Exhibitions, Projects
Designing the Commons
Academic Design Network Austria
MON 9.9. | 10:00 – 13:00 Day 4 offers an additional workshop on the responsibility of design to support collaboration cultures. We will be sharing best practices and will have a closer look at two application fields.The morning session will be focusing on Creative Commons and its impact on the sharing culture. We try to extend its concept for brands with a Label Commons Public License and investigate the #fairmove use case.
European Platform for Digital Humanism
Can or should there be something like a European way into the digital society, between the “data capitalism” of the IT monopolists and the “data totalitarianism” of the authoritarian regimes? And if so, would such a European “data humanism” also be competitive?
‘Donkey’ Mario
Shifang Li (CN)
‘Donkey’ Mario shows the similarities of happiness between our ancestors and us through a shadow puppet theatre version of Super Mario.
The Messy Shape of Problems – Workshop: Approaching Complexity
Academic Design Network Austria
SUN 8.9. | 13:45 – 16:45 Design can be understood as the production of material discourse. Applying the method of mapping, we will trance the interconnectedness of objects thereby trying to untangle complexity.
Sound Stitcher
Brendan O’Connor (IE)
Sound Stitcher comes in the form of a 100-year-old sewing machine. Although it no longer functions as before, participants can still interact with its variety of controls to design noise instead of cloth.
ARchaeologies
Pedro Soares (PT)
In Archaeologies, we’re faced with a sheet of paper in which an iconic picture from the past was engraved through folding. Observers may use the available materials to produce their own drawings while simultaneously revealing the hidden image. By observing the piece with an Augmented Reality app, we can see the strata that contain each individual citation made by the participants and how every new intervention is conditioned by the ones before it.
European ARTificial Intelligence Lab
The European ARTificial Intelligence Lab will be bringing AI related scientific and technological topics to general citizens and art audiences in order to contribute to a critical and reflective society. The project will be focusing on aspects beyond the technological and economic horizon to scrutinize cultural, psychological, philosophical and spiritual aspects.
Rumpus
Angela McArthur (UK)
Rumpus is a cinematic VR film made in collaboration with the BBC. It follows a modern-day Eurydice as she searches in London's clubland underworld for Orpheus. Visually decadent and thematically magical, the film’s imagery is counterpointed with a form of sonic voyeurism and ambiguity in sound-image synchresis.
EMAP/EMARE (European Media Art Platform)
The European Media Art Platform (EMAP) annually awards production grants to outstanding European media artists and supports research, production, presentation and distribution of media art in Europe and beyond, aiming to enable European artists to collaborate on projects and create closer bonds.
The Practice of Art and Science
Since the inception of the Ars Electronica Festival in 1979 by artist Hubert Bognermayr, scientist Herbert W. Franke and journalist Hannes Leopoldseder, art and science have always been a focal point of Ars Electronica. The artistic exploration of new applications, is a key factor in the increasingly social dimension of new technologies in order to comprehend how reciprocal human-machine relationships and interactions among individuals and globally networked systems can not only be better understood but, above all, better designed.
