Ars Electronica Solutions moves in

Yesterday chairs, tables, computers and other hardware have been packed up, today they are set up in the Tabakfabrik. The hardest part of the move is done, the Ars Electronica Solutions have a new home!

Spaxels - Test at the Donauparkstadion

The last Spaxel-Test of the year took place at the Donauparkstadium, home of Blau-Weiß Linz. The test was about finding out how the quadrocopter and especially their batteries work at low temperatures, but new shapes and animations were tested as well.

Ars Electronica Solutions - Move to Tabakfabrik Linz

Ars Electronica Solutions is lifting off in 2013. The team is getting bigger, there's more products and projects, so there's a need for more space. Starting today, people and equipment are moving into the Tabakfabrik Linz, where Solutions is going to have a new home.

Big Vortex

Discussions about CO2 emissions and calculations about their potential environmental impact have become an everyday feature of our lives. But how to relate this abstract considerations to our daily experiences, at best in association with the local architecture? The Berlin based artist group realities:united comes up with a solution that is as simple as amazing....

Prix Ars Electronica 2013

Was haben John Lasseter, der erste Animator bei Pixar Studios, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, der Erfinder von HTML, einer der Grundlagen des heutigen Internets, und Wikipedia gemeinsam? Alle Erwähnten wurden entweder mit einer Goldenen Nica oder einem Ehrenpreis des Prix Ars Electronica ausgezeichnet. Der renommierte Medienkunstpreis geht 2013 in die 27te Runde, die Einreichung ist mit 18.12.2012 eröffnet.

Start of submission at u19

The approach of Christmas means it’s that wonderful time of the year again—time to send in your submissions to u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD. We cordially invite all you gals & guys under 19 years of age to get involved. We’re looking forward to receiving lots of interesting ideas and projects!

TEA Collective Wisdom - Ars Electronica in Taiwan

TEA Collective Wisdom is still running at the NTMOFA in Taichung. Ars Electronica has again provided a couple of installations. We have asked Shu-Min Lin, one of the curators, about topics concerning the exhibition.

Best exposed

Martina Sochor zum Thema One Day On Earth

Am 12.12.2012 ist Martina Sochor mit einem Team bestehend aus Studierenden der Kunstuni Linz in Linz unterwegs beteiligt sich am One Day On Earth. Wir haben sie auf ein kurzes Gespräch abgefangen.

Robots - Human and Machine?

At the press conference held in conjunction with the opening of “Robots – Human and Machine?” we asked Bodo-Michael Baumunk (curator), Christopher Lindinger (head of R&D at the Ars Electronica Futurelab), Gabriele Zuna-Kratky (director of Vienna’s Museum of Technology) and Helene Wagner (project supervisor) to tell us how the exhibition came about and give us their personal take on robots.

RoboLab at Vienna's Technical Museum

Robots, robots, robots—those that do nasty, dangerous jobs without complaint, those that can bear the heaviest loads and are fluent in all the world’s languages. We’ve seen them in books and movies, but rarely in everyday life. Though we’re already well into the 21st century, most of our homes aren’t yet staffed by a domestic robot that can not only cook like a French chef but also make the beds every day and help the kids with their homework. Nevertheless, these mechanical-digital assistants have indeed taken over key functions in everyday life. From assembly lines in factories to fully automated meal delivery systems in hospitals, from therapeutic applications to acting assignments on the dramatic stage, the ways in which modern robots can be deployed are many and varied.

One Day On Earth 2012

One day, 24 hours. You could break down these units even further into seconds, milliseconds and so forth. One might consider a day in terms of the Earth’s rotation, the time our planet takes to spin once on its axis, the Sun rising and setting, but then of course there’s also the night, and it isn’t until you combine day and night that you get a temporal reference.

Zeit ist Held - Interview

Das Team hinter Zeit ist Held erzählt im Interview, wie die Idee zur Ausstellung entstanden ist, was sie persönlich aus der Recherche mitgenommen haben und worüber sie sich besonders freuen würden. Die Ausstellungseröffnung ist am 6.12. um 18:30 Uhr, nehmen Sie sich die Zeit!

