Programm

Liminal Beings

Eva Papamargariti (GR)

Liminal Beings explores the concept of “automaton” and the different anthropomorphic forms and functions embedded within its ontology.

DM 1.0

DTG (JP)

Image analysis by deep learning has improved AI drastically, but the AI does not yet understand the meaning of “cat.” DM 1.0 is an interactive drawing machine, and the intention is to experiment with an abstract concept (this time a circle) that people have. Humans draw through rotational movement of their joints, and the drawing process of DM 1.0 is a combination of two linear motions. This work will make us aware of the difference between human physicality and machine drawing.

Swipe

Bérénice Serra (FR)

Swype is a virtual keyboard, developed for touchscreen smartphones and tablets, that allows the user to write by sliding his finger from the first to the last letter of a word. Using a predictive text system, this keyboard can achieve a writing speed of 50 words per minute. The Swipe project proposes a translation app that highlights a link between writing speed and the enrichment of language through graphic writing, by recording the signs generated with the Swype keyboard. Each word then produces a new sign.

M0T3TU5

Alessandro Capozzo (IT)

M0T3TU5 is a project placed at the intersection of generative art, artificial intelligence and data visualization. It is based on texts generated by a neural network trained with some of the fundamental books of western scientific thought (Dialogo sopra i massimi sistemi by Galileo and Opticks by Newton).

TRANSFER, Los Angeles

TRANSFER is an experimental gallery that focuses on simulation in contemporary art. The gallery represents an emerging movement of women refiguring technology, and specializes in immersive exhibitions of new formats like animated GIFs, algorithmic art, software-based artworks, VR/AR, and internet art. In 2016 TRANSFER launched a virtual exhibition format called the TRANSFER Download, which has traveled to public art institutions in San Francisco, New York City, Los Angeles, Santa Fe, Basel, and Shanghai. The gallery was founded in NYC in 2013, and opened in Los Angeles in 2019. TRANSFER is independently owned and directed by Kelani Nichole.

IC-Decoder

Wesley Lee Yang (BR)

For this year’s exhibitions graphic design, we not only wanted to develop attractive aesthetics but also to provide an appealing visual code that can be decoded in order to transmit information. It is with this in mind that the IC-Decoder was created: a ludic exploration of decoding potential information from visual patterns.

[ir]reverent: Miracles on Demand

Adam Brown (US)

In his research project Adam Brown investigates the influence of invisible microbial agents on human history and its belief systems. He has developed a “miracle on demand” similar to those “divine phenomena” that people believed in for centuries. The artist uses Serratia marcescens, a microorganism that grows on bread and produces a viscous fluid that is very similar to blood.

KATHRIN STUMREICH hosted by ARS ELECTRONICA

Kathrin Stumreich (AT)

In the scope of this year’s Ars Electronica Festival 2019, Bildraum 07 in Vienna presents current works by Kathrin Stumreich. The artist gives insights into her sound research, in which she examines order and code, movement choreography and complex robotics, as well as coincidence and chaos as material properties.

Arm Existence2019

Atsuhito Sekiguchi (JP), Isato Kataoka (JP)

We usually write and draw pictures without doubting the length of our arms. If someone suddenly grabs your arms and they become immobile, it also feels like putting an arm in the mud. If you cannot confirm the information by eye, you will only feel the outside world from your own body reaction.

ORF TELETEXT meets art

Nadine Arbeiter (DE), Cordula Ditz (DE), Daniel Egg (AT), Dan Farrimond (UK), Juha van Ingen (FI), Joey Holder (UK), Kathrin Günter (DE), Raquel Meyers (ES), Matthias Moos (CH), Niccolò Moronato (IT), Jarkko Räsänen (FI), Seppo Renvall (FI) and UBERMORGEN (AT/CH/USA)

The videotext exhibition ORF TELETEXT meets art will be shown at the Ars Electronica Center's Deep Space 8K. It is rare to have the opportunity to experience teletext art on 16 by 9 meters!