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A Sustainable Festival
It’s been a busy time, since the u19 awards ceremony was held today. Here we spotlight a few projects having to do with sustainability.
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Project Genesis for Everybody
Nicole Grüneis of the Ars Electronica Center’s Education and Cultural Communication department designs together with her colleagues exhibitions’ supplementary program of guided tours and workshops. In this interview, she talks about mediating visitors’ encounters with “Project Genesis – Life from the Lab”.
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TOTAL RECALL / Day 2
Day 2 of TOTAL RECALL – The Evolution of Memory has began, and you probably won’t even have time to enjoy the great weather.
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TOTAL RECALL – Day 1, a report and an outlook
[:de]Linz is full of an international crowd, the Donaulände is buzzing, the exhibitions are in full swing, and the weather is great. The first day of Festival Ars Electronica 2013 is perfect, but it’s not over yet!
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From times past into future
First festival day.
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TOTAL RECALL – Kickoff!
Enough rehearsals, enough planing, enough tinkering, the Festival Ars Electronica 2013 begins!
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Schizophrenia Taiwan 2.0 – Interview with the curators
Schizophrenia Taiwan is one of the exhibitions of TOTAL RECALL – The Evolution of Memory, stationed in the Tabakfabrik. It’s topic is a country whose people live in a constant crisis of identity. The curators tell you why it is like this.
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The artists have arrived
Every year before the festival, the OK Offenes Kulturhaus im OÖ Kulturquartier invites all the artists of the CyberArts for a welcome-drink. If it’s up to the artists, Festival Ars Electronica 2013 is ready to begin.
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Computer Games: Good Game – Bad Game?
Jeremiah Diephuis and Stefan Schraml collaborated with associates in the Linz gamer scene to launch GameStage. In this interview, the two game experts talk about computer gaming, their exhibition at the Ars Electronica Festival, and the game events coming up at FamilyDays in November.
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Checklist for TOTAL RECALL – The Evolution
Only a few days are left until the start of TOTAL RECALL – The Evolution of Memory, and while the Festival-Team is busy with last-minute-preparations, there’s a couple of things that you can do as well. Check out which in this article!
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Urban Audio Zaragoza – Florian Türcke
Paseo Project is one of the project supported by Prix Ars Electronica. The competition is currently open for submissions. To give you an idea of what might happen if you win, german artist Florian Türcke is sharing insight.
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A Festival Village Takes Shape
[:de]Die Fotoserie vom Aufbau der u19 Festivalstadt: Am Dienstag, 27. 8. um 7:00 kam der erste von 31 Containern am Maindeck des Ars Electronica Centers an. Inzwischen ist eine bunte Stadt daraus entstanden, die ab nächster Woche von den 40 ProjektpartnerInnen von u19 Create Your World bezogen wird. Am Donnerstag, 5. 9. um 10:00 öffnen…
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NanoLeaf
The at the moment most efficient light bulb in the world was unfortunately too far developed, to receive the [next idea] grant. But as it is an extraordinarily product, we still want to dedicate one blog post to this idea…
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The Aural-Memory-Machine sounds the Mariendom
For the third year in a row now, Linz’s Mariendom—St. Mary’s Cathedral—will serve as the venue for a very special acoustic performance and installation on festival Saturday. “The Aural-Memory-Machine” by Wolfgang “Fadi” Dorninger will play the extraordinary acoustics of this space, engendering constantly emerging, varying and disintegrating worlds of sound. It will be an excursion…
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John-Dylan Haynes – TOTAL RECALL Symposium
Reading and influencing other people’s minds seems like science fiction to you? Then John-Dylan Haynes’ talk during the TOTAL RECALL – Symposium is probably exactly your thing.
