10 AM. Day one of the 2015 Ars Electronica Festival in Linz. The first visitors arrive. You can smell freshly baked bread in PostCity, the former postal and parcel distribution center at the main station. A bakery with blue slides – surrounded by plants?
Photo: Martin Hieslmair
A few meters further colorful t-shirts decorate Gate 22. At the place where one year ago letters and parcels were shipped into the trucks.
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It is still 10 clock – and not far away, in the Conference Square of PostCity the first talks begin.
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Derrick de Kerckhove is one of the first speakers of the Connecting Cities Conference in the PostCity.
Photo: Florian Voggeneder
In the meantime, the opening parcours starts with Gerfried Stocker, the artistic director, at the Ars Electronica Center.
Photo: Magdalena Leitner
Specifically, in the Main Gallery, the big exhibition hall of the Ars Electronica Center. Here, the artist Nick Ervinck introduces his works personally.
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Next stop is the Deep Space 8K and the presentation of the project “Post Refugee City” with Hannes Seebacher, Kilian Kleinschmidt, Lukas Maximilian Hüller and Robert Pöcksteiner.
Photo: Magdalena Leitner
In the meantime, more and more visitors are coming to the PostCity.
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Photo: Florian Voggeneder
At the Ars Electronica Center the opening parcours arrives in the new exhibition “Elements of Art and Science”.
Photo: Martin Hieslmair
Photo: Martin Hieslmair
Photo: Martin Hieslmair
One floor down Gerfried Stocker opens another new exhibition – in cooperation with ESA “Spaceship Earth” shows the earth from above.
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Photo: Martin Hieslmair
A crowd puller of the PostCity – the self-driving Mercedes-Benz F 015 Luxury in Motion.
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At 1 PM another exhibition opens during the Opening parcours. At the Linz Art University works of Université Paris 8 can be tried out.
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At the PostCity there is also a way upstairs.
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Highway signs mark the way to the most important places in the PostCity.
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u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD, the festival within the festival for the next generation.
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Another highlight in at u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD is the Big Robot.
Photo: Florian Voggeneder
At the main square of Linz the opening parcours stops at the Mobile Ö1 Atelier.
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Post-Post is the tile of another exhibition at the PostCity – the students of “Interface Cultures” at the Linz Art University Linz present their skills.
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Habitat 21 turns to hot topics that are relevant for the habitats of the 21st century.
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Future Mobility is another topic of the Post City Kit Exhibition.
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Benches invite you for a rest.
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Many journalists are also among the first guests on Thursday.
Photo: Magdalena Leitner
Now it’s afternoon – time for a break.
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And the exploring between the slides continues.
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You can also slide at one slide.
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In OK im OÖ Kulturquartier the Opening Parcours continues with the next event.
Photo: Tom Mesic
The CyberArts Exhibition shows awared media art projects of the 2015 Prix Ars Electronica.
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Christine Schöpf, Ars Electronica, and Genoveva Rückert, OK im OÖ Kulturquartier, opened the exhibition.
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Emergency exit and pictures of refugees.
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Different approaches on how we are able to get around in the future.
Photo: Martin Hieslmair
Photo: Martin Hieslmair
At 7:30 PM numerous visitors attend the Opening in the PostCity.
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The opening starts outside of the PostCity…
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Photo: Martin Hieslmair
From the roof of the PostCity: Bertl Müller with trombone sounds.
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And piano works, played by Rupert Hubert and Maki Namekawa.
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The highlight of the opening event, the Diaspora Maschine by Peter Androsch and Anatol Bogendorfer.
Photo: Tom Mesic
Photo: Martin Hieslmair