Keplers Gardens

This Land Is Not Mine | Album

Kat Austen (DE/UK)

The Album "This Land is Not Mine" is presented as a 45 minute solo performance by artist Kat Austen.

LULLABY FOR MARIUPOL by Opera Aperta

On February 24, Russia invaded Ukraine. Mariupol, which since 2014 has been a symbol of Ukrainian resistance, has become a brutal example of tragedy and humanitarian catastrophe. On February 22, back then in peaceful Kyiv, Ukrainian composers Roman Grygoriv and Illia Razumeiko composed a piece for microtonal bandura, called "Mariupol". A new version of “Lullaby for Mariupol”, created especially for the Circus of Knowledge and the ars electronica festival 2022 will include rare footage of Mariupol mosaics from 6th and 7th centuries, now mostly destroyed by Russian forces during the siege of the city in March 2022. The performance is dedicated to all victims of Russian aggression.

Ars Electronica Animation Festival - Welcome to Planet B

Change is an inevitable condition of reality for both living and non-living things. Movement, development, evolution, and dissolution is part of the scheme. But is change anthropocentric? What exactly could we expect from it in the future? Change can mean resolution, embrace, or reconnection; it can be ironic, dreamy, climate-related, abstract, or destructive.

Ars Electronica Animation Festival - Electronic Theatre

The Electronic Theatre is the annual best-of program, a compilation of outstanding animated films, chosen by the jury from the submitted works in the category Computer Animation. The selection showcases current productions in terms of artistic content, as well as cultural and technological innovation.

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.

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.

media-van-lab: when the wind blows from the East, we make art and (sur)render reality

Vilnius Academy of Arts (LT), MENE (LT), INSTITUTIO MEDIA (LT)

Right after the pandemic, young artists in Lithuania were hit by the war. The unrest in neighboring countries enabled them to work out how to calm down, find new ways of communication, come up with methods for resilience and survival. Let’s make art and (sur)render new virtualities to help Ukraine win. All in order to strive and continue making art. We already have Planet B more real than ever!

Robots, Bass, and Hot Algorithms!

Portrait XO (US), Moritz Simon Geist (DE)

Robots, Bass, and Hot Algorithms! In this performance AI artist Portrait XO enters the stage with Moritz Simon Geist, featuring techno robots and an AI collaborator. Hard Times — Soft Sounds

Beyond Quantum Music — LP Duo

Sonja Lončar (RS/NL), Andrija Pavlović (RS/NL), Incredible Bob (RS)

LP Duo will premiere new original compositions written for two hybrid pianos within the art and science project Beyond Quantum Music and during their residency at the Kavli Institute — Quantum Nanoscience and Bionanoscience department (Technical University in Delft, Netherlands)