Linz
Stranger to the Trees
Kat Austen (UK/DE)
Stranger to the Trees is a new media project exploring the complementary coexistence of microplastics and trees as carbon sinks. How do trees and microplastics coexist in forests, capturing carbon in the time of the climate crisis? Combining video, interactive sound and sculpture, Stranger to the Trees queries the response of forest ecosystems to the ubiquitous and irrevocable dispersal of microplastics around the Earth.
Palaeoplasticene
Kat Austen (GB/DE)
Palaeoplasticene addresses the breakdown of plastic in the environment by engaging with a speculative past where plastic-based fungi evolved naturally, introducing plastic to the ecosystem in pre-human history. The sculpture invites visitors to engage with the longevity of plastic and the implications for our current and future ecosystems by reconfiguring our understanding of its presence over time.
Carbon Echoes
Kat Austen (UK/DE)
Entanglement with carbon is an essential component of the extreme influence of humans on the planet. This trilogy interrogates carbon and the impact of humans on its distribution around the planet and through time. These positions reflect not only on the climate crisis but also quality of life for humans and for the plants, animals and ecosystems with which humans share the planet.
730 Hours of Violence
Domestic Data Streamers Studio (ES)
730 Hours of Violence is an exhibition that aims to shed light on such complex realities while holding critical discussions with citizens about how we collectively see and relate to new paradigms of violence.
Von schwarzen Schwänen …
Kunstuniversität Linz (AT)
... or pink doves? The Ars Electronica Festival's Kunstunicampus attempts to think the seemingly impossible, to vision the unthinkable. Above all, the aim is to enable images and metaphors that carry a creative power within them and inspire us to create our own picture of our world.
LIQUID SKY
Mauricio Lacrampette (CL), Santiago Valdivieso (CL), Diego Gajardo (CL), Lucas Margotta (CL)
Liquid Sky is a ritual in which the interaction between the live image of the Atacama sky, the Ars Electronica attendees in Linz and a series of machines, mechanical gestures and data flows are assembled in a rhizome of trans-local feedback. Distinction between observer and observed is blurred, giving rise to the possibility of a collective tele-contemplation, using the fluctuating image of the sky as a means of global encounter.
Maa Kheru
Christian Kosmas Mayer (AT/DE)
Using CT scans of a 2000-year-old Egyptian mummy, the artist created an exact replica of the mummy’s vocal tract, which he then fitted with a movable silicone tongue. Mayer played this artificial vocal organ as though it were an instrument and produced a range of vocal sounds from which he then composed this multi-channel sound piece. Falling somewhere between science and poetic speculation, the resulting sounds take us into the depths of time and combine the archaic with the hypermodern.
Center for Plant Immigrant Integration
Kuang-Yi Ku (TW/NL)
Center for Plant Immigrant Integration explores the relationship between, plants and bacteria as a metaphor for human migration to Europe.
Meet the Artist - FASHION FRONTIER PROGRAM
Yuima Nakazato (JP), Ryua Honda (JP), Takahito Iguchi (JP), Yukari Wada (JP)
This program was established in 2021, under the belief that to search, praise, and educate future fashion designers who have the courage and ambition to take a new step in fashion will lead us to a better society.
Floating Codes
Ralf Baecker (DE)
Floating Codes is a light and sound installation that performs the inner workings and hidden aesthetics of artificial neural networks. The exhibition space itself becomes an open neural network. Signals of information travel as light and sound pulses through the exhibition space. Signals are looping, mutating, feedbacking, and canceling themselves, resulting in a complex and continuous altering of visual and acoustic movements.
