The Ars Electronica Gallery Spaces were coined in response to growing mutual interest on the part of media artists, collectors and galleries as a setting for protagonists to compare experiences and to discuss, among other topics, such core issues as the long-term maintenance and conservation of media-art projects and the many new formats and business models manifesting themselves on the growing online art market.
In the first panel “Art Science: From Vision to Practice” Prof. Hiroshi Ishii from MIT Media Lab’s Tangible Media Group will lead the discussion about the transdisciplinary nature of creative work that crosses art, design, science and technology.
Abstraction is essential to conveying complex messages in artistic expression. It is also critical in science to formulate laws of nature through abstraction based on data. Leading artists, designers, scientists, and engineers will present and discuss the cross-fertilization among art, design, science and technology.
SUN, Sept. 10, 2017
| 10 AM |
Hiroshi Ishii (JP/US), MIT Tangible Media Group |
| 10:10 AM |
Jifei Ou (CN), MIT Tangible Media Group |
| 10:25 AM |
Joachim Sauter (DE), ART+COM, UDK Berlin |
| 10:45 AM |
Christa Sommerer (AT), UFG Interface Cultures |
| 11:05 AM |
Shunji Yamanaka (JP), University of Tokyo |
| 11:25 AM |
Sarah Jane Pell (AU), artist, scientist |
| 11:45 AM |
Daniel Leithinger (AT), MIT Tangible Media Lab |
| 12 noon |
Yoichi Ochai (JP), Tsukuba University |
| 12:20 PM |
Panel Discussion |
Moderator: Hiroshi Ishii (AT)
Dedicated to the practice of art and science, this symposium focuses on synergies between both disciplines and collaborations with other sectors. After numerous years of realizing art and science projects, the results will be presented and discussed by participating artists, stakeholders and scientific institutions at this conference.
Credits
This event is realized in the framework of the European Digital Art and Science Network and co-funded by the Creative Europe program of the European Union.
On Friday, the Round Table discusses whether there is an existing market for media art. On Saturday, the participants talk about new technologies for presenting, collecting and storing media art.
About the Existing / Not Existing Market of Media Art
FRI Sept. 8, 2017, 2 PM – 3 PM
Participants: Valerie Hasson-Benillouche (FR), Anita Beckers (DE), Steve Fletcher (UK), Christa Sommerer (AT), Eduardo Kac (BR), Franz Wojda (AT), Conny Ellersdorfer (AT), Sabine Himmelsbach (CH)
Chair: Christa Sommerer (AT)
New Technologies for Presenting, Collecting and Storing Media Art
SAT Sept. 9, 2017, 2 PM – 3PM
Participants: Henning Lohner (DE), Oren Moshe (IL), Kou Ishihara (JP)
Chair: Andreas J. Hirsch (AT)
Moderation: Lucas Evers (NL)
Panelists: Evelina Domnitch, Anna Dumitriu, Dmitry Gelfand, Spela Petric, Miha Tursic, Claudia Schnugg, Ingeborg Reichle, Erich Prem, Lucas Evers
What can be worked on together when artists are invited to work in techno-scientific environments such as High Performance Computing (HPC), quantum physics, genetic research and genome editing? What are the kinds of questions that are asked when the artists and scientists meet in laboratories, studio’s, offices or university canteens? Meeting each other in such situations, what works and what not and on which levels do those productive misunderstandings between artists and scientists lead to interesting new crude matter for artists and – if you want – inspiration for scientists?
Future Emerging Arts & Technologies is a project wherein 6 artists were given a nine month period to work in the inner laboratories of EU funded Future Emerging Technologies – FET programs, ranging from synthetic materials laboratories to quantum physics and from high performance computing to quantum computing and from genomica and genetics to nuclear clocks.
During this panel we will discuss on a very basic level what happens in the collaboration and the communication between the involved artists and scientists and discuss the very details that challenge those collaborations and make them interesting van valuable for all involved – mistakes, misunderstandings, miscommuncations included.
]]>Stadtwerkstatt (AT)
In Urfahr (north Linz) on the Danube and under the slogan Mind Less, STWST48x3, the third edition of STWST48, offers a non-stop 48-hour showcase art extravaganza of the expanding kind.
Mindless information, open states of mind, an infolab opposite new media, quasi-coordinates of extended contexts, funky fungi, digital physics and a Meltdown Totale: on the whole STWST48x3 Mind Less is addressing new art contexts that have been developed in and around the Stadtwerkstatt Linz in recent years: Infolab is an information concept fundamentally based in aspects of irrationality. The Mycelium Network Society shows communication projects around the basic potentials of fungi and mycelia—developed during the Stadtwerkstatt summer residencies on the survey vessel Eleonore. The art and context research Quasikunst stages a 48-hour meltdown of selected art, technology and robotic coordinates. At the Maindeck in front of Stadtwerkstatt the FACES network celebrates its 20th anniversary & #GetaHead #EatYourCake.
In a mix of migrating kitchens, traveling cinema and art agents, these projects also play the public place of the outdoor Maindeck: Cine Traktori, Kunstlabor and Location id: HoME. On the neighboring Danube the Meme project travels from Athens to Linz and offers drinks and hot facts directly from the borders of Europe. And as an extension, the Danube area opens up to the Salonschiff Florentine, and the whole area will be branded under 4040 Lower Eastside / Hafen der Sehnsucht in September for the first time. Watch out: Mind Less Stadtwerkstatt is also in 2017 under the directive of New Art Contexts and autonomous structures. And also mindless: Mind More nightlife in the STWST Club and the STWST homebase Cafe Strom.
Credits
STWST48x3 is a project of Stadtwerkstatt and includes the art projects:
Infolab: Franz Xaver, taro, Servando Barreiro.
Mycelium Network Society, projects by: Mary Maggic, Servando Barreiro, Azucena Sanchez, Callum Caplan.
Mycelium Network Society curated by Shu Lea Cheang, taro, Franz Xaver.
Mycelium Network Society in association with Kapelica Gallery in Ljubljana and CycleX in Andes, New York.
Mycelium Network Society support from Messschiff Eleonore, Verein halfbit.org.
Quasikunst: Tanja Brandmayr.
Quasikunst projects: Oliver Schürer, Christoph Müller and Christoph Hubatschke (H.A.U.S.), Lisa Spalt, Tanja Brandmayr.
Location id HoME: Shu Lea Cheang.
Cine Traktori: Kollektiv Traktori.
Kunstlabor: Christine Pavlic, Christoph Ebner.
Meme : skywalker e.V. by Stefa Farkashazy, Robinson Stärk, Kiron Guidi, Nani Cooper.
Club STWST48x3 curated by Felix Vierlinger.
Club host: Patrik Huber.
With the Ars Electronica Gallery Spaces Ars Electronica created an entirely new and innovative format. Christophe de Jaeger, co-initiator of the initiative, guide through the gallery spaces. The Ars Electronica Gallery Spaces were coined in response to growing mutual interest on the part of media artists, collectors and galleries as a setting for protagonists to compare experiences and to discuss, among other topics, such core issues as the long-term maintenance and conservation of media-art projects and the many new formats and business models manifesting themselves on the growing online art market.
Christophe de Jaeger (BE), Simone Furtlehner
SUN Sept. 10, 2017
SUN Sept. 10, 2017, 11:00 AM-12:30 PM
Infos
Meeting Point: POSTCITY WE GUIDE YOU Meeting Point
Duration: 90 Minutes
Language: English
Price: € 16 / € 12 reduced