Conferences

Inspiring and stimulating discussions with exciting speakers can be found at our conferences and talks, which will take place from September 7 to 11, first and foremost in KEPLER’S GARDENS. Whether the multi-day thematic symposium, the Prix Forums, the Expanded Animation Symposium, the STARTS Day or the Morning Inspirations on Futurelab Day – a variety of topics is guaranteed!

Conference Days

Welcome Day

WED, September 7

The title Welcome to Planet B allows for many interpretations on alternative forms of coexistence. Are we perhaps already living in different parallel worlds?

Futurelab Day

THU, September 8

The Ars Electronica Futurelab is the think-and-do tank of the Ars Electronica, developing new concepts for an autonomous future society in an inspiring field of tension between disciplines and transnational cooperation, all the while placing humans at the center of its research.

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.

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.

Prix Day

SUN, September 11

The Prix Ars Electronica is the world’s most time-honored media arts competition since 1987, and from its inception, it has kept working as a trend barometer that continues to change with the times. Along with the CyberArts exhibition, the Prix Forum is always one of highlights of the Ars Electronica Festival and a great opportunity to get to know the Prix Ars Electronica winning artists.

Calendar

Time	Title
10:15 am – 5:15 pm	Symposium Perspektiven Politischer Bildung: Parallel worlds and their impact on Political Education EN, DEKEPLER'S GARDENS, JKU Lecture Hall 1

Time	Title
11:00 am – 12:30 pm	Future Visions – Get-TogetherUniversity for Art and Design Linz, Hauptplatz 6, Courtyard
11:00 am – 1:00 pm	Morning Inspirations: Creative Resilience for a Planet B ENKEPLER'S GARDENS, Keplergebäude, Lecture Hall 1
11:30 am – 12:20 pm	Elementary Education – Panel Discussion ENKEPLER’S GARDENS, Festival University Stage, create your world
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm	Digital Theatre — Democratization of a MediumKEPLER'S GARDENS, Kepler Hall
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm	PhD Poster SalonUniversity for Art and Design Linz, Hauptplatz 6, Courtyard
2:00 pm – 2:45 pm	Keynote by Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker (DE)KEPLER'S GARDENS, Keplergebäude, Lecture Hall 1
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm	Media of the Future ENArs Electronica Center, Sky Loft (Floor 3)
2:30 pm – 3:20 pm	Better Factory – Presentation and PanelKEPLER’S GARDENS, Festival University Stage
2:50 pm – 3:50 pm	Earth4All – A Survival Guide for HumanityKEPLER'S GARDENS, Keplergebäude, Lecture Hall 1
3:30 pm – 4:20 pm	Panel Discussion: Collaborative Ecosystems for a Sustainable WorldKEPLER’S GARDENS, Festival University Stage
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm	Humanity of the Future ENArs Electronica Center, Sky Loft (Floor 3)
4:00 pm – 5:45 pm	Work of the Future ENKEPLER'S GARDENS, Keplergebäude, Lecture Hall 1
4:30 pm – 5:20 pm	Reclaiming Digital Agency: Ars Electronica X CODE PanelKEPLER’S GARDENS, Festival University Stage
5:30 pm – 6:00 pm	Möbius – PresentationKEPLER’S GARDENS, Festival University Stage

