OPENING: Ars Electronica Special / Unboxing the festival

As every year, we will open the first evening of the festival with an exciting performance program. The focus will be on the various artistic possibilities offered by the voice, improvisation, and neural networks in humans and machines. Under the title “Voices from AI in Experimental Improvisation“, Tomomi Adachi will present an AI that has mastered his voice and his musical improvisation style. The collaboration of Reeps One ft. Secondself, on the other hand, is aimed at combining the machine learning of AI with beatboxing to create a new artistic tool. Alex Braga has taken on the challenge of using a revolutionary instrument called A-MINT to design a new and organic sound. The artist plays tunes from which the AI produces endless melodies in real time. The long-time Ars Electronica collaborators Stefan Tiefengraber and Ei Wada will join forces as ELECTRONICOS FANTASTICOS! This will be followed by Linz’ own Richard Eigner and his colleague Roman Gerold who will merge their project Ritornell with the vocal expressions of Mimu Merz to conclude the musical program in the courtyard.

After that, well-known artists from the electronic avant-garde scene can be experienced in the Gleishalle. In Rakka AGF & Vladislav Delay will fill the spaces with a combination of electronic sounds and spectacular live visuals. This is followed by the project subassemblies by Ryoichi Kurokawa, aimed at revealing the power of art and nature using a wide variety of 3D data from architecture, ruins, and nature.

POSTCITY, Courtyard

POSTCITY, Train Hall

POSTCITY, Art Thinking House, Basement Stage

Limited capacity! Admittance with numbered tickets only. The tickets can be picked up at the POSTCITY Infodesk upon presentation of a Festivalpass or One-Day pass.

Voices from AI in Experimental Improvisation

Tomomi Adachi (JP), Andreas Dzialocha (DE), Marcello Lussana (IT)

Voices from AI in Experimental Improvisation is a project by Tomomi Adachi, Andreas Dzialocha and Marcello Lussana. They built an AI called “tomomibot” which learned Adachi’s voice and improvisation techniques using neural network algorithms. The performance raises questions about the logic and politics of computers in relation to human culture.

The Feline Project

Dagmar Dachauer (AT), Kilian Immervoll (AT)

Online cat content and robopets represent a deeply human yearning. Choreographer Dagmar Dachauer, together with video artist Kilian Immervoll, initiates a humorous and bewildering interaction between the ancient pet, human and robot through a hyper-detailed movement language.

Vladislav Delay & AGF present Rakka

Antye Greie-Ripatti (DE), Vladislav Delay (FI)

The Wire described Vladislav Delay as “one of the most consistently creative artists working today.” Reinventing himself regularly, he takes electronic music where he pleases with a unique blend of depth and detail. His music is like a non-existing soundtrack for the underworld; murky, dark and constrained. Antye Greie-Ripatti (also known as AGF) is a music producer, sound artist & curator, poet, gender activist. Her artistic tools are language, sound, listening, voice, and communication which she expresses in mixed media. Since 2011, she is the organizer and co-founder of Hai Art in Hailuoto. Antye campaigns for diversity in the arts with the women’s collective female:pressure. She runs her own music publishing label AGF Producktion and has collaborated with Eliane Radigue, Gudrun Gut, Kaffe Matthews, Craig Armstrong, and Ellen Allien amongst many others.

[re]BO[u]NDS ~ expanded media

LOXOSconcept – Giulio Colangelo (IT), Valerio De Bonis (IT)

[re]BO[u]NDS is an electroacoustic composition/performance for three electromechanical performers (drippers), reactive and synchronized lights, real time audio processing + electronic sounds.

Reeps One x Dadabots ft. Second Self AI

Reeps One (UK)

Second Self is an art and science collaboration between Reeps One, Dada Bots and the E.A.T. program at Nokia Bell Labs. The collaboration is a live performance piece designed to integrate machine learning, the human voice, and generative audio as a practical artistic tool and to raise awareness about machine learning beyond the academic, technological and engineering demographics via the medium of film and performance.

subassemblies

Ryoichi Kurokawa (JP)

Audiovisual concert, 2019 subassemblies is a project that pursues the relationship between natural and human-made structures through a perspective of architectural scale. It consists of several different presentation formats such as concert, installation, prints (sculptures) and screening.

TechiEon

Corea Impact (KR)

TechiEon is a Taekkyeon performance that re-imagines the scale and bio-diversity of eon in AI-based augmented reality and soundscape.

ULTRACHUNK (unfortunately canceled)

Jennifer Walshe (IE), Memo Akten (TR)

What are the implications of using your voice to improvise with a neural network? Composer Jennifer Walshe and artist Memo Akten present ULTRACHUNK (2018), a neural network trained on a corpus of Walshe’s solo vocal improvisations. Here, Walshe wrangles with an artificially intelligent duet partner – one that reflects a distorted version of her own improvisatory language and individual voice.

Voices from AI in Experimental Improvisation

Tomomi Adachi (JP), Andreas Dzialocha (DE), Marcello Lussana (IT)

Voices from AI in Experimental Improvisation is a project by Tomomi Adachi, Andreas Dzialocha and Marcello Lussana. They built an AI called “tomomibot” which learned Adachi’s voice and improvisation techniques using neural network algorithms. The performance raises questions about the logic and politics of computers in relation to human culture.