Artists, Creators, Engineers
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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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Lauren McCarthy Provokes “Fellow Feelings” in Her Very Own Way
Designer, artist and programmer Lauren McCarthy explores the structures and systems of social interaction, identity as well as self-presentation and the potential of technology of how it can influence the dynamics between those traits. During her Transmit³-Residency at the Queensland University of Technology, she wants to find out about the influence of Big Data on…
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RADICAL ATOMS: When Visions Become Tangible
Prof. Hiroshi Ishii is the director of the MIT Media Lab’s Tangible Media Group. His team’s mission is to envision new forms of human-machine interaction and to enable us to experience and grasp the ideas of tomorrow today. His vision of RADICAL ATOMS also inspired this year’s Ars Electronica Festival theme.
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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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Quadrature: “We feel a bit like explorers ourselves”
And indeed, their concept was a great discovery for the jurors too. Under the aegis of the European Digital Art & Science Network, an artists’ collective named Quadrature will spend several weeks at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile and then at the Ars Electronica Futurelab, and present the results of their work at…
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The Essential Challenge of Interactive Art
What does interactive actually mean? We touch something and then experience the upshot of that act? Or does interactivity already come about when we view an image? Victoria Vesna, a 2016 Prix Ars Electronica juror, talked to us about defining interactive art, and elaborated on something she learned about it from media artist Roy Ascott.
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“Nurture contrarians rather than mainstream thinking”
March 13, 2016 is the deadline for entries to Ars Electronica’s search conducted under the auspices of the European Commission for innovative projects at the nexus of science, technology and art. Alexander Mankowsky, a futurist on the staff of Daimler AG and a STARTS juror, recently talked to us about the trailblazing role of art…
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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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Becoming a resident with sparking ideas
We are pleased to announce the names of the artists who will be coming to the Ars Electronica Futurelab to develop exhibits for the Sparks project!
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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.…
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Vision 2030 – Lebe deinen Traum
Class J1 at Pettenbach Elementary School is a group of 22 pupils of different ages, some handicapped, some not. These kids got to try their hand at filmmaking in conjunction with a project entitled Vision 2030 that’s all about trying to envision the future. A pretty tough assignment, as it turns out.
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u19 On Tour. Next Stop: Budapest
“Impressive Title (Paradise)” tells of the last moments in the life of a wolf. It’s an associative account, never one-dimensional, that leaves sufficient latitude for the viewer’s own imagination. This animated short is designed as a reflection on the search for freedom and an individual’s own identity. Thus, the wolf symbolizes the human being who,…