Art and culture play an important role in bridging the gap between technology and society and in contributing to technological innovation. The intercultural workshop program at the Ars Electronica Festival invites artists, scientists, activists and the Festival audience to network with experienced experts. Together, they will share inspirations and exchange ideas.
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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?
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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?
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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It’s AI, Stupid – Futuring Exercise (AI Futures)
Time’s Up
As part of this three-hour “futuring” exercise, participants will use their imagination of near-term future scenarios to address the promises and threats – along with subsequent tangents and obstacles – posed by ideas of artificial intelligence.
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Large Language Models (LLMs) and Us
MIT Center for Constructive Communication (CCC), Belén Saldías, Jad Kabbara, Deb Roy
How well can LLMs represent my values? How, what, and from where do LLMs get their learning abilities? During two independent sessions, we will address a full spectrum of questions.
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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
This workshop will explore just how we can harness the power of technology to create democratic spaces where people can actively listen to one another, find common ground to address social challenges, and rebuild their trust in institutions.
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Symposium Perspektiven Politischer Bildung: Workshopangebot
Arbeiterkammer OÖ (AT), Pädagogische Hochschule OÖ (AT), Ars Electronica (AT)
Mit unterschiedlichen Schwerpunkten für die Praxis
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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…
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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.
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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)
Experiments on new networks created through collaborations of cultural practices, high technology, and nature are common elements in various media questioning traditional notions of order, knowledge, and truth.
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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.
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Unlearning Gender
Jelena Mönch (DE), Miguel Rangil (ES)
Unlearning Gender speculates on alternative modes of categorization to resist algorithmic-binary normalization. Through the symbolic hacking of the computer vision interface, the project aims to escape from gender and break with the technosocial binarisms embedded in technology.
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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.
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Workshop: Future Impulses – Artificial intelligence
Future Thinking School by Ars Electronica (AT)
This interactive workshop provides an understanding of the basics of AI and a playful insight into current creative applications.
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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.