lit-projects

I Hear Future Voices

Nives Meloni (CH), Julian Pixel Schmiederer (AT)

I Hear Future Voices — An artistic reflection on AI-based voice assistant interactions. I Hear Future Voices is here to question the power and influence of AI-based voice assistant systems on human life, both in the present and the near future. Backed by scientific research in the field, the installation proposes an artistic insight into the everyday use of voice assistants. The three constitutive parts of this visual project catapult viewers into disparate realities between utopia and dystopia.

BODIE:S

Lisa Caligagan (AT), Johannes Traun (AT), Paracetamol Collective (AT)

The interactive installation, BODIE:S, addresses the underrepresentation of different body shapes and identities. An algorithm generates unique pictograms from simple basic geometric shapes, which are displayed on a tripartite screen and printed on sticker paper. The installation is wrapped in ceramic tiles that display and allow visitors to experience individual pictograms. BODIE:S thus encourages visitors to participate actively in determining the labeling of public spaces.

Spin-Wave Voices

Santa Pile (AT), Martin Gasser (AT), Christina Humer (AT), Silvan David Peter (AT), Andreas Ney (AT), Verena Ney (AT)

The Spin Wave Voices installation allows us to explore, sense, and interact with this emerging technology, as the Spin Waves are one of the options to replace the transfer of electronic charges in logic devices to make information processing faster and more efficient. With a simple pedal activation, it is possible to start an excitation of Spin Waves in one of various microstructures of different shapes, to see and to hear Spin Wave Voices as they appear, evolve, and differ depending on the shape.

Ars for Nons

Lea Luka Sikau (DE), Denisa Pubalova (CZ), Michael Artner (AT), Julia Wurm (AT)

Why create art for somebody other than a human? Ars for Nons creates a space for nonhumans, “Nons”, to immerse in “Ars”, an interactive art piece. For decades, the Ars Electronica Festival has nurtured the creation of art for society with technology. The installation “Ars for Nons” deconstructs this equation: it creates art for technology, which essentially is a part of society already. Art is not made by nonhuman technology for humans, but with technology for nonhumans.

Re-wasted

Martin Reiter (AT), Jörg Fischer (AT), Johannes Braumann (AT), Florian Nimmervoll (AT)

Plastic products and packaging are usually seen in our minds as future waste, and by implication plastic products usually represent the epitome of a linear economy. This installation aims to take a critical look at the way we deal with plastics and show that what we consider waste can be the beginning of a new cycle. Visitors can interactively experience a closed loop from the processing of waste to the production of new products utilizing injection molding and robotic 3D printing.

Coexistence with the SARS-CoV-2 virus

Yoojin Oh (AT/KR), Sabina Hyoju Ahn (US/DE/KR), Myungin Lee (US/KR)

This project aims to transform the nano-scale of a striking biological phenomenon, the relationship between the spike protein of coronavirus and human cellular protein, into an interactive audiovisual simulation. In this work, the interaction data are measured by Atomic Force Microscopy, which can touch and image a single molecule. We are creating an interactive audiovisual installation and performance based on the interaction data so that the audience can control the biomolecules’ behaviors.

Melody of Crisis/Joy

Gregor Pechmann (AT), Floria Rothkegel (AT), Markus Schedl (AT), Alexander Wallner (AT), Emilia Parada-Cabaleiro (ES), Vasco Fragoso (PT)

Melody of Crisis/Joy is an interdisciplinary project aiming to benefit from Artificial Intelligence within an artistic setting. In order to promote awareness of how globally occurring crisis events are communicated online, emotions conveyed by spoken statements are identified through sentiment analysis and speech emotion recognition, then sonified into musical melodies.

Black Holes of Popularity

A.B.Melchiorre (IT), O.Lesota (RU), M.Schedl (AT), F.Schubert (AT), M.Moscati (IT), D.Penz (AT), E. Dobetsberger (AT), J.Usorac (BA), A.Hausberger (AT), S.Pile (RU), A.Ebner (AT)

The universe of music is dominated by a small number of popular tracks. Being broadcast, recommended, shared, and talked about, they overshadow the many pieces of lesser-known, niche, and new music, effectively devouring them. Visitors to the Black Holes of Popularity exhibit will travel to the very heart of the music universe and get a chance to help obscure compositions of their choice come to light and withstand black holes of popularity.

Transforming Sound and Material

Mark Hlawitschka (DE), Moritz Simon Geist (DE)

TRANSFORMING SOUND AND MATERIAL picks up the changes in chemical process industry towards renewable resources. Flexible operation requires new digital methods to analyze the process as well as adaptive internals to cope with the flexible boundary conditions. In this installation, this framework is transformed into an artistic installation. Mesmerizing soundscape, interactive music transformation and self-adapting structures await the visitors on Planet B.