The 2016 Ars Electronica Festival theme symposia are scrutinizing the alchemists of our time. Who are these people conjuring up our near-term future?
Beginning September 8, 2016, the Ars Electronica Center will showcase the “Radical Atoms” exhibition, which centers around the digital world’s merger with the physical one. It is a reference to the visions and prototypes that have emerged from the MIT Media Lab’s Tangible Media Group.
The first Panel of the theme symposium is the theoretical accompaniment and exploration of the Radical Atoms exhibition.
Taking work done by MIT’s Tangible Media Group and the Ars Electronica Futurelab as the point of departure, this part of the symposium will deal with how the evolution of Radical Atoms will be felt in various occupations, economic sectors and, by no means least of all, our everyday life.
In the second panel of this year’s festival, there will be there will be talks spanning the historical development of alchemists techniques to current trends.
The European Digital Art and Science Network aims to link up scientific aspects and ideas with approaches used in digital art.
