POSTCITY
AIxMusic Workshops (Friday)
The AIxMusic Festival will start with a series of workshops at POSTCITY.
Perception
Cheska Lotherington (UK)
Perception is an experimental light piece that interacts with audience members. A thin rim around the edge of the room on the floor will project the light strips’ color up onto the walls. Three cameras mounted to the ceiling will feed data to the light strips.
AIxMusic Workshops (Sunday)
In recent years, the academic interest in applying deep learning to creative tasks such as generating text, images or music has drastically increased. These workshops offer everyone the opportunity to try out the AI systems used for making and playing music.
Survival Kit for the Anthropocene - Trailer
Maja Smrekar (SI)
Survival Kit for the Anthropocene - Trailer is designed as an apocalypse survival kit. As a hybrid between a beehive and a Slovenian farm chest, it formally connects contemporary art with folklore.
Utopia
Joaquín Fargas (AR)
Artistic project with the mission to raise awareness about climate change, the melting of ice and the problem of water.
Spectacular Resonance
CCW, University of the Arts London
MA Fine Art Digital is a course that asks questions about what art is in a digital environment. Rather than focusing on specific technology, it allows students from incredibly diverse backgrounds to engage with significant issues through their art. BA Print & Time Based Media is a course that combines the traditional with the contemporary, bringing together print-making, photography, film, audio, writing, video and performance art. This exhibition is co-curated by artists and Program Directors Jonathan Kearney and Lois Rowe from UAL and will showcase work from areas they oversee.
Biosphere
Joaquín Fargas (AR)
The Biosphere Project’s mission is to collaborate in raising awareness about the fragility of our planet Earth and the need to take care of it.
Talk: Ars Electronica Partners Network
Lecture / Presentation
In its 40 years of existence, Ars Electronica has built up a vast network of partners and friends all around the world. In this session, the focus will be on exactly these connections, shared research endeavors, and cooperations, showcasing projects and insights from current research, artistic projects, and experiments.
La fabrique des monstres
Daniele Ghisi (IT)
How can a machine learn to produce music? A concept album of generative music, a collection of musical monsters exploring sample-by-sample deep learning generative models, inspired by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and used in Jean François Peyret’s eponymous theatrical piece.
Ittrans_ctx
Ryoichi Kurokawa (JP)
Silent diptych video installation. It shows confrontational evolutions presented as laminar and turbulent flow: unidirectional and chaotic motion.
