Festival
Beeple
Mike Winkelmann (US)
Beeple will be doing an everyday live for the audience while showcasing work from the last 12 years of everydays.
Animation Festival Screenings
The seventeen programs of this year’s Ars Electronica Animation Festival are once again an international showcase of excellence in current digital filmmaking. Visitors can experience these programs in several screening rooms at the POSTCITY, Art Thinking House.
Electronic Theatre
The program shows the prize-winning works selected by the jury and showcases current productions from an artistic, substantial, cultural, and cutting-edge technological perspective.
Chicago New Media 1973–1992
VGA Gallery (US)
Chicago New Media 1973–1992 chronicles the under-recognized story of Chicago's contributions to new media art by artists at the University of Illinois at Chicago's Electronic Visualization Laboratory, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and at Midway Games and Bally from 1973 to 1992.
The World in 24 Hours
Robert Adrian X (CA/AT)
In 1982 this telecommunications program attempted to combine SSTV, computer communication and telefacsimile in a global multimedia telecommunication project. The conceptual intention of The World in 24 Hours focused on demonstrating the global nature of electronic networks—as well as the fact that most of the globe was missing from the network (all of Africa and South America and most of Eastern Europe and Asia), and to challenge the hegemony of the one-to-many broadcast media by using the telephone system for one-to-one multimedia interaction. Another aspect was the attempt to make a statement about a new role for the artist in the age of electronic media as a creator of the space for art rather than as a mere a producer of objects. During the project artists around the world connected in a non-stop series of dialogues beginning at 12 noon on September 27 and ending at 12 noon on September 28, 1982 (Central European Time).
Origin
Refik Anadol (TR/US)
Origin is an immersive installation that narrates the incredible cultural and scientific legacy of Ars Electronica. Using archival information from the past 40 years, this piece aims to tell the story not only the story of the institutions’ foresight and innovation but also use this history to visualize future trends and realities.
Long Night Talks. For Robert Adrian
Roberto Paci Dalò (IT)
Long Night Talks. For Robert Adrian is an 8-channel sound work dedicated to Robert Adrian X (1935-2015), a pioneer in art and telecommunications. For more than two decades, Adrian and Paci Dalò shared a close friendship, punctuated by long night talks on everything. In this piece, Roberto Paci Dalò worked with Adrian's voice, using it as his installation’s main material.
Klangmikado
Waltraut Cooper (AT)
Klangmikado, which was created for Ars Electronica in 1987, allows visitors to play with oversized mikado sticks and create individual sound worlds. The composition is by Gerhard E. Winkler.
Animation Festival @ Deep Space 8K - Part 2
Serial Parallels | Influencers | In Trance It | Beauty = Function
Animation Festival @ Deep Space 8K - Part 1
Boy transcoded from phosphene | Promenade (excerpt) | WHERE DO WE GO | Seven Experiments in Procedural Animation | tx-reverse