Time	Title
10:10 am – 10:40 am	Keynote by Gerfried Stocker ENKEPLER'S GARDENS, Keplergebäude, Lecture Hall 1
10:45 am – 11:00 am	Spotlight by Selina Neirok Leem ENKEPLER'S GARDENS, Keplergebäude, Lecture Hall 1
11:00 am – 5:30 pm	Expanded Animation Symposium ENArs Electronica Center, Sky Loft (Floor 3)
11:15 am – 12:15 pm	Repairing the Present :REWORLD :REWILD and :RETOOL ENKEPLER'S GARDENS, Keplergebäude, Lecture Hall 1
11:15 am – 1:00 pm	Expanded Animation: Art & Industry ENArs Electronica Center, Sky Loft (Floor 3)
11:30 am – 12:00 pm	Lañilawal – The ancient messenger tree at the south of the world ENUniversity of Art and Design Linz, Hauptplatz 8, Groundfloor
11:30 am – 1:30 pm	State of the ART(ist) Live Sessions ENKEPLER’S GARDENS, Kepler Hall
12:15 pm – 12:30 pm	Spotlight by Giulia Foscari ENKEPLER'S GARDENS, Keplergebäude, Lecture Hall 1
12:40 pm – 1:15 pm	Network Ecologies: Commitment to Change as a Way out of Crisis ENKEPLER'S GARDENS, Keplergebäude, Lecture Hall 1
1:30 pm – 2:00 pm	Spotlight by Holly Herndon & Mathew Dryhurst ENKEPLER'S GARDENS, Keplergebäude, Lecture Hall 1
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm	Expanded Animation: Keynote Rashaad Newsome ENArs Electronica Center, Sky Loft (Floor 3)
2:30 pm – 3:30 pm	Science Talk: Neurorehabilitation in Multiple Sclerosis and Stroke Patients ENArs Electronica Center, Main Gallery (Level -3), Neurobionics / Neurotechnology
2:45 pm – 3:30 pm	Visionary Pioneers Lecture by Laurie Anderson with Laudatio by Charles Amirkhanian ENKEPLER'S GARDENS, Keplergebäude, Lecture Hall 1
3:15 pm – 5:30 pm	Expanded Animation: Artist Position ENArs Electronica Center, Sky Loft (Floor 3)
3:30 pm – 4:30 pm	Presentation: Neurorehabilitation live DE, ENArs Electronica Center, Main Gallery (Level -3), Neurobionics / Neurotechnology
4:15 pm – 4:30 pm	Spotlight by Forensic Architecture ENKEPLER'S GARDENS, Keplergebäude, Lecture Hall 1
4:45 pm – 5:30 pm	The Stories We Tell Ourselves: Misinformation and Climate Change ENKEPLER'S GARDENS, Keplergebäude, Lecture Hall 1
5:45 pm – 6:45 pm	Residency. But How? ENKEPLER'S GARDENS, Keplergebäude, Lecture Hall 1

Time	Title
9:00 am – 10:00 am	Dear Karin – In Memoriam Karin Ohlenschläger ENKEPLER’S GARDENS, Kepler Hall
10:15 am – 11:00 am	Keynote by Carmody Grey ENKEPLER'S GARDENS, Keplergebäude, Lecture Hall 1
11:00 am – 1:00 pm	Expanded Animation: ASIFA Austria Forum ENArs Electronica Center, Sky Loft (Floor 3)
11:00 am – 5:30 pm	Expanded Animation Symposium ENArs Electronica Center, Sky Loft (Floor 3)
11:20 am – 12:50 pm	Strategies of Culturing ENKEPLER'S GARDENS, Keplergebäude, Lecture Hall 1
11:30 am – 12:00 pm	Lañilawal – The ancient messenger tree at the south of the world ENUniversity of Art and Design Linz, Hauptplatz 8, Groundfloor
11:30 am – 1:30 pm	State of the ART(ist) Live Sessions ENKEPLER’S GARDENS, Kepler Hall
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm	Entrepreneurship on Planet B DEKEPLER’S GARDENS, Festival University Stage
1:00 pm – 2:45 pm	CultTech StartUp Showcases ENKEPLER’S GARDENS, Keplergebäude, Lecture Hall 2
1:00 pm – 7:00 pm	CultTech Space at Ars Electronica ENKEPLER’S GARDENS, Keplergebäude, Lecture Hall 2
1:15 pm – 2:15 pm	GET.Inspired by Best Practice ENKEPLER'S GARDENS, Keplergebäude, Lecture Hall 1
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm	Sustainable action is a matter of the heart – Reason will not get us anywhere! DETabakfabrik Linz, Department of Disruptive Discipline
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm	Expanded Animation: Games & Art ENArs Electronica Center, Sky Loft (Floor 3)
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm	Hatching the Future of Museums ENKEPLER'S GARDENS, Keplergebäude, Lecture Hall 1
3:00 pm – 4:30 pm	Culture – (unexplored) territory for impact investment ENKEPLER’S GARDENS, Keplergebäude, Lecture Hall 2
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm	Expanded Animation: AI & Creativity ENArs Electronica Center, Sky Loft (Floor 3)
4:00 pm – 4:15 pm	Spotlight by Audrey Tang – Free the Future ENKEPLER'S GARDENS, Keplergebäude, Lecture Hall 1
4:15 pm – 5:45 pm	Urgent Crises, Slow Solutions: A Conversation about the Open Movement, Craft Technologies and a Sustainable Internet ENKEPLER'S GARDENS, Keplergebäude, Lecture Hall 1
5:45 pm – 7:00 pm	Future of Work and Leisure in Sustainable Economies ENKEPLER’S GARDENS, Festival University Stage
6:00 pm – 6:45 pm	Transdisciplinary Cultures of Collaboration ENKEPLER'S GARDENS, Keplergebäude, Lecture Hall 1

