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Workshops

Kunst und Kultur spielen eine wichtige Rolle bei der Verbindung von Technologie und Gesellschaft und tragen zur technologischen Innovation bei. Das interkulturelle Workshop-Programm des Ars Electronica Festivals lädt Künstler*innen, Wissenschaftler*innen, Aktivisten*innen und das Festivalpublikum ein, sich mit erfahrenen Expert*innen zu vernetzen. Gemeinsam werden sie Inspirationen und Ideen austauschen.

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  • AI5production Future Insights: Artificial intelligence

    AI5production Future Insights: Artificial intelligence

    Sabine Leidlmair (AT), Thomas Viehböck (AT)

    Artificial Intelligence is already part of our everyday lives. Especially generative AI has the potential to deeply impact the way we will produce things in the future. In this Workshop, followed by a guided tour through the Festival exhibitions, we will talk about the basics, recent developments in generative AI and examples of training an…

  • ALMA Toolkit

    ALMA Toolkit

    Giulia Tomasello (IT), Isabel Farina (IT)

    Join us for the ALMA Toolkit Workshop, an empowering event aimed at addressing crucial knowledge gaps in vaginal health and promoting self-management of intimate health. ALMA Toolkit is a set of educational materials and tools designed to democratize and destigmatize intimate health learning. It encourages self-awareness, self-exploration and self-management of the body.

  • Art-Science Impact: Widening the frame of knowledge generation

    Art-Science Impact: Widening the frame of knowledge generation

    Lizzie Crouch (GB), Jennifer Wong (GB)

    Academic institutions’ claim of ownership of knowledge is deep-rooted. However, the growth of interdisciplinary programs hosted by universities is bringing different knowledges together in ways that challenge the idea of who “owns” knowledge and consider what new and other knowledges are possible. This interactive workshop will draw on collective experiences to re-define the impact of…

  • Bridge 2040 – Guided Game Session

    Bridge 2040 – Guided Game Session

    Peter Haider (AT), Denise Hirtenfelder (AT), Nicolas Naveau (FR/AT), Maria Pfeifer (AT)

    Bridge 2040 is a quick card game for storytelling. Whether it’s an everyday anecdote, a thriller or an adventure, players create as a team a story around fictional characters living in 2040. In the process, participants respond to trends, artworks, and questions on the individual cards they picked.

  • Build your Own Virtual Avatar

    Build your Own Virtual Avatar

    Paula Strunden (AT)

    Discover the world of embodied virtual world creation in this interactive workshop. You’ll learn how to create your own virtual avatar wearing VR headsets and using 3D modelling software Gravity Sketch and auto-rigging software Adobe Mixamo. Step beyond the conventional perception of virtual reality as an escape from reality and explore new forms of hybrid…

  • CCI Thrive Workshop

    CCI Thrive Workshop

    Alice Bonnot (FR), Ewen Chardronnet (FR), Archana Prasad (IN), Anke Schlünsen-Rico (DE), Rasa Bočytė (LT), Olga Tykhonova (UA/AT), Bill Fontana (US), Jennifer Kanary (CA), Florian Weigl (NL), Kelly Hazejager (NL), Pau Alsina (ES), Gefion Thuermer (UK), Andrea Bandelli (NL), Petra Vanič (SL), Marco Cappellini (IT)

    The workshop will focus on cultural Business Models, particularly related to non-financial value creation in the cultural sector with an innovative approach to change our behaviors, increase our knowledge and raise public awareness.

  • Citizen Science Futures for Sustainability

    Citizen Science Futures for Sustainability

    Aleksandra Berditchevskaia (GB), Alexandra Albert (GB)

    This workshop seeks to define desirable futures for Citizen Science (CS) in Europe for mitigating and adapting to the consequences of climate change over the next five to ten years.

  • Crafting Futures Lab formen:sprache Workshop

    Crafting Futures Lab formen:sprache Workshop

    Valerie Moschner (AT), Michael Kramer (AT)

    Zigzag. Hiss. Boom. Blub. Poof. Bang. Crack. Language can not only describe shapes, but also create them.

  • Crafting Futures Lab: towards slow future Workshop

    Crafting Futures Lab: towards slow future Workshop

    Anna Blumenkranz (AT)

    In this workshop, the participants will learn to design with textile materials in connection with handcrafted electronics, and invent, narrate, and create their own visions of alternative futures.