Voyeur

How is it possible to mix intelligent computer technology and architecture, in a way that our lives do not become even more difficult? With his Voyeur project Chia Chi Yeah developed an interesting approach....

Extremely surprised

Time Is Hero - New Exhibition at the Ars Electronica Center

You have your clocks, we have the time. But time is relative. There’s no substitute for taking time, even when it’s running like sand through your fingers. Is my time more valuable than yours? Lifetime, cooking time, Christmastime, prime time. Full-time? Time is something that determines everyday life, characterizes it, divides it up into quantifiable, measurable units, establishes a beat to which we’re all supposed to march to. We have atomic clocks that tell us with the utmost precision how long a second lasts. We have schedules for trains, streetcars and busses. And we have working hours. We know exactly when the screening of a feature film is set to begin, and when the sun will rise tomorrow. You could conclude that we have time under control, but we’re still incapable of influencing it. Though it seems to conform to objective parameters, time is different for each individual. The new exhibition opening on December 6th at the Ars Electronica Center is an in-depth encounter with time—what we do with our time, how we perceive it, how it influences our lives. Time Is Hero—time is what it’s all about! It’s a resource that’s infinite and nevertheless always in short supply.

u19 On Tour. Next Stop: Budapest

The International Space Time Concerto

Newcastle, Australia. Beijing. Singapore. Linz. Four cities, seemingly selected at random, will coalesce into a single integrated concert hall on November 30, 2012. The International Space Time Concerto brings together musicians all across the face of the Earth. Together with a chorus, they’ll perform nine pieces using instruments as well as iPhones and iPads.

The quadrocopters fly again

The Ars Electronica Futurelab’s quadrocopter formation that debuted at the 2012 voestalpine Klangwolke has created a sensation, one that commenced on site during the extravaganza itself and has continued online ever since. But since, as we all know, laurels aren’t for resting on, Futurelab staffers are already hard at work taking their Spaxel concept to the next level of development.

Recycled Island on Kickstarter

In 2010 the people from WHIM architecture submitted their project Recycled Island to our [the next idea] voestalpine art and technology grant, and over the last two years it has evolved in such a way that it is now ready for Kickstarter! We are happy to see that!

Mahir Yavuz sums up the Global Marathon 2012

Mahir Yavuz sums up the Global Marathon 2012. It was organized by visualizing.org with sponsoring by GE and Google. Check out some pictures at http://vizmarathon.tumblr.com/ and the rest of the article after the break.

LINZ_EINST/JETZT

The Deep Space Live - Series "LINZ_EINST/JETZT" which compares historical pictures of Linz with their current views is having it's next installment on November 15th at the Ars Electronica Center. MMag. Maria Jenner, who's taking care of coordinating and programming the series and works at the Archiv der Stadt Linz talks about how the cooperation with the Center got started and how a look into the past can influence the development of a city.

Dr. Manuela Macedonia about Knowledge Transfer

There's a lot of things to learn from Neuroscience. Dr. Manuela Macedonia talks about the impact that findings from this field can have on a lot of other disciplines and why the knowledge transfer is not always easy. Macedonia will be having her last "Brain For Everybody" - Talk for 2012 on November 15 at 6:30 PM at the Ars Electronica Center, the topic being "Speech Disorders".

L.S.D Light to Sound Device

Screens and displays can be found almost everywhere, on our mobiles, in our car or in our livingroom. With his project L.S.D, the artist Benjamin Gaulon tries to create a new viewpoint on this everyday devices.

Collide@CERN Residency Award 2013 - Bill Fontana

Der Collide@CERN Residency Award geht in die zweite Runde, wieder haben sich Dutzende Künstlerinnen und Künstler aus der ganzen Welt um die Möglichkeit beworben, am CERN in Genf und im Ars Electronica Futurelab in Linz ihre Projekte in einer potentiell komplett neuen Umgebung umzusetzen, mit den hellsten Köpfen aus der Welt der Wissenschaft und der Kunst zusammen zu arbeiten und Inspiration für die eigenen Werke zu schöpfen.

