2013
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New ways of documentation
The 2013 Ars Electronica Festival isn’t focusing only on memory and how we deal with it. A big part of this thematic complex has to do with new forms and formats of remembering things—how we can store them to memory and document them. Two possibilities will be implemented in everyday life at the festival, and…
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Like A Second Nature – Meter Crawler
Meter Crawler by Keiko Takahashi (JP) is still on display in Berlin at the VW Automobil Forum Unter den Linden as part of
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Maps, Indoors
Orientation is an important part of our life. We use clocks to figure out our position on the time axis, and maps help us find our way in unfamiliar spaces, regardless of whether it’s a new city or a strange continent. Maps have been getting more and more detailed, generating them is an increasingly complex…
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WIR SIND HIER – Opening TOTAL RECALL – The Evolution of Memory
TOTAL RECALL – The Evolution of Memory starts on September 5th. The opening event is “We are here”, a transdisciplinary performance about memory, consciousness, responsibility and surveillance. We have talked to Salvatore Vanasco, one of the initiators of this project and no stranger to Ars Electronica.
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Artists As Catalysts – Lourdes Fernández
Lourdes Fernández is the director of Alhondiga in Bilbao. We have talked about “Artists As Catalysts”, the exhibition, that has been curated by Ars Electronica Linz GmbH and Alhondiga.
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Cookease – Intelligent Cooking System
The Cookease system is a solution for our growing desires for healthy convenient food. The Cookease system is an intelligent and sophisticated system – rather than just measuring the time required to cook meals the conventional way, Cookease calculates the precise amount of steam and time required to cook a combination of ingredients in order…
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openAIR – The mixing desk for everyone in everyday use
[:de]openAIR – Accessibility in Radio Production, das faderlose Mischpult, das vom Ars Electronica Futurelab im Auftrag von Radio FRO, dem Freien Radio Oberösterreich, entwickelt wurde, ist seit einigen Wochen im Praxiseinsatz.
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Artists As Catalysts – Interview with Curator Manuela Naveau
Starting on July 4th 2013, “Artists as Catalysts” is the new exhibition curated by Ars Electroncia Linz GmbH. Manuela Naveau, instrumental in curating this project at the Alhondiga in Bilbao/Spain, talks about the topic and the works of the exhibition.
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The Tokens
The young dutch designer Marco van Beers quite intensively investigated the field of illness and communication, and approaches this complex field from a socio – technological perspective. One output is a project called “The Tokens” which tries to improve the interaction between severely ill people and their social environment through non – verbal communication.
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Like A Second Nature – WALL
Rejane Cantoni and Leonardo Crescenti are the creative brains behind the kinetic installation WALL, which is currently on display in Berlin and will move to Linz in a couple of weeks. During the preparations for “Like A Second Nature”, there was time for a chat.
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In Search Of Lost Time…
Harmeet Chagger-Khan, expert for digital film and media, was working for 8 weeks at the Ars Electronica Futurelab as part of a residency-program. This is her story during those 8 weeks.
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Aakash Odedra / Lewis Major / Ars Electronica Futurelab /Dance-performance
Aakash Odedra, a british dancer, has teamed up with the Ars Electronica Futurelab to create a dancing performance including all sorts of technological adds such as tracking, visualizations, projections and more. During his visit in April, when he came to Linz together with his choreographer Lewis Major, there was some time to talk about the…
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Do-it-Yourself World Design: The u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD Manual
Here’s the story right from the beginning: u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD is Ars Electronica’s festival for kids, young people and anybody else interested in co-determining how the world works, today and tomorrow. The colorful festival village round about the Ars Electronica Center is a playground for ideas, concepts, experiments and solutions to fascinating problems.…
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KNOWLEDGE CAPITAL Ars Electronica Creative Cloud – Zach Lieberman
Ars Electronica Creative Cloud is a workshop series held in the Knowledge Capital (http://kc-i.jp/en/) of Osaka in a brand-new creative hub for innovation through a fusion of human creativity and technology. 10 creative workshops will be conducted in this cultural program curated by Ars Electronica, starting June 2013 to May 2014, including cutting-edge talk sessions…
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The honorary mention goes to: Gravity Light
Generate light and energy through the force of gravitation! This idea convinced the [next idea] jury and the project GravityLight got awarded a honorary mention. We congratulate and dedicate this blog entry to that brilliant project!
