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European Platform for Digital Humanism - A conference by the European ARTificial Intelligence Lab
European ARTificial Intelligence Lab
The Sunday conference program will concentrate on European challenges to find a distinctly European approach to shaping our future. How can Europe guarantee that emerging technologies won’t lose touch with our humanity and humane values?
Meandering River
onformative (DE), kling klang klong (DE)
Meandering River is an audiovisual art installation comprised of real-time visuals and music composed by an A.I. through machine learning. The piece reinterprets the shifting behavior of rivers in the landscape, regarded from a bird’s eye view. Minor changes of riverbeds are not visible for the bare eye, as they are gradually happening over time. Spanning over multiple screens Meandering River visualizes these altering landscapes and makes the changes visible. It leaves the observer with a unique perception of time.
Prix Forum
One of the absolute highlights of every Ars Electronica is the opportunity to meet Prix Ars Electronica prize-winners and to attend Prix forums to hear the artists elaborate on their oeuvre and current work. Moderated by Prix Ars Electronica jurors, these discussions provide fascinating insights into this year’s categories: Computer Animation, Digital Musics & Sound Art and Artificial Intelligence & Life Art.
Expanded Animation – OUT OF THE BOX
Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences Hagenberg Campus (AT), Ars Electronica (AT)
In collaboration with the Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences’ Hagenberg Campus, the 7th Expanded Animation symposium carries on a process launched in 2013 — mapping the wide-ranging domain of animated worlds of imagery beyond the well-trodden paths. The symposium stays the course originally set at its inception, and presents theoretical positions and perspectives from the art world, the R&D field and the industrial sector.
Gallery Spaces Panels
At the Gallery Space Panels 2019, experts will discuss the transformation and future of the media art market. The interaction between science, art and the market will be analysed from a variety of perspectives in seven prominent discussion rounds.
STARTS Day
The STARTS Day focuses on the STARTS Initiative and offers insights into collaborative practices at the intersection of art, technology, science and industry. In different discursive formats and presentations, extraordinary examples from this field are presented and their implementations, methods and impacts identified.
Innovationsforum GET.Inspired
The power of individual technology groups and their exclusive role in shaping the future is increasingly subject to criticism. We are called upon to critically question and actively participate, instead of remaining passive victims of digital change. People and companies show how, by thinking against all rules, new paths can be taken outside the comfort zone.
Panel: Theatre in the Digital Age
How can digital technology add to the magical, theatrical moment? Digital theatre entails a multitude of approaches and perspectives.
AIxMusic Panels
Renata Schmidtkunz (DE)
Renata Schmidtkunz hosts four panel discussions in the summer refectory, prominently featuring Josef Penninger, Sophie Wennerscheid, Amanda Cox, Markus Poschner, and others.
STAR VALLEY
Marko Peljhan (SI/US), Matthew Biederman (CA/US)
STAR VALLEY uses two spark-gap transmitters in dialogue, both controlled by a natural language processing AI algorithm trained on the US Department of Defense and NATO nicknames and descriptions of programs, activities, exercises and special access programs. The earliest form of wireless transmission is paired with contemporary computational developments to open a window onto the landscape of the accountability of secrecy.
