Exhibitions, Projects
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.
Ittrans_ctx
Ryoichi Kurokawa (JP)
Silent diptych video installation. It shows confrontational evolutions presented as laminar and turbulent flow: unidirectional and chaotic motion.
STWST48x5 STAY UNFINISHED
Stadtwerkstatt (AT)
Founded as an artists’ collective forty years ago, in 1979, Stadtwerkstatt (STWST) – a living and striving cultural space― takes pride in its autonomous structure. In 2019, STWST48x5 STAY UNFINISHED, the 5th edition of its 48-hour showcase extravaganza, brings together critical producers and artists to negotiate permanently unfinished conditions.
Cat: Collaborating with a Neural Network
Rachel Smith (UK)
Cat: Collaborating with a Neural Network is a conversation between Rachel Smith (human) and cifar10_cnn.py (artificial neural network). In order to communicate successfully, they must speak the same language. The method of communication is a human/machine compromise; a hand-painted grid of pixels.
APPARATUM
panGenerator (PL)
Digital interface meets purely analogue sound. The APPARATUM was inspired by the heritage of the Polish Radio Experimental Studio — one of the first studios in the world to produce electroacoustic music. The installation draws inspiration musically and graphically from the “Symphony – Electronic Music” composed by Bogusław Schaeffer. Here, analogue sound generators, based on magnetic tape and optical components, are controlled via a graphic score with a digital interface. NOTE: You can create and listen to your own composition, print out your score and retrieve it in the online archive of APPARATUM.
Emergence
Universal Everything (GB)
Emergence is an open-world environment and crowd performance. The virtual reality installation expresses the primal human desire to maintain individual identity while being part of a crowd. As the user navigates a crowd of thousands, shafts of light beckon them closer. As they touch the light, the environment responds in real time, continually challenging the user's perception. In this installation, Universal Everything experiments with software-based improvisation and custom-coded crowd simulations.
VFRAME: Visual Forensics and Metadata Extraction
Adam Harvey (US), Josh Labouve (US)
In conflict zones around the world, serious human rights violations repeatedly occur through the use of illegal munitions. VFRAME shows how surveillance technologies can be used to document such violations – for example in the Syrian conflict. A visual search engine was trained to analyze video data sets from battle zones to spot such weapons. In order to train the neural network of the search engine to recognize them even in low-resolution recordings, 3D models were created and fed into the object detection software.
Fossil Futures
Nora Al-Badri (DE), Jan Nikolai Nelles (DE)
"Oskar" is what Germans affectionately call "their" Dino, the world's largest dinosaur skeleton, which is at home in Berlin's Museum of Natural History. Nora Al-Badri and Jan Nikolai Nelles tried to find out where it originally came from and how it finally landed here. They received little information from the public authorities, but with the help of leaked data, artificial intelligence and 3D scans, the history of the fossil could be reconstructed. The trail led to the south of Tanzania. Under German colonial rule, tons of petrified bones were found there and brought to Germany. Using state-of-the-art technology – including a "Virtual Reality Museum" – Fossil Future poses the question of stolen identity, cultural heritage and public property.
0W1 Audio
Jean Beauve (FR)
Designed by Sacha Lakic, 0W1 D5 Master is the first portable IoT audio system that features truly “life-like” sound. As an IoT, it also embeds a number of music-centric contextual experiences.