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Alistair McClymont – Like A Second Nature
Alistair McClymont is an artist from the UK, his “Limitations of Logic and the Absence of Absolute Certainty” is showing in Berlin in the VW Automobil Forum Unter den Linden als part of “Like A Second Nature”. Find out what he has to say about his work!
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We shape our world
From August 1, 2013, the new exhibition “Yours Synthetically” is all about the thematic topic of synthetic biology. Matthew Gardiner has put together the artistic works.
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Like A Second Nature – Interview with the architects
“Like a Second Nature” is the latest exhibition Ars Electronica and VW have jointly staged in VW’s Automobilforum Unter den Linden in Berlin. The opening is set for June 6th. The exhibition design is by Jürgen Haller and Christoph Weidinger, two architects going by the name of any:time. We recently had a chance to chat…
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Land Unter
On June 2nd, 3rd and 4th, massive floodings hit Austria. The Ars Electronica Center stayed more or less dry, here’s the story.
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And the Winner is: Hyperform!
Congratulations to Marcelo Coelho and Skylar Tibbits from Fromlabs! With their project Hyperform they´ve won this years [the next idea] voestalpine Art and Technology Grant! You can find a detailed description of the project here.
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Vision 2030 – Lebe deinen Traum
Class J1 at Pettenbach Elementary School is a group of 22 pupils of different ages, some handicapped, some not. These kids got to try their hand at filmmaking in conjunction with a project entitled Vision 2030 that’s all about trying to envision the future. A pretty tough assignment, as it turns out.
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Maholo Uchida, Miraikan, about In Touch With The Earth
Miraikan’s Tsunagari-Project has landed in Linz, in the Deep Space of the Ars Electronica Center. For the first time, the visualisations of the GeoCosmos, a 6 metre wide sphere covered with millions of organic LEDs, are shown outside of the biggest technology-institute in Japan. We have talked to Maholo Uchida, curator of Miraikan and member…
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A Crazy Chicken
The children of the “Kindergarten of the Future” in Linz have chosen a picture book about a crazy chicken and turned it into a small exhibition.
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Murmuration at the Bergen International Festival
Murmuration, the opening-show of the Bergen International Festival, that has been developed both by phase 7 and the Ars Electronica Futurelab, premiered on May 22nd. Check out pictures and videos of the show below, or the interview with Sven Beyer, creative director of phase 7.
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Winners Prix Ars Electronica 2013
Voilá, those are the Golden Nicas and Awards of Distinctions of Prix Ars Electronica 2013.
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The Golden Nica for Visual:Drumset
Visual:Drumset functions by means of projection mapping, a technique for projecting images onto slanted and/or three-dimensional surfaces. A beamer is used to project points onto each drumhead; every time a drum is struck, the points enlarge. The drum beats are registered by vibration sensors on the underside of each drum. The information is fed into…
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Gamestage@AEC: Tu Felix Austria, Lude!
Austrian game designers and their computer games will be the stars of the show at the 2nd GamesDay@AEC on May 17th. We recently caught up with Stefan Schraml to get the lowdown on the specifics (the lineup in detail) and the big picture (what this get-together is all about).
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Bergen International Festival
In London, the spaxels were used for promotional purposes. The Ars Electronica Futurelab received a specific assignment and successfully carried it out. But as the voestalpine Klangwolke brilliantly demonstrated, the quadcopters can take to the air in an artistic role too. We recently had a chance to chat with Sven Beyer, artistic director of phase…