Visualizing Global Marathon 2012

Seed was one of the big partners of THE BIG PICTURE, were responsible for an exhibition and one panel of the symposium. Seed is also behind visualizing.org, a plattform that's a hub for designers, reseachers and everyone else interested in datavisualisation. From November 9th to November 11th they will be hosting the biggest competition in this field worldwide, the Visualizing Global Marathon 2012.

GiraDora

The project GiraDora shows what social design can do! Come up with easy solutions to current problems and invite local people to participate. The outcome: a human-powered washer and spin dryer that increases the efficiency and improves the experience of hand-washing clothes for women living without access to running water.

The Big Picture at Deep Space

Big Picture ist jetzt auch im Deep Space des Ars Electronica Centers zu sehen.

Dr. Manuela Macedonia im Interview

Dr. Manuela Macedonia ist regelmäßig als Vortragende im Ars Electronica Center und ist verantwortlich für die Reihe "Gehirn für Alle". Wie sie zu dem Thema gekommen ist, was in den nächsten Wochen und Monaten zu sehen sein wird, verrät sie im Interview.

The Ars Electronica wins the SoccerKucha Cup 2012

For those of you who couldn’t attend this year’s SoccerKucha match at Tabakfabrik – a combination of Street Soccer games and PechaKucha presentations organized by “Creative Region Linz & Upper Austria” on last Saturday – here come the latest news:

Infinity - ∞

Es wird nicht mehr besonders lange dauern, dann wir der Röhrenfernseher genauso eine obskure Technologie sein, wie das Grammophon, Telegraphen (beide mit ph!) oder Palms. Unsere Kinder werden diese riesigen Kisten anschauen und uns fragen, ob wir denn mit dem Platz in unseren Wohnungen und Häusern nichts Besseres anzufangen wussten, als ihn mit Darstellgerätschaften zu füllen, die noch dazu unglaubliche Stromfresser waren. Dass man sich diesen Wundern der Technologie, denn das waren sie zu ihrer Hochzeit definitiv, und es gibt ja auch weiterhin Leuten, die behaupten, ihre Bildqualität wäre unerreicht, auch künstlerisch nähern kann, das gibts am Donnerstag im Deep Space zu sehen.

A Long Night at the Museum of the Future

"Learn History!" - With Twitter, for example

Although Twitter has been around for a couple of years now, there's still a lot of mystery involved about how to actually use this plattform. Well, one thing you can do with it is to learn history. Check out the following channels to find out about important historic events in real-time.

PUCK

PUCK is a project by Jen Stein and means "Place-based, Ubiquitous, Connected and Kinetic Experiences for Interactive Architecture" and by merging digital technologies, information and architecture she creates a new way of interacting and experiencing buildings and places.

The whole city in one tent

You need neither good shoes nor many hours of time to explore the 96 square-kilometers of Linz from numerous perspectives. Because: Inside the Linz.Verändert exhibition tent at the Urfahraner Herbstmarkt you can explore the city on their own.

World Making incorporated

Linz Changes - Tent at Urfahraner Herbstmarkt 2012

The Linz Changes tent opens its portals once again! Inside are lots of interesting possibilities to experience the City of Linz from a variety of not-your-everyday perspectives. From September 29 to October 4, this will be one of the featured attractions at the Autumn Fair in Linz’s Urfahr neighborhood.

GeoCity Smart City in Beijing

Beijing is the fastest-growing megacity in the world, almost 20 million people walk the streets of this giant, which is growing constantly. The challenges a city of this size has to face, the amount of data that has to be processed and interpreted, can be overwhelming. GeoCity Smart City is exactly the right tool to help and there's probably no better place than Beijing to show what this installation has to offer.

