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Christine Schöpf und Jürgen Hagler zum Animation Festival
The Ars Electronica Blog recently published an interview with Christine Schöpf and Jürgen Hagler about the Prix and computer animation. In this installment, they discuss the Animation Festival.
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CEDIC 2013
All eyes will be on the heavens at the Ars Electronica Center from late February to early March. Sky Loft is hosting the 2013 Central European Deepsky Imaging Conference (CEDIC, a major astrophotography conclave), and Deep Space will be the venue of a spectacular program of accompanying events. We recently had a chance to chat…
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Possible Futures – Interview with curator Giselle Beiguelman
Possible Futures took place in October 2012 in Sao Paulo. Gerfried Stocker and Manuela Naveau helped develop this conference, curator Giselle Beiguelman reveals how the collaboration came along and what we should take away from the conference.
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Eyetracker, Werbung und die HLW Steyr
Students of the HLW school in Steyr have recently visited the Ars Electronica Center to make use of the Eyetracker at the BrainLab. Check out what they needed it for.
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Horst Hörtner at Oslolux
Horst Hörtner was at the Oslolux 2013 where he was talking about Spaxels. Fontourist has summarized his lecture in one picture and it’s absolutely great.
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Bill Fontana at CERN
Bill Fontana, der Gewinner des Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN Residency Awards, wurde für vier Tage nach Genf zu CERN eingeladen, um dort seine Einführung in die Aktivitäten und Forschungsgebiete von CERN zu bekommen. Als Koordinatorin des Programmes seitens der Ars Electronica war es mir eine Ehre, diese Zeit mit dem Künstler und Ariane Koek, der…
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Ars Electronica Solutions – Plans and goals
[:de]Es herrscht Aufbruchsstimmung. Die Ars Electronica Solutions ist schon seit 2012 unterwegs, die Vergrößerung des Teams und der Wechsel in die Tabakfabrik sorgen für eine ordentliche Portion an neuer Motivation. Michael Badics und Bernd Albl, die für den Bereich verantwortlich zeichnen, erzählen über Vorhaben und Ziele.
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Keyglove
Like the Mobile Lorm Glove, the Keyglove is another smart glove based solution to enhance ways of communication, but in a slightly different context.
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Computer Animation / Film / VFX – Origin and Development
2013 is the 27th edition of Prix Ars Electronica, so there’s quite some history to look back on. Christine Schöpf, who has been around from the beginning, talks about the not so humble beginnings of the Prix and discusses the current trends in computer-animation, vfx and so on with Jürgen Hagler, who is an expert…
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Social Media – Stage Set for the Ego
Digital vs. real identity, “invented” identity, identity theft, things that you intentionally divulge and those you reveal unknowingly
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The Tabakfabrik Linz, new home of Ars Electronica Solutions
For many years, Linz’s Tabakfabrik tobacco processing plant was a city landmark, a symbol of work and prosperity. The gloomy days of privatization and the accompanying decline in significance are over. What began to a certain extent with REPAIR, the 2010 Ars Electronica Festival, is now being continued under the direction of Chris Müller. The…
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Taking the Lytro through the Ars Electronica Center
We recently published an interview with Oliver Bimber, head of the Institute of Computer Graphics at Johannes Kepler University Linz, in which we went into the subject of light-field photography. On January 31, 2013, our interviewee will be the star of a Deep Space Live. To provide a sneak preview of what light-field photography is…
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Where do you want to travel?
Where are you travel this year? Where is your favorite holiday destination? And which destination can you recommend? Also this year, the Ars Electronica in Linz is part of the Ferien Messe Linz 2013 and invites the visitors to talk about their upcoming holiday through the Shadowgram.
