Exhibitions, Projects
LIMINAL
Louis-Philippe Rondeau (CA)
LIMINAL is an interactive installation that seeks to reify the boundary between present and past through a play of projected light. It employs a photographic process called slit-scan to spread out time in space. Its visual aspect stretches out time while spatiality is expressed via its audio component. Appearing as a glowing portal of light, the installation mirrors the interactor, albeit with a temporal distortion.
The Great Pyramid in 3D, From the BBC Series Ancient Invisible Cities
BBC Studios (UK), ScanLab Projects (UK)
The Great Pyramid in 3D, From the BBC Series Ancient Invisible Cities explores possibilities of virtual archaeology by scanning and digitally rebuilding historical architecture – in this case, the Great Pyramid of Giza. In this unique form of presentation, visitors can choose between different paths to explore the ancient structure, moving interactively in a 3D environment with stereoscopic 360° video at 12K resolution. The experience is enhanced by a specially created soundtrack and live expert commentary.
Facebook Algorithmic Factory
Vladan Joler (RS)
Facebook Algorithmic Factory sheds light on the invisible processes that take place inside the world’s largest social network. Inside this black box, non-transparent algorithms are deciding what kind of content will become a part of our reality, what will be censored or deleted, which ideas will spread and what news will gain most visibility. They are also defining new forms of labour and exploitation.
Aura of Audiography
Filip Johánek (CZ)
What is an audiography? It is a remedy for visual smog we have to breathe; it is an alternative to an integrated spectacle of instant visual and tactile pleasures that seduce us; it is an imprint of sound which can serve as a trigger of personal memory emergence. The audiography has the same power as the smell of Madeleine cakes in Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust. Close your eyes and listen. What do you see?
In 100 years
Christoph Breiner (AT)
This camera has an exposure time of 100 years. It starts here at Ars Electronica Festival and you can be a part of the exposition for a last picture from our world.
Probing the Planthroposcene: Excerpts from a Dis-service Society
Alexandra Toland (US/DE)
Can “ecosystem services” and disservices provided by plants be seen as phyto-technologies of multi-species societies? How are spaces of creative dissonance, resilience, and resistance created by outliers: pests, parasites, invasive species, and allergens? What moral agency do humans have in determining the assets and liabilities of plants during the environmental strains of the Anthropocene? These questions are explored through an assemblage of objects, images, and recordings featuring plants as protagonists in natural habitats along roadsides, probing what Natasha Myers (2016) has dubbed the “Planthroposcene.”
Alternative Energy?
Lukas Bernhart (AT)
This project shows the risks of today's energy production and usage and questions nuclear power as a viable alternative to fossil fuels. Do we want to exploit the planet until there is nothing left to use or should we be risking thousands of dead people and making large areas of the planet forever uninhabitable? Alternative Energy? investigates different energy concepts and design solutions in the Solarpunk movement.
Tagtool im Deep Space
Markus Dorninger (AT), Matthias Fritz (AT)
OMAi presents an interactive artistic production in Deep Space 8K! The installation is the result of a recent residency of Tagtool artists from all over the world. Together they will create an impressive work of art specifically for Deep Space, with many details and everything in motion. The audience can also take part in the design process on site.
Triaina: Model A
TOHOKUSHINSHA FILM CORPORATION x AnotherFarm (JP)
Triaina is an ongoing large-scale art project that utilizes design and technology to create sustainable ecosystems that integrate man-made forms with nature. A sculpture made from concrete and α-amino acids is placed on the seabed and acts as a cultural artifact as well as a home to marine life, promoting an ecosystem that is a symbiosis between man and nature.
Beyond the Frame: 8K Future Project
NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation, JP), Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)
In 2017, Japan's largest public broadcaster NHK and the Ars Electronica Futurelab jointly examined how 8K, the next generation of ultra-high definition TV technology, can be integrated into everyday life.