THE BIG PICTURE - Different Angles

65000 people have THE BIG PICTURE, for 5 days they were listening to talks, explored exhibitions, saw a lot of different projects from the world of art, technology and society, have been challenged by radical ideas. In this blogpost, we want to share different views from different people, so if you have pictures, videos, audio or oppinions, share them in the comments or send them to web@aec.at and we'll update this post.

Resümee

Das u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD hat uns fünf Tage lang Spaß, Unterhaltung, spannende Momente und interessante Projekte geboten. Von verschiedenen Workshops, bis hin zu einer spannenden Siegerehrung, war alles dabei - es wurde ausprobiert, fotografiert, geschauspielert, getanzt und gebastelt.

Festival impressions from the Museum of the Future

The Klangwolken Miniatures in it's temporary final form

Festivalrally on Sunday

The Blogger and the Festival

Last day, bummer.

ABC Parade & voestalpine Klangwolke

Gestern fand die voestalpine Klangwolke, unter dem Motto „Die Wolke im Netz“, statt. Eingeleitet wurde das Ereignis von der ABC Parade, die angeführt von der voestalpine Blaskapelle, vom AEC zum Linzer Hauptplatz wanderte.

Games und süße Genüsse in der Festivalstadt

Der heutige Tag stand ganz im Zeichen „Gaming“! Ob nun eine Schnitzeljagd mit dem Smartphone durch Linz oder ein Kampf gegen die bösen „SMorcS“, die Hauptsache war: aktiv! Das Bloglab- Team stellt dir die heutigen Highlights kurz vor.

Day 4: It's all about music

Rupert Huber - teardrops

Weitere Wendepunkte

Am dritten Tag des u19 - CREATE YOUR WORLD standen wieder Wendepunkte am Plan. Der Workshop des österreichischen Roten Kreuzes ”Wendepunkt. Ändere deine Richtung!” ging in die zweite Runde. Am Vormittag gab es ein Expertenfrühstück, bei dem die Experten der Podiumsdiskussion, welche am Freitag statt fand, eingeladen waren, mit den Jugendlichen über globale Probleme zu diskutieren und sie zum Denken anzuregen. Es war ein Frühstück der besonderen Art. Auf jedem der vier gedeckten Tische nahm jeweils ein Experte Platz, dem die begeisterten Zuhörer lauschten und Fragen stellen konnten. Im 25-Minuten-Takt wechstelten die Wissbegierigen den Expertentisch, um die Möglichkeit zu haben, mit allen Experten ihre Meinung zu teilen.

ABC-Werkstatt & SoundLab

Heute ist es soweit, die voestalpine Klangwolke "Die Wolke im Netz" findet statt und wir haben die Projektleiterin der ABC-Werkstatt Juliane Leitner gefragt was sich dort alles so tun wird und was es mit den riesigen Buchstaben auf sich hat.

Day 3, suggesting a menu

Hitchhiking from Linz to the “Merseyside Pool of Life” and Back with AEC Letters along for the Ride

Von Auszeichnungen und Wendepunkten

Trotz der beschwerenden Wetterlage herrschte am 2. Tag des u19 - CREATE YOUR WORLD Festivals Hochstimmung beim Team und den Besuchern. Wir vom Bloglab-Team waren für euch hautnah bei den wichtigsten Events des Tages dabei, welche wir euch kurz vorstellen möchten.

voestalpine Klangwolke - The Cloud in the Net - Teasers

Day 2, the Symposiums begin

Der 1. Tag im Überblick

Wir haben in Form eines kurzen Videos unsere ganz persönlichen Eindrücke vom 1. Festivaltag zusammengefasst. Mit diesem Video möchten wir einige Projekte, welche am Festival vertreten sind, präsentieren, um euch zu animieren, selbst die interessanten Vorträge, Workshops und Ausstellungen zu besuchen. Kommt und besucht das u19 - CREATE YOUR WORLD! Das ganze Bloglab-Team wünscht gute Unterhaltung!

