Art and Culture in Times of Uncertainty: From Artistic Practice to Social Action

Both embedded in and detached from the economic, technological, social and political web of contemporary crises, arts and culture are a privileged site for understanding the making and remaking of these conditions.

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00:00 Introduction
00:05 TRAILER
11:41 When Art Reimagines Tech
35:55 Cultural Sensors: Why Creative R&D Matters for the 21st Century
53:04 Present and Future Culture Stacks
1:43:30 Knowing Catastrophe
2:20:48 Art in the Age of Panic Politics
2:54:59 Introducing NEB Junction
3:01:36 TRAILER
3:02:03 Cross-sectoral Collaborations: The Arts Meet Health Tech
3:10:56 Medical Literacy through Art
3:41:52 The Dream in Experience: Sleep Culture & Health
3:50:30 Impact Initiative: Transforming Medicine through AI and Art
4:02:28 The Future of Arts & Health Industries Encounters
4:33:09 When hope is a creative act: The arts as a public health imperative
4:59:39 Art in Medical Environments

Introduction
Elisabeth Pacher (AT) // A brief introduction to the morning program topics by Elisabeth Pacher from the Austrian Federal Ministry for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport.

When Art Reimagines Tech
Paula Gaetano Adi (AR) // The winner of this year’s Golden Nica in the category Artificial Life & Intelligence reveals the process behind the award-winning project Guanaquerx.

Cultural Sensors: Why Creative R&D Matters for the 21st Century
Victoria Ivanova (GB) // The talk examines how creative practitioners function as society’s sensing apparatus—identifying emerging transformations and testing new approaches.

Present and Future Culture Stacks
Natalie Giorgadze (BE), Marina Otero Verzier (ES), Caterina Benincasa (IT), Victoria Ivanova (GB) // A look at how policymaking can support practices at the intersection of art, science, and technology in becoming indispensable innovation partners without compromising their critical and experimental nature.

Irit Rogoff: Knowing Catastrophe
Irit Rogoff (GB) // In this keynote, Irit Rogoff explores the modes of knowing catastrophe and the ways of living with it that are made possible through alternative pathways into knowledge—pathways that eschew resistance in favor of active imaginations and the potential of criticality.

Art in the Age of Panic Politics
Marita Muukkonen (FI), Ivor Stodolsky (FR/US), Simon Weckert (DE), Nancy Bates (AU), Sergio Fontanella (CU/US) // The panel unpacks the possibilities of escaping the logic of viral media that invite panic politics and of creating alternative political narratives through artistic practice.

Introducing NEB Junction
Annemie Bertha Marcella Wyckmans (BE/NO) // A presentation of NEB Junction—the platform that will bring together insights, ideas, and experiences from past and future projects of the New European Bauhaus.

Cross-sectoral Collaborations: The Arts Meet HealthTech
Georg Russegger (AT) // Georg Russegger launches an afternoon dedicated to the intersection between art and healthcare, including topics like health tech, well-being, and policymaking.

Medical Literacy through Art
Špela Petrič (SI), Mary Maggic (US), Patricia Stark (AT), Haley Marks (US) // We invite artists Špela Petrič and Mary Maggic to discuss how their practice contributes to health literacy, not only by telling stories differently but sometimes by telling different stories.

The Dream In Experience: Sleep Culture & Health
Andreas Kaindlstorfer (AT) // Short presentation of The Dream In Experience—an interdisciplinary project by the Department of Neurology at the Kepler University Hospital Linz.

Impact Initiative: Transforming Medicine through AI and Art
Patricia Stark (AT), Thomas Tschoellitsch (AT) // Bold visions for the future of medicine: Insights from a three-day hackathon tackling real-world challenges.

The Future of Arts & Health Industries Encounters
Georg Russegger (AT), Rania Islambouli (AT), Aniko Fejes (AT), Miriam Kathrein (AT), Matthias Konrad (DE) // A conversation about existing, emerging, and possible cross-disciplinary collaborations between art and healthcare.

Jill Sonke: When Hope is a Creative Act: The Arts as a Public Health Imperative
Jill Sonke (US) // The keynote will explore how, through a public health lens, the arts can build social cohesion and solidarity.

Art in Medical Environments
Jill Sonke (US), Andreas Leithner (AT), Kyoko Kunoh (JP) // Jill Sonke talks to medical professional Andreas Leithner and artist-curator Kyoko Kunoh about their projects in Austria and Japan that aimed to redesign spaces of care with the help of art.

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