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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.
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Rebecca Gischel Creates Her World
Every year artists from all over the world come to u19 CREATE YOUR WORLD Festival to show us their ideas, try them and also get inspired to do new Projects. Interaction artist Rebecca Gischel shows the installation Global Sounds – here she writes about her works and the ideas behind them.
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Minsky
Understand the economy as dynamic model and forsee the economy crisis at the same time? If you think that sounds to good to be true, have a look at Professor Steve Keen´s project, who is working on that at the very moment….
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GameLab – A Youth Meeting at u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD
It’s official! The EU’s Youth in Action program has agreed to sponsor GameLab, a European young people’s conclave developed and submitted for funding by Ars Electronica together with mb21 (Germany), bugnplay.ch (Switzerland) und C319 (Hungary). We’re thrilled; the participants will be too! But, like, what’s this GameLab all about, actually?
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Mónica Rikić Creates Her World
Every year artists from all over the world come to u19 CREATE YOUR WORLD Festival to show us their ideas, try them and also get inspired to do new Projects. One of them is Mónica Rikić, our guest from Spain and will be showing her project Buildasound. Here she tells us the tale of this…
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WIR SIND HIER – Lets build a user generated sculpture in Linz
We’re building a user generated sculpture in Linz from old analog and digital devices, and you can help us! Tell us your ideas! Show us your vision! Send us Material! What should the sculpture look like? Show us a picture of your ideas or tell us how it could look in the comments section of our website. You…
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TOTAL RECALL – Symposium, Prof. Dr. Frank Hartmann
At the TOTAL RECALL Symposium session on September 8, 2013, the topic of the day will be the origins and history of various archiving technologies. Frank Hartmann, media philosopher and professor of visual communications, will speak about Paul Otlet, the inventor of an archiving system with many similarities to the ones we’re familiar with today.…
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WIR SIND HIER – Make your own REMIX of history
In Occupy History, users can produce a six-second looped video using the Twitter tool Vine. Vines should show how history (and memory along with it) has been transformed by the lens of pop culture. Pictures and symbols have been given new interpretations and new connotations. A few popular examples are Hipster Hitler, Che Guevara as…
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A Robot Conquers Outer Space
One small step for him, one giant leap for robot-kind. On the 4th of August 2013, the crew of the International Space Station ISS gains a new member. A robotic one, named Kirobo and only 34 centimeters in body height. His mission: having chats with the human astronauts. Being their moral support. Martina Mara from…
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Synthetic Biology
Molecular biologist Manuel Selg, scientific advisor of the Ars Electronica Center was also involved as expert for the new exhibition “Project Genesis”. We asked him what synthetic biology actually is, about the current state of knowledge and research in this field, and to assess the prospects for development in the coming years.
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Update WIR SIND HIER – Where are we?
Writing for the online art project WIR SIND HIER (Opening Festival Ars Electronica 2013), David Dorrell reveals why the modern world is a sinister place, and how it could have gotten so far.
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Sonja Bäumel – Metabodies
August 1st will see the opening of “Projekt Genesis – Synthetic Biology, Life from the Lab”, the new exhibition at the Ars Electronica Center. One of the works on display is Metabodies by Sonja Bäumel (AT).
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HR Giger – Featured Artist Festival Ars Electronica 2013
Few artists can claim to have made a major impact on popular culture. HR Giger is one of the few. After all, he’s responsible to a very great extent for the pictures that come to mind when we imagine aliens. At TOTAL RECALL – The Evolution of Memory, Giger is the featured artist.
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Zapland
How is it actually possible to teach Kids about complex and often even for adults hard to understand topics such as energy and sustainability? With their Zapland project the developers from Kitchen Budapest are currently working something that could change the way how we deal with this question.
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New ways of documentation
The 2013 Ars Electronica Festival isn’t focusing only on memory and how we deal with it. A big part of this thematic complex has to do with new forms and formats of remembering things—how we can store them to memory and document them. Two possibilities will be implemented in everyday life at the festival, and…
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Like A Second Nature – Meter Crawler
Meter Crawler by Keiko Takahashi (JP) is still on display in Berlin at the VW Automobil Forum Unter den Linden as part of
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Maps, Indoors
Orientation is an important part of our life. We use clocks to figure out our position on the time axis, and maps help us find our way in unfamiliar spaces, regardless of whether it’s a new city or a strange continent. Maps have been getting more and more detailed, generating them is an increasingly complex…
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WIR SIND HIER – Opening TOTAL RECALL – The Evolution of Memory
TOTAL RECALL – The Evolution of Memory starts on September 5th. The opening event is “We are here”, a transdisciplinary performance about memory, consciousness, responsibility and surveillance. We have talked to Salvatore Vanasco, one of the initiators of this project and no stranger to Ars Electronica.
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Artists As Catalysts – Lourdes Fernández
Lourdes Fernández is the director of Alhondiga in Bilbao. We have talked about “Artists As Catalysts”, the exhibition, that has been curated by Ars Electronica Linz GmbH and Alhondiga.
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Cookease – Intelligent Cooking System
The Cookease system is a solution for our growing desires for healthy convenient food. The Cookease system is an intelligent and sophisticated system – rather than just measuring the time required to cook meals the conventional way, Cookease calculates the precise amount of steam and time required to cook a combination of ingredients in order…
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openAIR – The mixing desk for everyone in everyday use
[:de]openAIR – Accessibility in Radio Production, das faderlose Mischpult, das vom Ars Electronica Futurelab im Auftrag von Radio FRO, dem Freien Radio Oberösterreich, entwickelt wurde, ist seit einigen Wochen im Praxiseinsatz.
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Artists As Catalysts – Interview with Curator Manuela Naveau
Starting on July 4th 2013, “Artists as Catalysts” is the new exhibition curated by Ars Electroncia Linz GmbH. Manuela Naveau, instrumental in curating this project at the Alhondiga in Bilbao/Spain, talks about the topic and the works of the exhibition.
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The Tokens
The young dutch designer Marco van Beers quite intensively investigated the field of illness and communication, and approaches this complex field from a socio – technological perspective. One output is a project called “The Tokens” which tries to improve the interaction between severely ill people and their social environment through non – verbal communication.