Time	Title
10:00 am – 11:00 am	A Plantless Planet: Art and Science as a Tool for Plant Resistance ENKEPLER'S GARDENS, Keplergebäude, Lecture Hall 1
11:00 am – 1:20 pm	Expanded Animation: Expanded & Hybrid ENArs Electronica Center, Sky Loft (Floor 3)
11:00 am – 6:00 pm	Expanded Animation Symposium ENArs Electronica Center, Sky Loft (Floor 3)
11:20 am – 12:20 pm	Prix Forum: Computer Animation ENKEPLER'S GARDENS, Keplergebäude, Lecture Hall 1
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm	Book Presentation: The Artwork as a Living System 1992-2022OK Linz
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm	State of the ART(ist) Live Sessions ENKEPLER’S GARDENS, Kepler Hall
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm	Prix Forum: Interactive Art + ENKEPLER'S GARDENS, Keplergebäude, Lecture Hall 1
2:00 pm – 6:00 pm	Expanded Animation: Synaesthetic Syntax ENArs Electronica Center, Sky Loft (Floor 3)
2:15 pm – 3:30 pm	Prix Forum: Digital Communities ENKEPLER'S GARDENS, Keplergebäude, Lecture Hall 1
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm	Prix Forum Wrap-Up ENKEPLER'S GARDENS, Keplergebäude, Lecture Hall 1
5:00 pm – 5:30 pm	Hypothetical MomentsArs Electronica Center, Deep Space 8K

Lectures and Talks

Expanded Animation: AI & Creativity

Huoston Rodrigues, Philippe Pasquier (CA), Martin Pichlmair (AT/DK)

Creative AI and Co-creation: Opportunities and Challenges; Creative Challenges in Artificial Intelligence;

Lañilawal – The ancient messenger tree at the south of the world

Jonathan Barichivich Henríquez (CL) Jesús Román Carreño (CL) Ivan Flores Arancibia (CL)

The oldest living being on Earth could be the Lañilawal tree in southern Chile. The Alerce Milenario remains in the mode of a deferred time removed from the time scale of humans. How to show the pulse of this life? Bringing together a group of artists and scientists, the Lañilawal project is an approach to get a glimpse of this living time capsule with the purpose of understanding its message.

Expanded Animation: Art & Industry

Martin Retschitzegger (AT), Paul Pammesberger (AT/CA), Ben Wahl (AT), Brian Main (AT/US)

Navigating Hybrid Workflows for Moving Images in Space; The Importance of Visual Consistency in Stylized Animation; Causa Creations: Art, education and immersive entertainment – Holy Fire;

Expanded Animation: ASIFA Austria Forum

Jan Chlup (CZ), Radim Jurda (CZ), Michelle Kranot (IL/DK), Martina Scarpelli (IT/DK)

Amanita Design: The Art of Creaks; Expanded Animation with a Focus on Collaborative Processes; I JUST WANTED TO DRAW;

Better Factory – Presentation and Panel

Better Factory Consortium Representatives (EU)

Better Factory provides a methodology for manufacturing SMEs to collaborate with artists and supplies them with the technology to become cyber-physical systems, transforming them into Lean-agile production facilities capable of manufacturing new and personalised products along with existing ones.

Book Presentation: The Artwork as a Living System 1992-2022

Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau

Book presentation by the University of Art and Design Linz

Reclaiming Digital Agency: Ars Electronica X CODE Panel

Arjon Dunnewind (NL), Omar Adel (DE), Pauline Vantilt (NL), Anastasiia Belousova (DE), Katia Sophia Ditzler (DE), Funda Zeynep Ayguler (DE)

CODE addresses our lack of agency over the digital platforms and devices we are so dependent on, and how Big Tech companies and governments violate or neglect our digital rights. In this panel artists and other participants will present their thought-provoking or subversive projects addressing themes like surveillance, the use of artificial intelligence, face recognition technologies and the power of lobbyists.

Panel Discussion: Collaborative Ecosystems for a Sustainable World

Pau Alsina (ES) , Sara Dean (US), Beth Ferguson (US), Marina Monsonís (ES), Mónica Rikić (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. In this panel discussion we present and reflect on different projects at the crossroads between art, science and technology.

