2012
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Ars Electronica Solutions moves in
Yesterday chairs, tables, computers and other hardware have been packed up, today they are set up in the Tabakfabrik. The hardest part of the move is done, the Ars Electronica Solutions have a new home!
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Spaxels – Test at the Donauparkstadion
The last Spaxel-Test of the year took place at the Donauparkstadium, home of Blau-Weiß Linz. The test was about finding out how the quadrocopter and especially their batteries work at low temperatures, but new shapes and animations were tested as well.
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Ars Electronica Solutions – Move to Tabakfabrik Linz
Ars Electronica Solutions is lifting off in 2013. The team is getting bigger, there’s more products and projects, so there’s a need for more space. Starting today, people and equipment are moving into the Tabakfabrik Linz, where Solutions is going to have a new home.
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Big Vortex
Discussions about CO2 emissions and calculations about their potential environmental impact have become an everyday feature of our lives. But how to relate this abstract considerations to our daily experiences, at best in association with the local architecture? The Berlin based artist group realities:united comes up with a solution that is as simple as amazing….
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Prix Ars Electronica 2013
[:de]Was haben John Lasseter, der erste Animator bei Pixar Studios, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, der Erfinder von HTML, einer der Grundlagen des heutigen Internets, und Wikipedia gemeinsam? Alle Erwähnten wurden entweder mit einer Goldenen Nica oder einem Ehrenpreis des Prix Ars Electronica ausgezeichnet. Der renommierte Medienkunstpreis geht 2013 in die 27te Runde, die Einreichung ist mit…
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Start of submission at u19
The approach of Christmas means it’s that wonderful time of the year again—time to send in your submissions to u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD. We cordially invite all you gals & guys under 19 years of age to get involved. We’re looking forward to receiving lots of interesting ideas and projects!
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TEA Collective Wisdom – Ars Electronica in Taiwan
TEA Collective Wisdom is still running at the NTMOFA in Taichung. Ars Electronica has again provided a couple of installations. We have asked Shu-Min Lin, one of the curators, about topics concerning the exhibition.
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Martina Sochor zum Thema One Day On Earth
Am 12.12.2012 ist Martina Sochor mit einem Team bestehend aus Studierenden der Kunstuni Linz in Linz unterwegs beteiligt sich am One Day On Earth. Wir haben sie auf ein kurzes Gespräch abgefangen.
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Robots – Human and Machine?
At the press conference held in conjunction with the opening of “Robots – Human and Machine?” we asked Bodo-Michael Baumunk (curator), Christopher Lindinger (head of R&D at the Ars Electronica Futurelab), Gabriele Zuna-Kratky (director of Vienna’s Museum of Technology) and Helene Wagner (project supervisor) to tell us how the exhibition came about and give us…
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RoboLab at Vienna’s Technical Museum
Robots, robots, robots—those that do nasty, dangerous jobs without complaint, those that can bear the heaviest loads and are fluent in all the world’s languages. We’ve seen them in books and movies, but rarely in everyday life. Though we’re already well into the 21st century, most of our homes aren’t yet staffed by a domestic…
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One Day On Earth 2012
One day, 24 hours. You could break down these units even further into seconds, milliseconds and so forth. One might consider a day in terms of the Earth’s rotation, the time our planet takes to spin once on its axis, the Sun rising and setting, but then of course there’s also the night, and it…
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Zeit ist Held – Interview
[:de]Das Team hinter Zeit ist Held erzählt im Interview, wie die Idee zur Ausstellung entstanden ist, was sie persönlich aus der Recherche mitgenommen haben und worüber sie sich besonders freuen würden. Die Ausstellungseröffnung ist am 6.12. um 18:30 Uhr, nehmen Sie sich die Zeit!
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Voyeur
How is it possible to mix intelligent computer technology and architecture, in a way that our lives do not become even more difficult? With his Voyeur project Chia Chi Yeah developed an interesting approach….
