May the Horse Live in Me – Art Orienté Objet (FR)

Golden Nica – Hybrid Art

May the Horse Live in Me, Art Orienté Objet, click for Flickr-Gallery

This performance spans a bridge between animal and human being as well as between the discipline of bioart and extreme body art. May the Horse Live in Me performs the ritual of blood brotherhood between horse and performer. Immunologically prepared horse blood is injected into a human’s body and initiates a potentially therapeutic process.

Newstweek – Julian Oliver (NZ/DE), Danja Vasiliev (RU/DE)

Golden Nica – Interactive Art

Newstweek, click for CyberArts-Flickr-Gallerie

Newstweek is a high-tech device—small and unobtrusive, but nevertheless well suited for an attack on the nervous system of democracy. As something that appears to be a normal part of the technical infrastructure of an internet hotspot, Newstweek makes it possible to manipulate what’s received by those accessing the internet via W-LAN without them knowing about it. This is done by secretly modifying the news they read on their laptops, smartphones and tablets.

Bee – Apostolos Loufopoulos (GR)

Bee, Apostolos Loufopoulos, click for CyberArts-Flickr-Gallery

A work of sound art, bee conveys listeners into the acoustic cosmos of insects. Intensive movement and occasionally rapid rhythms with fast transitions are characteristic of this work. Moments of tranquility, of quiet and minimal motion alternate with sudden spurts of activity, and thus shed light on the antithetical motion patterns of flies, bees and other insects.

MACHT GESCHENKE: DAS KAPITAL* – Christin Lahr (DE)

A Critique of Political Economy Donation, Transfers of Capital to the Federal Ministry of Finance, 2009 – ca. 2052

Since May 31, 2009, Lahr has transferred 1 cent daily to the German Federal Ministry of Finance, thus helping to counter the growing mountain of debt. In the field »reason for payment«, she always writes 108 characters from “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy” by Karl Marx. In this way the entire book will be transferred into the state’s central account via online banking in the next 43 years. The value increase of the capital investment is not included, nor are the required labor and lifetime or the added value through cultural and symbolic capital calculated into this.

During the festival, the artist will temporarily install her work station in the OK, exposing bureaucratic structures and delivering an illustrative insight into the “cultivation” of
capital:

*The German title MACHT GESCHENKE is a play on words implying “CREATE GIFTS”, or “GIFTS OF POWER” as well as “POWERFUL GIFTS”

THE MAKING OF CAPITAL, WORK IN PROGRESS

01.09.2011: 12:00 – 20:00 Uhr
02.09.2011: 12:00 – 16:00 Uhr
03.09.2011: 12:00 – 14:00 Uhr
04.09.2011: 12:00 – 17:00 Uhr
05.09.2011: 12:00 – 17:00 Uhr
06.09.2011: 12:00 – 17:00 Uhr

*The German title “MACHT GESCHENKE” implies “MAKE A GIFT”, “GIFTS OF POWER” as well as “POWERFUL GIFTS”

Pigeon d’Or – Tuur van Balen (BE)

Pigeon d’Or, click for CyberArts-Flickr-Gallerie

This proposed solution to the pigeon problem consists of two elegantly designed birdhouses—one for the home; one for a parked car. In it, you can catch pigeons, feed them with a special bacteria culture that converts the birds’ highly infectious excrement into a disinfectant cleanser that works on such things as window panes and car windshields.

Face to Facebook – Hacking Monopoly Trilogy – Paolo Cirio (IT), Alessandro Ludovico (IT)

Face To Facebook – Hacking Monopoly Trilogy, click for CyberArts-Flickr-Gallerie

In the wake of their critical-subversive confrontations with Google and Amazon, Cirio and Ludovico set their sights on internet behemoth Facebook. They deployed some home-brew software to circumvent the social network’s well-oiled gears. It computes its way through the inconceivably vast number of faces depicted on that site and groups them into various categories that correspond to the ordering patterns people use in everyday life in dealing with others.

A Balloon for … – Davide Tidoni (IT)

is an itinerant project that brings to life the sound responses of specific spaces. By bursting balloons, the project discovers unique acoustic sites and invites people to explore space through listening.
In conjunction with the CyberArts exhibition, Davide Tidoni is offering nightly popping-balloon-walks in the city centre. By popping balloons, participants will be encouraged to test selected acoustic locations and become aware of how space speaks.