Morning Inspirations: Creative Resilience for a Planet B

Sigrid Bürstmayr (AT), Rashin Fahandej (US/IR), Adrian van Hooydonk (NL), Yuima Nakazato (JP), Jung Hsu (TW) & Natalia Rivera (CO), Marcus Neustetter (ZA), Tom Lamberty (DE)

In the Morning Inspirations Session, members of the Ars Electronica Futurelab, its partners and the artistic community will discuss “Creative Resilience for a Planet B” together with the audience: How can creativity, art and technology support society in the face of many crises? How can resilience be transformed from a personal responsibility into a social phenomenon?

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.

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 StartUp Showcases

Immaterial Future

What is CultTech in practice? What do CultTech companies do and why? Alumni of the CultTech startup accelerator and established companies such as Artivive and vrisch will demonstrate their products and show how they harness technology to transform the worlds of arts and culture.

Future of Work and Leisure in Sustainable Economies

Shalini Randeria (US), Craig Calhoun (US), Andrea Vetter (DE)

This panel addresses the issues around the future of work and leisure under green capitalism in the global North and global South, and reflects on the role of universities and cultural institutions in these transitions to new patterns of labour and leisure. What contribution could new technologies make to affect or obstruct the kinds of changes you envisage?

Transdisciplinary Cultures of Collaboration

Andrew Newman (AU/AT), Audrey-Flore Ngomsik (FR/BE), Kat Austen (GB/DE), Mairéad Hurley (IE), Andres Colmenares (CO/ES)

A sustainable future requires integrative, interdisciplinary and intersectoral approaches to engage with the complex interdependencies of human, non-human and more-than-human systems. Can a STEAM approach to education, one that emphasises the value of art in fostering creative and critical thinking, ensure that we have the necessary skills to face this challenge?

Dear Karin – In Memoriam Karin Ohlenschläger

Karin Ohlenschläger was artistic director of LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial in Gijón, Spain, art historian, researcher and curator who has been specializing in media art, science and contemporary culture since 1985. Karin passed away suddenly in August 2022, a few days before the Ars Electronica Festival. We dedicate this conversation to our long-time friend.

Digital Theatre — Democratization of a Medium

Blair Stevenson (FI), Heidi Wiley (DE), Mikael Fock (DK), Michael Eickhoff (DE), Paulien Geerlings (NL), Vanessa Hannesschläger (AT), Alex Verhaest (BE), Taavet Jansen (EE), Airan Berg (AT)

In diesem Panel gehen wir der Frage nach, wie eine neue Art der Annäherung an das Publikum die (digitale) Theaterszene Europas und darüber hinaus in den kommenden Jahren formen wird. Ein neues Verständnis der Konzepte von und Beziehungen zwischen Theater, Publikum, Performance und Raum ist das, was die digitale Transformation des Mediums Theater ausmacht.

Earth4All – A Survival Guide for Humanity

Friedrich Hinterberger (AT), Jayati Ghosh (IN), Astrid Rössler (AT), Maria Langsenlehner (AT)

Seeking to operationalize systems change, the Earth4All project developed 5 pathways that steer humanity away from ecological and social catastrophe.

Elementary Education – Panel Discussion

Sandra Kiendler (AT), Sok-Kheng Taing (AT), Reinhard Wimroither (AT), Ana B. González Gualda (ES), Sandra Ivanschütz (AT)

Is the approach for overcoming the challenges and opening up new territory in elementary education in looking at the problem from different perspectives?

Expanded Animation: Artist Position

Alex Verhaest (BE), Yoni Goodman (IL), Robert Seidel (DE)

Thinking like strangers – collective imagination of Eutopia; The road to Anne Frank; Image Making Fatigue; and its myriad connections to other disciplines.

Expanded Animation Symposium

Hagenberg Campus of the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria (AT)

Hosted by the Hagenberg Campus of the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, the Expanded Animation Symposium will be examining the vast and constantly evolving field of animation and its myriad connections to other disciplines.

Expanded Animation: Expanded & Hybrid

Frank Geßner (DE), Franziska Bruckner (AT), Eva Fischer (AT)

EXPANDED ANIMATION WOR(L)DS: GLOBE PLAYHOUSE SPACELAB; Between the Frames: Expanding Stop-Motion for Virtual and Hybrid Environments; CIVA – Phygital festival making;

Spotlight by Audrey Tang – Free the Future

Audrey Tang (TW)

Audrey Tang is known for revitalizing the computer languages Perl and Haskell, as well as building the online spreadsheet system EtherCalc in collaboration with Dan Bricklin.

Future Visions – Get-Together

After two years of fruitful collaborations with our online gardens, we are finally able to meet onsite.

