ENGLISH: Deep Space in 8K is a 3D Experience that let the viewers exploring different environments in a guided tour, from distant galaxies, to the insides of the human body. Developed by the Ars Electronica Futurelab, Human Bodies: The Universe Within brings us through an immersive journey in our body, […]
ENGLISH: At Ars Electronica 2016, in the PostCity area, a great importance has been given to clothes and future materials to create them; an imaginative jump into the future, to dream how society could be in not so distant times. Most of these creations set up a three way connection […]
Ars Electronica ha offerto spazio ad alcuni artisti che attraverso dei congegni robotici sostituiscono il lavoro manuale dello scultore in diversi modi, a seconda della diversa tipologia di materiale e sulla voluta resa finale. Talvolta le sculture sono ottenibili solo con le macchine, altre volte esse ne favoriscono un uso più […]
Italiano [English below] Ars Electronica 2016. Anche in questa edizione la sede principale del festival è a PostCity, un enorme impianto industriale di 80.000 m2 su tre piani, vicino alla stazione ferroviaria, un tempo utilizzato come snodo di lettere e pacchi e centro di distribuzione del servizio postale. […]
Wednesday, September 07. As promised, the Noema Staff landed – in time – in the cozy city of Linz. On thursday morning we reached the main festival location – Postcity – and started our staff tour shepherded by the enigmatic artistic director GERFRIED STOCKER. Please, be patient, we will cover […]
We’re happy to announce that the Noema and 5wftf staffs will be present in Linz (Austria) at the Ars Electronica 2016 Festival from September 8 to 12 following the path to contemporary alchemy. Radical Atoms and the alchemists of our time … and what comes after self-driving cars and the internet […]
I decided not to go in order with my report, because I thought that some presentations on the saturday spoke to some issue that had emerged the day after. specifically, I thought that Matt Garcia’s Eco Studio, Marc Böhlen’s WaterBank and Tom Sherman’s videos as an amateur scientist were linked […]
Recently I have observed – with mixed feeling and a bit of disorientation– the rise of maker culture. Among them, agitators, activists and artists are finding ways to use the latest developments in 3D printing, DIY and citizen science to produce innovative tools and ingenious artifacts for the benefit of the common […]
I am usually very critical when it comes with working with communities, especially when these communities are what the West or the Intelligentsia considered “disadvantaged” or resourceless. I have seen countless examples of interventions where a well equipped, educated and clearly hegemonic individual or group literally descended upon a group of kids […]
Open Medicine is not just about publishing or sharing information about experts, but also about empowering. Billiam James’ powerful and passionate intervention, peppered with evocative images, addressed the power relations inherent in medicine and advocated the necessity for the patient to become an expert, in order to be able to ask […]
When we think of open culture, open science, DIY and making are probably the first things that come to mind. However, It is often thanks to the availability of information available through open access publishing that knowledge is made increasingly shareable, as open access journals (OA) continue to emerge out of academia […]
In addition to more traditional journals with Open access structures, John Dupuis in a later talk on Open Science, pointed out to a diverse number of tools that not only scientists, but also other researchers and artists use to share their work. from Academia.edu, to bibliography databases such as Mandelay, […]
It is that time of the year: Subtle Technologies Festival is back for a week-long ride to explore Open Culture in Art and Science. The theme this year is particularly timely: DIY-bio labs, hacker spaces and hacklabs, maker spaces etc… are popping up everywhere, new forms of sharing ranging from […]
I would like to conclude this year’s report on Subtle technologies festival with a note on life and time. I want to dedicate this to my good friend Arlan Londoño, a Colombian Canadian artist and curator who had given me curatorial advice on the final panel. I had invited […]
To conclude this fabulous round of Subtle technologies, we couldn’t omit the element that during these days has informed and enriched with its presence our conversations: Science Fiction. Subtle technologies started with a reference to the Hitchhicker’s guide to the galaxy, mentioned many times William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, Mary Shelley […]
So far, the symposium has explored projects and research that understand immortality as a way to bring back the past and the long gone; to restore and preserve memory; to pass human legacy to others; and to extend the ability and the perception of the human in its interrelation with […]
Trained in art and dentistry, David Khang brought to Toronto his research on the benefits and the limitation of Botox injections as well as on the result of the interaction of human subjects and other microorganisms (botox is a neurotoxin). British Columbia is the first state in Canada to allow dentists […]
June 9 morning sessions were marked by two very different presentations, Scott Menary’s Born in the big bang and Alan Sondheim’s Digital and Physical Collapse. Interestingly, and despite their different approaches, they set a dialogue among each other: The first explained how the building blocks of our universe have been […]
Strategically scheduled in-between the two days, the documentary “The Singularity” by flamboyant director Doug Wolens was one of the most anticipated events of the festival. As Wolens states in the documentary website Ultimately, if we become more machine-like, and machines more like us, will we sacrifice our humanity to […]
Hendrik Poinar, a professor in Paleogenetics at McMaster University has some fond memories of his parents (entomologists) spending time uncovering and examining insects fossilized and encased in Amber. What if we could bring them back? what if we could de-extinct dinosaurs and other animals? As a Paleogeneticist, Poinar considers himself […]
Very similarly, Tweets in Space by Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern collected twitter messages from a 30 minutes performance at ISEA 2012 identified with #tweetsinspace tag. later on, these messages were beamed towards GJ667Cc, an exoplanet that might (or not) support extraterrestrial life. In 30 minutes, Kildall and Stern collected 1500 […]
