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LINZ_EINST/JETZT
The Deep Space Live – Series “LINZ_EINST/JETZT” which compares historical pictures of Linz with their current views is having it’s next installment on November 15th at the Ars Electronica Center. MMag. Maria Jenner, who’s taking care of coordinating and programming the series and works at the Archiv der Stadt Linz talks about how the cooperation…
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Dr. Manuela Macedonia about Knowledge Transfer
There’s a lot of things to learn from Neuroscience. Dr. Manuela Macedonia talks about the impact that findings from this field can have on a lot of other disciplines and why the knowledge transfer is not always easy. Macedonia will be having her last “Brain For Everybody” – Talk for 2012 on November 15 at…
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L.S.D Light to Sound Device
Screens and displays can be found almost everywhere, on our mobiles, in our car or in our livingroom. With his project L.S.D, the artist Benjamin Gaulon tries to create a new viewpoint on this everyday devices.
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Collide@CERN Residency Award 2013 – Bill Fontana
[:de]Der Collide@CERN Residency Award geht in die zweite Runde, wieder haben sich Dutzende Künstlerinnen und Künstler aus der ganzen Welt um die Möglichkeit beworben, am CERN in Genf und im Ars Electronica Futurelab in Linz ihre Projekte in einer potentiell komplett neuen Umgebung umzusetzen, mit den hellsten Köpfen aus der Welt der Wissenschaft und der…
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Visualizing Global Marathon 2012
Seed was one of the big partners of THE BIG PICTURE, were responsible for an exhibition and one panel of the symposium. Seed is also behind visualizing.org, a plattform that’s a hub for designers, reseachers and everyone else interested in datavisualisation. From November 9th to November 11th they will be hosting the biggest competition in…
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GiraDora
The project GiraDora shows what social design can do! Come up with easy solutions to current problems and invite local people to participate. The outcome: a human-powered washer and spin dryer that increases the efficiency and improves the experience of hand-washing clothes for women living without access to running water.
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The Big Picture at Deep Space
[:de]Big Picture ist jetzt auch im Deep Space des Ars Electronica Centers zu sehen.
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Dr. Manuela Macedonia im Interview
Dr. Manuela Macedonia ist regelmäßig als Vortragende im Ars Electronica Center und ist verantwortlich für die Reihe “Gehirn für Alle”. Wie sie zu dem Thema gekommen ist, was in den nächsten Wochen und Monaten zu sehen sein wird, verrät sie im Interview.
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The Ars Electronica wins the SoccerKucha Cup 2012
For those of you who couldn’t attend this year’s SoccerKucha match at Tabakfabrik – a combination of Street Soccer games and PechaKucha presentations organized by “Creative Region Linz & Upper Austria” on last Saturday – here come the latest news:
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Infinity – ∞
Es wird nicht mehr besonders lange dauern, dann wir der Röhrenfernseher genauso eine obskure Technologie sein, wie das Grammophon, Telegraphen (beide mit ph!) oder Palms. Unsere Kinder werden diese riesigen Kisten anschauen und uns fragen, ob wir denn mit dem Platz in unseren Wohnungen und Häusern nichts Besseres anzufangen wussten, als ihn mit Darstellgerätschaften zu…
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A Long Night at the Museum of the Future
Inside the Deep Space multiple windows to the world were opened in cooperation with the ORF Landesstudio Salzburg. Representatives of museums and scientific institutions from Japan, Mexico, USA and other places talked live about their work and gave insights into their activities. Meanwhile, the Deep Space showed itself from its most beautiful side. Additionally, the…
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“Learn History!” – With Twitter, for example
Although Twitter has been around for a couple of years now, there’s still a lot of mystery involved about how to actually use this plattform. Well, one thing you can do with it is to learn history. Check out the following channels to find out about important historic events in real-time.
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PUCK
PUCK is a project by Jen Stein and means “Place-based, Ubiquitous, Connected and Kinetic Experiences for Interactive Architecture” and by merging digital technologies, information and architecture she creates a new way of interacting and experiencing buildings and places.
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The whole city in one tent
You need neither good shoes nor many hours of time to explore the 96 square-kilometers of Linz from numerous perspectives. Because: Inside the Linz.Verändert exhibition tent at the Urfahraner Herbstmarkt you can explore the city on their own.
