2015
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Day 5: Last Day at the PostCity
Day 5 and thus the final day of the 2015 Ars Electronica Festival is over! We thank all who have made this festival so memorable: all artists, scientists, activists and contributors! Here is a look back at the last day.
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Day 4: Citizen Day at the Ars Electronica Festival
Sunday was Citizen Day in the PostCity with projects designed to get locals to rethink Linz and to discover and develop new perspectives. In the evening many artists and symposia speakers already had to leave. We take a look back on an eventful festival Sunday.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2015
POST CITY – Habitats for the 21st Century. 92,000 visits, 482 individual events featuring 946 artists, scientists, activists and other protagonists from 42 countries. This retrospective look at one of the best-attended festivals of all time is an amazing sight to behold. We’ve assembled an array of excellent impressions of all the festival venues—but especially…
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Day 3: About Markets and Prix winners
Informative, entertaining, spectacular. The third day of the 2015 Ars Electronica Festival is already over. We have recorded a few moments of this day.
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Day 2: Hustle and Bustle in the PostCity
Day 2 of the 2015 Ars Electronica Festival is over and it was symposia day! But also in u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD and the theme exhibition was a hustle and bustle.
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Day 1: The PostCity flourishs
The first day of the 2015 Ars Electronica Festival already marks the wide range of exhibitions and events – and gives a foretaste of the following four festival days in Linz.
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Mercedes-Benz F 015 Luxury in Motion in Linz
Two days before the start of the Ars Electronica Festival, the research vehicle Mercedes-Benz F 015 Luxury in Motion made a stop on the main square of Linz for an European premiere.
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Spaceship Earth
We are all astronauts. The new exhibition “Spaceship Earth” at the Ars Electronica Center in collaboration with the ESA is dedicated to the fascinating and revealing satellite images of our planet.
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PostCity – 72 hours before the start
In less than 72 hours we go, the Ars Electronica Festival 2015. We have been looking at the PostCity, the central location this year.
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Myriads: Transgression in the Post City
Through Myriads Salvatore Iaconesi and Oriana Persico want to establish a peer-to-peer ethnography of a city: a diffused participatory observation in which the myriads of public micro-histories become a commons and are performed through art, education, citizen engagement, tactical usage, starting from margins.
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Gerfried Stocker Leads the Openings & Introductory Parcours
The 2015 Ars Electronica Festival kicks off on September 3, 2015. Whoever wants to take it all in and benefit from expert commentary along the way should definitely join the Openings & Introductory Parcours led by Ars Electronica Artistic Director Gerfried Stocker.
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The Urban Design Lab at 2015 Ars Electronica Festival
The Habitat 21 exhibition at the Ars Electronica Festival 2015 considers the process of urbanization going on worldwide. One part of this exhibition is the Urban Design Laboratory – an experimental design methodology combining people-centered planning and urban strategies.
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Citythinking as Key to Unknown Potentials
[tp3] architects and Eddea Arquitectura y Urbanismo deal with strategic development processes of cities. Together they have attuned the creative method of Citythinking to the theme of this year’s Ars Electronica Festival and also further developed it.
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u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD Festival
During the Ars Electronica Festival 2015, 3rd to 7th September, the u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD Festival is dedicated especially to our young audience. It is the venue for the creation and exchange of ideas, solutions, concepts and experiments for the future of young people under 19 years.
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University 8.0: the digital challenge!
It’s become something of a Linz Art University tradition to invite a partner institution from outside Austria to make a guest appearance at the Campus Exhibition. At the Ars Electronica Festival 2015, Paris 8 University presents thirty years of digital research and creative work.
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CyberArts 2015: State of the Electronic Arts
The Prix Ars Electronica is one of the world’s most prestigious awards for creativity and pioneering spirit in the use of digital media. Each year, the prizewinning works are showcased at one of the highlights of the Ars Electronica Festival: the CyberArts exhibition.
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Semiconductor wins Collide@CERN Ars Electronica Award
The English artist duo, Semiconductor, will begin a two-month residency at CERN. Then their next stop is Linz, where they will spend a month at the Ars Electronica Futurelab.
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Deep Space 8K – The Next Generation
Sharper pictures, brighter colors and starker contrast are in store for visitors to Deep Space 8K. On August 7th Deep Space 8K premiered and guests immerse themselves in these extraordinary realms of imagery for the first time.
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The Naked Truth of The Naked Veriti Project
The Naked Verity project, realized by Spanish artists for the Ars Electronica Festival 2015, uses memory, interaction and light, and composite and manufactured parts to express feelings and thoughts about technological art at the festival.
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eMotionSpheres: Collision-free Motion of Autonomous Systems
With the eMotionSpheres, Festo shows how several flying objects can move in a coordinated manner and within a defined space. The intelligent networking system creates a guidance and monitoring system that could be used in the networked factory of the future.
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Why is More – a working process and a recognition of rules
The Linz based architect team [tp3] architects and Eddea Arquitectura y Urbanismo deal with strategic development processes of cities – an important point in the Ars Electronica Festival 2015. Now the concept for the exhibition display for the festival has been defined.
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Are we ready for the post-post-media era?
Media are now available anytime and anyplace; in fact, it is becoming difficult to switch them off and remain “off-grid”. But we are also beginning to realize that all of this is not really necessary. A kind of protest movement is emerging in this “post-Google” and “post-Snowden” world.
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Rhythm as the DNA of music
During Hyungjoong Kim’s residency at the Ars Electronica Futurelab he will explore the traditional Korean music and develop an interface to change the rhythm of music. The result will be unveiled at the Ars Electronica Festival 2015.
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A flea market with “internet-ish” things in actual space
Internet Yami-Ichi means Black Market in English and it’s a one-day flea market which deals “internet-ish” things, face-to-face, in actual space. After bringing the market to Tokyo, Berlin, Brussels and Amsterdam, the Ars Electronica Festival 2015 in Linz will be the next station.
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A Close-up Look at Cultural Heritage in Deep Space 8K
To take full advantage of the breathtaking clarity in the new Deep Space 8K, the 8K resolution at 120 Hz and in stereo 3-D, it’s not enough to simply upgrade the hardware. The content to be presented also has to have what it takes to deliver the ultimate visual experience to audience members.
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Artistic Ideas for the Ecological Development
For the installation “Plantas Autofotosintéticas” Gilberto Esparza won the Golden Nica in the Hybrid Art category at the Prix Ars Electronica 2015. This is a complex symbiotic system, which reveals ideas for the ecological development.
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Inside & Between: Within Different Worlds
Gabriel Radwan is this year’s Golden Nica winner in the Prix Ars Electronica’s u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD category. The 19-year-old student’s prizewinning project is a stop-motion film entitled “Inside & Between”.
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A New Mastermind in Deep Space 8K
In Deep Space 8K, visitors can look forward to breathtaking visuals in 8K resolution on 16×9-meter projection surfaces on the wall and the floor. And processing the resulting flow of data — an awesome 23 gigabytes/second in real time — demands a special high-performance processor.