conferences

Elementary Education - Panel Discussion

Sandra Kiendler (AT), Sok-Kheng Taing (AT), Reinhard Wimroither (AT), Ana B. González Gualda (ES), Sandra Ivanschütz (AT)

Is the approach for overcoming the challenges and opening up new territory in elementary education in looking at the problem from different perspectives?

Entrepreneurship on Planet B

Karin Huber-Heim (AT), Veronika Liebl (AT), Birgit Straka (AT), Josef Scheidl (AT), Jürgen Münzner (AT), Wolfgang Holzhaider (AT), Christoph Fraundorfer (AT)

This panel focuses on the role of small and medium-sized businesses on Planet B, which traditionally represent a substantial economic factor in Austria. We will simulate our view into a world that has managed to bring economy in harmony with ecology and ask the question what kind of concepts are needed to accomplish this transformation.

Lañilawal - The ancient messenger tree at the south of the world

Jonathan Barichivich Henríquez (CL) Jesús Román Carreño (CL) Ivan Flores Arancibia (CL)

The oldest living being on Earth could be the Lañilawal tree in southern Chile. The Alerce Milenario remains in the mode of a deferred time removed from the time scale of humans. How to show the pulse of this life? Bringing together a group of artists and scientists, the Lañilawal project is an approach to get a glimpse of this living time capsule with the purpose of understanding its message.

Digital Theatre — Democratization of a Medium

Blair Stevenson (FI), Heidi Wiley (DE), Mikael Fock (DK), Michael Eickhoff (DE), Paulien Geerlings (NL), Vanessa Hannesschläger (AT), Alex Verhaest (BE), Taavet Jansen (EE), Airan Berg (AT)

In diesem Panel gehen wir der Frage nach, wie eine neue Art der Annäherung an das Publikum die (digitale) Theaterszene Europas und darüber hinaus in den kommenden Jahren formen wird. Ein neues Verständnis der Konzepte von und Beziehungen zwischen Theater, Publikum, Performance und Raum ist das, was die digitale Transformation des Mediums Theater ausmacht.

Keynote by Gerfried Stocker

Ars Electronica welcomes the participants of the STARTS day conference.

Reclaiming Digital Agency: Ars Electronica X CODE Panel

Arjon Dunnewind (NL), Omar Adel (DE), Pauline Vantilt (NL), Anastasiia Belousova (DE), Katia Sophia Ditzler (DE), Funda Zeynep Ayguler (DE)

CODE addresses our lack of agency over the digital platforms and devices we are so dependent on, and how Big Tech companies and governments violate or neglect our digital rights. In this panel artists and other participants will present their thought-provoking or subversive projects addressing themes like surveillance, the use of artificial intelligence, face recognition technologies and the power of lobbyists.

Panel Discussion: Collaborative Ecosystems for a Sustainable World

Pau Alsina (ES) , Sara Dean (US), Beth Ferguson (US), Marina Monsonís (ES), Mónica Rikić (ES)

Only collaborative practices, based on the transversal sharing of knowledge and efforts, can allow us to generate proposals that lead to a project for a sustainable world. In this panel discussion we present and reflect on different projects at the crossroads between art, science and technology.

Future of Work and Leisure in Sustainable Economies

Shalini Randeria (US), Craig Calhoun (US), Andrea Vetter (DE)

This panel addresses the issues around the future of work and leisure under green capitalism in the global North and global South, and reflects on the role of universities and cultural institutions in these transitions to new patterns of labour and leisure. What contribution could new technologies make to affect or obstruct the kinds of changes you envisage?

CultTech StartUp Showcases

Immaterial Future

What is CultTech in practice? What do CultTech companies do and why? Alumni of the CultTech startup accelerator and established companies such as Artivive and vrisch will demonstrate their products and show how they harness technology to transform the worlds of arts and culture.

Prix Forum Wrap-Up

Sarah Kriesche (AT), Isabelle Arvers (FR), José-Carlos Mariátegui (PE), Thomas Gegenhuber (AT)

Together, chairs from the three different Prix Forum panels will reflect on this year’s project selection. Special attention will be payed to what keywords (re-)emerged during the panel discussions themselves and how the themes of each artists work pertain to the looming question of “But How?”.