  • Creative Collision Talk: ISALA x ALMA Toolkit

    Creative Collision Talk: ISALA x ALMA Toolkit

    Giulia Tomasello (IT), Leonore Vander Donck (BE), Caroline Dricot (BE), Joke Van Malderen (BE)

    Creative Collider Talk @ Transformation Lounge invites two artistic activists to explore the source of creativity that actively transforms society. How to address the social stigma concerning intimacy and taboos related to the female body?

  • Creative Collision Talk: Urban Belonging Project x 300.000 Km/s

    Creative Collision Talk: Urban Belonging Project x 300.000 Km/s

    Ana Badenas (ES), Sofie Burgos-Thorsen (DK), Anders Koed Madsen (DK)

    Creative Collision Talk @ Transformation Lounge invites two artistic activists to explore the source of creativity that actively transforms society. Can the arts, data science and democratic participation revive social, ecological and economic equities in our urban spaces?

  • Creative Collision Talk: Yuima Nakazto x Giulia Tomasello

    Creative Collision Talk: Yuima Nakazto x Giulia Tomasello

    Yuima Nakazato (JP), Giulia Tomasello (IT), Bradly Dunn Klerks (NL/BE)

    Creative Collision Talk @ Transformation Lounge invites two artistic activists to explore the source of creativity that actively transforms society. What do they have in common in their different fields of activity? What is important to transform society?

  • CripTech Lab: Metaverse Reclaimed

    CripTech Lab: Metaverse Reclaimed

    Vanessa Chang (US), Lindsey Felt (US)

    Who owns the metaverse? XR is celebrated as a space of profound possibility where a user can transcend their physical limitations. Yet the reality is that the metaverse remains inaccessible to many. What would a metaverse, collaboratively built and governed, look and feel like? Using speculative storytelling and worldbuilding protocols, this design lab invites participants…

  • Critical XR Manifesto: Exploring ethical dimensions of XR

    Critical XR Manifesto: Exploring ethical dimensions of XR

    Boris Debackere (BE), Aurelie Delater (FR), Vanessa Hannesschläger (AT), Alisa Verbina (RU)

    The Critical XR Manifesto workshop sets out to reimagine and expand on the current notions of XR while following a critical, reflective line of thought and envisioning a common, open, sustainable XR as promoted by the Realities in Transition project. The interactive workshop addresses XR artists and professionals from Europe and beyond, inviting them to…

  • Earth4All: Living Loops

    Earth4All: Living Loops

    Dr. Nathalie Spittler (AT), Daniel Körner (AT), Dr. Fritz Hinterberger (AT), Dr. Martin Hoffmann (AT/DE)

    In this workshop, we dive into the story of this “Giant Leap”: Which changes are necessary and how we can reach a sustainable future. Such understanding needs a global perspective, which is provided in the report by a method called system dynamics.

  • Expanding Models of Creative Production

    Expanding Models of Creative Production

    Lizzie Crouch (GB), Nicholas Medvescek (US)

    The Manifesto for Creative Producing outlines creative producing as the facilitation of creative projects and innovation through the transformation of possibility into action. This workshop program welcomes creative practitioners to expand these findings through the core question: what impact does creative production have on knowledge generation and truth?

  • Interactive demonstration: Hybrid planner for co-creation

    Interactive demonstration: Hybrid planner for co-creation

    Viktoria Sandor (HU)

    The City Intelligence Lab (CIL) is an interactive digital platform to explore novel forms and techniques for the urban development practice of the future. As incubator for intelligent solutions, the lab fosters the co-creation of digital urban planning workflows and processes, applying interactive design interfaces to create simulations, generative design and artificial intelligence solutions.

  • Interfaces for Boris and Mindaugas

    Interfaces for Boris and Mindaugas

    Mindaugas Gapševičius (LT/DE)

    The installation Interfaces for Boris and Mindaugas provides interfaces for the boxer dog Boris and his host, so that the host experiences how the dog behaves, and the dog experiences the behavior of his host.

