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Curator & Artist Journey: A parallel (r)evolution — Digital Art in Latin America

Sergio Fontanella (CL), Hemma Schmutz (AT), Christl Baur (DE/AT), Martin Honzik (AT)

Sergio Fontanella (CL), Director of Collections at Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO), Hemma Schmutz (AT), Artistic Director of Lentos Art Museum and curators Christl Baur (DE/AT) & Martin Honzik (AT) will guide you through the exhibition Parallel(R)evolutions. Digital Art in Latin America.

Expanded Geoengineering

Tega Brain (AU) & Sam Lavigne (US)

Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne will share their recent collaborative practice that explores the role of computation in response to the climate crisis. Calling their recent body of work Expanded Geoengineering, they challenge us to reconsider what counts as engineering, and they reframe climate change as being a problem of politics, media and culture.

Curator Journey in STUDIO(dys)TOPIA

Martin Honzik (AT), Christl Baur (DE/AT)

What new economic and ecological values should we embrace and how do we make them an integral part of our cultural identity?

Brave New Commons — Rethink distributed ownership in NFT

Masaki Fujihata (JP)

Masaki Fujihata’s project “Brave New Commons” deals with the price and value of digital artwork and its multiple ownership, because “copy” is the foundation for digital artwork. And also the distribution is an alternative way to give artwork eternal life, rather than the conventional way, such as art collection.

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?”.

Prix Forum: Digital Communities

Thomas Gegenhuber (AT), Amina Khoulani (SY), Kiya Tadele Atnafu (KE), Ory Yoshifuji (JP)

The Prix Forum – Digital Communities is an open discussion between the top three winners of Prix Ars Electronica 2022 and a jury member. Ory Yoshifuji (Golden Nica/ Avatar Robot Café DAWN ver.ß),Amina Khoulani (Award of Distinction / Families for Freedom), and Yatreda (Award of Distinction / STRONG HAIR) will be on the panel, while juror Thomas Gegenhuber will chair the session.

Prix Forum: Interactive Art +

José-Carlos Mariategui (PE/GB), Cristhian Avila (PE), Jung Hsu (TW), Natalia Rivera (CO), Sam Lavigne (US), Tega Brain (AU)

The Prix Forum – Interactive Art + is an open discussion between the top three winners of Prix Ars Electronica 2022 and a jury member.

Prix Forum: Computer Animation

Isabelle Avers (FR), Marc Héricher (FR), Rashaad Newsome (US), Yoriko Mizushiri (JP)

The Prix Forum – Computer Animation is an open discussion between the top three winners of Prix Ars Electronica 2022 and a jury member. Rashaad Newsome (Golden Nica / Being), Marc Hericher (Award of Distinction / Absence), and Yoriko Mizushiri (Awards of Distincion/ Anxious Body) will be on the panel, while juror Isabelle Arvers will chair the session.

Visionary Pioneers Lecture by Laurie Anderson with Laudatio by Charles Amirkhanian

Laurie Anderson (US), Charles Amirkhanian (US), Gerfried Stocker (AT)

Ars Electronica honors internationally renowned artist Laurie Anderson (US) as the 2022 “Visionary Pioneer of Media Art”.

Spotlight by Giulia Foscari

Francesca Bria (IT) , Giulia Foscari (IT)

The architect, researcher, activist and S+T+ARTS Prize winner Giulia Foscari gives insight into her artistic work that moves in the field of tension between art, technology and science: Antarctic Resolution was conceived by Giulia Foscari / UNLESS to catalyse global attention to one of the world’s few Global Commons and create a constituency for the only continent without an indigenous population, with the ambition of contributing to the protection of the Antarctic, and in turn, of the human species.