2013
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PIKA360 at the Linz Verändert – Tent at the Urfahraner Herbstmarkt
The Urfahraner Herbstmarkt is opening it’s doors on Saturday, September 28th. A part of is the Linz Verändert – Tent, where Ars Electronica is cooperating with the Stadt Linz AG to provide insight on how the city works. PIKA360 is one of the new installations on display and we have talked to the developers to…
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Week 2 – Bill Fontana, Collide@CERn
After the first week’s video blog, Bill Fontana started exploring the CERN laboratory in many different ways. Armed with his accelerometers, which are used by structural engineers traditionally to measure the movement of structures and his recording equipment, he revealed the inner sound worlds of dipoles, the CERN grid in the computer centre and even…
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TOTAL RECALL – Symposium, Day 2
You’ll find all the talks of the second day of the TOTAL RECALL – Symposium.
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TOTAL RECALL – Symposium – Day 1
All the talks of the first day of the TOTAL RECALL – Symposium are collected here.
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Air Project
How would a world look like in which air has become a scarce resource? The artists behind the Air Project have thought about this question and created an interesting installations that opens a new perspective….
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Festivalralley – Part 3
During monday afternoon’s Festival rallye, we sighted Nora and Ilvy in the Brucknerhaus amidst an exhibition of brains in glass jars. They also listened in to recordings from all over the world emanating from a spherical sound storage medium rotating like a globe. At the Ars Electronica Center, the two girls improvised on the set…
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Make Your World the Way YOU Want It to Be!
This year’s u19 Create Your World Festival ran from September 5th to 9th. Young people (and the young at heart) enjoyed up-close-and-personal encounters with a wide array of projects, initiatives and design possibilities.
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Festivalralley – Part 2
Christina and Alina joined the Festival rallye today. In the Brucknerhaus, they contributed a picture of our world to Benjamin Pollach’s World Map Archive. Then, the curious duo observed how the Table of Gazes draws faces by following the subject’s eye movements. In the Campus exhibition featuring young Israeli artists, Christina and Alina focused on…
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Day 4: Discovery with All the Senses
Use all your senses to experience the u19 Festival! Here’s an overview of Day 4.
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Day 4, Rock Shows and Music
[:de]Die voestalpine Klangwolke 2013 will noch verarbeitet werden, Aural-Memory-Machine hat unglaubliche akustische Eindrücke hinterlassen, und die OK Night hat so einige zum Tanzen gebracht. Zeit zum Ausruhen bleibt allerdings keine, auch am Sonntag gehts dahin.
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Festivalralley – Part 1
Theo and Jonas kicked off the Festival rallye in the Brucknerhaus this afternoon. The two junior technologists did a cartographic rendering for the World Map Archive and helped the toy soldiers guard the computer’s data. At Linz Art University, they saw artwork from Israel. Their favorite was the robot that, in accordance with Jewish custom,…
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A Festival Dedicated to Social Welfare
Today, the accent is on various aspects of the community in which we live.
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TOTAL RECALL – Day 3
The Golden Nicas were awarded, and there’s still a lot to discover at TOTAL RECALL – The Evolution of Memory.
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A Sustainable Festival
It’s been a busy time, since the u19 awards ceremony was held today. Here we spotlight a few projects having to do with sustainability.
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Project Genesis for Everybody
Nicole Grüneis of the Ars Electronica Center’s Education and Cultural Communication department designs together with her colleagues exhibitions’ supplementary program of guided tours and workshops. In this interview, she talks about mediating visitors’ encounters with “Project Genesis – Life from the Lab”.
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TOTAL RECALL / Day 2
Day 2 of TOTAL RECALL – The Evolution of Memory has began, and you probably won’t even have time to enjoy the great weather.
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TOTAL RECALL – Day 1, a report and an outlook
[:de]Linz is full of an international crowd, the Donaulände is buzzing, the exhibitions are in full swing, and the weather is great. The first day of Festival Ars Electronica 2013 is perfect, but it’s not over yet!
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From times past into future
First festival day.
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TOTAL RECALL – Kickoff!
Enough rehearsals, enough planing, enough tinkering, the Festival Ars Electronica 2013 begins!
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u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD – Zukunftsfestival der nächsten Generation
The u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD – Festivalstadt is almost ready, members of the press have already seen it, you can start exploring tomorrow, September 5th.
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Schizophrenia Taiwan 2.0 – Interview with the curators
Schizophrenia Taiwan is one of the exhibitions of TOTAL RECALL – The Evolution of Memory, stationed in the Tabakfabrik. It’s topic is a country whose people live in a constant crisis of identity. The curators tell you why it is like this.
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The artists have arrived
Every year before the festival, the OK Offenes Kulturhaus im OÖ Kulturquartier invites all the artists of the CyberArts for a welcome-drink. If it’s up to the artists, Festival Ars Electronica 2013 is ready to begin.
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Computer Games: Good Game – Bad Game?
Jeremiah Diephuis and Stefan Schraml collaborated with associates in the Linz gamer scene to launch GameStage. In this interview, the two game experts talk about computer gaming, their exhibition at the Ars Electronica Festival, and the game events coming up at FamilyDays in November.
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Checklist for TOTAL RECALL – The Evolution
Only a few days are left until the start of TOTAL RECALL – The Evolution of Memory, and while the Festival-Team is busy with last-minute-preparations, there’s a couple of things that you can do as well. Check out which in this article!
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Urban Audio Zaragoza – Florian Türcke
Paseo Project is one of the project supported by Prix Ars Electronica. The competition is currently open for submissions. To give you an idea of what might happen if you win, german artist Florian Türcke is sharing insight.
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A Festival Village Takes Shape
[:de]Die Fotoserie vom Aufbau der u19 Festivalstadt: Am Dienstag, 27. 8. um 7:00 kam der erste von 31 Containern am Maindeck des Ars Electronica Centers an. Inzwischen ist eine bunte Stadt daraus entstanden, die ab nächster Woche von den 40 ProjektpartnerInnen von u19 Create Your World bezogen wird. Am Donnerstag, 5. 9. um 10:00 öffnen…
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NanoLeaf
The at the moment most efficient light bulb in the world was unfortunately too far developed, to receive the [next idea] grant. But as it is an extraordinarily product, we still want to dedicate one blog post to this idea…
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The Aural-Memory-Machine sounds the Mariendom
For the third year in a row now, Linz’s Mariendom—St. Mary’s Cathedral—will serve as the venue for a very special acoustic performance and installation on festival Saturday. “The Aural-Memory-Machine” by Wolfgang “Fadi” Dorninger will play the extraordinary acoustics of this space, engendering constantly emerging, varying and disintegrating worlds of sound. It will be an excursion…