Keynote by Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker (DE)

Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker (DE) with opening words by Till Kellerhoff (DE)

Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker will speak on the new report to Club of Rome: a survival guide to help steer humanity away from ecological and social catastrophe.

Expanded Animation: Games & Art

Michael Lankes (AT), Margarete Jahrmann (AT), Isabelle Arvers (FR)

Hybrid Ludic Assemblages; Re-occupy the Digital Space;

GET.Inspired by Best Practice

Bradly Dunn Klerks (NL/BE), Arisa Kamada (JP), Christoph Pasching (AT), Fara Peluso (IT/DE), Jakob Lambert (AT), Marko Vivoda (SI), Yinan Liu (NZ), Michael John Gorman (IE)

Get.Inspired Talks highlight promising, practical projects in the field of tension between art, technology and science that pursue the central question “But How?” and describe ways out of the planetary crisis.

Hatching the Future of Museums

Michael John Gorman (IE), Olga Tykhonova (UA/AT), Merete Sanderhoff (DK), David Vuillaume (CH/DE), Johanna Eiramo (FI), Lauren Vargas (US/NL)

In the shadow of a climate and ecological emergency that affects all areas of social, political and economic life, the purpose and scope of action of museums must (again) be questioned. How can museums reposition themselves in an age of climate change? Can museums inspire action on planetary crises. Can museums inspire action on planetary crises, and can museal institutions be reimagined for a more diverse, intersectional publics?

Humanity of the Future

Hideaki Ogawa (JP/AT), Guy Ben-Ary (AU), Kasia Chmielinski (US), Hiroshi Ishiguro (JP), Akane Kikuchi (JP), Martina Mara (AT), Sarah Newman (US), Nathan John Thompson (AU)

Observing the possibilities presented by life science, brain science, artificial intelligence, artificial life, and robotics, we can see the essence of our sense of life and hints of a new humanity. In this century and the next, what kind of technosphere will we live in?

Hypothetical Moments

Charles Amirkhanian (US), Carol Law (US) 

New videos of early experiments in performance media by two artists using invented tools, ambient sound recordings, text, electronic music and photography. The resulting montages for the eye and ear evoke both humorous and psychological spaces in the mind! Dare to Watch.

Keynote by Carmody Grey

Carmody Grey (GB)

Carmody Grey is a philosopher, ethicist and theologian working at Durham University UK, she researches and teaches on science, economy and environment.

Keynote by Gerfried Stocker

Ars Electronica welcomes the participants of the STARTS day conference.

Expanded Animation: Keynote Rashaad Newsome

Rashaad Newsome (US)

Being (2022) is a nonbinary, non-race AI created by combining animation game engines, scripted responses, generative grammars and unique machine-learning models. It plays multiple roles, leading participatory workshops that teach decolonization, and in the evenings, it explores the evolution of vogue drawing parallels between dance and Black American Queer experience.

Sustainable action is a matter of the heart – Reason will not get us anywhere!

Johannes Gutmann (AT), Pippa Buchanan (AU), Florian Reiche (AT), Nadine Schratzberger (AT), Julia Wöger (AT), Stefan Kaineder (AT)

In a panel of courageous pioneers of sustainable thinking and doing, we discuss the question of what feeds constructive resistance to the consequences of climate change, the biodiversity crisis and our economic system.

Media of the Future

Nicolas Naveau (FR/AT), Rashin Fahandej (US/IR), Sarah Kriesche (AT), Oishi Nobuyuki (JP), Joanna Wright (GB), Takeshi Yamada (JP)

In this age of visual information inundated with text and images, what are new methods and media for thinking deeply about facts and issues rather than simply consuming and reacting to news? The “Media of the Future” session will focus on Artistic Journalism.

The Stories We Tell Ourselves: Misinformation and Climate Change

Gianni Riotta (IT), Bernd Hezel (DE), Marta Handenawer (ES), Mark Farid (GB)

In order to ‘land’ on planet B, as Bruno Latour would formulate, people need to be aware of the actual mechanisms implied in climate change, in every aspect: economic, social, geological… The story we tell ourselves and narratives we share with like-minded people are key to new perception and action.

Möbius – Presentation

Better Factory Consortium Representatives (EU)

Möbius is an initiative funded under the European Commission Horizon 2020 programme that aims to modernize the European book publishing industry by remodelling the traditional value chains and business models uncovering the prosumers potential and delivering new enriched media experiences.

