technology

Digitaler Mordversuch

Students from NMS Hittisau’s CyberWerkstatt (AT)

Intensive involvement with digital media and the technical possibilities of our time gave this school class the idea of playing through the consequences of these technologies and capturing it on video.

Behind the Robots Eyes

Daman Diawara (US)

In the framework of the Scientist in Residence Program, Gluon launched a project with artist Manthia Diawara and researchers Tarek Besold (Alpha Health AI Lab) and Raoul Frese (Faculty of Sciences, Physics and Astronomy, VU Amsterdam). The first meeting took place at Manthia’s residency in the village of Yenne, near Dakar, Senegal. The artist and the researchers reflected together on the relationship of Senegalese people with technology and artificial intelligence, and they carried on interviews with women working on the market, fishermen and a traditional healer. The project will be further developed over the course of 2019 and will result in a movie.

Gluon, Brussels

Gluon is a Brussels-based platform for art, science and technology. At Gluon we believe that interactions between researchers, artists, entrepreneurs, citizens and young people are vital in the quest for solutions to our global societal challenges. Gluon stimulates exchanges between these different actors.

THE COMPUTATION CENTER [CENTRO DE CÁLCULO] AT MADRID UNIVERSITY. 1966-1973

The Computation Center at Madrid University (CCUM) is an example of how computation centers, mathematicians and some private computer companies became generators of interaction between technology and other disciplines.

STARTS Day

The STARTS Day focuses on the STARTS Initiative and offers insights into collaborative practices at the intersection of art, technology, science and industry. In different discursive formats and presentations, extraordinary examples from this field are presented and their implementations, methods and impacts identified.

AIxMusic Panels

Renata Schmidtkunz (DE)

Renata Schmidtkunz hosts four panel discussions in the summer refectory, prominently featuring Josef Penninger, Sophie Wennerscheid, Amanda Cox, Markus Poschner, and others.

Insert & Play

Jeon Hess (KR)

*Insert & Play* is a microwave that functions as a moving image projector to provide a viable media player. While the project is a celebration of technology and industrial progress, it is also a reminder of nostalgic actions; insert and play—a ritual between man and machine on the verge of extinction.

Pets

New Design University Privatuniversität GesmbH (AT), BA Design, Handwerk & materielle Kultur, MA Innenarchitektur & Visuelle Kommunikation

Based on artistic and scientific research, students investigate how our material world is changing and what role design plays in it.

‘Donkey’ Mario

Shifang Li (CN)

‘Donkey’ Mario shows the similarities of happiness between our ancestors and us through a shadow puppet theatre version of Super Mario.

TIMELESSNESS

Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Belas-Artes

When Ars Electronica completes 40 years, we might be inclined to think that digital art is bound, by technology, to the time of its creation. Experiencing this selection in which drawings are excavated and expanded through augmented reality, however, a viewer’s gaze is allowed to degrade the photographic image, and the tangible or performative gestures of the audience are used to evoke memories or point to new directions. We realize that creativity can definitely transcend the technology used to build it. Calling upon temporality, space, and memory as key ingredients, Timelessness engages the participants on a journey through social, aesthetic, and temporal landscapes. The exhibition gathers artistic projects developed by undergraduate, masters, and doctoral degree students in the scope of the Multimedia Art Department of the Faculdade de Belas-Artes of the Universidade de Lisboa – FBAUL.