conferences
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Presentation: Neurorehabilitation live
g.tec medical Engineering GmbH (AT)
Martin Spanka (AT) gives a live presentation of the neurorehabilitation system recoveriX by g.tec and visitors can actively participate.
Dear Karin - In Memoriam Karin Ohlenschläger
Karin Ohlenschläger was artistic director of LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial in Gijón, Spain, art historian, researcher and curator who has been specializing in media art, science and contemporary culture since 1985. Karin passed away suddenly in August 2022, a few days before the Ars Electronica Festival. We dedicate this conversation to our long-time friend.
Möbius – Presentation
Better Factory Consortium Representatives (EU)
Möbius is an initiative funded under the European Commission Horizon 2020 programme that aims to modernize the European book publishing industry by remodelling the traditional value chains and business models uncovering the prosumers potential and delivering new enriched media experiences.
Better Factory - Presentation and Panel
Better Factory Consortium Representatives (EU)
Better Factory provides a methodology for manufacturing SMEs to collaborate with artists and supplies them with the technology to become cyber-physical systems, transforming them into Lean-agile production facilities capable of manufacturing new and personalised products along with existing ones.
Science Talk: Neurorehabilitation in Multiple Sclerosis and Stroke Patients
Michael Schwarzgruber (AT), g.tec medical Engineering GmbH (AT)
Mr. Michael Schwarzgruber FA from g.tec medical Engineering GmbH (AT) will explain in his talk current developments and the use of neurotechnology such as an EEG-based brain-computer interface (BCI) in clinical applications.
