Arthur I. Miller (UK) is Emeritus Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at University College London. He received a PhD in physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1991 to 2005 he was Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at University College London, where he founded the Department of Science & Technology Studies. He is the author of several books, including Insights of Genius: Imagery and Creativity in Science and Art, Einstein, Picasso: Space, Time and the Beauty that Causes Havoc, Empire of the Stars: Friendship, Obsession and Betrayal in the Quest for Black Holes, and recently published, Deciphering the Cosmic Number: The Strange Friendship of Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung, which explores how through Jungʼs psychoanalysis, Pauli came to understand his creative powers while at the same time enabling him to cope with his complex life.

Other speakers:

Domnitch and D.Gelfand (Synergetica Lab)
David Benque (RCA, London)
Cocky Eek (ArtScience Interfaculty)

Ars Electronica Quarter / Sphæræ
Thu 5.9. 17:00-19:00

Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften Leipzig (DE)

The interplay of billions of nerve cells in the brain is what makes us thinking beings. Neuroscientists display three-dimensional images of the brain to show how they’re using state-of-the-art technology like magnetic resonance imaging to learn more about these connections and interrelationships, and to understand thought processes.

Thu 5.9. 15:00
Fri 6.9. 15:00
Sat 7.9. 11:00, 15:00
Sun 8.9. 11:00, 15:00
Ars Electronica Center, Deep Space

Masaki Fujihata (JP)

A work also featured in CyberArts 2013, Voices of Aliveness is a vocal sculpture, a so-called metamonument constructed from a collective memory. Participants ride a bike along a “shouting circuit,” a route along which they can feel free to scream their brains out.

Ars Electronica Center, Deep Space
Thu 5.9. 12:30, 16:30
Fri 6.9. 12:30
Sat 7.9. 12:30, 16:30

FH OÖ Campus Hagenberg (AT)

Installation visitors become animators in Clockworld, a virtual reality installation by Benedict Bleimschein (AT) and Martin Kienmeyer (AT). They co-design the mental world of a virtual android. In the game installation re:collection, visitors are called upon to collaboratively save old data storage media like vinyl records and audio cassettes from destruction. They have to neutralize hazards and defend energy sources. This is the work of Jeremiah Diephuis, Wolfgang Hochleitner and Michael Lankes from the school’s Hagenberg Campus (AT) as well as Thomas Heller, Thomas Raffetzeder, Gernot Raudner and Manuel Wieser of Radiated Pixel (AT).

Thu 5.9. – Sun 8.9. 18:30
Mon 9.9. 14:00
Ars Electronica Center, Deep Space

Ina Conradi Chavez (U.S. / SG) Joshua Tan (SG), Davier Yoon (SG), Jeremy Goh (SG)

Half war movie, half animated painting, this work produced jointly by Joshua Tan and Xavier Yoon blends fantastic material and historical footage into a surreal reconfiguration of the present. Ina Conradi Chavez introduces painted narrative fragments into the logic and a dream’s narrative form of progression, and gradually morphs the concrete, explicit depiction into a fragile, complexly interwoven structure.

Thu 5.9.- Sun 8.9. 12:00
Thu 5.9. / Sat 7.9. 16:00
Ars Electronica Center, Deep Space

An observatory of vivid hallucinations is produced within the eye itself, arising due to interference in the signal from the eye to the primary visual cortex. These complex interference patterns are spherically transformed in accordance with the retinotopic map.
http://www.matthijsmunnik.nl/

Sat 7.9. 19:00 – 19:30
Ars Electronica Quarter / Sphæræ

The original proto-cell, a direct chemical ancestor of lipid membranes, soap film comprised the foam of the primordial prebiotic soup. The sensitive skin of a soap bubble is capable of swallowing laser light as if it were confined by a waveguide antenna. In this performance, bubble-trapped laser beams reveal the biomorphic molecular dynamics inside of soap film membranes.
portablepalace.com

Sat 7.9. 18.30-19.00
Ars Electronica Quarter / Sphæræ

Once set in motion, the performerʼs software gradually gains independence, while the performer, on the other hand, gradually loses control over the processes which he initially directed. The result is a runaway process whereby the system continues to develop a growing complexity.
http://www.basvankoolwijk.com/

Sat 7.9. 18.00-18.30
Ars Electronica Quarter / Sphæræ

Slime Mold, Physarum Polycephalum, grows over the spherical screen, it’s shape governed by Belousov-Zhabotinsky-like reactions within its giant cell
http://morphogenesis.eu, http://www.erfanabdi.com/

Fri 6.9. 22:30-23:00
Ars Electronica Quarter / Sphæræ

Investigating the borders and similarities between computer-generated creations and living beings, this interactive installation allows participants to interact with and control artificial life forms with their smartphones
http://mathrioshka.ru/, http://v4w.enko.ffspace.info/

Fri 6.9. 22:00-22:30
Ars Electronica Quarter / Sphæræ