Exhibitions, Projects
Immersify – cutting edge tools for the next generation of immersive media
Immersify is a European research project that started in October 2017, connecting the Ars Electronica Futurelab with four partners from all over Europe. During this year’s festival, the ongoing progress of Immersify is presented at Deep Space 8K in a series of demos. Also taking place at Deep Space 8K, is a 8K live streaming demo that stretches the limits of what is technologically possible today.
LeveL II
mischer'traxler studio (AT)
LeveL II – a further development of the LeveL – is the fragile balance of perfect system installation.
Deep Quiz
Andrea Aschauer (AT), Jeremiah Diephuis (US), Jürgen Hagler (AT), Wolfgang Hochleitner (AT), Georgi Kostov (BG), Gabriel Mittermair (AT)
*Deep Quiz* transforms the Ars Electronica Center’s Deep Space into an interactive TV-like game show. The application combines physical exercise, group dynamics and learning as an exciting, playful assessment performance that entertains the audience with one central question: just how much do you know?
Musiktheater Workshop: Fragments | a digital Freischütz
CyberRäuber (DE)
Opera up close, eye to eye with the main characters: Max must prove himself with a masterly shot to gain the hand of Agathe, the head forester's daughter, and so become his successor. Doubting his skills as a marksman, Max accepts the help of Kaspar, who sold his soul to the devil, to cast seven magic bullets: six of them hit anything the shooter wants, the last one will be directed by the devil...
Anatomy of an AI System
Kate Crawford (AU), Vladan Joler (RS)
Anatomy of an AI System is a large-scale map and long-form essay investigating the human labor, data, and planetary resources required to build and operate an Amazon Echo. The exploded view diagram combines and visualizes three central, extractive processes that are required to run a large-scale artificial intelligence system: material resources, human labor, and data. The map and essay consider these three elements across time—represented as a visual description of the birth, life, and death of a single Amazon Echo unit.
Introduction to Posthuman Aesthetics
Mindaugas Gapševičius (LT/DE)
Installation with devices and videos (2016-2019) These toolkits invite their users to carry out scientific experiments on a DIY level and be able to introduce their simplified, accessible versions to a broader community. The prerogative is to render and outline methods for independent research, opening the black box of empirical experiments to individuals across disciplines. Whether framing the discussion of political, economical, or cultural issues, the toolkits question the creativity of non-humans and do not presume humans to be the only creative force at work.
Theatre in the Digital Age
As an artistic platform for creation, innovation and collaboration, the European Theatre Convention initiated the project European Theatre Lab – Drama goes digital in 2016. This year for the third time, Ars Electronica and ETC collaborate in a symposium with discussion, a hands-on VR workshop by the CyberRäuber and their Fragments | a digital Freischütz, a virtual reality opera in four episodes.
Che si può fare?
Monica Vlad (RO) with guest Johanna Falkinger (AT)
The theme of this performance is based on feelings of melancholy, sadness, fear of loss, meditation and anger and how music can be used to express and release these emotions.
Thoughts on Day and Night
Maike Alisha Effenberg (DE)
By extending mechanical models from the 60s, you will find here a new approach towards nature and ecosystems. Contemplate the equality of the energy flow within a machine and within an organism. Both receive their energy from the light, react to it, and save it for processes at night. At least, this is what we think they do. So how much life do we find in a machine and how much construction do we find in nature?
The Wall of Gazes
Mariano Sardón (AR), Mariano Sigman (AR/ES)
The Wall of Gazes aims to engage people with those parts of the face that are really seen and those parts that remain “unseen” while attention is focused elsewhere on the portrait.