  • It´s AI, Stupid – Futuring Exercise (AI Futures)

    It´s AI, Stupid – Futuring Exercise (AI Futures)

    Time’s Up

    In diesem dreistündigen Workshop entwickeln die Teilnehmer*innen Visionen naher Zukünfte, die auf Versprechungen, Bedrohungen und in Folge auf Tangenten und Sackgassen reagieren, die die Idee von künstlicher Intelligenz bieten.

  • Large Language Models (LLMs) and Us

    Large Language Models (LLMs) and Us

    MIT Center for Constructive Communication (CCC), Belén Saldías, Jad Kabbara, Deb Roy

    Wie gut können LLMs meine Werte vertreten? Wie, was und woher lernen LLMs? Mit diesen übergreifenden Fragen werden wir uns in zwei unabhängigen Sitzungen beschäftigen.

  • Large Language Models (LLMs): Imagining a Technology-Assisted Citizens‘ Assembly to Create a More Inclusive and Constructive Democratic Process

    Large Language Models (LLMs): Imagining a Technology-Assisted Citizens‘ Assembly to Create a More Inclusive and Constructive Democratic Process

    MIT Center for Constructive Communication (CCC), Deb Roy, Dimitra Dimitrakopoulou, Claudia Chwalisz

    In dieser Sitzung werden wir untersuchen, wie wir die Macht der Technologie nutzen können, um demokratische Räume zu schaffen, in denen die Menschen einander zuhören, eine gemeinsame Basis für die Bewältigung gesellschaftlicher Herausforderungen finden und ihr Vertrauen in die Institutionen wiederherstellen können.

  • Mechathon: How to own the truth

    Mechathon: How to own the truth

    Johannes Klinglmayr (AT), Bernhard Bergmair (AT), Fabio Damm (AT)

    Scientific results are the building blocks of what we consider the (current) truth. In realizing the complexity and sophistication of reality, these building blocks tend to address narrower domains and require a specific context to be understood. For the general public it is often very difficult to find these results and relate them to their…

  • Meet-up: The Restart Project – What’s inside your smartphone?

    Meet-up: The Restart Project – What’s inside your smartphone?

    Ugo Vallauri (IT), James Pickstone (UK

    All our digital devices contain precious materials. Let’s fix our relationship with electronics, fight for the Right to Repair and slow down our consumption.

  • MoNoDeC: The Mobile Node Controller Platform

    MoNoDeC: The Mobile Node Controller Platform

    Nick Hwang (US), Anthony T. Marasco (US), Eric Sheffield (US)

    The workshop will demonstrate the usage of MoNoDeC (tool) in the context of the composition Punctuated Equilibrium. Participants would learn about MoNoDeC, Punctuated Equilibrium and Collab-Hub, and take turns being audience and control members.

  • No One Died

    No One Died

    Yunyu Ong (AU)

    Dive into a world of deceptive truths and immersive storytelling at the No One Died workshop! Explore multi-perspective sound music narratives that challenge conventional narratives through spatial audio experiences.

  • Non-Traditional Gung Fu Brewing as Tool in Artistic Biotechnology

    Non-Traditional Gung Fu Brewing as Tool in Artistic Biotechnology

    Jan Glöckner (DE/LT)

    The tutorial explores tea drinking as the mental and bodily primer to compose and dance with fungi. Jan Glöckner shares their research and practice using biotechnology in their practice-led research.

  • Our Future Life in L.E.O. (Lower Earth Orbit)

    Our Future Life in L.E.O. (Lower Earth Orbit)

    Diana Ayton-Shenker (US), Amir Banifatemi (FR/US), Nishan Chelvachandran (UK)

    Our Future Life in Lower Earth Orbit (L.E.O.) workshop explores positive scenarios to transcend earthly barriers and boundaries of ownership. Who owns space? Who owns Our Future Life? How can we co-create open access to an interplanetary, intersectional and interspecies world?

  • Planetary Mattering

    Planetary Mattering

    Miha Turšič (SI/NL)

    It matters which planet we portray, and which one we do not. In this workshop, participants will learn about ways of mattering. With this term, we refer to the images, interests and facts that shape our image of the planet, and, in turn, how the solidification of these imaginaries determines the way we talk about…

  • Planetary Public Stack

    Planetary Public Stack

    Miha Turšič, Waag Futurelab (SI/NL)

    Strategic tools for researchers, creatives, artists and designers to better engage in socio-environmental transitions towards building heterogenous and inclusive understanding and expressions of shared planetary views, concerns, interests and heritage.

