno de Chile and Ars Electronica.

Deep Learning from Vasulkas’ Video Archive

Jana Horáková (CZ), Jiří Schimmel (CZ) et al.

The goal of the project is to experimentally test the utility of artificial neural networks in service of media art historiography and theory. Artificial neural networks conduct iconographic and audiographic analyses of the Woody and Steina Vasulka video archive.

PsyCHO TRance // K-Hole

Kenneth Dow (DE)

The last few years have witnessed art spaces and clubs reaching out to each other, each seeking the others’ prestige, credibility and audience. It seems as if clubs as cultural spaces were able respond better to the current discourse in and around art than white cubes. In their very struggle for survival, art spaces are the spitting image of capitalist conformity. The white cube is capable of digesting even the most fierce critique, by separating it in time and space. In small portions it is made indigestible to the observer without poisoning the productive, working brain. It is sane. It allows for sober consideration, reflection. It allows the observer to remain in their position as body-less bystander, possibly a freecam. Like when you’ve been shot dead in Counter Strike and are waiting for a new game to start.

Relations – Experimental Radio Showcase

Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

In addition to the thematic exhibition "Shared Habitats," Bauhaus University, Weimar will present other projects from the departments of Experimental Radio, Media Environments, Human-Computer Interaction, and Product Design.

Pictograms of the Future

Martin Märzinger (AT), Onur Arslan (AT)

We have created an alphabet for a near-future dystopian world in which the effects of climate change make life extremely difficult.

Welcome to the Midlife Crisis

FRI 6.9. | 11:00 – 12:00 Gerfried Stocker (AT), Walter Ötsch (AT), Martin Rauchbauer (AT/US), Joachim Sauter (DE)