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.
Speakers:
- Eveline Wandl-Vogt (AT), Ars Electronica Research Institute: knowledge for humanity Hub (k4h+)
- Werner Jauk (AT) Ars Electronica Research Institute: Auditory Culture. Sound-gesture-research & emotional interfaces. Epistemologic media-art – science and art
- Mona Liem (ID): Media Art Globale, Jakarta Indonesia: “Media Art Globale 2019, A new corridor in Indonesia`s media art development.” Shift movement caused by Social Media Behaviour.
- Adam Zammit AU & Kerry Hunt (AU), 3Fest, Wollongong Australien
- Philipp Wintersberger (DE), CARISSIMA: Automated driving: to be in control or being controlled?
- Junji Watanabe (JP), Artist: Alternative Sports Viewing
Moderated by:
- Horst Hörtner (AT), Director Ars Electronica Futurelab
Biographies:
Adam Zammit is a creative entrepreneur who has lead the great challenge of bridging art, community and commerce through empathy and engagement with brands, businesses, institutions, government and industry. Adam started his diverse career as founding publisher of Music Weekly Magazine and website titles Revolver Magazine (97’-2003), Brag Magazine 2003-present and music industry trade magazine the Music Network 2007-present. As a media partnership broker, Adam has created national and international broadcast partnerships with the ABC, SBS, Channel 7, MTV, Channel V and Viacom global, Yahoo, RDIO, NOVA and Triple J. Adam was one of 3 executives responsible for the management of the permanent USD$300million Franco Dragone production – The House of Dancing Water. In the past eighteen years Adam has also generated over $100 million dollars in new revenue for arts & entertainment industry assets. He has been in leadership on the majority of Australia’s leading music and cultural events and institutions including ARIA, APRA, Splendour in Grass, Bluesfest, Big Day Out and many more. Notably as CEO, Adam grew Big Day Out to be one of the worlds’ biggest touring music festivals, whilst also creating, producing and consulting to a number of other national events including: The Australian Live Music Awards; The Bacardi Express; Tamworth Country Music Festival, to name a few. In 2017 Adam turned his attention to a new cultural platform, and is currently Founder and Festival Director of the 3 Festival – inspired by Ars Electronica, and part of the Ars Electronica global partnership network. The event will debut in May 2020. Adam is also the Director of Partnerships for Australia’s biggest cultural export – The Australian Chamber Orchestra.
Kerry Hunt is the Director Community Services at Wollongong City Council in NSW Australia. For the last 25 years Kerry has worked in the local government sector with a focus on community development and engagement. She is passionate about the role local government can play in the revitalisation and transformation of cities and places through community and industry partnerships, enabling policy frameworks and leadership. Over recent years Kerry has had oversight of the revitalisation and activation of Wollongong’s City Centre, events and engagement, community and cultural development and services, and business attraction and investment for the City. Kerry is on the Board of Destination Wollongong and a member of Wollongong’s Major Events Committee. As part of her role, she works with others to secure commitment and investment in flagship global events for the city. This has recently included 3-Festival and the 2022 UCI- Road World Championships.
Mona Liem is an Artpreneur & Curator based in Baden, Switzerland. She is Artistic Director of Media Art Globale Festival, in Jakarta, Indonesia. Since obtaining a Master’s degree in Curating (MAS) at the Zurich University of Arts in 2016, she has focused on art research projects, managing international artists, conceptualizing and curating a variety of exhibitions in Europe & Asia. As well as working as a freelance journalist for art magazines in Asia. She is fascinated by New Media Art, Identity and Technology in a curatorial sense. In 2018, she was one of international Juror of APEXART New York City, Contemporary Art Exhibition and International Judge of CYNETART, International Festival for Computer Based Art, Dresden Germany.
Werner Jauk studied psychology, dissertation in music information-theory (AI) and new experimental aesthetics, did post-doc-studies at the IRCAM and an international habilitation in systematic musicology, “pop / music and media / art – the musicalized life in digital culture”, finally he established a MA-studies in those fields at the university of Graz. Already in the early eighties he founded “grelle musik” – to study and produce “sound in the intermedia”. Since the very first days he is part of the Ars Electronica as member of the jury digital music, as theorist and media-artist doing a lot of sound-environments; a part of it he did together with Heimo Ranzenbacher, contrasting fruitful the sonic performative and the semiological approach to media-art; This year “AI-Pop: walking sound -knowledge base” focuses on sound-gesture and emotional artificial intelligence.
Junji Watanabe is Senior Distinguished Researcher, in NTT Communication Science Laboratories, and NTT Service Evolution Laboratories. His fields of interests are haptic perception and communications. He studies cognitive science of haptics and its application to communication devices and sports viewing experiences.
Philipp Wintersberger is a researcher at the research center CARISSMA/THI and obtained his diploma in Computer Science from Johannes Kepler University Linz specializing in Human-Computer-Interaction and Computer Vision. He worked 10 years as a software engineer/architect and was invited speaker about mobilecomputingand software development at several conferences/events. In January 2016, he joined the Human-Computer Interaction Group at CARISSMA/THIto conductresearchin the area of Human Factors and Driving Ergonomics.
