The dense and multifaceted program of the Ars Electronica Festival started its third round on Saturday. Even more visitors than on weekdays went to the central and temporary location of the media art festivals, the PostCity – because next year the festival will be again staged at a different location in Linz. So it’s a unique opportunity to visit the festival in this form – until Monday, September 7, 2015. We looked around in the festival locations this Saturday, to capture some impressions for you.
Video: Martin Hieslmair
The third day of the 2015 Ars Electronica Festival starts already at 9 AM – at the Ars Electronica Center. In addition to new exhibitions such as “Spaceship Earth” and “Elements of Art and Science“ and the new “Deep Space 8K” here also lectures take place, such as “Smart Creativity, Smart Democracy“, a platform for exchange by Euro Council, Ars Electronica and the Austrian Federal Chancellery.
Photo: Tom Mesic
The International Teletext Art Festival shows that it’s also nice to look at a few less pixels in Deep Space 8K. Here, the artists have created pictures with teletext codes and its reduced possibilities of the teletext system.
Photo: Martin Hieslmair
Meanwhile, the second round of the six Prix forums starts at the OK im OÖ Kulturquartier at 10 AM. Here the pricewinners of the 2015 Prix Ars Electronica have their say. A very special opportunity to meet the people behind the artworks.
Photo: Florian Voggeneder
Even Visionary Pioneer of Media Arts 2015, Jeffrey Shaw, specially traveled to the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz.
Photo: Florian Voggeneder
At the PostCity at the same time, the “farmer’s market of the future” by BIO AUSTRIA Upper Austria starts. Delicious local products can be purchased here directly.
Photo: Tom Mesic
… while in the background the Diaspora Maschine takes a one day break that will resound for the last time at the Big Concert Night on Sunday, Sept. 6, 2015.
Photo: Tom Mesic
We again make a visual jump towards the main square, specifically to the Linz Art University and the campus exhibition of Université Paris 8.
Photo: Tom Mesic
Photo: Tom Mesic
… and we continue to walk back to the Ars Electronica Center. “Art and Science” is a focus of this year’s Ars Electronica Festival, plus there at the museum of the future there is also a new exhibition, called “Elements of Art and Science”.
Photo: Martin Hieslmair
The exhibition “Habitat 21″ in the PostCity takes up thoughts about the increasing urbanization in the 21st century – and matches this year’s festival theme.
Photo: Martin Hieslmair
The photo exhibition “Hallstatt Revisited” by Norbert Artner at the PostCity shows impressions from the Chinese province of Guangdong, where a walk-in copy of the Austrian village Hallstatt was built from scratch.
Photo: Tom Mesic
In Deep Space 8K of the Ars Electronica Center there can be watched many other places – at least virtually. In2White by Filippo Blengini shows the biggest panoramic image of the world that has been built up from 70,000 individual images of the imposing mountain Mont Blanc.
Photo: Martin Hieslmair
Meanwhile another market opens its doors in the PostCity – the Internet Yami–Ichi. Here goods and experiences from the online world are being offered.
Photo: Martin Hieslmair
Photo: Tom Mesic
Saturday, early afternoon. The visitors are getting more and more in the PostCity. It’s good to have highway signs.
Photo: Tom Mesic
In between, the artists group around the Hiroo Iwata present their Big Robot Mk1.
Photo: Tom Mesic
The visitors who step into “Feed me” by the Romanian artists Saint Machine and Noper are amazed.
Photo: Tom Mesic
Right next door, in the area of u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD, you can listen to the discussions of young people – or even try many things for yourself.
Photo: Tom Mesic
Time goes by, also in the next room of the train hall – at the lower floor of the PostCity.
Photo: Tom Mesic
You are watching a tree flying by? The voestalpine Klangwolke 2015 shows a impressive storytelling at the Danube Park.
Photo: Florian Voggeneder
Photo: Florian Voggeneder
Photo: Florian Voggender
Under the open sky, the Saturday night program has another highlight to offer. At the top of the OK im OÖ Kulturquartier excellent works of the Ars Electronica Animation Festival can be watched.
Photo: Tom Mesic
And last but not least, the dance performance “Second Body” by Chieh–hua Hsieh at the Mariendom makes the automated use of our body visible.
Photo: Florian Voggender