Linz

Synthetic Messenger

Tega Brain (AU), Sam Lavigne (US)

Synthetic Messenger is a botnet that artificially inflates the value of climate news.

The Fallen Clouds

Josefina Buschmann (CL), Daniela Camino (CL), Nicole L’Huillier, Francisca Saéz(CL), Poli Mujica (CL)

The Fallen Clouds is a speculative research-based installation that delves into the socio-environmental resonances of digital infrastructures in Chile by following a “digital cloud” searching for its body and origin extended from the Pacific Ocean to the Atacama Desert.

Calico Human

Kuang-Yi Ku (TW/NL)

Calico Human examines the plausibility and desirability of manipulating skin color through the use of new biomedical technologies. It aims to explore the complex relationships between race, migration, health, fashion and the future of biomedical services.

STUDIO(dys)TOPIA – At the Peak of Humankind

Theme Exhibition

The themed exhibition "STUDIO(dys)TOPIA" explores how humanity can put sustainable practices into action and serves as a metaphor for our present, where the concepts of dystopias and utopias find themselves in a changed reality.

Archive of Spatial Knowledge

Irakli Sabekia (GE/NL)

Archive of Spatial Knowledge is an experimental digital platform. It gathers spatial and social memory of individuals who were forcefully displaced, or are denied spatial rights in the locations of their current residence. Archive‘s digital tool allows its contributors to attach their memories to physical locations in a virtual layer. While at the same time viewers can use the platform to access the erased knowledge on location, juxtaposing invisible stories and the reality of physical spaces.

TerraPort

Dorotea Dolinšek (SI)

TerraPort is a machine derived from the human desire for interplanetary travel and for initiating life on other planets. It is a prototype of the terraforming process of the Martian regolith, in which the artist’s intimate body is invested along with generations of soybeans as a model organism. In a cyclical process, the infertile substrate composed in line with the data collected from Mars orbiters is enriched, generation by generation, by the organic matter sourced from the artist’s female body.

Postdigital Natures of Planet B

PDNB (AT/DE/UK/IT)

Postdigital Natures of Planet B explores the roles of natural and virtual environments in the context of architecture. In doing so it incorporates a series of novel, organic, and alternative building materials to create an alternative inhabitable ecosphere for human and non-human agents.

ECOLALIA

Klaus Spiess (AT), Ulla Rauter (AT), Emanuel Gollob (AT), Rotraud Kern (AT)

By 2100, one third of biological species and nine tenths of languages will have disappeared. Under the impact of this simultaneous decline in diversity, we design ECOLALIA, a poetry of extinction and disappearance as a deep learning process emanating from the real-time chemo-vibrational conditioning of oral microbes. Audiences visually and aurally attune their speech sounds to the life and death of their fragile oral flora, becoming bilingual co-authors of the post-anthropocene.

Project Percentage

Yi-Wen Lin (TW), Lien-Cheng Wang (TW), Aluan Wang (TW), Jinyao Lin (TW), Che-Yu Wu (TW), Newyellow (TW)

Project Percentage is a nonprofit social innovation experiment based in Taiwan, combining digital art and social action. With the total number of 10,000 generative art NFTs, Project Percentage takes the number of the creations as a symbol of the landscapes "the top 100 peaks" in Taiwan. Collectors are invited to form a DAO, and all donations will be pooled with cryptocurrency public funds. There will be an exhibition of generative art of Project Percentage and an audiovisual performance.

Biobot: AI ARThropods

Zoran Srdić Janežič (SI)

Biobot uses biotech and software developments to create an artistic narrative about the bio-technological body and its representation. The project is focused on tissue engineering and the harvesting of an electric signal from neurons which influences the movement and shape of a biobot.