Environment
Nachhaltigkeit - Tagesablauf eines tierischen Vorbildes
Katharina Landl, Mona Rathenböck (AT)
A day in the life of Bobby the cat, in which he demonstrates how simple it can be to improve the world.
Gift of Nature
Students from HLW fur Kommunikations- und Mediendesign der Kreuzschwestern Linz (AT)
Dishes, cutlery, hygiene products, toys, furniture: today, nearly everything is made of plastic—and the bulk of it is used for packaging. The goal of this project is to satirize the waste of plastic by using a label of our own design for organic products.
Groove – Motion as a Language
Studio 7.5 (DE)
This project investigates the communicative potential of reactive surfaces and focuses on the collaboration between humans and autonomous vehicles. The membrane perceives and reacts to the environment like a sea anemone. The aim of the project is to use these expressive possibilities to transmit processes and intentions of an autonomous system to the environment.
Sentientia
Dorin Cucicov (MD)
Sentientia attempts to reconstruct the experience of a sentient creature that learns to interact with the external world. Inspired by Dr. Frankenstein’s creature, Sentientia sends audio signals to its environment and waits for a response to establish an emotional connection. Emotional combinations are generated by the machine and transformed into sound. Once the system understands that it has a mind and is conscious of its surroundings, will it start looking for entities like itself to create social networks of emotional intelligence?
Tiger Penis Project
Kuang-Yi Ku (TW)
Kuang-Yi Ku proposes a solution for threatened species like tigers that does not deprive Chinese physicians of their secret ingredients. Why not cultivate the penises in a laboratory with the help of biotechnology? The Tiger Penis Project bridges old traditions and technological innovation, helping to preserve both cultural tradition and nature.
Meanwhile In China
Yang Mu & Sai Bao – Matthias Schäfer (DE), Sofia Braga (IT)
Douyin 抖音, internationally known as TikTok, has become one of the world’s most successful apps and a leading platform for creating and sharing short videos. It was developed by Beijingbased Bytedance and is one of the few apps that has been successful outside the big firewall. To comply with Chinese law, Douyin is a completely independent app from TikTok. Although the user interface and logo look the same, the content is completely different and not accessible in the international version. The goal of this work is to explore and analyze this vast digital ecosystem from different perspectives: screenshots capture a moment in a rapidly changing environment, determined by Douyin’s artificially intelligent recommendation algorithm. These found images are then decontextualized without change to give visitors space and opportunity to think about them and gain insights into a delimited platform and its algorithms used to show you the most engaging content.
Orbita
João Batista (PT), Noel Martins (PT), Pedro Gonçalves (PT), Hugo Rocha (PT)
Orbita is an open-world, virtual reality game developed to represent a futuristic point of view in which science and spirituality coexist. It uses puzzles to stimulate the player into exploring its environments. Confronting players with a futuristic possibility that does not rank science above spirituality (or vice versa), this game gives them a chance to understand the metaphors that underpin the main character’s journey.
TRANSCODE!
University of Art and Design Linz, Interface Cultures
Knowing that technology will not save our world, we call for unsecured transcode! The Interface Culture Department of the Linz University of Art and Design is celebrating its 15th anniversary within the 40th anniversary of the Ars Electronica Festival. Reason enough to embark on a comprehensive transformation process and to examine processes of transcoding in particular and in general in the form of an exhibition, performances and presentations as well as discursive approaches.
Relations – Experimental Radio Showcase
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
In addition to the thematic exhibition "Shared Habitats," Bauhaus University, Weimar will present other projects from the departments of Experimental Radio, Media Environments, Human-Computer Interaction, and Product Design.
Alternative Energy?
Lukas Bernhart (AT)
This project shows the risks of today's energy production and usage and questions nuclear power as a viable alternative to fossil fuels. Do we want to exploit the planet until there is nothing left to use or should we be risking thousands of dead people and making large areas of the planet forever uninhabitable? Alternative Energy? investigates different energy concepts and design solutions in the Solarpunk movement.