Network Ecologies: Commitment to Change as a Way out of Crisis

Francesca Bria (IT), Giulia Foscari (IT), Eva Franch I Gilabert (ES/CAT/US), Carlo Barbante (IT)

The extreme conditions found in the Southernmost continent of planet Earth are the result of an underlying climatic cycle which is prone to human interference. This panel looks at why Antarctica has been called the ultimate continental laboratory and how the data obtained by research teams will enhances the prediction of future climate scenarios and the development of proper mitigation strategies.

Presentation: Neurorehabilitation live

g.tec medical Engineering GmbH (AT)

Martin Spanka (AT) gives a live presentation of the neurorehabilitation system recoveriX by g.tec and visitors can actively participate.

PhD Poster Salon

University of Art and Design Linz (AT)

Projects by Charleen Elberskirch (DE), Lucia Simon Medina (ES\AT), Yann Patrick Martins (CH), Marta Beauchamp (AT)

A Plantless Planet: Art and Science as a Tool for Plant Resistance

Claudia Schnugg (AT), Ekaterina Nikitina (RU), Gabino Carballo (ES), Tatiana Kourotchkina (RU), Zackery Denfeld (US)

As the biodiversity crisis and the climate emergency are threatening to make life on Earth unbearable, art and science practices, approaches, and aesthetics have the potential to create a new framework to develop tools and strategies against biodiversity crisis.

Symposium Perspektiven Politischer Bildung: Parallel worlds and their impact on Political Education

Upper Austria Teacher-Training College x Upper Austria Chamber of Labor and Ars Electronica

Political education is challenged to deal with parallel world constructions in order to counteract a destabilization of our democratic society. This year’s symposium would like to contribute to this.

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.

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 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: 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.

Repairing the Present :REWORLD :REWILD and :RETOOL

Manuel Cirauqui (ES), Mariana Pestana (PT)

As a kickoff event to the S+T+ARTS exhibition series Repairing the Present :REWORLD :REWILD and :RETOOL, to be held respectively at MEET (Milan), MAXXI (Rome), and ZKM (Karlsruhe) throughout the fall 2022, series curator Manuel Cirauqui speaks with renowned curator and researcher Mariana Pestana about design futurity, the current state of climate emergency, the post-pandemic condition, and the performativity of creative processes on a collective level, as key factors in a time of accelerating eco-systemic transformation.

Residency. But How?

Christian Rauch (DE), Aimee Van Wynsberghe (CA), Irakli Sabekia (GE), Marjan Žitnik (HR), Robertina Šebjanič (SI)

Residency programs offer an opportunity for Artists or Scientists to swap their respective point of view – from working in an atelier to testing their skills in a laboratory context and vice versa – thus encouraging the exchange of ideas and building of new conceptiual models for problem solving.

Science Talk: Neurorehabilitation in Multiple Sclerosis and Stroke Patients

Michael Schwarzgruber (AT), g.tec medical Engineering GmbH (AT)

Mr. Michael Schwarzgruber FA from g.tec medical Engineering GmbH (AT) will explain in his talk current developments and the use of neurotechnology such as an EEG-based brain-computer interface (BCI) in clinical applications.

Spotlight by Holly Herndon & Mathew Dryhurst

Holly Herndon (UM), Mathew Dryhurst (US), José Luis de Vicente (ES)

Holly Herndon is an American multidisciplinary artist based in Berlin. In her work, she develops new technologies to experiment with her voice and its image, supported by critical research in artificial intelligence and decentralized infrastructure.

Spotlight by Forensic Architecture

Forensic Architecture

What roles does current technology play in the manipulation and misinformation of citizens? In a spotlight talk, Shourideh C. Molvi highlights the threats that possibilities of global communication at a mousclick brings with it.

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.

Spotlight by Selina Neirok Leem

Selina Neirok Leem (MH)

Communities like those of the the low-lying Majōl (Republic of Marshall Islands), a sprawling chain of islands and islets in the Pacific Ocean, are at the frontlines of climate change. They are at risk of losing everything including their very way of life – to a crisis they did not create. By ways of a stirring poem and talk, Seline Neirok Leem explains why she refuses to give up the fight against climate injustice.

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.

Strategies of Culturing

Alexandra Antwi-Boasiako (DE), Bernd Fesel (DE), Diana Ayton-Shenker (US), Drew Hemment (GB), Tega Brain (AU), Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza (NL)

In this panel discussion, protagonists specializing in AI research, transdisciplinary and critical art, cultural economy, philanthropy and organizational development come together to debate strategic culturing and the tools for building cultural narratives that inspire and inform change.