Die leeren Wände füllen sich

Das Festival ist in vollem Gange und auch die kleinen Gäste beteiligen sich fleißig. Mit Straßenkreiden haben sie sich hier ganz nach dem Motto des Festivals u19 - Create Your World ihre eigene Welt geschaffen.

Tag Eins. Es läuft.

Das u19 - CREATE YOUR WORLD ist voll im Gange und es ist einiges los in der Festivalstadt, neben dem AEC. Zwischen den Containern, welche wie Legosteine aussehen, tummeln sich interessierte und kreative Menschen.

The Bloglab crew sez Hi!

Natalie, Katrin, Judith und Erli sind das diesjährige Bloglab-Team und berichten vom u19 - CREATE YOUR WORLD. Es wird viele Fotos, Videos und Textbeiträge geben und täglich wird ein Video mit den Highlights des Tages auf DorfTV ausgestrahlt. Vorbeischaun in unserem Container ist auf jeden Fall erlaubt.

Let's go! - Day 1

HVL001 – TIEFDRUCKGEBIET - The original sub-bass concert for tuned cars at THE BIG PICTURE 2012

Astronomy at THE BIG PICTURE

The Festival Menu: Tasty treats to look forward to at u19 - CREATE YOUR WORLD 2012

Das Festival beginnt morgen Tagen und hier präsentieren wir euch, was sich an den fünf Festivaltagen so abspielen wird. Die Tageshighlights gib es jeweils am Vortag auf Facebook. Stellt euch euer eigenes Festivalmenü damit zusammen! Den absoluten Überblick habt ihr beim Schedule.

u19 Festival Village is rising!

A lot of things are going on since last week! The u19 Festival Village is built around Ars Electronica Center. We have a lot of pictures about it! In this article you also get to know papplab, the "cardbord-fitters" who are creating u19s furniture. There are also news concerning the ABC-Parade and the dancing on Hauptplatz: Rhen and Sam from Birmingham helped planning a great Show!

And if you’re not willing ...

Interview with Ingo Leindecker and Thomas Diesenreiter

GeoPulse Beijing – creative visualization of constantly changing cityscapes and demography

Everyday Rebellion: Multi-Media Resource for Sharing Non-Violent Resistance Methodology

Dance! u19 is fully awake now

voestalpine SoundWalk, the first and the second

THE BIG PICTURE Festival coming soon...

Tools of Destruction

Turning point. Change your direction.

At what point do I begin to take action? What has to happen for me to get actively involved? How do I react when someone else needs help? I’m out for a fun night on the town and a brawl breaks out. The old lady in the apartment on the 2nd floor can’t make it up the stairs anymore. A skier goes down hard and lies motionless on the slope. Do I look away or lend a hand?

Quadrocopters at the voestalpine Klangwolke

Hugive arrives in Linz

A mysterious Start to u19 - CREATE YOUR WORLD

Welcome to the u19 - CREATE YOUR WORLD Quiz Blog! We’ll be reporting regularly on top-secret activities and preparations for the u19 - CREATE YOUR WORLD Festival. Plus, we have some puzzling questions to pose and really pique your curiosity. Once again this year, the Festival Village will be jam-packed with great stuff to investigate and discover. But just what could that be? What sort of ideas and solutions will be created and developed this year? Little by little, we’ll be unveiling what’s on tap from August 30th to September 3rd ‘round about the Ars Electronica Center. Visit us regularly and find out!

Lehrwerkstätten der voestalpine

LED - Balls, Amanogawa - Project

Gerhard Kürner talks about the voestalpine Klangwolke - The Cloud in the Web

voestalpine SoundWalk

Audio to Midi to Klangwolken ABC

The preparations continue

(St)Age of Participation

We Know What You Are Doing

Let's go!

New videos and pictures of the voestalpine Klangwolke

Google Transparency Report

C.LOUD Pro documents the voestalpine Klangwolke

ABC Werkstatt

ZeitRaum at Check-In 3

Check-In 3, Vienna International Airport’s new terminal, went into service on June 5, 2012. Its mission: state-of-the-art processing of millions of air travelers. The Ars Electronica Futurelab designed several installations for it. They take travel, time and air traffic as their subjects, and offer encounters with art to those passing through this hub.

