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Pianographique

Maki Namekawa (JP), Cori O'Lan (AT)

After last year’s program with piano music from Ligeti and Chick Corea, Maki Namekawa once again takes us on her explorations of the music of our time, presenting a rediscovery and a newly commissioned composition.

Searching for Planet B: How Astronomy Visualization and Remote Sensing Guide Us to Humanity’s Future

Dan Tell (US) 

Thousands of years of increasingly precise measuring and modeling have revolutionized humanity’s understanding of the universe. We now know Earth is one of many planets, but it is uniquely habitable. The same research and techniques we use to understand these other worlds can help us understand what made Earth habitable in the first place and how we can restore and sustain this planet into the future.

Music for Chamber Gardens – Chamber Music Paths through Kepler's Gardens

The Bruckner Orchestra (AT) / Norbert Trawöger (AT)

Individual ensembles and soloists of the Bruckner Orchestra, together with Norbert Trawöger, their artistic director, have put together a three-hour program that transforms the Kepler’s Garden into the “Chamber Gardens of Music.”

4D box / SH4D0W — An AI Performance in 3D

Mikael Fock (DK), Carl Emil Carlsen (DK), Emilie Rasmussen (DK), Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm (DK) Yann Coppier (DK), Vertigo (DK)

SH4D0W is the first performing arts production starring an artificial intelligence creation as the protagonist. The play is performed in the 4D Box, a theatre stage capable of creating mixed-reality illusions of virtual 3D objects interacting with live performers.

State of the ART(ist) Live Sessions

Amir Almuarri (SY), Andriy Rachinskiy (UA), Daniil Revkovskyi (UA), Daria Pugachova (UA), DE NE DE (UA), fantastic little splash (UA), Floating Projects Collective (HK), Ivan Svitlychniy (UA), Oksana Chepelyk (UA), Oleksandr Burlaka (UA), SVITER Art Group (UA), The Peacock Generation (MM)

The State of the ART(ist) Initiative is established in collaboration with the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to support artists in Ukraine and around the world, for whom a commitment to peace, freedom and self-determination is not possible locally or is possible only under great threat. Hosted by Christl Baur (DE/AT) and Martin Honzik (AT), the conversations address different segments of the Initiative.

The 4th VH AWARD

VH AWARD

The VH AWARD aims to support Asian media artists from diverse backgrounds whose works creatively portray a vast array of issues. The 4th VH AWARD finalists’ works engage with technology in new ways and forge new connections, addressing subjects that range from the relationship between humans and artificial intelligence to the pressing social and ecological issues of our time.

Ars Electronica Futurelab: Night Performances

To bring the Futurelab Day on Thursday to a fitting close, in the evening the Ars Electronica Futurelab invites everyone to join the Night Performances: Visitors can enjoy a wide range of experiences — from the lab’s latest work to fascinating art performances, including world-class piano and dance with stunning visuals in the unique setting of Deep Space 8K, a giant immersive environment developed by the Ars Electronica Futurelab.

!brute_force - Soft Resilience

Maja Smrekar (SI), Jonas Jørgensen (DK)

Living beings leak out of their skin into biomorphic technology, forming an emergent posthuman landscape of bodies without organs beyond deterministic restrictions of the Cartesian grid.

un ctrl

Daniel Kohlmeigner (AT), Martin Retschitzegger (AT), Cat Jimenez (AT) 

un ctrl is an intertwining performance between a musician, a dancer and a visual artist.

XR Tumor Evolution Project

B. Lawrence (NZ), T. Robb (NZ), B. Woodhouse (NZ), D. Hurley (NZ), M. Davis (NZ), U. Rieger (NZ), Y. Liu (NZ), R. McColl (NZ), S. Masoud-Ansari (NZ), J. Reeve (NZ), Charlotta Windahl (SE/NZ)

The XR Tumor Evolution Project (XRTEP) applies extended reality technology to a real-world cancer research problem. It is enabled by a rare inter-disciplinary collaboration between the School of Architecture and Planning, the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, and Centre for EResearch at the University of Auckland.