Programm

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.

KIDS

Michael Frei (CH), Mario von Rickenbach (CH) / Playables

Where does the individual end and the group begin? Who is steering the crowd? What if it is heading in the wrong direction? In the interactive installation KIDS the visitors can control the behavior of the masses. The characters in a crowd behave much like matter: They attract and repel, lead and follow, grow and shrink, align and separate. They are purely defined by how they relate to one other – without giving them distinguishable features.

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.

Expert Tour: Prix Ars Electronica: Life’s intelligence, beyond human cognition

Jens Hauser (DE/FR/DK)

Prix Ars Electronica’s new category “Artificial Intelligence & Life Art” sparks discussions about the links between the largely ambiguous notions of “intelligence” and “aliveness.” Jury member, curator, and media theoretician Jens Hauser will reveal the criteria of the jury process and present selected positions out of the 15 award-winning art works.

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.

AG-MX70 DDX3216

Stefan Tiefengraber (AT)

Following the no-input approach, Stefan Tiefengraber is generating sound and video using only the inherent noise from two devices, a digital video mixer and a digital audio mixer. New and unexpected results are achieved – a continuous blast of pure noise and flickering images.

Spaces In Between

Ivo Rick (DE)

“Ivo Rick’s work begins – at an intersection – defying the obvious. Many of his works are reminiscent of appliances that are meant to fulfil a purpose or a function. [...]"