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Mobile Lorm Glove
Marginalized communities like deaf-blind people are excluded from several forms of communication. The Design Research Lab in Berlin, has been developing the Mobile Lorm Glove, a mobile communication and translation device for the deaf-blind. The prototype translates the hand-touch alphabet “Lorm”, a common form of communication used by people with both hearing and vision impairment,…
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Kids Experience Technology
With full body strength, the 4-year-old Leonie is hanging on the rope with which she pulls a container filled with water to the top. Meanwhile her friend Fabian turns his gaze towards the water wheel that begins to rotate at this moment. In the background, her other friends from kindergarten can be heard – they…
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First Submission Computer Animation 2013
Toru Hayai was the first one to submit his work for the Prix 2013, only a couple of hours into the submission-process. We have caught up with him to find out a little bit about him and his work. Who are you and what do you spend your time with? I’m Toru Hayai, CG director…
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u19 presents: The first submitters in 2013
Student Lukas Greul and his teacher Manfred Pilsz have long had their sights set on submitting a project in 2013. “Kids at Fadinger have been entering u19 for years now, and several of their efforts have been honored with prizes and Honorary Mentions. The biggest hit to date was in 2006 when a group named…
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One Day Of Ars Electronica
Watch Ars Electronica’s entry for One Day on Earth 2012 and have a look behind the scenes of the Center, the Festival/Prix/Export-Team, the Futurelab and Solutions.
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Ars Electronica Solutions moves in
Yesterday chairs, tables, computers and other hardware have been packed up, today they are set up in the Tabakfabrik. The hardest part of the move is done, the Ars Electronica Solutions have a new home!
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Spaxels – Test at the Donauparkstadion
The last Spaxel-Test of the year took place at the Donauparkstadium, home of Blau-Weiß Linz. The test was about finding out how the quadrocopter and especially their batteries work at low temperatures, but new shapes and animations were tested as well.
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Ars Electronica Solutions – Move to Tabakfabrik Linz
Ars Electronica Solutions is lifting off in 2013. The team is getting bigger, there’s more products and projects, so there’s a need for more space. Starting today, people and equipment are moving into the Tabakfabrik Linz, where Solutions is going to have a new home.
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Big Vortex
Discussions about CO2 emissions and calculations about their potential environmental impact have become an everyday feature of our lives. But how to relate this abstract considerations to our daily experiences, at best in association with the local architecture? The Berlin based artist group realities:united comes up with a solution that is as simple as amazing….
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Prix Ars Electronica 2013
[:de]Was haben John Lasseter, der erste Animator bei Pixar Studios, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, der Erfinder von HTML, einer der Grundlagen des heutigen Internets, und Wikipedia gemeinsam? Alle Erwähnten wurden entweder mit einer Goldenen Nica oder einem Ehrenpreis des Prix Ars Electronica ausgezeichnet. Der renommierte Medienkunstpreis geht 2013 in die 27te Runde, die Einreichung ist mit…
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Start of submission at u19
The approach of Christmas means it’s that wonderful time of the year again—time to send in your submissions to u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD. We cordially invite all you gals & guys under 19 years of age to get involved. We’re looking forward to receiving lots of interesting ideas and projects!
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TEA Collective Wisdom – Ars Electronica in Taiwan
TEA Collective Wisdom is still running at the NTMOFA in Taichung. Ars Electronica has again provided a couple of installations. We have asked Shu-Min Lin, one of the curators, about topics concerning the exhibition.
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Martina Sochor zum Thema One Day On Earth
Am 12.12.2012 ist Martina Sochor mit einem Team bestehend aus Studierenden der Kunstuni Linz in Linz unterwegs beteiligt sich am One Day On Earth. Wir haben sie auf ein kurzes Gespräch abgefangen.
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Robots – Human and Machine?
At the press conference held in conjunction with the opening of “Robots – Human and Machine?” we asked Bodo-Michael Baumunk (curator), Christopher Lindinger (head of R&D at the Ars Electronica Futurelab), Gabriele Zuna-Kratky (director of Vienna’s Museum of Technology) and Helene Wagner (project supervisor) to tell us how the exhibition came about and give us…