Expanded Animation: Synaesthetic Syntax

Juergen Hagler (AT), Birgitta Hosea (SW/AT), Andrew Buchanan (US), Jānis Garančs (LV), Jana Horáková (CZ), Liliana Conlisk Gallegos (US), Farzaneh Yazdandoost (GB), Yoichi Nagashima (JP), Aristofanis Soulikias (CA), Juergen Hagler (AT), Birgitta Hosea (SW/AT)

This year’s theme, Gestures of Resistance, addresses the sensory experiences of touch, gesture and physical movement and their role in social, cultural and political resistance. Human bodies collide with one another in a variety of contexts, and they have the power to affect others or to be affected themselves. Our bodies are deeply structured by culture, but they can also resist; motion and sensation that are felt in the body can become catalysts of change.

Entrepreneurship on Planet B

Karin Huber-Heim (AT), Veronika Liebl (AT), Birgit Straka (AT), Josef Scheidl (AT), Jürgen Münzner (AT), Wolfgang Holzhaider (AT), Christoph Fraundorfer (AT)

This panel focuses on the role of small and medium-sized businesses on Planet B, which traditionally represent a substantial economic factor in Austria. We will simulate our view into a world that has managed to bring economy in harmony with ecology and ask the question what kind of concepts are needed to accomplish this transformation.

Urgent Crises, Slow Solutions: A Conversation about the Open Movement, Craft Technologies and a Sustainable Internet

Babitha George (IN), Camila Nobrega (BR/DE), Luis Felipe Rosado Murillo (BR), Shannon Dosemagen (US), Persephone Lewis (US)

What potentials do open practices, craft, and community knowledge have, to imagine different climate futures? How can the open movement with its values, communities and action support the creation of these futures? And how do we actively build a sustainable and just Internet for all? Though the current crises are urgent, we acknowledge the solutions may be slow.

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”.

Welcome Day

WED, September 7

The title Welcome to Planet B allows for many interpretations on alternative forms of coexistence. Are we perhaps already living in different parallel worlds?

Work of the Future

Horst Hörtner (AT), Gianpaolo Barozzi (IT), Victoria Čaić (DE/AT), Mary Lizabeth Lu (PH), Marcus Neustetter (ZA/AT)

What could “work” on a planet B look like? What needs to be done to initiate a change in the desired direction? The session starts with an inspiration shower to spread the creative sparks of different perspectives.

Conference Days

WED, September 7

THU, September 8

FRI, September 9

SAT, September 10

SUN, September 11

Calendar

Lectures and Talks

Huoston Rodrigues, Philippe Pasquier (CA), Martin Pichlmair (AT/DK)

Jonathan Barichivich Henríquez (CL) Jesús Román Carreño (CL) Ivan Flores Arancibia (CL)

Martin Retschitzegger (AT), Paul Pammesberger (AT/CA), Ben Wahl (AT), Brian Main (AT/US)

Jan Chlup (CZ), Radim Jurda (CZ), Michelle Kranot (IL/DK), Martina Scarpelli (IT/DK)

Better Factory Consortium Representatives (EU)

Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau

Arjon Dunnewind (NL), Omar Adel (DE), Pauline Vantilt (NL), Anastasiia Belousova (DE), Katia Sophia Ditzler (DE), Funda Zeynep Ayguler (DE)

Pau Alsina (ES) , Sara Dean (US), Beth Ferguson (US), Marina Monsonís (ES), Mónica Rikić (ES)

Sigrid Bürstmayr (AT), Rashin Fahandej (US/IR), Adrian van Hooydonk (NL), Yuima Nakazato (JP), Jung Hsu (TW) & Natalia Rivera (CO), Marcus Neustetter (ZA), Tom Lamberty (DE)

Immaterial Future, Ars Electronica (AT)

Immaterial Future

Immaterial Future

Shalini Randeria (US), Craig Calhoun (US), Andrea Vetter (DE)

Andrew Newman (AU/AT), Audrey-Flore Ngomsik (FR/BE), Kat Austen (GB/DE), Mairéad Hurley (IE), Andres Colmenares (CO/ES)

Blair Stevenson (FI), Heidi Wiley (DE), Mikael Fock (DK), Michael Eickhoff (DE), Paulien Geerlings (NL), Vanessa Hannesschläger (AT), Alex Verhaest (BE), Taavet Jansen (EE), Airan Berg (AT)

Friedrich Hinterberger (AT), Jayati Ghosh (IN), Astrid Rössler (AT), Maria Langsenlehner (AT)

