ARS ELECTRONICA
Garden Aotearoa 2022
Art, Technology & Society
16 June – 22 June 2022
Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation
Welcome to the Ars Electronica Garden Aotearoa 2022
Ars Electronica: AOTEAROA is New Zealand’s contribution to the International Ars Electronica Festival
in 2022.
Ars Electronica is the world’s largest media festival, which is held annually in Linz, Austria. Placed at
the intersection of art, technology and society, the five-day event attracts over 100,000 international
visitors. Founded in 1979 the Ars Electronica Festival was designed to take the emergence of the
Digital Revolution as an occasion to explore technologies and interrogate potential futures. The
festival consists of symposia, exhibitions, performances, concerts and interventions spanning a broad
arc from speculative futuristic scenarios to analytical considerations, from provocative actionism to
philosophical debates.
Aotearoa has been offered a unique opportunity to partner with the main festival. For the third time,
the arc/sec Lab at the University of Auckland (UoA) and the Digital Architecture Research Alliance
(DARA) at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington are proud to contribute the Ars
Electronica: AOTEAROA. This exhibition and concert night showcases projects from New Zealand’s
artists, musicians, scientists and researchers in the form of prototypical installations, performances
and talks.
Event Program
Thursday 16 June
13:00-14:00
XR Tumour Evolution Demo
16:00-17:00
XR Tumour Evolution Demo
16:30 – 17:30
Performance: Ko Te Ākau
17:30 – 18:30
Performance: Synaespatia
Performance: Senses Swirling in Virtual Reality
19:00 – 20:30
Concert Night
Friday 17 June
13:00-14:00
XR Tumour Evolution Demo
16:00-17:00
XR Tumour Evolution Demo
16:30 – 17:30
Performance: Ko Te Ākau
17:30 – 18:30
Performance: Synaespatia
Performance: Senses Swirling in Virtual Reality
Saturday 18 June
12:30 – 14:00
Performance: Ko Te Ākau
14:30 – 18:30
XR Tumour Evolution Model Extended Presentation
16:30 – 17:30
Performance: Ko Te Ākau
17:30 – 18:30
Performance: Synaespatia
Performance: Senses Swirling in Virtual Reality
Sunday 19 June
12:00 – 13:30
Performance: Ko Te Ākau
13:00-14:00
XR Tumour Evolution Demo
16:00-17:00
XR Tumour Evolution Demo
13:30 – 16:30
Artist Talks
16:30 – 17:30
Performance: Ko Te Ākau
17:30 – 18:30
Performance: Synaespatia
Performance: Senses Swirling in Virtual Reality
Monday 20 June
13:00-14:00
XR Tumour Evolution Demo
16:00-17:00
XR Tumour Evolution Demo
16:30 – 17:30
Performance: Ko Te Ākau
17:30 – 18:30
Performance: Synaespatia
Performance: Senses Swirling in Virtual Reality
Tuesday 21 June
13:00-14:00
XR Tumour Evolution Demo
16:00-17:00
XR Tumour Evolution Demo
16:30 – 17:30
Performance: Ko Te Ākau
17:30 – 18:30
Performance: Synaespatia
Performance: Senses Swirling in Virtual Reality
18:00 – 19:00
Ars Electronica Central Talk
22 June
13:00-14:00
XR Tumour Evolution Demo
16:00-17:00
XR Tumour Evolution Demo
16:30 – 17:30
Performance: Ko Te Ākau
17:30 – 18:30
Performance: Synaespatia
Performance: Senses Swirling in Virtual Reality
ARS NZ Organization
Assoc. Professor Uwe Rieger, arc/sec Lab, UoA
Professor Marc Aurel Schnabel, DARA, VUW
Yinan Liu, arc/sec Lab, UoA
Tane Moleta, DARA, VUW
Aotearoa Concert Night
Sasha Leitman, VUW
Fabio Morreale, UoA
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