Next Generation
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TIME OUT .07 – Warm Light and Soft Wax
The TIME OUT .07 exhibition that opened last week is part of the series of installations staged twice a year jointly by Ars Electronica and Linz Art University. Recent media art projects by students in the school’s Time-based and Interactive Media program are on display in the Ars Electronica Center. The Blog is spotlighting the…
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BigPoopData Takes the netidee Special Prize
An incisively critical commentary on the obsessive and now-so-pervasive harvesting of data and a plea for the protection of our digital privacy—four schoolboys’ sensor-studded WC has garnered them the 2017 Prix Ars Electronica’s netidee Special Prize. In this interview, Ernst Langmantel, the director of netidee, explains what he likes so much about this project, and…
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TIME OUT .07 – Homey Sounds and Industrial Mass Production
The 7th installment in the TIME OUT exhibition series opened on Tuesday, May 23, 2017. In cooperation with Linz Art University, the Ars Electronica Center is showcasing recent media art projects by students in the school’s Time-based and Interactive Media program. The Blog is spotlighting the participating students. In this installment, Lisa Bickel and Clemens…
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TIME OUT .07 – Lost Friendships and Aesthetic Scars
The 7th installment in the TIME OUT exhibition series opens on Tuesday, May 23, 2017 at 6:30 PM. In cooperation with Linz Art University, the Ars Electronica Center is showcasing recent media art projects by students in the school’s Time-based and Interactive Media program. Sarah Hiebl and Marlene Reischl, two of the artists participating in…
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Next Generation JKU
Who make up the next generation of young scientists at JKU? Who are the up-and-coming Upper Austrian researchers who are making an international name for themselves in computer science, chemistry, physics and other technical and scientific fields? And what exactly are they working on? They’re virtually unknown in their homeland, Austria. Now, it’s high time…
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Sirikit Amann: “You have enriched my life!”
Since 1998, the Prix Ars Electronica has included a category especially for kids and young people under 19 years of age, and Sirikit Amann has been a juror since the very inception. We recently joined her for a look back at some particularly memorable prizewinning works.
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Experiments non-stop
Experimenting, testing and understanding. Over 2,000 pupils came to the Ars Electronica Center to present their self-developed experiments to a public audience and to take a look at other experimental set-ups. View our picture gallery of astonished and curious gazes of the participating kids and teenagers!
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The Alchemy Box
Once again, the Ars Electronica Festival grounds were serving as a playground for young filmmakers. Equipped with camera and microphone, youngsters with physical handicaps were able to work together with mentors from an association named FAB to document what has happened at the festival and the various approaches artists and visitors were taking to the…
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netidee 2016: Interpersonal Hardware and Software
A basic framework for chatbot developers, a game programming tool for young people to use on smartphones, and a charging station for refugees—here, we present three projects that received funding from the netidee initiative.
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That was the 2016 u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD Festival
The watchwords: exploration, involvement and inventiveness. This year’s 6th u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD Festival invited young people to Linz September 8-12 to get acquainted with 21st-century tools and to jointly give some consideration to the world of tomorrow—to what will soon be their world! Here’s a retrospective look at a few of the highlights.
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Die Entscheidung: A Matter of Life or Death
“Die Entscheidung” (The Decision), a computer game about life-threatening cancer, greatly impressed this year’s Prix Ars Electronica jury and garnered the Golden Nica in the u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD category for 17-year-old Jonas Bodingbauer. At the 2016 Ars Electronica Festival he will not only receive the award in POSTCITY during the u19 ceremony -…
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Campus Exhibition: Media Art from China
China’s history is awesome, full of tales and traditions passed down from time immemorial. How do students at Tsinghua University deal with this monumental cultural heritage when they approach it in terms of media art? In this interview, Prof. Wang of the Academy of Arts and Design tells us about his college. We also get…
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Hack the Robot!
“Hack the Robot” offers pupils in grades 7 & up the opportunity to learn to program robots that are normally used in industrial manufacturing processes. What this actually entails is using electronic modules to construct new remote controls that let users hack into the robotic system.
