The HTMLgardeness - Sowing HTML but Harvesting AI
AR Walking tours by Ursula Endlicher
find.select.transform
About the event
There will be two tours: at 3pm & 5pm
"The HTMLgardeness - Sowing HTML but Harvesting AI" is a series of Augmented Reality walks, inviting visitors to take a stroll to a variety of trees in different locations. By scanning the bark of a tree – a "natural QR-Code" – tree-inspired and otherwise hidden dances of the HTMLgardeness (the character is played by the artist) are revealed. This simultaneously playful and critical series reflects on climate and systems, code and fragility, while offering Al-generated harvest.
For the walking tours of "The HTMLgardeness - Sowing HTML but Harvesting AI" at panke.gallery guests are invited to join an approx. 50 minute outdoor stroll to visit five trees (and unlock their inner digital lives) around the exhibition space and the Panke river. With smart phone and WebAR in hand, visitors will locate the HTMLgardeness' trees, portals and tree-inspired AR dances, while sampling tree-specific drinks and snacks. The augmented trees continue to be active and can be visited also after the event using the artist's WebAR "bARk" at https://html.bark.garden.
Artist
Ursula Endlicher is a new media and interdisciplinary artist working with interactive media and the Internet since the early 1990s. She investigates structural components and interfaces of digital and “natural” networks and creates works in contrasting formats including net art, AR, installation, performance, environmental works, and dinners – often a combination thereof. Her work is part of the artport collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Ursula Blickle Video Archiv at Belvedere, Vienna, and has been shown at Chronus Art Center, Shanghai; Haus der Elektronischen Künste, Basel; Transmediale, Berlin; SIGGRAPH, Yokohama; Eyebeam, New York; Harvestworks, NY; and WUK, Vienna.
Event Series
The exhibition Alt Nets is part of the project find.select.transform – Resilient Networks in a Wounded World, which responds to the pressing social, ecological, and economic challenges of our time. It employs artistic positions to critically examine how current technological developments and organizational practices can contribute to a sustainable transformation of our society.
The project aims to highlight alternative strategies, aesthetic positions, and networks that challenge the conventional understanding of growth. In doing so, it emphasizes the role of art in narrating such developments and seeks ways to address power imbalances and extractivism.
The focus will be on artistic positions regarding the climate catastrophe and community networks that promote democratic participation and equality.
The schedule for 2024 includes the symposium in June and September, the presentation of telepresent artists and a live streaming event in October as well as the exhibition and accompanying programs from September to October. The variety of formats promotes interdisciplinarity and multiperspectivity.
Partners
The realization of exhibition is made possible by funds from the Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