02.09.2011 Fr/Fr 01:00 (Thursday Night!)
03.09.2011 Sa/Sat 05:00
05.09.2011 Mo/Mon 01:00 (Sunday Night!)

A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter – Larsen Caleb (US)

This is a two-part work of art: it’s a small piece of sculpture with a controller and active internet connection; it’s also a script by means of which the sculpture is offered for sale on eBay. With each sale, the script launches a new auction on the popular online sales site.

algorithmic search for love – Julian Palacz (AT)

Songs as well as videos you’ve downloaded or shot yourself—nowadays, there’s hardly a home PC hard drive on which the quantities of data haven’t gotten completely out of hand. Julian Palacz (AT) has developed a cleaver search tool. It finds spoken or sung words and word combinations and then indicates precisely where they occur in a particular song or video sequence.

Be Your Own Souvenir – blablabLAB (ES)

Having your portrait sketched by a quickie downtown sidewalk artist was yesterday. The latest rage is an instant bust generated by a 3D printer! Be Your Own Souvenir invites you to pose and then take your likeness home with you in the form of a three-dimensional statuette.

Cinema for Primates – Rachel Mayeri (US)

It has long been known that our closest relatives in the animal kingdom, the chimpanzees, follow with interest what happens on a TV monitor. But until now, nobody has taken the trouble to develop programming that appeals to primates. And then along came Rachel Mayeri (US). Cinema for Primates is a series of videos produced especially for chimps living in the Edinburgh Zoo.

Continuization Loop – Wim Janssen (BE)

A 35mm film that consists solely of black and transparent surfaces runs over 150 guide rollers and thus produces a “wall of film” completely without projection. Wim Janssen’s (BE) work thus evokes elements from three generations of visual media: the materiality of film, the emptiness of the video signal and the binary logic of the digital.

empathetic heartbeat – Hideyuki Ando (JP), Junji Watanabe (JP), Masahiko Sato (JP)

In this installation, the visitor’s own heartbeat becomes a medium of empathy. Subjects use a stethoscope and headphones to listen to the beating of their heart. At the same time, they watch film clips and acoustically bond so intensively with the on-screen protagonists that the sound of their heart dissolves in total empathy with acoustic existence.

Inside the Tropospheric Laboratory – Agnes Meyer-Brandis (DE)

As a gigantic and rather confusing data & image generator, Tropospheric Laboratory enables us to see such things as aerosols that, as floating gas particles, make up the core of the clouds in the atmosphere. Meyer-Brandis’ (DE) installation thereby artfully veils the boundary between the visible and the invisible. The cloud cores are simultaneously omnipresent and, due to their nano-size, invisible.

Is there a horizon in the deepwater? – HeHe (FR): Helen Evans (UK), Heiko Hansen (DE)

In 2010, the Deep Horizon oil platform exploded, unleashing the worst-ever marine oil catastrophe. With her performance Is there a horizon in the deepwater? HeHe works through the ecological tragedy by minutely reconstructing the event.

Safe Cuddling – Helge Fischer (DE)

Originally conceived as an ironic statement about Western societies’ deepseated fears that are being assiduously stirred up by the media, this Safe Cuddling suit designed for children became the center of a dead-serious discussion about dealing with parental fear of child abuse. Helge Fischer’s (DE) construction offers protection by sounding an alarm when a child is cuddled too long or in an inappropriate place.

Sentient City Survival Kit – Mark Shepard (US)

The Sentient City Survival Kit is a bitingly ironic comment on the rapidly materializing vision of ubiquitous computing that’s being accompanied by the total surveillance of our behavior as consumers, our habits and our
movements. It consists of, among other things, an umbrella that generates crazy light effects to disrupt any video surveillance system, a not-your-everyday navigation app for cell phones, communication-enabled coffee cups and underwear that can easily outfox the RFID chip sensors at the mall. Mark Shepard‘s Ser endipitor is an alternative navigation app for the iPhone that helps you find something by looking for something else . Participate in a 45 minute serendipitous cit y walk! Bring an iPhone 3G (iOS 3.2 or newer ), comfortable walking shoes, and ample curiosity. Download Serendipitor for free from the App Store. Follow the link for more info on the tour.

Six-Forty by Fourty-Eighty – Jamie Zigelbaum, Marcelo Coelho (US)

This interpretation of the touchscreen principle consists of handy magnetic pixels that can be arrayed however the user wishes. One touch is all it takes to change a pixel’s color or to copy onto another.

TUNNEL – Rejane Cantoni (BR), Leonardo Crescenti (BR)

Tunnel is a finely designed, moveable passageway, living architecture that several persons can walk through simultaneously. Depending of the pedestrians’ weight, size and movement, it changes its design and dimension to fit the circumstances.