Sandra Kiendler (AT), Sok-Kheng Taing (AT), Reinhard Wimroither (AT), Ana B. González Gualda (ES), Sandra Ivanschütz (AT)

Alex Verhaest (BE), Yoni Goodman (IL), Robert Seidel (DE)

Hagenberg Campus of the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria (AT)

Frank Geßner (DE), Franziska Bruckner (AT), Eva Fischer (AT)

Audrey Tang (TW)

Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker (DE) with opening words by Till Kellerhoff (DE)

Michael Lankes (AT), Margarete Jahrmann (AT), Isabelle Arvers (FR)

Bradly Dunn Klerks (NL/BE), Arisa Kamada (JP), Christoph Pasching (AT), Fara Peluso (IT/DE), Jakob Lambert (AT), Marko Vivoda (SI), Yinan Liu (NZ), Michael John Gorman (IE)

Michael John Gorman (IE), Olga Tykhonova (UA/AT), Merete Sanderhoff (DK), David Vuillaume (CH/DE), Johanna Eiramo (FI), Lauren Vargas (US/NL)

Hideaki Ogawa (JP/AT), Guy Ben-Ary (AU), Kasia Chmielinski (US), Hiroshi Ishiguro (JP), Akane Kikuchi (JP), Martina Mara (AT), Sarah Newman (US), Nathan John Thompson (AU)

Charles Amirkhanian (US), Carol Law (US)

Carmody Grey (GB)

Rashaad Newsome (US)

Johannes Gutmann (AT), Pippa Buchanan (AU), Florian Reiche (AT), Nadine Schratzberger (AT), Julia Wöger (AT), Stefan Kaineder (AT)

Nicolas Naveau (FR/AT), Rashin Fahandej (US/IR), Sarah Kriesche (AT), Oishi Nobuyuki (JP), Joanna Wright (GB), Takeshi Yamada (JP)

Gianni Riotta (IT), Bernd Hezel (DE), Marta Handenawer (ES), Mark Farid (GB)

Better Factory Consortium Representatives (EU)

Francesca Bria (IT), Giulia Foscari (IT), Eva Franch I Gilabert (ES/CAT/US), Carlo Barbante (IT)

g.tec medical Engineering GmbH (AT)

University of Art and Design Linz (AT)

Claudia Schnugg (AT), Ekaterina Nikitina (RU), Gabino Carballo (ES), Tatiana Kourotchkina (RU), Zackery Denfeld (US)

Upper Austria Teacher-Training College x Upper Austria Chamber of Labor and Ars Electronica

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

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

Sarah Kriesche (AT), Isabelle Arvers (FR), José-Carlos Mariátegui (PE), Thomas Gegenhuber (AT)

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

Manuel Cirauqui (ES), Mariana Pestana (PT)

Christian Rauch (DE), Aimee Van Wynsberghe (CA), Irakli Sabekia (GE), Marjan Žitnik (HR), Robertina Šebjanič (SI)

Michael Schwarzgruber (AT), g.tec medical Engineering GmbH (AT)

Holly Herndon (UM), Mathew Dryhurst (US), José Luis de Vicente (ES)

Forensic Architecture

Francesca Bria (IT) , Giulia Foscari (IT)

Selina Neirok Leem (MH)

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)

Alexandra Antwi-Boasiako (DE), Bernd Fesel (DE), Diana Ayton-Shenker (US), Drew Hemment (GB), Tega Brain (AU), Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza (NL)

Juergen Hagler (AT), Birgitta Hosea (SW/AT), Andrew Buchanan (US), Jānis Garančs (LV), Jana Horáková (CZ), Liliana Conlisk Gallegos (US), Farzaneh Yazdandoost (GB), Yoichi Nagashima (JP), Aristofanis Soulikias (CA), Juergen Hagler (AT), Birgitta Hosea (SW/AT)

Karin Huber-Heim (AT), Veronika Liebl (AT), Birgit Straka (AT), Josef Scheidl (AT), Jürgen Münzner (AT), Wolfgang Holzhaider (AT), Christoph Fraundorfer (AT)

Babitha George (IN), Camila Nobrega (BR/DE), Luis Felipe Rosado Murillo (BR), Shannon Dosemagen (US), Persephone Lewis (US)

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

WED, September 7

Horst Hörtner (AT), Gianpaolo Barozzi (IT), Victoria Čaić (DE/AT), Mary Lizabeth Lu (PH), Marcus Neustetter (ZA/AT)

WELCOME TO PLANET B

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Charles Amirkhanian (US), Carol Law (US) 