Keplers Gardens

STUDIOTOPIA Day

SAT, September 10

In keeping with the festival theme, both speakers and audiences of the STUDIOTOPIA Day conference program are challenged to reflect creatively and critically about ecological and sociopolitical implications of the Anthropocene.

S+T+ARTS Day

FRI, September 9

Guided by the belief that artistic perspectives can contribute to innovation beyond the arts and culture realm, the S+T+ARTS initiative of the European Commission strives to give artists a leading role in research and innovation activities with an impact on industry and society.  Through a series of talks, discussions, and networking events the conference addresses the ways in which Innovation through art-driven interdisciplinary collaborations can contribute to mapping responsibilities as well as solutions for challenges posed in both the digital and the analogue world.

Laurie Anderson in Concert — Songs for Amelia Earhart

Laurie Anderson (US), Filharmonie Brno (CZ), Dennis Russell Davies (US/AT), Rubin Kodheli (US)

At this year’s festival Laurie Anderson is to be awarded the Golden Nica for Visionary Pioneers, a wonderful opportunity to present one of her latest musical works. This is a composition for orchestra, voice, electronics, violin and cello, performed by the Filharmonie Brno, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies with Laurie Anderson and Rubin Kodheli, who plays the solo cello.

u19–create your world Exhibition

Ars Electronica (AT)

The Prix Ars Electronica in the u19—create your world category calls (up)on the next generation to submit exciting projects and ideas for the world of tomorrow. Children and young people up to the age of 19 are given a stage to show which topics they are currently dealing with.

Pianographique

Maki Namekawa (JP), Cori O'Lan (AT)

After last year’s program with piano music from Ligeti and Chick Corea, Maki Namekawa once again takes us on her explorations of the music of our time, presenting a rediscovery and a newly commissioned composition.

Music for Chamber Gardens – Chamber Music Paths through Kepler's Gardens

The Bruckner Orchestra (AT) / Norbert Trawöger (AT)

Individual ensembles and soloists of the Bruckner Orchestra, together with Norbert Trawöger, their artistic director, have put together a three-hour program that transforms the Kepler’s Garden into the “Chamber Gardens of Music.”

4D box / SH4D0W — An AI Performance in 3D

Mikael Fock (DK), Carl Emil Carlsen (DK), Emilie Rasmussen (DK), Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm (DK) Yann Coppier (DK), Vertigo (DK)

SH4D0W is the first performing arts production starring an artificial intelligence creation as the protagonist. The play is performed in the 4D Box, a theatre stage capable of creating mixed-reality illusions of virtual 3D objects interacting with live performers.

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.

!brute_force - Soft Resilience

Maja Smrekar (SI), Jonas Jørgensen (DK)

Living beings leak out of their skin into biomorphic technology, forming an emergent posthuman landscape of bodies without organs beyond deterministic restrictions of the Cartesian grid.

XR Tumor Evolution Project

B. Lawrence (NZ), T. Robb (NZ), B. Woodhouse (NZ), D. Hurley (NZ), M. Davis (NZ), U. Rieger (NZ), Y. Liu (NZ), R. McColl (NZ), S. Masoud-Ansari (NZ), J. Reeve (NZ), Charlotta Windahl (SE/NZ)

The XR Tumor Evolution Project (XRTEP) applies extended reality technology to a real-world cancer research problem. It is enabled by a rare inter-disciplinary collaboration between the School of Architecture and Planning, the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, and Centre for EResearch at the University of Auckland.