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Mirror Terrain

Bel Art Gallery (RS), Miloš Fath (RS)

Mirror Terrain creates a mnemonic environment which enables us to see our past and reprogram ourselves in order to avoid erasing history which lies within it in the form of statues. By minding our steps and avoiding the erosion of statues, we grow more observant, altruistic and intimate.

Altered Realities

Leonardo/ISAST (US), Arizona State University (US)

Altered Realities presents experimental visions to ReImagine everything for a more vibrant, just and regenerative world. Immersive VR and video art alter how to tackle challenges of climate change, war and human futures.

Humanity Island — Data to be Continued

Virtual and Physical Media Integration Association of Taiwan (TW)

Taiwanese new media artists draw upon their own cultural history to observe, think about and communicate ideas about humanity’s place in these changing times.

Aquaterrestrial Recolonization

University of The Bahamas (BS), AI.R LAB Science (US/RS/IT)

In the project Aquaterrestrial Recolonization, we are recording the current state of The Bahamas’ dead coral reefs and feeding AI with that data to visualize a recolonized ocean floor; calculated imaging, restoring the parts of the planet mankind has destroyed. We are using AI as the Earth’s protector, a new intelligent entity based on logic and calculations rather than greed and careless.

CODE 2022: Reclaiming Digital Agency

IMPAKT [Centre for Media Culture] (NL), School of Machines, Making & Make Believe (DE), Werktank (BE), Privacy Salon/Privacytopia (BE)

CODE brings together artists, non-artists, politicians, policymakers and researchers to engage in dialogue, critical discussion and artistic intervention about digital rights. We aim to influence public policy on a national and international level. Over the last few months, we have worked with 22 participants in a series of workshops, hackathons and public events. Working in cross-disciplinary teams, they have developed creative interventions and awareness campaigns to activate politicians, policymakers and citizens to take action. At Ars Electronica we present the results.

Garden Aotearoa

arc/sec Lab the University of Auckland (NZ), DARA Victoria University of Wellington (NZ)

Since 2020, the Ars Electronica Garden Aotearoa has been New Zealand’s contribution to the International Ars Electronica Festival. It is a bi-directional portal to visit the creative and emerging technology scene of the South Pacific, assembling selected projects from New Zealand’s technologists, artists and university researchers. The arc/sec Lab at the University of Auckland (UoA) and the Digital Architecture Research Alliance (DARA) at the Victoria University of Wellington (VUW) are proud to organize a selection of four projects from the New Zealand exhibition to be showcased at this year’s Ars Electronica Festival.

The Shape of Things to Come

MencheLAB (AT), powered by Max Perutz Labs (AT), a joint venture of the University of Vienna (AT) and the Medical University of Vienna (AT)

All projects paint futuristic scenarios in individual contexts. We all shape the future. Each project will picture a dystopian or utopian scenario of how the specific expertise of the project creator can shape our environment.

The New Real Observatory

The New Real, Edinburgh Futures Institute & Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom (UK)

Exploring transformative ideas through art and AI to equip future generations to flourish on a thriving planet in the midst of surprising, joyful, and inclusive forms of intelligent life. Artworks by Inés Cámara Leret, Adam Harvey, and Keziah MacNeill investigate the entanglements of people, data, machines, and environments, accompanied by research on future applications of AI in the arts.

next to me, next to you

Japan Media Arts Festival (JP)

To introduce Japan’s outstanding works of art to the world, the Agency for Cultural Affairs does presentations, screenings and exhibitions at overseas festivals, focusing on award-winning works including media art, online art, videos, games, animations and manga. At Ars Electronica 2022, the winners of the 25th Japan Media Arts Festival, Shota Yamauchi and Miki Hirase, will exhibit their works with the theme “next to me, next to you,” with curator and art manager Mayumi Yamamoto as the art director.

Collaborative Ecosystems for a Sustainable World

Institut Ramon Llull, Catalonia (ES), .NewArt { foundation;} (ES), Hac Te (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. A survey of the current state of creativity in Catalonia linked to Art at its intersection with Science and Technology.