Martin Hieslmair
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The Futurelab in Focus
For the 25th anniversary of the Ars Electronica Futurelab, filming is currently taking place in Deep Space 8K.
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The Invention of Sustainability
New technologies have increased the pace of consumption of our resources – but even the raw material wood used to bring problems. (German language)
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MAMMA FATALE
Celebrate life with music, make you think with lyrics. Enjoy avant-garde pop/jazz of the collective MAMMA FATALE.
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Textiles dyeing with Bacteria
No harmful chemicals, significantly lower water consumption. Julia Moser explains how pigment bacteria are used to color clothing. (German language)
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Elektro Guzzi
Elektro Guzzi play hypnotic techno sound with guitar, bass and drums in Deep Space 8K to the visuals of Eyup Kuş.
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ungezähmt [untamed]
While the Trio Verve lets classical music sound in deep space, the visuals of Monocolor underline the musical description of a landscape.
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Pianographique in Remembrance
A memorial concert for the victims of the Corona Pandemic. Maki Namekawa and Dennis Russell Davies perform, Cori O’lan contributes the visuals.
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Who was Isao Tomita?
He not only laid the foundations of the synthesizer boom, but also pushed boundaries and influenced numerous sound artists.
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The Year in Review 2020
Well, at the beginning of 2020, even Ars Electronica had other plans for the future. At that time, even we couldn’t have imagined the uncomfortable constraints we’d all be confronted with and how quickly we had to rethink things seemingly set in stone, often completely. But first things first…
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Tears for the Sea
She spent most of her childhood on merchant marine vessels and has developed an ever closer relationship with nature through her proximity to the sea. During her EMAP/EMARE residency, as a media artist, Kasia Molga tells how she came to her project “How to make an Ocean?”, how personal grief and COVID-19 gave her work…
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CyberArts 2020: The latest trends in media art
For over three decades, the Prix Ars Electronica has been one of the world’s most coveted awards for digital media art. With the CyberArts exhibition, the OK, as part of the newly founded OÖ Landes-Kultur GmbH, will once again devote itself to the award-winning works of international artists during the 2020 Ars Electronica Festival in…
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“We have to drastically rethink this jury meeting”
Every year an international jury of experts travels to Linz to jointly select the Golden Nicas of Media Art in intense discussions lasting several days. For the first time in the history of Prix Ars Electronica, the jurors will meet from their home offices.
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The world stands still – the whole world?
There is no talk of social distancing here, there are enough reasons to leave the house and hygiene is a permanent topic anyway – not only in exceptional cases. Our beekeeper Harald Wohlschlager visited the colony of bees on the roof of the Ars Electronica Center in times of the corona pandemic.
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All the best, Hannes!
At the end of the 1970s, Hannes Leopoldseder set out to create a festival for art, technology and society. Today, on the occasion of his 80th birthday, we look back on four decades of digital change with excerpts from his texts and historical photos of the co-founder of Ars Electronica.
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The Prix Ars Electronica Jury 2020: Digital Communities
Joint action and the digital exchange of information are right at the heart of the “Digital Communities” – one of the four categories of the 2020 Prix Ars Electronica. We present this year’s jury.
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The Prix Ars Electronica Jury 2020: Computer Animation
Since 1987, the Prix Ars Electronica has awarded a Golden Nica in the Computer Animation category every year. This is the jury that will decide on the best animation in 2020.
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“We always need artists to wake people up”
He is considered one of the most influential contemporary artists in China. On November 2, 2019, Qiu Zhijie of the Central Academy of Fine Arts Beijing, together with the Design Society and his curator colleague Martin Honzik of Ars Electronica, will open the new exhibition “40 Years of Humanizing Technology” in Shenzhen.
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Trans*Plant: May the Chlorophyll be with/in you
In the course of history, especially in Western culture, human has moved further and further away from nature. In language, too, there is a demarcation to the environment, although human as a living being is actually part of it. With their project “Trans*Plant”, the artist group Quimera Rosa wants to draw attention to this strange…
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WKOÖ UBIT at the Ars Electronica: “We get the knowledge edge here”
In the midst of the festival hustle and bustle, management consultants, accountants and IT service providers will meet for the annual specialist group conference at POSTCITY. Chairman Markus Roth visited us a few days before the festival and told us why the WKOÖ UBIT is taking over the patronage of the WE GUIDE YOU tours…
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Jungle: Like scrolling through an instagram feed
It’s supposed to feel like scrolling through an instagram feed. Alex Lazarov is 19 years old, a young creative filmmaker and YouTuber from Vienna. In his web series “Jungle”, for which he won the Golden Nica of the Prix Ars Electronica 2019 in the u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD category, he takes us on a…
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The last Big Concert Night in POSTCITY
It is the prelude to the first ever “AIxMusic Festival” and at the same time one of the last concerts to take place at POSTCITY Linz during the Ars Electronica Festival. We talked to Norbert Trawöger, the artistic director of the Bruckner Orchestra Linz, and Gerfried Stocker, the artistic director of Ars Electronica, about this…
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BR41N.IO Hackathon for Creative Minds: The Direct Wire to the Brain
Connecting the human brain with the specially developed controller – from September 7 to 8, this will become reality for several teams at the Ars Electronica Festival 2019 in POSTCITY Linz. Whether controlling drones by thought or mixing the right cocktail by brain activity, you can now get your place for brainstorming and developing software…
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With OK│CyberArts 2019 on the pulse of time
Every year, the OK im OÖ Kulturquartier exhibition takes on its role as a visionary observatory and uses international media art projects that received awards at the 2019 Prix Ars Electronica to showcase the trends and current developments of our time.
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From Chile to the Ars Electronica Festival
After a successful debut at last year’s Ars Electronica Festival, they will be back again this year: Selected media artworks by Chilean artists are again part of an extensive program of guest projects to be shown in Linz from September 5 to 9, 2019.
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“Humans can determine their own evolution”
With innovative tools such as CRISPR/Cas9, humans can dive deeper into the development of life ever before and change it according to their own ideas. Manuel Selg from FH OÖ Campus Wels will talk about what this is all about and what has happened since the first BioLab was set up at the Ars Electronica…
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The Wandering Mind: Feel the Pulse of the Earth
Feel global environmental data, experience it with your own senses and be connected to the Blue Planet even more intensively as a human being: This is the aim of The Wandering Mind project by the artist duo slow immediate. In a few weeks their residency will start in Argentina and Austria – organized by the…
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Prix Ars Electronica 2019: One Weekend, Four Golden Nicas
Every year a new jury, every year an extraordinary treasure of media artworks that want to be judged. Once again this year, 20 experts from all over the world met in Linz to agree on the Golden Nicas of the 2019 Prix Ars Electronica. A brief stroll through the jury weekend.
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Out of the Box – the Midlife Crisis of the Digital Revolution
40 years after the first Ars Electronica Festival, “Out of the Box – the Midlife Crisis of the Digital Revolution” takes us on an expedition to the artistic-scientific surveying of our modern techno-economically-influenced world. In this interview, Gerfried Stocker, the artistic director of Ars Electronica, introduces the topic that the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz…