2013
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John-Dylan Haynes – TOTAL RECALL Symposium
Reading and influencing other people’s minds seems like science fiction to you? Then John-Dylan Haynes’ talk during the TOTAL RECALL – Symposium is probably exactly your thing.
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Week 1 – Bill Fontana, Collide@CERN
The month of July was Bill Fontana’s first part of his residency at CERN. And he was not alone! He came also with his family, which included his photographer son, Michael Fontana, 18. Every week, Michael interviewed his father and his inspiration partner, CERN cosmologist Subodh Patil about what they were thinking of the week…
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Nick Goldman – TOTAL RECALL Symposium
Nick Goldman will talk about a completely new take on on an old problem during TOTAL RECALL – The Evolution of Memory. Having been working with DNA and facing the challenges that storing a lot of data brings along, he developed a method of using DNA instead of harddrives, flashmemory or similar technology. It started…
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Séra Ildi Creates Her World
[:de]Zum u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD Festival kommen jedes Jahr Künstler und Künstlerinnen von überall aus der Welt. Sie zeigen uns ihre Ideen, probieren sie hier aus und lassen sich selbst zu Neuen inspirieren. Séra Ildi aus der Schweiz arbeitet mit Erinnerungen, die in Menschen, Orten und Dingen gespeichert sind und spinnt sie weiter. Beim…
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The Sounds of Physics – Bill Fontana’s Residency at CERN
Bill Fontana has been busy at the CERN, working as the winner of the Collide@CERN Residency Award. What he has been up to will be subject of this series of blog-posts over the course of the next 4 weeks.
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voestalpine Soundcloud 2013 – Bruckner lives!
On September 7th 2013, the voestalpine Klangwolke 2013 – Bruckner lives! is going to take off, and the Ars Electronica will be part of it, with an app.
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Station Rose – Digital Quarter Century Shelter
TOTAL RECALL – The Evolution of Memory will spotlight some of the pioneers of digital media art. Station Rose already caught the digital virus in 1988. They’ve been creating audiovisual sculptures, and mixing into their performances digitally produced sounds together with worlds of light, video and imagery. In light of this long career, they have…
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CREATE YOUR WORLD – Highlights to Heighten the Anticipation
[:de]CREATE YOUR WORLD 2013 findet in 3 Wochen statt und geht damit in die 3. Runde. Seit 2011 ist es ist nicht nur ein Ort des kreativen Ausdrucks im Bereich der Medienkünste, sondern auch ein Ort der Zusammenkunft und des gemeinsamen Gestaltens: ein Ort, an dem Künstlerinnen, Wissenschaftler, Forscherinnen sowie wissbegierige und kreative Festivalbesucher gemeinsam…
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El Campo de Cebada – CyberArts 2013
When the CyberArts 2013 opens it’s doors on September 5th, El Campo de Cebada, winners of the Golden Nica in Digital Communities, will be part of it. It’s a self-managed camp in Madrid/Spain, cleverly showing what the urban space of the 21st century might look like. We have talked with Zuloark, the architects behind this…
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SolePower
SolePower employs the piezoelectric effect to generate electricity from the human kinetic energy. By capturing accessible human energy and transforming it into electricity, SolePower enables us to leverage the energy we expend everyday by using it to power our mobile devices.
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WIR SIND HIER – Jules Marshall: Apocalypse How? (Essay)
The Lying World – In the endlessness of today’s universe of information, we can no longer use the truth as a criterion to judge what we can trust.
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Cosmopolitan Chicken Project – CyberArts 2013
The Cosmopolitan Chicken Project bei Koen Vanmechelen is one of the centerpieces of the CyberArts 2013. By crossbreeding different races of chickens, he’s creating a metaphor for our society and our human race. We have met Koen to talk about what can be expected during TOTAL RECALL The Evolution of Memory.
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CyberArts 2013 – Martin Sturm interviewed
A highlight of each year’s festival is the CyberArts exhibition featuring installations, videos and performances singled out for recognition by the Prix Ars Electronica. Martin Sturm, director of the OK Center for Contemporary Art, is responsible for the exhibition’s design. In this interview, he reveals some of what awaits festivalgoers in 2013.
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TOTAL RECALL – Il(l) Machine – Ars Campus Israel
Il(l) Machine is the Campus-Exhibition of TOTAL RECALL – The Evolution of Memory. It’s the first ever collaboration between the art- and technology-centered institutes and universities of Israel, offering a showcase of the current trends and developments of a country with one of the richest cultural heritages in the world.
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Rebecca Gischel Creates Her World
Every year artists from all over the world come to u19 CREATE YOUR WORLD Festival to show us their ideas, try them and also get inspired to do new Projects. Interaction artist Rebecca Gischel shows the installation Global Sounds – here she writes about her works and the ideas behind them.
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Minsky
Understand the economy as dynamic model and forsee the economy crisis at the same time? If you think that sounds to good to be true, have a look at Professor Steve Keen´s project, who is working on that at the very moment….
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GameLab – A Youth Meeting at u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD
It’s official! The EU’s Youth in Action program has agreed to sponsor GameLab, a European young people’s conclave developed and submitted for funding by Ars Electronica together with mb21 (Germany), bugnplay.ch (Switzerland) und C319 (Hungary). We’re thrilled; the participants will be too! But, like, what’s this GameLab all about, actually?
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Mónica Rikić Creates Her World
Every year artists from all over the world come to u19 CREATE YOUR WORLD Festival to show us their ideas, try them and also get inspired to do new Projects. One of them is Mónica Rikić, our guest from Spain and will be showing her project Buildasound. Here she tells us the tale of this…
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WIR SIND HIER – Lets build a user generated sculpture in Linz
We’re building a user generated sculpture in Linz from old analog and digital devices, and you can help us! Tell us your ideas! Show us your vision! Send us Material! What should the sculpture look like? Show us a picture of your ideas or tell us how it could look in the comments section of our website. You…
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TOTAL RECALL – Symposium, Prof. Dr. Frank Hartmann
At the TOTAL RECALL Symposium session on September 8, 2013, the topic of the day will be the origins and history of various archiving technologies. Frank Hartmann, media philosopher and professor of visual communications, will speak about Paul Otlet, the inventor of an archiving system with many similarities to the ones we’re familiar with today.…
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WIR SIND HIER – Make your own REMIX of history
In Occupy History, users can produce a six-second looped video using the Twitter tool Vine. Vines should show how history (and memory along with it) has been transformed by the lens of pop culture. Pictures and symbols have been given new interpretations and new connotations. A few popular examples are Hipster Hitler, Che Guevara as…
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A Robot Conquers Outer Space
One small step for him, one giant leap for robot-kind. On the 4th of August 2013, the crew of the International Space Station ISS gains a new member. A robotic one, named Kirobo and only 34 centimeters in body height. His mission: having chats with the human astronauts. Being their moral support. Martina Mara from…
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Synthetic Biology
Molecular biologist Manuel Selg, scientific advisor of the Ars Electronica Center was also involved as expert for the new exhibition “Project Genesis”. We asked him what synthetic biology actually is, about the current state of knowledge and research in this field, and to assess the prospects for development in the coming years.
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u19 – u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD 2013 – A Recall for Round 3
Since 1998, there’s been a Prix Ars Electronica category strictly for young people. Up through 2010, it was called u19 – freestyle computing. Youngsters could enter all sorts of digital projects for prize consideration; the sole submission criterion was working in a creative way with the computer. It quickly became clear that so-called new media…
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Update WIR SIND HIER – Where are we?
Writing for the online art project WIR SIND HIER (Opening Festival Ars Electronica 2013), David Dorrell reveals why the modern world is a sinister place, and how it could have gotten so far.
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Sonja Bäumel – Metabodies
August 1st will see the opening of “Projekt Genesis – Synthetic Biology, Life from the Lab”, the new exhibition at the Ars Electronica Center. One of the works on display is Metabodies by Sonja Bäumel (AT).
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HR Giger – Featured Artist Festival Ars Electronica 2013
Few artists can claim to have made a major impact on popular culture. HR Giger is one of the few. After all, he’s responsible to a very great extent for the pictures that come to mind when we imagine aliens. At TOTAL RECALL – The Evolution of Memory, Giger is the featured artist.
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Zapland
How is it actually possible to teach Kids about complex and often even for adults hard to understand topics such as energy and sustainability? With their Zapland project the developers from Kitchen Budapest are currently working something that could change the way how we deal with this question.