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Week 1 – Bill Fontana, Collide@CERN
The month of July was Bill Fontana’s first part of his residency at CERN. And he was not alone! He came also with his family, which included his photographer son, Michael Fontana, 18. Every week, Michael interviewed his father and his inspiration partner, CERN cosmologist Subodh Patil about what they were thinking of the week…
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Nick Goldman – TOTAL RECALL Symposium
Nick Goldman will talk about a completely new take on on an old problem during TOTAL RECALL – The Evolution of Memory. Having been working with DNA and facing the challenges that storing a lot of data brings along, he developed a method of using DNA instead of harddrives, flashmemory or similar technology. It started…
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Séra Ildi Creates Her World
[:de]Zum u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD Festival kommen jedes Jahr Künstler und Künstlerinnen von überall aus der Welt. Sie zeigen uns ihre Ideen, probieren sie hier aus und lassen sich selbst zu Neuen inspirieren. Séra Ildi aus der Schweiz arbeitet mit Erinnerungen, die in Menschen, Orten und Dingen gespeichert sind und spinnt sie weiter. Beim…
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The Sounds of Physics – Bill Fontana’s Residency at CERN
Bill Fontana has been busy at the CERN, working as the winner of the Collide@CERN Residency Award. What he has been up to will be subject of this series of blog-posts over the course of the next 4 weeks.
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voestalpine Soundcloud 2013 – Bruckner lives!
On September 7th 2013, the voestalpine Klangwolke 2013 – Bruckner lives! is going to take off, and the Ars Electronica will be part of it, with an app.
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Station Rose – Digital Quarter Century Shelter
TOTAL RECALL – The Evolution of Memory will spotlight some of the pioneers of digital media art. Station Rose already caught the digital virus in 1988. They’ve been creating audiovisual sculptures, and mixing into their performances digitally produced sounds together with worlds of light, video and imagery. In light of this long career, they have…
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CREATE YOUR WORLD – Highlights to Heighten the Anticipation
[:de]CREATE YOUR WORLD 2013 findet in 3 Wochen statt und geht damit in die 3. Runde. Seit 2011 ist es ist nicht nur ein Ort des kreativen Ausdrucks im Bereich der Medienkünste, sondern auch ein Ort der Zusammenkunft und des gemeinsamen Gestaltens: ein Ort, an dem Künstlerinnen, Wissenschaftler, Forscherinnen sowie wissbegierige und kreative Festivalbesucher gemeinsam…
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El Campo de Cebada – CyberArts 2013
When the CyberArts 2013 opens it’s doors on September 5th, El Campo de Cebada, winners of the Golden Nica in Digital Communities, will be part of it. It’s a self-managed camp in Madrid/Spain, cleverly showing what the urban space of the 21st century might look like. We have talked with Zuloark, the architects behind this…
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SolePower
SolePower employs the piezoelectric effect to generate electricity from the human kinetic energy. By capturing accessible human energy and transforming it into electricity, SolePower enables us to leverage the energy we expend everyday by using it to power our mobile devices.
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WIR SIND HIER – Jules Marshall: Apocalypse How? (Essay)
The Lying World – In the endlessness of today’s universe of information, we can no longer use the truth as a criterion to judge what we can trust.
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Cosmopolitan Chicken Project – CyberArts 2013
The Cosmopolitan Chicken Project bei Koen Vanmechelen is one of the centerpieces of the CyberArts 2013. By crossbreeding different races of chickens, he’s creating a metaphor for our society and our human race. We have met Koen to talk about what can be expected during TOTAL RECALL The Evolution of Memory.
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CyberArts 2013 – Martin Sturm interviewed
A highlight of each year’s festival is the CyberArts exhibition featuring installations, videos and performances singled out for recognition by the Prix Ars Electronica. Martin Sturm, director of the OK Center for Contemporary Art, is responsible for the exhibition’s design. In this interview, he reveals some of what awaits festivalgoers in 2013.
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TOTAL RECALL – Il(l) Machine – Ars Campus Israel
Il(l) Machine is the Campus-Exhibition of TOTAL RECALL – The Evolution of Memory. It’s the first ever collaboration between the art- and technology-centered institutes and universities of Israel, offering a showcase of the current trends and developments of a country with one of the richest cultural heritages in the world.