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The series’ thematic spectrum has undergone steady expansion from its initial focus on computer gaming, architecture and virtual/augmented reality to its present orientation on the R&D work currently in progress at the Ars Electronica Futurelab. *Pixelspaces* has thus established itself as the dynamic hub of a community of artists and scientists that enables conference participants to present their work and to discuss socially relevant issues associated with it.

Pixelspaces 2011: Re-Scripting

Inspired by the term “script” that sociologist of technology Madeleine Akrich uses to refer to those elements of an electronic device that a priori prescribe users’ options for action and thereby structure them, the term “re-scripting” is meant to refer to changing social circumstances and to bring up the question of new patterns and interrelationships.

Panel 1: [the next idea] in research

Kibilight Project, credit: Kibilight Project

Haberlandt / blablabLAB, credit: blablabLAB

10:00 Horst Hörtner (Laboratory Director, Ars Electronica Futurelab / AT): Pixelspaces Welcome Address
10:30 Bernhard Böhm (Ars Electronica Futurelab / AT): Introduction
10:40 Gerard Rubio (Artist, blablabLAB / ES), Raul Nieves (Artist, Haberlandt / ES)
11:00 Elizabeth Otieno (Project Manager, Kibilight Project / KE)
11:20 James Burke (Information Architect, Experience Designer, P2P Foundation / NL/UK)
11:40 Roundup and Discussion

The objective of this panel is to shed some light on the new interrelationship
among science, technology and society from practitioners’ perspectives and
to go through a process of reflection about the present and future opportunities
and risks associated with this development. In the first panel, we’ll
showcase outstanding projects that were singled out for recognition in [the
next idea] voestalpine Art and Technology Grant competition at this year’s
Prix Ars Electronica. They have to do with energy, mobility and access, issues
of enormous importance to humankind’s future.

Panel 2: Open Research!

Oribotics / Matthew Gardiner (AU), credit: Matthew Gardiner

13:30 Bernhard Böhm (AT), Roland Reiter (Ars Electronica Futurelab / AT): Introduction
13:40 Matthew Gardiner (Artist and Researcher, Ars Electronica Futurelab / AU)
14:00 Boris Debackere (NL/Manager, V2_Lab)
14:20 Joao Pequenao (POR/Research Specialist, CERN)
14:40 Ulrike Felt (Professor of Science Studies, University of Vienna / AT)
15:00 Roundup and Discussion

Panelists will consider the research paradigm shift going on right now from the point of view of artists and researchers working in an institutional context. The focus will be on the new link-up of scientific systems and previously excluded segments of society.

The time has come to set up new shared spaces that enable science and art to come out and “play.” Spaces in which each can observe the way the other works, in which each can learn from the other, and can do some collaborative tinkering on innovations for the society of the future. In addition to this paradigm of interdisciplinarity, Day 2 of the Pixelspaces Symposium will deal with another current trend: the expansion of the concept of research in the direction of gaining artistic insights.

Artists are increasingly emancipating themselves and assuming the role of independent researcher. The increasing attention this is garnering will be illustrated during the panel with reference to new subsidy programs and artistic research projects. Which all goes to show that: Art Makes Science.

Panel 3: Creative Collisions

10:00 Christopher Lindinger (Director of Research and Innovations, Ars Electronica Futurelab / AT): Introduction
10:20 Ariane Koek (International Arts Development, Collide@CERN/ CERN / UK)
10:40 Lynn Scarff (Education and Outreach Manager, Science Gallery Dublin / IR)
11:00 Marcos Garcia (Head of Program, Media Lab Prado / ES)
11:20 David Edwards (Director Le Laboratoir Paris/ Professor, Harvard University / US)
11:40 Roundup and Discussion

What happens when media artists and scientists get together to inspire one another or even to collaborate? Panel 3 scrutinizes the potential of interdisciplinary link-ups. At the center of attention will be innovative art & science collaborations including the European platform StudioLab as well as the planned artist-in-residence program at the CERN research center in Switzerland that’s currently being planned in cooperation with the Ars Electronica Futurelab.

