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A Letter from Yene

Manthia Diawara (Mali, USA)

Manthia Diawara’s latest film, A Letter from Yene, emerges from conversations with fishermen, pebble collectors and himself in the seaside town of Yene. Diawara explores how their intersecting lives collectively and unknowingly contribute to the undermining of their shared environment.

Symposium Perspektiven Politischer Bildung: Parallel worlds and their impact on Political Education

Upper Austria Teacher-Training College x Upper Austria Chamber of Labor and Ars Electronica

Political education is challenged to deal with parallel world constructions in order to counteract a destabilization of our democratic society. This year’s symposium would like to contribute to this.

Photosynthetic You

Vanessa V(ozzo) (IT)

Workshop: Photosynthetic You explores fundamental ethical questions related to the renewed debate on genetics, reaching as far as the hypothesis of being able to exchange our human genes with those of other species using innovative systems such as CRISPR/Cas. What if we can all decide, paradoxically and in an extreme, mass democratic act, to become thin and motionless like leaves, energetically self-sufficient like plants, feeding only on light and solar power?

Leonardo Laser Linz

Christa Sommerer (AT) & Fabricio Lamoncha (ES), Verena Merstallinger (AT) & Doğuş Karlık (TR), Vanessa V(ozzo) (IT), Robertina Šebjanič (SI), Olivia Osborne (GB)

We are delighted once again for the opportunity to host our Leonardo Laser Talk at the Ars Electronica Festival 2022, with the support of the University of Art and Design Linz and the Interface Cultures Department.

Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau: The Artwork as a Living System

Christa Sommerer (AT), Laurent Mignonneau (FR)

The retrospective at OK Linz is a tribute to Christa Sommerer's and Laurent Mignonneau's life’s work as internationally active media artists, pioneers, researchers and teachers of interactive art. It shows works from the years 1991 to 2021.

The Festival University 2022

Ars Electronica (AT), JKU (AT)

200 Students — Faculty of Experts, Lecturers, Mentors, Inspirers. Global challenges of tomorrow require a new approach – one based on creativity and co-creation. The Festival University, a joint initiative between Ars Electronica and Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU), invites students from around the world to jointly develop planetary strategies for change and transformation.

Journey into Quantum Music

LP Duo (RS/NL)

LP Duo (RS/NL) will demonstrate compositions written for hybrid pianos on the Bösendorfer Imperial 290 CEUS based on research and experiments done in the quantum labs with the top scientists from Universities of Delft and Copenhagen.

Avatar Robot Cafe DAWN ver.β

Ory Yoshifuji (JP)

Honorary Mention – People can visit the Dawn Avatar Robot Café, where users work and visit via robots. Users can seek employment via the company's Avatar Guild staffing agency, thus remaining active in society. The goal is to show that with the right tools, even people who have difficulty in moving about freely can do physical labor and customer service from the comfort of their homes via an avatar robot.

Spotlight by Holly Herndon & Mathew Dryhurst

Holly Herndon (UM), Mathew Dryhurst (US), José Luis de Vicente (ES)

Holly Herndon is an American multidisciplinary artist based in Berlin. In her work, she develops new technologies to experiment with her voice and its image, supported by critical research in artificial intelligence and decentralized infrastructure.

Transformation Lounge

Questioning learned patterns, throwing usual strategies overboard, thinking new ways and coming to common solutions - the Transformation Lounge developed together with the big Japanese advertising and PR agency Hakuhodo is not an exhibition, it is a place of encounter and discourse.