Programm
Joep Beving, Arvo Pärt, Bach-Kurtag at St.Florian
Maki Namekawa (JP), Dennis Russell Davies (AT/US)
At this year’s festival the renowned pianist Maki Namekawa will perform several pieces by different composers solo as well as together with her husband Dennis Russell Davies.
OrganRecital with Hermann Nitsch
Hermann Nitsch (AT)
An organ improvisation in four movements by Hermann Nitsch.
Survival Kit for the Anthropocene - Trailer
Maja Smrekar (SI)
Survival Kit for the Anthropocene - Trailer is designed as an apocalypse survival kit. As a hybrid between a beehive and a Slovenian farm chest, it formally connects contemporary art with folklore.
When the world was still new – realtime Dvořák remix
AGF (DE/FI)
AGF converts her poetry into electronic music, pop songs, calligraphy and digital media and has presented them as live performances and sound installations in museums, auditoria, streets, theatres, concert halls and clubs throughout Europe, North America and Asia at numerous festivals. For the “Episode am Fluss” event of this year's Ars Electronica Festival, AGF will remix a live signal from the Brucknerhaus – where the Bruckner Orchestra will perform Dvořák's “From the New World” Symphony – in real time.
Utopia
Joaquín Fargas (AR)
Artistic project with the mission to raise awareness about climate change, the melting of ice and the problem of water.
Bach Hauer Scelsi Cage
Weiping Lin (AT/TW)
Weiping Lin (violin) presents four different compositional approaches by composers who, in their individual ways, reflected on questions of musical order and its relation to the wider contexts of human existence.
Spectacular Resonance
CCW, University of the Arts London
MA Fine Art Digital is a course that asks questions about what art is in a digital environment. Rather than focusing on specific technology, it allows students from incredibly diverse backgrounds to engage with significant issues through their art. BA Print & Time Based Media is a course that combines the traditional with the contemporary, bringing together print-making, photography, film, audio, writing, video and performance art. This exhibition is co-curated by artists and Program Directors Jonathan Kearney and Lois Rowe from UAL and will showcase work from areas they oversee.
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.
La fabrique des monstres
Daniele Ghisi (IT)
How can a machine learn to produce music? A concept album of generative music, a collection of musical monsters exploring sample-by-sample deep learning generative models, inspired by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and used in Jean François Peyret’s eponymous theatrical piece.