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World Making incorporated
by Salvatore Iaconesi/Art is Open Source World Making incorporated is a fictional (yet existing) company with millions of associates, together with an ubiquitous technological system. Its objective is to create digital city infrastructures in which multiple layers of information become integral part of architecture, creating novel forms of citizenship and defining recombinant, re-programmable public spaces.…
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Linz Changes – Tent at Urfahraner Herbstmarkt 2012
The Linz Changes tent opens its portals once again! Inside are lots of interesting possibilities to experience the City of Linz from a variety of not-your-everyday perspectives. From September 29 to October 4, this will be one of the featured attractions at the Autumn Fair in Linz’s Urfahr neighborhood.
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GeoCity Smart City in Beijing
Beijing is the fastest-growing megacity in the world, almost 20 million people walk the streets of this giant, which is growing constantly. The challenges a city of this size has to face, the amount of data that has to be processed and interpreted, can be overwhelming. GeoCity Smart City is exactly the right tool to…
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THE BIG PICTURE – Different Angles
65000 people have THE BIG PICTURE, for 5 days they were listening to talks, explored exhibitions, saw a lot of different projects from the world of art, technology and society, have been challenged by radical ideas. In this blogpost, we want to share different views from different people, so if you have pictures, videos, audio…
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Resümee
Das u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD hat uns fünf Tage lang Spaß, Unterhaltung, spannende Momente und interessante Projekte geboten. Von verschiedenen Workshops, bis hin zu einer spannenden Siegerehrung, war alles dabei – es wurde ausprobiert, fotografiert, geschauspielert, getanzt und gebastelt.
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Festival impressions from the Museum of the Future
Inside the Deep Space the BIG PICTURE and its oversized presentations had their reasonable space. The exhibition “Out of Control” acquiesced well into the festival like the three Klangwolken stations of the museum: The ABC workshop, where visitors had the possibility to create their own illuminated letters for the voestalpine Klangwolke, the SoundLab, our own…
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The Klangwolken Miniatures in it’s temporary final form
Marco Palewicz (AT) presented the mix he made out of hundreds of Klangwolke Miniatures during the Picknick in the Cloud. If you’ve missed the track or simply want to listen it again, the track is now avaible on Soundcloud.
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Festivalrally on Sunday
Ziemlich spannend wars heute bei der Festivalrallye. Wir waren als Kreagraphen unterwegs und kreierten unser eigenes Bild vom Festival. Dabei halfen uns die Werkszeuggürtel, die unter anderem eine Lupe, eine blaue Brille, ein Kaleidoskop, einen Geräuschtrichter usw. beinhalteten. Damit konnten wir uns eine neue Sicht verschaffen, denn schließlich wollten wir einmal alles neu betrachten und…
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The Blogger and the Festival
First day, and the sun is shining. The weather is not the best during THE BIG PICTURE, but at least it’s not raining the whole day.You can fly with Quadrocopters at the u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD – Festivalstadt. You control them using a smartphone or tablet. Unfortunately, those are not the Quadrocopters that are…
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Last day, bummer.
Today is the Ars Electronica Music Day featuring a lot of interesting stuff, for example Crystal Sounds of a Synchrotron by Jo Thomas. Listening to this piece on a wonderful pa and very nice environment sure makes you understand why it has won the Golden Nica this year. Of course, all Exhibitions are open today…
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ABC Parade & voestalpine Klangwolke
[:de]Gestern fand die voestalpine Klangwolke, unter dem Motto „Die Wolke im Netz“, statt. Eingeleitet wurde das Ereignis von der ABC Parade, die angeführt von der voestalpine Blaskapelle, vom AEC zum Linzer Hauptplatz wanderte.
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Games und süße Genüsse in der Festivalstadt
[:de]Der heutige Tag stand ganz im Zeichen „Gaming“! Ob nun eine Schnitzeljagd mit dem Smartphone durch Linz oder ein Kampf gegen die bösen „SMorcS“, die Hauptsache war: aktiv! Das Bloglab- Team stellt dir die heutigen Highlights kurz vor.
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Day 4: It’s all about music
On Sunday, the Picknick in the Cloud is the final chapter of the voestalpine Klangwolke, turning the Klangwolkenminiatures into the stars of the day. The last panel of the THE BIG PICTURE – Symposium is starting at 11 am at the Brucknerhaus, if you can’t make it, check out the livestream at ars.electronica.art/thebigpicture. Another highlight…
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Rupert Huber – teardrops
The Ars Electronica uses the Mariendom in Linz as a place for an audioinstallation. This year, it’s Rupert Huber’s teardrops. Enjoy the video and enjoy the installation, which will turn into a concert after the voestalpine Klangwolke.