Ars Electronica
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Oct 12, 2026
Amanda BennettsGUEST
I'm like, I'll start with the residency.
Amanda BennettsGUEST
I spent some time with Ars Electronica in Austria.
Amanda BennettsGUEST
It was an AI or an art and science program.
Amanda BennettsGUEST
And I was there and I was looking at can the quantified self serve the ill body? So outside of wearable technologies and wellness wearables, can I use my own data that isn't compared to a huge data set to benefit myself and to predict days where I would need rest or days I would be well? I worked with a data scientist and I won't go into too much of the specifics, but I one body is too random, unpredictable.
John MarkoffMODERATOR
Interesting.
John MarkoffMODERATOR
So, uh, in the first dot-com era, uh, there was a, a period, I think, of three years where I was a judge at something called Ars, uh, Ars Electronica in, in Europe, but most of the art that was sort of there was coming from San Francisco and Silicon Valley at that point.
John MarkoffMODERATOR
And there was this striking change when the dot-com bubble exploded and there was no more art, 'cause everybody had gone to work.
Jonathan WeberGUEST
Mm.
ErinNARRATOR
He's a Rube Goldberg for the digital age.
ErinNARRATOR
In Joseph Gets Dressed, performed this month at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria, he and his team made one such contraption and centerpiece of a live show.
ErinNARRATOR
As audience members gaped and giggled, the sleeping Herscher was wakened by a mallet hitting the rubber glove of a bicycle horn.
ErinNARRATOR
That triggered his mattress to tilt upward, sliding him onto his feet.
ErinNARRATOR
If everything runs smoothly, Herscher's mechanized morning routine takes about one minute.
ErinNARRATOR
But that's a big if.
ErinNARRATOR
Each of the five two-hour performances at Ars Electronica was part show, part technical rehearsal.
ErinNARRATOR
Viewers watched as the team worked through malfunctions.
ErinNARRATOR
He's a Rube Goldberg for the digital age.
ErinNARRATOR
In Joseph Gets Dressed, performed this month at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria, he and his team made one such contraption and centerpiece of a live show.
ErinNARRATOR
As audience members gaped and giggled, the sleeping Herscher was wakened by a mallet hitting the rubber glove of a bicycle horn.
ErinNARRATOR
That triggered his mattress to tilt upward, sliding him onto his feet.
ErinNARRATOR
If everything runs smoothly, Herscher's mechanized morning routine takes about one minute.
ErinNARRATOR
But that's a big if.
ErinNARRATOR
Each of the five two-hour performances at Ars Electronica was part show, part technical rehearsal.
ErinNARRATOR
Viewers watched as the team worked through malfunctions.
Amanda BennettGUEST
I'm like, I'll start with the residency.
Amanda BennettGUEST
I spent some time with Ars Electronica in Austria.
Amanda BennettGUEST
It was an AI or an art and science program.
Amanda BennettGUEST
And I was there and I was looking at, can the quantified self serve the ill body? So outside of wearable technologies and wellness wearables, can I use my own data that isn't compared to a huge data set to benefit myself and to predict days where I would need rest or days I would be well? I worked with a data scientist and I won't go into too much of the specifics, but I one body is too random, unpredictable.
Denis RoioGUEST
Back 20 years ago, I was advocating, I was working in Austria for an NGO called Public Voice Lab.
Denis RoioGUEST
right after my small gig at Ars Electronica.
Denis RoioGUEST
So I stayed in Austria and I started advocating with Roland Alton Scheidel, who was the director then, advocating for using public money for public code.
Denis RoioGUEST
So if...
Veronica de SouzaHOST
She's been working with AI for more than a decade, studied a PhD at the Royal College of Arts in London, Cecilie Vogner Falkenstrøm founded the art tech studio Artificial Mind, where for nearly a decade she's built AI systems together with a team of software engineers.
Veronica de SouzaHOST
Her work has been exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Ars Electronica, the Kennedy Center, the Wellcome Collection and Copenhagen Contemporary.
Veronica de SouzaHOST
Cecilius won the Lumen Prize for Digital Art twice, and she received an honorary mention from Preos Electronica, and she's been featured in Forbes and the New York Times.
Veronica de SouzaHOST
Now, last November, she launched something new, an open-source startup called NobodyWho, which builds AI that runs locally on the server, phone, or laptop, not in the cloud, a European alternative to big tech.
Luke ClancyHOST
We're at this year's Venice Film Festival to meet the director Mariano Llinás, and see the epic trilogy of documentaries he premiered at the festival this year, all dedicated to a cinematic biography of Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges.
Luke ClancyHOST
And a little later on, we'll take the sleeper to the Austrian town of Linz, home of the Ars Electronica Festival of Digital Art.
Luke ClancyHOST
But Venice Film Festival first for the premiere of Biografía de Jorge Luis Borges, a trilogy of films excavating the life and work of Argentina's most famous writer.
Luke ClancyHOST
But sure, who am I telling? After Fiction's Our Summer Reading Club, listeners probably know as much, more about Borges and his work than most.
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Mariano LlinásGUEST
And I prefer, prefer him to be like that.
Luke ClancyHOST
Mariano Llinas there with Ernesto Montan talking about their new trilogy of documentaries, Biografía de Jorge Luis Borges.
Luke ClancyHOST
Now, overlapping with Venice Film Festival as usual in the calendars is Ars Electronica, the global gathering of digital art and culture in the city of Linz in Austria.
Luke ClancyHOST
And not to be outdone by Venice Film Festival, Ars Electronica also presents its awards, known as the Golden Nica, hosted at the Lentos Kunstmuseum on the banks of the Danube.
David VivancosGUEST
So yes, the Artificiology started back in 2024.
David VivancosGUEST
I was invited to give the opening keynote at Ars Electronica Festival in Linz.
David VivancosGUEST
It's basically one of the best places if you want to see art, society connecting together.
David VivancosGUEST
I have been there also since 1998 with the first one that I go.