Online Events
Update: Due to the recent lockdown restrictions, our event will now take place online.
The Ars Electronica Garden Aotearoa assembles selected projects from New Zealand’s technologists, artists and University researchers. It is curated by the arc/sec Lab at the University of Auckland (UoA) and the Digital Research Alliance (DARA) at Victoria University of Wellington (VUW). The artist talks will be a chance to get to know more about the projects on display.
Online interactive artworks
The following events have an interactive component for you to explore:
Central Cyber Gallery: Explore our central Cyber Gallery here https://hubs.mozilla.com/4ANBDfg/ars-electronica-nz-2021
LightSense: Come talk to LightSense’s digital twin over zoom https://bit.ly/LightSense
Maritime-Trace-Exposure: Explore the Mozilla Hub here https://hubs.mozilla.com/sNGKvfK/maritime-trace-exposure-cross-currents
Virtual Futuna: Explore the Mozilla Hub here https://hubs.mozilla.com/LDXS2sf/virtual-futuna
CyberBio：Explore the Mozilla Hub here https://hubs.mozilla.com/iJGMJvZ/cyberbio-gallery
Distant Touch : Explore the Mozilla Hub here https://hubs.mozilla.com/QqhQGUc/distant-touch
arc/sec Lab: Explore the Mozilla Hub here https://hubs.mozilla.com/JRdL4EX/arc-sec-hub/
Garden Aotearoa – Opening
Mihi: Derek Kawiti (DARA, VUW)
Welcome to the Garden Aotearoa: Prof. Marc Aurel Schnabel (Dean WFADI, DARA, VUW)
Ars Electronica International + Aotearoa: Assoc Prof. Uwe Rieger (arc/sec Lab, UoA)
Garden Aotearoa – Online Events: Yinan Liu (arc/sec Lab, UoA)
Garden Aotearoa – Project Overview: Tane Moleta (DARA,VUW )
The Song: Charles Koroneho
Closing: Prof. Marc Aurel Schnabel (Dean WFADI, DARA, VUW)
Concert Night
Sasha Leitman (US), Fabio Morreale (IT)
An evening of experimental electronic live musical performance. Several musicians and sonic artists from Aotearoa New Zealand will perform short acts on electronic- and computer technology-informed music, including: robot-musician interaction, live coding, algorithmic composition, digital musical instruments, AI-music experiments.
Artist Talks
The Ars Electronica Garden Aotearoa assembles selected projects from New Zealand’s technologists, artists and University researchers. It is curated by the arc/sec Lab at the University of Auckland (UoA) and the Digital Research Alliance (DARA) at Victoria University of Wellington (VUW). The artist talks will be a chance to get to know more about the projects on display.
Charles Koroneho – The Song
Charles Koroneho (NZ)
The recordings that form the basis of The Song, are part of a Catalogue of Māori Purposes Fund Board recordings by W.T. Ngata 1953-58. The project uses archival recordings, transcripts and translations to re-position the songs academic and cultural isolation. The Song is a performance of poetic retrieval, a moment in time capturing the lives, voices and bodies of tribal artists living in 1950 -70’s New Zealand. The performance explores the ethnographer and cultural informant as an eloquent paradox and my intention to use esoteric language and poetry to occupy an ethnographic space is my attempt to understand the cultural dynamics experienced during the recording sessions. The objective of The Song is ceremonial transformation of the space and the contextual return of the songs to their spiritual and cosmological origins.
Garden Aotearoa Summary
A two hour summary of the Garden Aotearoa projects and events, which was streamed on the Ars Electronica Partner Channel on 12 September 2021.