Lightningtest for voestalpine Klangwolke

Klangwolken Miniatures, some inspiration

SoundLab, first impressions

Out of Control - Jananas Gold

VDS, im Jahr 2007

Summermode: On

"CREATE YOUR WORLD" CAMP in Linz

Smartphone-Security, by FH-Prof. DI Robert Kolmhofer

CISPA: What does it mean?

The Ars Electronica Center gets a Soundlab

LINZ CHANGES at the Spring Fair

voestalpine Soundcloud - The Cloud in the Web

On Telecommunications Data Retention by Peter Burgstaller

Prix-Jury 2012, Michael Doser, Oy vey vey!

Prix Ars Electronica 2012, Pre-Jury "Digital Communities"

u19 Jurymeeting

Out of Control - What the web knows about you

Ich seh, ich seh, was du nicht siehst

Prix-Jury 2012, Martin Supper

Prix-Jury 2012, Mariela Yeregui

App and Web at u19

Pictures right out of your head

THE BIG PICTURE - New Concepts for a New World

Texta "Grotesk" feat. Soprano & Average - The Ars Electronica Center as a videoset

Prix-Jury 2012, Michael Doser

u19 Teamwork

Prix-Jury 2012, Leila Nachawati

The Jury for Prix 2012, Round 2: This time it's Leila Nachawati talking, she'll look for interesting projects in the category "Digital Communities".

KET – Kids Experience Technology 2012. A Retrospective Look

“That was the best day of my life” and other such expressions of pure, youthful delight were responses heard frequently by the Infotrainers who mediated kids’ encounters with the content of the KET exhibition that ran from January 31 to March 4 at the Ars Electronica Center. Produced by the OTELO Association, KET is a series of installations designed for 4-8-year-olds to enjoy up-close, hands-on experiences with scientific phenomena and technological applications. This is the second year that the AEC has hosted a KET exhibition.

Aus dem Rahmen - Ars Electronica Center Linz auf ORF III

u19 and Animations

The Prix-Jury 2012 introduced, Liu Yan

From April 20th to 22nd 2012, the jury of Prix Ars Electronica 2012 will meet in Linz to decide on the winners of the Golden Nicas 2012. The weekend will be interesting, fascinating, but also tiring. Hundreds of projects want to be evaluated and rated, a daunting task. To give you a look behind the scenes, jurors of Prix 2012 will introduce their work during the next couple of weeks on this blog. Liu Yan, juror from China and a member of the jury for the third time, will make the start.

The deadline for submissions for Prix Ars Electronica 2012 has been postponed to March 14th 2012.

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Ars Wild Card

Here’s a situation that lots of museum visitors are sure to have experienced on occasion: you’re standing in front of a work that absolutely blows you away, and you’re immediately overcome by the irresistible urge to tell the whole world all about this incredible piece of art—what it is, who created it, and exactly what makes this work so utterly brilliant! The thing is: in most museums, photography isn’t permitted, maybe you’re having a hard time finding the little sign containing the info about it, or perhaps you don’t happen to have anything with you to jot down notes. For whatever reason, the moment is lost. But now there’s a convenient solution: Ars Wild Card.

Time is running out...

Favorites: Brain Computer Interface

BioLab, an Introduction

Data preservation, soon to be true

Science Days, Review and Outlook

SOPA, Resistance and Why It Could Have an Impact on Any of Us

Poetry of Motion - Ars Electronica Export in Osaka, Japan, Dezember 2011

Favorites: TWAN-Globe

New Views of Humankind - Robotinity - An Introduction

Entering the Ars Electronica Center’s Main Gallery, the AEC’s largest exhibition space, brings you face-to-face with “New Views of Humankind.” The installation is divided into four themes, which this blog will elaborate on over the coming weeks. Let’s start things off with Robotinity.