Panel 4: Re-Scripting the Stage

13:30 Roland Haring (Senior Research Lead – Interaction Ecologies, Ars Electronica Futurelab / AT): Introduction
13:40 Martina Mara (Researcher, Ars Electronica Futurelab / AT)
14:00 Klaus Obermaier (Media artist and “(St)Age of Participation” project leader / AT)
14:20 Louis-Philippe Demers (CA/SG) (Artist, Designer and Researcher, Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University)
14:40 Johannes Birringer (US/UK) (Artist, Choreographer and Author, Professor at Brunel University London)
15:00 Roundup and Discussion

“St(Age) of Participation” is an artistic research project that the Ars Electronica Futurelab has launched in 2011 together with media artist and choreographer Klaus Obermaier (AT) to test new participative, multimedia forms of stage-based performance. In addition to presenting the project and its objectives, the panelist will be discussing the concepts of the theatrical stage and the dramatic performance, and what the future might bring in this context.

Panel 5: OHMI – The One-Handed Musical Instrument Project

OHMI, One Handed Music Instrument, credit: OHMI

16:00 Horst Hörtner (Laboratory Director, Ars Electronica Futurelab / AT): Introduction
16:10 Stephen Hetherington (Founder of the OHMI Project / UK)
16:30 Joe Paradiso (Director of the Responsive Environments, MIT MediaLab / US)
16:50 Peter Purgathofer (Associate Professor Vienna University of Technology / AT)
17:10 Nick Wilsdon (UK/Assistive Music Technology specialist at Drake Music; Sound Designer; Media Artist & Musician)
17:30 Roundup and Discussion – Moderation: Horst Hörtner (Laboratory Director, Ars Electronica Futurelab / AT)

There is presently no orchestral musical instrument that can be played with one hand. As a result millions of people across the world with impairment in one hand or arm are excluded from music making. We want to invent new instruments to open full and undifferentiated participation in musical life; whether at school, in the home, or in a professional ensemble. The technical difficulties of this challenge are considerable. It is now fairly straightforward to synthesize the sounds of orchestral instruments electronically, but this is a far cry from the subtlety and complexity of performance on a realorchestral wind or string instrument. The OHMI Project is trying to create musical equivalence, compatibility and the possibility of participation. Our success will have a profound impact not just on individuals, but also on society‘s relationship with disability, opening new realms of achievement and possibility.

The Ars Electronica OHMI Competition

The OHMI-Trust was formed by Stephen Hetherington and Martin Dyke in 2011 in response to Stephen’s attempts to find a musical instrument his hemiplegic daughter could play at school. Panel 5 on the One-Handed Musical Instrument Project in conjunction with Pixelspaces 2011 will officially launch the Ars Electronica OHMI Competition. The competition will then commence and the entry rules will be formally published. It is expected that each round of the competition will last two years. At the end of the first year the best concepts and prototypes will be awarded funds to assist further development.

Actual performances will then be given on the new instruments at the end of the second year. It is planned that the winning instrument will get a special Prix Ars Electronica award and will perform as part of the Ars Electronica Festival before playing again with the City of Birmingham Orchestra in the UK.

10:00 Horst Hörtner (Laboratory Director, Ars Electronica Futurelab / AT): Pixelspaces Welcome Address
10:30 Bernhard Böhm (Ars Electronica Futurelab / AT): Introduction
10:40 Gerard Rubio (Artist, blablabLAB / ES), Raul Nieves (Artist, Haberlandt / ES)
11:00 Elizabeth Otieno (Project Manager, Kibilight Project / KE)
11:20 James Burke (Information Architect, Experience Designer, P2P Foundation / NL/UK)
11:40 Roundup and Discussion

The objective of this panel is to shed some light on the new interrelationship among science, technology and society from practitioners’ perspectives and to go through a process of reflection about the present and future opportunities and risks associated with this development. In the first panel, we’ll showcase outstanding projects that were singled out for recognition in [the next idea] voestalpine Art and Technology Grant competition at this year’s Prix Ars Electronica. They have to do with energy, mobility and access, issues of enormous importance to humankind’s future.

Pixelspaces – Day 1: Changing the Research Paradigm

Having gotten its start with simple everyday objects and progressed all the way to highly complex scientific test assemblies, there doesn’t seem to be anything the “do-it-yourself” culture can’t do. People are eplicating scientific experiments in their own living room, opening up new market niches with the simplest of technologies, and delivering electricity to disadvantaged regions in developing countries. This trend is emblematic of a cultural orientation that proceeds under the assumption that technologies and professional expertise are not only to be produced in scientific laboratories or by large companies. The first day of the pixelspaces Symposium will take a closer look at what’s happening here.

Panel 1: [the next idea] in research

The objective of this panel is to shed some light on the new interrelationship among science, technology and society from practitioners’ perspectives and to go through a process of reflection about the present and future opportunities and risks associated with this development.