POSTCITY
Trans*Plant: May the Chlorophyll be with/in you
Quimera Rosa (ES/AR/FR)
March 2016: Start of Trans*Plant project, which engages in human>plant hybridizations. December 2017: First chlorophyll IV injection @ Kapelica Gallery. March 2036: The annual Earth resources are exhausted > global Internet final shutdown. December 2037: A bio-hacker community connects a VPN to Mycorrhiza network. This mixed-media installation aims to present the work behind Trans*Plant, as well as produce a speculative fiction. A piece where leftovers from the past and the future get entangled.
50 shades of forest
Afra Sonmez (TR)
A textile as an electronic instrument: the artist specifically for this performance created a flexible and modular interface of electronic textile consisting mainly of snap fasteners to make all parts freely movable.
[re]BO[u]NDS ~ expanded media
LOXOSconcept – Giulio Colangelo (IT), Valerio De Bonis (IT)
[re]BO[u]NDS is an electroacoustic composition/performance for three electromechanical performers (drippers), reactive and synchronized lights, real time audio processing + electronic sounds.
Artist Walk – Marta de Menezes & Luis Graca
Marta de Menezes (PT), Luis Graca (PT)
Artist Marta de Menezes and scientist Luis Graca will take a critical look at the intersection of art and science with an emphasis on bioart.
Intelligent Guerrilla Beehive research
AnneMarie Maes (BE)
The Intelligent Guerilla Beehive is an artwork and a prototype for a speculative research project. It is a mobile shelter for swarming honeybees that combines in a radical way smart materials, biomimetic forms and biotechnology.
Selbst mit Hund, Selbst mit Fisch
VALIE EXPORT (AT)
VALIE EXPORT was born in Linz in 1940, VALIE EXPORT and lives in Vienna.
Disrupted Sensations
AnneMarie Maes (BE)
A series of lightboxes containing smart materials and Scanning Electron Micrographs (SEM) of Honeybee parts and pollen grains. The artist studies the processes by which nature operates and how she can use these processes to create her own intelligent materials.
Women Reclaiming AI
Birgitte Aga (UK), Coral Manton (UK)
Women Reclaiming AI is a collaborative AI voice assistant and activist artwork made by a growing community of self-identifying women. Creating a platform for collective writing and editing, the project co-creates an AI that challenges gender roles.
BIO AUSTRIA Bauernmarkt: All organic. All reliable. All regional.
BIO AUSTRIA (AT)
On September 7th the farmers of BIO AUSTRIA will present their unique regional products. Visitors to the festival can try, taste, and enjoy the organic food and talk to the producers. Information about organic farming and how organic farmers benefit our climate and environment round off the BIO AUSTRIA farmers’ market.
Caput (head)
AnneMarie Maes (BE)
Since Darwin, it is clear that flowers and bees engage in an evolutionary race. The honeybee is a complex insect with numerous sensorial features which are matching perfectly with the demands of sensual plants. The black-and-white photographs reveal the elaborate design of some dissected parts of flowers and honeybees.
