It was already the fourth day of the Ars Electronica Festival, but the enthusiasm for media art, outstanding lectures and surprising performances didn’t stop there. No surprise – with such a comprehensive festival program, it’s impossible to see everything even after four full days! Here you can see which highlights and moments were most impressive on Sunday – day four at the 2018 Ars Electronica Festival.
BR41N.IO Hackathon / g.tec medical engineering GmbH (AT) (Credit: vog.photo)
Even before the gates of POSTCITY Linz opened again for visitors, a small group of people were already hard at work inside: The hackers, designers, scientists and creative minds of the BR41N.IO Hackathon were developing their projects. The task was to realize different ideas with brain-computer-interfaces…
BR41N.IO Hackathon / g.tec medical engineering GmbH (AT) (Credit: vog.photo)
…in a time frame of exactly 24 hours. After programming and hacking all night long, the results could finally be presented and prizes be awarded on Sunday afternoon.
ASSISIbf—Symbiotic computation of bio-hybrid systems / University of Graz — Artificial Life Lab (Project coordination) (AT), Universite Paris Diderot — LIED (FR), Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne — LSRO (CH), University of Zagreb — LARICS (HR) (Credit: tom mesic)
Right next door, visitors to the exhibition The Practice of Art & Science strolled through projects at the interface of art and science…
Space Art (Credit: vog.photo)
…and looked for inspiration in the Space Art exhibition based on space travel.
Klangschlange / Queensland University of Technology (AU) (Credit: Robert Bauernhansl)
In between, unsuspecting visitors repeatedly experienced the pop-up performance Klangschlange from Queensland University of Technology at POSTCITY, which invited them to join in.
LightTank / Uwe Rieger (DE/NZ), Yinan Liu (NZ) (arc/sec Lab) @ St. Mary’s Cathedral (Credit: tom mesic)
Not far away from POSTCITY, Uwe Rieger an Yinan Liu impressed festival visitors with LightTank – in the middle of the St Mary’s Cathedral in Linz. This year, the church once again got turned into a very special kind of festival location.
„SAY_SUPERSTRINGS“ / dastrio (KR/DE), OUCHHH (TR) (Credit: vog.photo)
There was also a lot going on at the Ars Electronica Center: At SAY_SUPERSTRINGS by dastrio and OUCHHH for example, piano music and visualizations met at Deep Space 8K.
The One that Shatters in the Air / Changyeob (C.Y.) Ok (KR) (Credit: vog.photo)
On the other bank of the Danube, the Campus Exhibition at the Linz University of Arts is once again a source of inspiration today, for example with The One that Shatters in the Air.
Impressions from the u19 Exhibition in POSTCITY (Credit: tom mesic)
Back at POSTCITY Linz, the area of U19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD was full of people who programmed, crafted, danced, tried out new things and just simply had fun.
Hebocon (Credit: Gregor Tatschl)
In between workshops and Open Labs, the first Hebocon in the history of the Ars Electronica Festival also took place. Here, badly made low-tech robots competed against each other in a kind of sumo wrestling match.
Jugend Hackt ZONE / Jugend Hackt (AT) & Jugend Hackt (DE) (Credit: tom mesic)
The robots could be crafted directly at the festival at the Open Lab of Jugend Hackt.
Abeer Seikaly (JO) (Credit: tom mesic)
The vibe at the Future Innovators Summit was a little bit more serious: The experts coming from areas like art, business, activism, or science thought about creative questions of the future.
Nahum (MX/DE) (Credit: Gregor Tatschl)
The conference hall was also full of people busy thinking: In the second part of the theme conference (part 1 already took place on Friday) discussions revolved around the error in science and space travel.
The Berlioz Project at the Big Concert Night, POSTCITY (Credit: vog.photo)
At the Big Concert Night on Sunday evening, a great festival weekend came to an end: With spectacular show interludes and the impressive live music of the Bruckner Orchestra Linz, the evening was – as always – a real highlight.
Große Konzertnacht (Credit: vog.photo)
The special location – the old train hall of POSTCITY Linz – and the varied program made for a truly extraordinary evening.
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