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spaceEU Activity: Space Café
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Together with you and other artists and experts we willl talk about space, art and the climate crisis. Let's exchange ideas and get inspired over a cup of tea or coffee. Meet us at the Space Café in the create your World Open Kitchen!
spaceEU Exhibition: Step into Space
spaceEU is an exciting space outreach and education project which aims to spark the interest of young people in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths). The Ars Electronica Festival presents the spaceEU exhibition ‘Step into Space’ where visitors are invited to find out why we should explore space.
Blue Moon
Jaqueline Eder, Selina Maurovich, Kilian Mayer, Stephanie Stigler (AT)
Blue Moon is a profoundly personal meditation on existence, loss, and love through the cold lens of the breathtakingly beautiful world of outer space.
Space Exploration Initiative
MIT Media Lab (US), Xin Liu (CN)
In the past, the desire for exploration and expansion had a profound impact on how we imagined planetary futures. What shall we imagine now? In this exhibition, six projects from the Space Exploration Initiative of MIT Media Lab are asking the same question and bringing possibilities to the (im)possible space: All the projects were successfully deployed and performed in a zero-gravity parabolic flight last year. They are hopes beyond solutions, imaginations, more than facts.
bitTOWER
Wu Juehui (CN)
bitTOWER is inspired by the uroboros and each element of the installation acts as a visual metaphor. The scaffold matrix creates a space with a limited mass, as though the epidermis of the excessively expanding city has been torn apart and exposed its internal organs. The cycle of lights act as moon and sun, with shadows of mottled steel pipes expanding the borders of the matrix. The interplay of the lights and projected digital images create a virtual world shifting swiftly between night and day. The spiral cases inside the matrix overlap, and just like the uroboros, beginning where it also ends. The immersive environment opens a wormhole to another dimension for the audience, with the synesthetic ceremony leading to a sense of reverie.
Lack of Time
Stella Kucher (DE, US), Onur Olgac (TR)
Lack of Time questions existing time systems and shows alternatives based on event time. The interactive project aims to use digital art to create awareness of our society’s dependency on clock time. At the same time, it should explain event time by using abstract visualizations to invite the user to interact.
Color Impression
Lukas Woerm (DE)
Light. Light is boundless and dematerialized – it is intangible and enables our primary perception, seeing. A contourless, monotone space filled with light forces our brain to cope for a short time without this visual input. Orientation and lack of dimension are the consequences. Light, color and space become one. A non-objective environment makes human perception the object of contemplation. How is our emotional being influenced by light and colors?
Stereospacer: Nature Space
Michael Markert (DE)
Explore how virtual insect and physical city sounds mix and discover how this experience changes the perception of the area outside the exhibition space.
Expert Tour: Space Art at Ars Electronica
Laura Welzenbach (AT)
We will explore the space-related contributions at this year’s exhibition. The starting point is the youth exhibition Step Into Space, which is part of the spaceEU project, an exciting public relations and education initiative designed to stimulate young people’s interest in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math).
Artist Walk – Andy Gracie
Andy Gracie (UK)
Join the Artist Walk with Andy Gracie to learn about his ongoing artistic research and experiments, his explorations into hermetic systems, hybrid bio-technological ecosystems, and the ways in which we observe and experiment in space and its perceived role in the future of humanity.
