performance

50 shades of forest

Afra Sonmez (TR)

A textile as an electronic instrument: the artist specifically for this performance created a flexible and modular interface of electronic textile consisting mainly of snap fasteners to make all parts freely movable.

[re]BO[u]NDS ~ expanded media

LOXOSconcept – Giulio Colangelo (IT), Valerio De Bonis (IT)

[re]BO[u]NDS is an electroacoustic composition/performance for three electromechanical performers (drippers), reactive and synchronized lights, real time audio processing + electronic sounds.

AG-MX70 DDX3216

Stefan Tiefengraber (AT)

Following the no-input approach, Stefan Tiefengraber is generating sound and video using only the inherent noise from two devices, a digital video mixer and a digital audio mixer. New and unexpected results are achieved – a continuous blast of pure noise and flickering images.

Modell 5

Granular Synthesis – Kurt Hentschlaeger (AT), Ulf Langheinrich (DE)

MODELL 5 is a performance or installation in which the face of Japanese performer Akemi Takeya is subject to drastic time-based interventions that create in essence a cyborg-like hybrid, between human and machine. A roller coaster dramaturgy following the “life” of the four clones on screens.

Body Public Space Visual Image

Bela Usabaev (DE)

From the public space around the AEC, impulses are transmitted through the body to the façade as part of an interactive performance. The completely free structure of public space meets the defined counterpart of the body in order to be mounted on the façade as if on a canvas.

underbody

Silke Grabinger (AT)

This 15-minute performance follows on from last year's cooperation with Johannes Braumann and the Ars Electronica Futurelab. It is based on Gertrud Bodenwieser's play “Dämon Maschine” (1923), in which five dancers turned into one machine. Now, five machines play one dancer. Whereas in the original performance each person controlled a part of a machine, an industrial Kuka robot now controls a body part. Choreographer and dancer Silke Grabinger goes into a dance with this marionette.

Knotting the Memory // Encoding the Khipu_

Patricia Cadavid H. (CO)

This performance wants to pay homage to the Khipu, reusing it as an instrument for interaction and generation of experimental live sound and video. The artist will be a contemporary *khipukamayuq* (Khipu knotter) who seeks to encode the interrupted legacy of this ancestral practice through the knots. With each knot made, an audiovisual composition is constructed that yearns to vindicate the memory and indigenous resistance of the native peoples of the Andes. Triality is an unconventional exploration of VR technologies that challenges the limits of our perception.

VALIS

Digital Research Unit in Art and Design at the Esad Saint-Étienne/Ensba Lyon

For this first presentation in the framework of Ars Electronica, we chose to explore concepts of “science-fiction,” considered as a domain that provides forms but also imaginary elements to be renewed. The exhibition presented here is therefore a first approach which summons various references to fields such as archeology, music, robotics or video games, passing through several experiments with media (code, 3D, sound, performance, deep learning …). VALIS “Vast Living Intelligent System” is a reference to the late work of Philip K. Dick.

Bubbles and Clouds – Illuminated Interactive Inflatables

Kristian Gohlke (DE), Christian Wiegert (DE)

Interactive pressure-stabilized membrane structures (“Pneus”), suspended from the ceiling, discreetly illuminated from the inside. As visitors pass through the room, through touch and draughts, the objects respond. Attempts to elucidate the objects creates a dialogue of light, sound and movement. In the course of the casual interaction, the visitors become part of a performance. The boundaries between viewer and performer, space and content begin to drift – bubbles wafting in clouds.

Nightline

While the music of the Bruckner Orchester in the Gleishalle fades and some listeners still hear the final sounds of the instruments as they fall silent, we are getting the console ready for the transition to danceable sound experiments.