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STARTS at the Ars Electronica Festival 2022

STARTS is a platform that aims to link technology and artistic practice more closely. It is implemented by European policy to promote innovations that also benefit the art world. It supports collaboration between artists, scientists, engineers and researchers to develop more creative, inclusive and sustainable technologies, and focuses on people and projects that help address the social, environmental and economic challenges with which the European continent is confronted.

flickering red lights and dead batteries

Anna Lerchbaumer (AT)

An installation that generates sound and plays with points in time, time spans and duration. It uses electricity as a performer and understands the physicality of infrastructure as a colorful material. Exploring the sites and displacement of energy, electrical or mechanical. Making it visible and audible. Colorful segments of cables, children´s toys and discarded plugs.

The NeuroRight Arcades

Roel Heremans and his team are designing a series of five interactive installations to make each NeuroRight tangible for participants. They want participants to explore unasked questions about the future of our NeuroRights in a world where BCIs are ubiquitous.

LULLABY FOR MARIUPOL by Opera Aperta

On February 24, Russia invaded Ukraine. Mariupol, which since 2014 has been a symbol of Ukrainian resistance, has become a brutal example of tragedy and humanitarian catastrophe. On February 22, back then in peaceful Kyiv, Ukrainian composers Roman Grygoriv and Illia Razumeiko composed a piece for microtonal bandura, called "Mariupol". A new version of “Lullaby for Mariupol”, created especially for the Circus of Knowledge and the ars electronica festival 2022 will include rare footage of Mariupol mosaics from 6th and 7th centuries, now mostly destroyed by Russian forces during the siege of the city in March 2022. The performance is dedicated to all victims of Russian aggression.

Deep Water

Anna Dudko (UA)

In her animated film Deep Water and her erotic sketches, the award-winning Ukrainian artist Anna Dudko stages the sensual underwater fantasy of a mermaid who is craving human erotic love from deep within her soul. This full-bodied mermaid does not hide her woman’s desires and takes pleasure in observing the human world along a drain and touching people with water as if with her body. In the exhibition, the film will be presented along with erotic sketches and film backgrounds created by Yana “ja-shi” Shypova and Olga Havrylova.

Time, Space, Me, Us.

University of Nova Gorica School of Arts (SI)

"And I ran like crazy until I reached the edge the next day towards evening. We called this line that separated the known from the unknown the ‘edge of the world’." How far do the boundaries of our community go, how far does ‘me’ extend to and until where does a ‘we’ expand?

Creative Europe – Get-Together

We cordially invite our European partners and the members of our network to join us for the Creative Europe Get-Together. The Creative Europe program is a funding scheme of the European Union to support the culture, creative and audiovisual sector. This meeting gives members of cultural institutions the chance to network in a relaxed atmosphere.

Destined to return

Markus Oberndorfer (AT)

In the exhibition Destined to Return at Bildraum Bodensee, Markus Oberndorfer, runner-up of the PARALLEL VIENNA | Bildrecht YOUNG ARTIST Award 2021, shows a complex exploration of 50 years of media development with his multimedia work series REVISIT.

Understanding AI

What is artificial intelligence? And what do we actually know about human intelligence? How intelligent can artificial intelligence be in comparison? And more importantly: what effects will the advances in this field have on our society?

CIFO-Ars Electronica Awards 2022

More than 160 artists were nominated, and five of them were honored with the first CIFO-Ars Electronica Awards: Dora Bartilotti, the Electrobiota Collective, Thessia Machado, Amor Muñoz and Ana Elena Tejera will each receive up to $30,000 for the development and implementation of their submitted concepts.