innovation
Trajectories
FRI 6.9. | 15:30 – 17:00 Speakers: Sarah Petkus (US), Aza Raskin (US), Andrew Pickering (UK), Manuela Naveau (AT)
Midlife Crisis of the Digital Revolution – Theme Conference
On Friday, the conference moves forward in time to explore current and future prospects of our increasingly digital world. Art and creativity have always been viewed as important contributors to ensuring that future technological implementations will happen under consideration of enlightened, critical and qualified perspectives.
Open the Boxes & Close the Gaps!
FH St. Pölten, Industry meets Makers, Tabakfabrik Linz, Zukunftsakademie Mostviertel
SAT 7.9. | 12:30 – 15:00 Co-ideation, information and experience exchange with forward and lateral thinkers for a sustainable digital future.
Towards a Digital Culture!
FH St. Pölten, Industry meets Makers, Tabakfabrik Linz, Zukunftsakademie Mostviertel
SAT 7.9. | 10:30 – 11:30 Opportunities and challenges for digital innovations in Austria and Europe, Lightning Talks and interactive discussion formats with experts.
Meet Digital Makers!
FH St. Pölten, Industry meets Makers, Tabakfabrik Linz, Zukunftsakademie Mostviertel
SAT 7.9. | 10:00 – 15:00 Best-practice examples for a sustainable digital future, info stands, short presentations and speed dating by and with select changemakers.
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.
The Generative Adversarial Network
Wesley Lee Yang (BR)
Democratization of technology and information has not been the means of liberation and empowerment as it could have been. As described and discussed by the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, these developments have been co-opted to become mostly a means of commercial exploitation. These manipulation processes have moved from mass media to the internet and to the smart devices that are pervasive in our lives. Even when we don’t want them, it is impractical to function in society without owning and operating them. Adding insult to injury, not only are we exchanging our privacy, freedom and the health of our planet to devices that bring us convenience and comfort, but also doing it to have access to useless features, many of which create new problems for us—so that we will need or want the next “innovation.”
Digital Makers Day – Digital Innovation Out of the Box
FH St. Pölten, Industry meets Makers, Tabakfabrik Linz, Zukunftsakademie Mostviertel
Digital innovation requires creative solutions to a digital culture shaped by co-creation, co-ideation, sharing economy, open access to resources, new forms of collaboration, etc. Major developments emerge “Out of the Box,” often off the beaten track. Short impulse lectures, interactive formats and best-practice presentations will be used to discuss developments in digital culture and possible measures to be taken.
Open Futurelab
Once again this year, the Ars Electronica Futurelab and its partners show at the “Open Futurelab” which projects and initiatives have been created in the past months in collaboration between industries, education, art, and science. The research and development force behind Ars Electronica sees itself as an atelier and a laboratory at the same time – what exactly this means can be seen at the exhibits, lectures and performances shown in this area.
