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IMAGE Credits: Satellite image of the US-Mexico border at Mexicali-Calexico. Credit: NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS and US/Japan ASTER Science Team

 

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STUDIOTOPIA Day: conference at Ars Electronica Festival

 

Hosted by:  Ars Electronica

 


Saturday Sep 10, 2022, 11:00 am - 6:45 pm


KEPLER'S GARDENS,

Keplergebäude, Lecture Hall 1
4040 Linz, Austria

 

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Main image Ars Electronica 2022

 

In keeping with the Ars Electronica Festival theme Welcome to Planet B, both speakers and audiences of the STUDIOTOPIA Day conference program are challenged to reflect creatively and critically about ecological and sociopolitical implications of the Anthropocene. 

 

Following representatives of current best practice projects on stage are key figures of cultural institutions; initiatives debate designing novel interfaces for gathering and disseminating knowledge as well as their roles in reframing (creative) commons and bringing together stakeholders under the umbrella of nurturing coexistence. A panel by guest curators and 2021 Ars Electronica Award for Digital Humanity winners Branch Magazine will focus on how the open movement, craft technology and a sustainable and just internet for all supports communities and action in the creation of alternative climate futures. 


Finally, discussions turn to exploring how STEAM activates the collaborative and interdisciplinary potential between science, technology, engineering arts and mathematics that is required to navigate the challenges and environmental crises that our society is currently facing.


Program:
10:00 am – 10:05 am
Welcome by Ars Electronica

 

10:05 am – 10:10 am
Welcome by European Commission
Ralph Dum (AT)

Ralph Dum, Senior Expert at the European Commission, Physicist, Initiator of S T ARTS, welcomes the participants of the conference.

 

10:15 am – 11:00 am
Keynote by Carmody Grey
Carmody Grey (GB)

Ours is a time of both ecological and social crisis. We know we need to change. But how? We know we need to reinvent humanity. But what is the human? Who are we, and who should we be? In our highly secularised cultures, many people think that the time of faith communities is past. But faith communities have a knowledge of the human that we need more than ever in our age of crisis. And if we don’t know what a human being is, we cannot create a truly human future.

 

11:20 am – 12:50 pm
Strategies of Culturing
Alexandra Antwi-Boasiako (DE), Bernd Fesel (DE), Diana Ayton-Shenker (US), Drew Hemment (GB), Tega Brain (AU), Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza (NL)

Culture can be viewed as an aggregate of stories that show a pattern, while featuring a wide range of complexity and movement. Cultural narratives can help contextualize and make sense of our own, individual stories while also shaping our habits and ethics. 


As B. Fuller says – To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete – creative practitioners and cultural strategists hold the tools needed to adapt outdated cultural narratives. They can aid sustainable, long-term change by creating new cultural models. Narratives that are thus built around a core of intersectionality and equity and that further both climate and interspecies justice, have the potential to resonate with and empower the people of Planet B. 

 

In this panel discussion, protagonists specializing in AI research, transdisciplinary and critical art, cultural economy, philanthropy and organizational development come together to debate strategic culturing and the tools for building cultural narratives that inspire and inform change.

 

1:15 pm – 2:15 pm
GET.Inspired by Best Practice

Bradly Dunn Klerks (NL/BE), Arisa Kamada (JP), Christoph Pasching (AT), Fara Peluso (IT/DE), Jakob Lambert (AT), Marko Vivoda (SI), Tega Brain (AU), Yinan Liu (NZ)

Get.Inspired Talks highlight promising, practical projects in the field of tension between art, technology and science that pursue the central question “But How?” and describe ways out of the planetary crisis.
Protagonists with an applied approach to various sustainability topics such as mobility, energy and circular economy, give insights into their work during inspiring short presentations.

 

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Hatching the Future of Museums
Michael John Gorman (IE), Olga Tykhonova (UA/AT), Merete Sanderhoff (DK), David Vuillaume (CH/DE), Johanna Eiramo (FI), Lauren Vargas (US/NL)

DOORS – Digital Incubator for Museums, initiated by Ars Electronica as MUSEUM BOOSTER and Ecsite, gives small and medium-sized museums across Europe the opportunity to drive the digital and sustainable transformation of the museum sector. 


