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Fortune of Planet B

Silke Grabinger (AT)

At the Ars Electronica Festival, Silke Grabinger — this time equipped with VR goggles, controller and fortune features — deals with the questions of today´s society in the performative installation Fortune of Planet B, symbolizes the epitome of the oracle, who predicts fateful future scenarios and appears as a future-telling figure.

Miragique

Kaoru Tashiro (JP), Razieh Kooshki (IR), Vahid Ghaderi (IR)

A performance of Real time 3D visual with Piano playing the compositions by Kenji Sakai (JP), Julia Purgina (AT), Claude Ledoux (BE), J.P. Deleuze(BE)

This Land Is Not Mine | Album

Kat Austen (DE/UK)

The Album "This Land is Not Mine" is presented as a 45 minute solo performance by artist Kat Austen.

Pre-Opening Walk

For those who can't wait or are already in Linz on the eve of the festival, we will walk through the exhibition venues in Linz city centre - from the St. Mary's Cathedral, to the LENTOS Kunstmuseum, the Linz Art University and the Salzamt to the Ars Electronica Center.

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.

Sustainable action is a matter of the heart – Reason will not get us anywhere!

Johannes Gutmann (AT), Pippa Buchanan (AU), Florian Reiche (AT), Nadine Schratzberger (AT), Julia Wöger (AT), Stefan Kaineder (AT)

In a panel of courageous pioneers of sustainable thinking and doing, we discuss the question of what feeds constructive resistance to the consequences of climate change, the biodiversity crisis and our economic system.

LightSense

Uwe Rieger (DE/NZ), Yinan Liu (NZ), Tharindu Kaluarachchi (LK), Amit Barde (IN)

LightSense combines kinetic construction with 3D holographic animations. An integrated neural network allows the structure to engage in an oral conversation with the visitor while immersing the audience in Pavilions of Love, Anger, Curiosity and Joy.

Ars Electronica Animation Festival - Welcome to Planet B

Change is an inevitable condition of reality for both living and non-living things. Movement, development, evolution, and dissolution is part of the scheme. But is change anthropocentric? What exactly could we expect from it in the future? Change can mean resolution, embrace, or reconnection; it can be ironic, dreamy, climate-related, abstract, or destructive.

Ars Electronica Animation Festival - Electronic Theatre

The Electronic Theatre is the annual best-of program, a compilation of outstanding animated films, chosen by the jury from the submitted works in the category Computer Animation. The selection showcases current productions in terms of artistic content, as well as cultural and technological innovation.

Culture - (unexplored) territory for impact investment

Immaterial Future

Immaterial Future (IF) Association presents a public discussion of an investment trend that increasingly draws attention: impact investment in the creative economy.