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CultTech Space at Ars Electronica

Immaterial Future, Ars Electronica (AT)

A new annual event designed by the Immaterial Future Association as part of the CultTech movement. Presented for the first time at the Ars Electronica Festival, it explores how technology can help creators and cultural institutions become more sustainable, how culture can be made more accessible, and how new business models in culture can be created to facilitate a responsible global shift towards immaterial production and consumption with culture at the heart of it.

Spotlight Journey on Kunstuni Campus Exhibition

This tour focuses on the Campus Exhibition at the Linz University of Art and Design.

Welcome to Planet B - Journey

Welcome to Planet B is an experiential package consisting of a themed tour, an interactive decision-making game in Deep Space 8K and a subsequent workshop add-on.

Cooperative Aesthetics Performance

Botond Kelemen (HU), Bálint Budai (HU), Daniel Haas (artistname STURMHERTA) (AT )

Mold yourself! Fungi have existed for billions of years, setting the stage for humanity by supporting, carrying and converting life. – Schwarzes Rauschen (Black Noise) The project is an immersive, interactive installation, consisting of 12 different, dynamic worlds, which change their structures with the movement of the group of people currently being tracked.

Rooted

Elliott Gaston-Ross (GB/IE) , Indiara Di Benedetto (IT)

The project Rooted performed at the Deep Space 8K is an artistic depiction of the effects of climate change on our planet through live electroacoustic musical performance with accompanimental visual effects by Indiara Di Benedetto.

Ars Electronica Animation Festival: Experimental Animation

Experimental and innovative forays into various forms of animation are on display here.

Ars Electronica Animation Festival: Being

Rashaad Newsome (US)

Being (2022) is a nonbinary, non-race AI created by combining animation game engines, scripted responses, generative grammars and unique machine-learning models.

Hebocon Reloaded

Ars Electronica create your world (AT)

The goal of this year's Hebocon Reloaded Open Lab is to build your own low-tech robot as an "alter ego" out of various materials. The end result is a great challenge event where no winner*s are crowned, but the event itself celebrates the coming together and collaborative creative activity of festival-goers, artists, and project partners. You can invest as much time as you need to create your low-tech Heboian robot.

VRA_peek

Daniel Haas (artistname STURMHERTA) (AT)

VRA_peek is an audio-visual performance, in which sound is created exclusively out of images.

Hypothetical Moments

Charles Amirkhanian (US), Carol Law (US) 

New videos of early experiments in performance media by two artists using invented tools, ambient sound recordings, text, electronic music and photography. The resulting montages for the eye and ear evoke both humorous and psychological spaces in the mind! Dare to Watch.