In addition to the challenges and opportunities that digitization offers to museums in this context, this roundtable will examine possible digitization strategies in terms of their environmental, economic and social impact. Experts and actors from the cultural and creative industries will engage in a dialogue to broaden mutual understanding of what steps are possible, necessary and desirable in those very areas of museum digitization. Attention will also be paid to the role of the cultural sector, and cultural institutions in particular, in pointing the way to a more equitable and sustainable future. 


In the shadow of a climate and ecological emergency that affects all areas of social, political and economic life, the purpose and scope of action of museums and cultural institutions more generally must (again) be questioned. How can museums reposition themselves in an age of climate change? Can museums inspire action on planetary crises. Can museums inspire action on planetary crises, and can museal institutions be reimagined for a more diverse, intersectional publics?


4:00 pm – 4:15 pm
Spotlight by Audrey Tang – Free the Future
Audrey Tang (TW)

Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s Minister of Digital Affairs, has been a passionate advocate for reconfiguration of digital spaces, in particular addressing social networks, and curating a new cultural landscape. Her actionable proposals include recognition of internet access as a human right or digital competence education as a core subject in school curricula. Furthermore, not only does she recognize the potential that lies within media literacy for strengthening social cohesion but also a key method to let democratic societies thrive. Let’s turn the virtual reality into a shared reality, into a human experience!


4:15 pm – 5:45 pm
Urgent Crises, Slow Solutions: A Conversation about the Open Movement, Craft Technologies and a Sustainable Internet
Babitha George (IN), Camila Nobrega (BR), Luis Felipe Rosado Murillo (BR), Shannon Dosemagen (US), Persephone Lewis (US)

What potentials do open practices, craft, and community knowledge have, to imagine different climate futures? How can the open movement with its values, communities and action support the creation of these futures? And how do we actively build a sustainable and just Internet for all? Though the current crises are urgent, we acknowledge the solutions may be slow: there is much to unlearn, to reimagine, to regenerate, to build and debate together. And there is the need to uplift community practices and careful technology that support ecological sustainability and our collective liberation. 


Branch is an online magazine dedicated to people who dream about a sustainable and just Internet. In this conversation, we both imagine the climate futures we want, and highlight.


6:00 pm – 6:45 pm
Transdisciplinary Cultures of Collaboration
Andrew Newman (AU/AT), Audrey-Flore Ngomsik (FR/BE), Kat Austen (GB/DE), Mairéad Hurley (IE), Andres Colmenares (CO/ES)

A sustainable future requires the ability to perceive possibilities that at present may seem impossible to achieve. Characterised as an effectively unfathomable ‘hyperobject’ and seemingly unsolvable ‘super wicked problem’, the climate emergency demands that we apply integrative, interdisciplinary and intersectoral approaches that incorporate an understanding of the complex interdependencies of human, non-human and more-than-human systems. Key UN reports repeatedly emphasise the need for “improved collaboration between natural and social scientists, and between scientists and policy makers”. 


An integration imperative has led to the active engagement and participation in sustainable development and environmental management of diverse stakeholders and different scientific disciplines, and as a result, highlighted the many obstacles that are faced when implementing interdisciplinary projects, most notably in terms of mutual understanding and knowledge. Our sustainable future therefore becomes dependent on overcoming these issues and requires a transdisciplinary approach that can merge different types of knowledge and approaches through a reflective collective process that promotes cross-learning, favours ‘collaborative deconstruction’ and embraces the co-construction of an evolving methodology that embraces multiple perspectives. Transdisciplinarity is crucial as a means to revealing the possible paths through what appear to be impossible dilemmas. It is vital therefore that we foster this in education, and we believe that STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) is one such educational approach that can achieve this endeavour.

 

 

IMAGE Credits: Satellite image of the US-Mexico border at Mexicali-Calexico. Credit: NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS and US/Japan ASTER Science Team

 

 

This conference is part of the STUDIOTOPIA project and co-funded by the Creative Europe Culture programme of the European Union.

 

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