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u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD: Youngsters Join the Curatorial Staff
The Prix Ars Electronica’s u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD category is an annual opportunity for young people to garner recognition for their creative projects with great future promise. And once again this year, the prizewinning works are being honored and exhibited at the Ars Electronica Festival September 8-12, 2016. The new wrinkle this year: the…
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Intro to Deep Space: The Course
Linz Art University’s Time-based and Interactive Media bachelor’s program offers students the opportunity to create interactive works especially for Deep Space 8K at the Ars Electronica Center. Read more about it in this interview with the program director, Prof. Gerhard Funk.
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mirror_0.2 – A Mirror in Which You Don’t See Yourself
What remains of a person once his identity had been digitized? Can machines convey empathy? Will we carry on conversations with digital avatars in the future? These are the questions that young media artist Gregor Woschitz addresses in “mirror_0.2,” his installation that’s part of the “TIME OUT .06” exhibition now running at the Ars Electronica…
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Netidee Special Prize Goes to kameleon.ws
A school project entitled kameleon.ws is the recipient of the 2016 Prix Ars Electronica’s special netidee prize. Ernst Langmantel, one of the directors of netidee, told us what he especially likes about this project and briefed us on Austria’s largest campaign to support innovation online.
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TIME OUT .05 – An Unreadable Text and a Design-It-Yourself Soundscape
Works by four undergrads in Linz Art University’s Time-based and Interactive Media program have been on display in the TIME OUT .05 exhibition at the Ars Electronica Center since March 16th. Two of the featured artists are Elisabeth Prast and Fabian Erblehner.
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[inter]national coverage – How international are media reports really?
TIME OUT.05 opens Wednesday, March 16, 2016 at 6:30 PM in the Ars Electronica Center. One of the students whose works are being showcased in the 5th exhibition in this series is Benedikt Reiter.
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Karl Markovics: “I’m looking forward to being pleasantly surprised once again”
Actor, director and screenwriter Karl Markovics will soon be reprising his role as juror in the Prix Ars Electronica’s u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD category. In this interview, he talks about new media as well as kids and young people in 2016.
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My FutureWorkshop: Change Yourself Now!
As part of the FutureWorkshop Burak Büyükdemirci recorded his song “Change Yourself Now” in the SoundLab at the Ars Electronica Center. Together with his colleagues and the support of the video production company C.LOUD Pro he also made a music video.
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youtube:lab #1 – Create your world
The youtube:lab as part of u19 CREATE YOUR WORLD uses the medium film to asks questions of change.
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Festivalralley – Part 3
During monday afternoon’s Festival rallye, we sighted Nora and Ilvy in the Brucknerhaus amidst an exhibition of brains in glass jars. They also listened in to recordings from all over the world emanating from a spherical sound storage medium rotating like a globe. At the Ars Electronica Center, the two girls improvised on the set…
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Festivalralley – Part 2
Christina and Alina joined the Festival rallye today. In the Brucknerhaus, they contributed a picture of our world to Benjamin Pollach’s World Map Archive. Then, the curious duo observed how the Table of Gazes draws faces by following the subject’s eye movements. In the Campus exhibition featuring young Israeli artists, Christina and Alina focused on…
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Festivalralley – Part 1
Theo and Jonas kicked off the Festival rallye in the Brucknerhaus this afternoon. The two junior technologists did a cartographic rendering for the World Map Archive and helped the toy soldiers guard the computer’s data. At Linz Art University, they saw artwork from Israel. Their favorite was the robot that, in accordance with Jewish custom,…
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u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD – Zukunftsfestival der nächsten Generation
The u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD – Festivalstadt is almost ready, members of the press have already seen it, you can start exploring tomorrow, September 5th.
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u19 – u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD 2013 – A Recall for Round 3
Since 1998, there’s been a Prix Ars Electronica category strictly for young people. Up through 2010, it was called u19 – freestyle computing. Youngsters could enter all sorts of digital projects for prize consideration; the sole submission criterion was working in a creative way with the computer. It quickly became clear that so-called new media…
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Do-it-Yourself World Design: The u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD Manual
Here’s the story right from the beginning: u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD is Ars Electronica’s festival for kids, young people and anybody else interested in co-determining how the world works, today and tomorrow. The colorful festival village round about the Ars Electronica Center is a playground for ideas, concepts, experiments and solutions to fascinating problems.…