  • SADISS, a smartphone-based sound system

    SADISS, a smartphone-based sound system

    Volkmar Klien (AT), Martina Claussen (DE/AT), Angelica Castello (MX/AT), Tobias Leibetseder (AT)

    SADISS is a web-based application developed at Anton Bruckner Private University (Linz, Austria) that bundles smartphones into monumental yet intricate sound systems or choirs.

  • Space Messengers

    Space Messengers

    Josef Dorninger (AT), STEMarts LAB

    Space Messengers is a participatory mixed reality installation that visualizes reflections on the universe, encouraging participants to contemplate their role within it. It evolved from a collaboration among artists, scientists, experts and youth ambassadors exploring how to deepen our understanding of the universe and expand our identities as planetary citizens.

  • Symposium Perspektiven Politischer Bildung: Workshopangebot

    Symposium Perspektiven Politischer Bildung: Workshopangebot

    Arbeiterkammer OÖ (AT), Pädagogische Hochschule OÖ (AT), Ars Electronica (AT)

    Mit unterschiedlichen Schwerpunkten für die Praxis

  • Systemic Change in the Times of Polycrisis

    Systemic Change in the Times of Polycrisis

    Antti Tenetz (FI), Tero Toivanen (FI)

    The workshop “Systemic Change in Times of Polycrisis” explores how we can broaden our horizons and find sustainable solutions to the polycrisis caused by ecological emergency. It focuses on radical change in industrial societies. The perspectives of polycrisis will be linked to local examples that will be explored through the work of artists, researchers and…

  • The Anoiksis Experiment

    The Anoiksis Experiment

    Jennifer Kanary (NL)

    How does your Anoiksis work? The Anoiksis Experiment is an artistic thought installation of a single word: “Anoiksis” that represents our creative survival mechanism. Understand Anoiksis and we may not only understand how we build our realities, but also how to reserve space for deviating realities.

  • The Art of Synthesis – Creative Collaborations Between Artistic Research, Technology, and Care

    The Art of Synthesis – Creative Collaborations Between Artistic Research, Technology, and Care

    Kerstin Borchhardt (AT/DE), Sabine Himmelsbach (CH), María Antonia Gonzales Valerio (MX), Rahma Khazam (FR/GB), Yukiko Matsunaga (JP), Elena Soterakis (US), Yoko Shimizu (AT/JP)

    Die Experimente mit neuen Netzwerken, die durch die Zusammenarbeit von kulturellen Praktiken, High-Tech und Natur entstehen, sind verschiedenen Medien, die traditionelle Vorstellungen von Ordnung, Wissen und Wahrheit in Frage stellen, gemeinsam.

  • Towards a Toolkit of Care

    Towards a Toolkit of Care

    Marinos Koutsomichalis (GR), Mindaugas Gapševičius (LT/DE), Alessandro Ludovico (IT), Josefin Lindebrink (SE), Valeria Graziano (HR), Jenny Pickett (FR), Alexia Achilleos (CY), Eric Lewis (US/CA)

    A “critical network of care” acts as a model of how to successfully share knowledge and expertise across different geographical regions and social groups. The group presents the current state in research towards the formulation of a TOOLKIT OF CARE.

  • Unleashing the Future of Learning

    Unleashing the Future of Learning

    Luka Žagar (SI)

    During the workshop, we will delve into the heart of konS PARK’s innovative methodologies and creative strategies of investigative learning and gain insight into their unique approach in which they blend various topics and technologies to craft awe-inspiring art content.

  • Workshop: somagrid – Neuro Interactive Installation

    Workshop: somagrid – Neuro Interactive Installation

    Erika Mondria (AT), Marika Jasmine Grasso (IT)

    The workshop somagrid deals with physical signal percepts, biometric data, and AI-based technologies.

  • Workshop: Zukunftsimpulse – Künstliche Intelligenz 

    Workshop: Zukunftsimpulse – Künstliche Intelligenz 

    Future Thinking School by Ars Electronica (AT)

    Dieser interaktive Workshop vermittelt ein Verständnis für die Grundlagen Künstlicher Intelligenz und einen spielerischen Einblick in aktuelle kreative Anwendungen.​