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Extremely surprised
Mr. Casti, you turn your attention to extreme events that occur suddenly without warning and shake-up our world view. Do you know which catastrophic “X-Events” await us in Austria in the near future? Probably the most threatening X-event would be a nuclear accident in one of the neighboring countries. But an equally damaging, although longer…
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Time Is Hero – New Exhibition at the Ars Electronica Center
You have your clocks, we have the time. But time is relative. There’s no substitute for taking time, even when it’s running like sand through your fingers. Is my time more valuable than yours? Lifetime, cooking time, Christmastime, prime time. Full-time? Time is something that determines everyday life, characterizes it, divides it up into quantifiable,…
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u19 On Tour. Next Stop: Budapest
“Impressive Title (Paradise)” tells of the last moments in the life of a wolf. It’s an associative account, never one-dimensional, that leaves sufficient latitude for the viewer’s own imagination. This animated short is designed as a reflection on the search for freedom and an individual’s own identity. Thus, the wolf symbolizes the human being who,…
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The International Space Time Concerto
Newcastle, Australia. Beijing. Singapore. Linz. Four cities, seemingly selected at random, will coalesce into a single integrated concert hall on November 30, 2012. The International Space Time Concerto brings together musicians all across the face of the Earth. Together with a chorus, they’ll perform nine pieces using instruments as well as iPhones and iPads.
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The quadrocopters fly again
The Ars Electronica Futurelab’s quadrocopter formation that debuted at the 2012 voestalpine Klangwolke has created a sensation, one that commenced on site during the extravaganza itself and has continued online ever since. But since, as we all know, laurels aren’t for resting on, Futurelab staffers are already hard at work taking their Spaxel concept to…
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Recycled Island on Kickstarter
In 2010 the people from WHIM architecture submitted their project Recycled Island to our [the next idea] voestalpine art and technology grant, and over the last two years it has evolved in such a way that it is now ready for Kickstarter! We are happy to see that!
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Mahir Yavuz sums up the Global Marathon 2012
Mahir Yavuz sums up the Global Marathon 2012. It was organized by visualizing.org with sponsoring by GE and Google. Check out some pictures at http://vizmarathon.tumblr.com/ and the rest of the article after the break.
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LINZ_EINST/JETZT
The Deep Space Live – Series “LINZ_EINST/JETZT” which compares historical pictures of Linz with their current views is having it’s next installment on November 15th at the Ars Electronica Center. MMag. Maria Jenner, who’s taking care of coordinating and programming the series and works at the Archiv der Stadt Linz talks about how the cooperation…
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Dr. Manuela Macedonia about Knowledge Transfer
There’s a lot of things to learn from Neuroscience. Dr. Manuela Macedonia talks about the impact that findings from this field can have on a lot of other disciplines and why the knowledge transfer is not always easy. Macedonia will be having her last “Brain For Everybody” – Talk for 2012 on November 15 at…
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L.S.D Light to Sound Device
Screens and displays can be found almost everywhere, on our mobiles, in our car or in our livingroom. With his project L.S.D, the artist Benjamin Gaulon tries to create a new viewpoint on this everyday devices.
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Collide@CERN Residency Award 2013 – Bill Fontana
[:de]Der Collide@CERN Residency Award geht in die zweite Runde, wieder haben sich Dutzende Künstlerinnen und Künstler aus der ganzen Welt um die Möglichkeit beworben, am CERN in Genf und im Ars Electronica Futurelab in Linz ihre Projekte in einer potentiell komplett neuen Umgebung umzusetzen, mit den hellsten Köpfen aus der Welt der Wissenschaft und der…
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Visualizing Global Marathon 2012
Seed was one of the big partners of THE BIG PICTURE, were responsible for an exhibition and one panel of the symposium. Seed is also behind visualizing.org, a plattform that’s a hub for designers, reseachers and everyone else interested in datavisualisation. From November 9th to November 11th they will be hosting the biggest competition in…
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GiraDora
The project GiraDora shows what social design can do! Come up with easy solutions to current problems and invite local people to participate. The outcome: a human-powered washer and spin dryer that increases the efficiency and improves the experience of hand-washing clothes for women living without access to running water.
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The Big Picture at Deep Space
[:de]Big Picture ist jetzt auch im Deep Space des Ars Electronica Centers zu sehen.