We are visiting Ars Electronica Festival 2025 in Linz. Here a post with impressions, buzzwords, associations of mine. More about me and inspiration than about Ars. Attending is highly recommended.
This post will evolve.
Robot dogs, aggressive, chained, threatening. Awesome. I feel the threat of Chinese robot dogs with guns now physically, as that one Black Mirror episode did to my brain:
Takayuki Todo (JP)
Finely crafted ring of hundreds of ventilators in black 3d printed vents forming a smoke ring circle. Craftmanship! The looks!
Nice talk with Stefan Schartlmüller from https://www.ig-demokratie.at about Democracy Cafes. Find the right Questions using systemic consensus, then work on answers.
Every artsy fartsy description text reads like it was generated to please the curators, inventing something theoretically appealing sounding, after the work was completed. I imagine many of the works were done because some idea was cool or the material or the aesthetics, something completely different than what they must write on the shiny plaque. They should do “no bullshit, why I really did it” versions, too. Or we should add fake plaques.
Exhibit A
… and this art piece detail has an aesthetic that reminds me of a monochrom.at fanzine that fell into a toilet while reading and got wet and wobbly, multiple pieces of several pages forming a collage:
… More to come