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u19 Jurymeeting
Sirikit Amann has been a part of u19 ever since its inception in 1998. She’s been working in the field of cultural education especially in conjunction with new media on the national and international level since the ‘80s, and has been a curator on behalf of Ars Electronica since 2006. Her projects include “Young Animations,”…
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Out of Control – What the web knows about you
Sergey Brin, one of the founders of Google (there’s probably no need you provide you with a link here, right?), recently gave a detailed and comprehensive account of some of the looming threats and his critique of them. In this connection, he regards closed systems like Facebook and Apple’s Appstore as discrete domains that make…
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Ich seh, ich seh, was du nicht siehst
Earlier this year, there was a pretty impressive wave of protests in Europe and the US. The bone of contention was SOPA/PIPA/ACTA, proposed legislation that would have a wide-ranging impact on how we use the World Wide Web, and all in the name of the law and for the sake of crime prevention. Incursions into…
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Prix-Jury 2012, Martin Supper
New technology shall create something new! Pierre Boulez 2010: “It’s like architecture: In that moment, when you not only work with wood, stone and concret, but with steel, glas and other materials, you have many more possibilities.” While judging 640 (Music) submission for the ICMC2000 (International Computer Music Conference) I didn’t listen to a lot…
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Prix-Jury 2012, Mariela Yeregui
In the last 10 years we have been committed to creating a space dedicated to the reflection and creation in the intersection of art, science and technology at the National University of Tres de Febrero (Argentina). It has been a great challenge as the domain appeared limitless, allowing an immense possibility for research. Consequently, a…
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App and Web at u19
Let us in on your idea for the world of tomorrow and this year’s Golden Nica could have your name on it! u19-CREATE YOUR WORLD is the competition for creative young people up to age 19 who live in Austria and whose idea of having fun is coming up with something new. We welcome all…
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Pictures right out of your head
Every once in a while, you’re watching at a scenery so beautiful, that you want to capture it and show it to your friends. More often than not, there’s a camera around, but there’s also the romantic way of painting the whole sensation. You pick your brush or pen, start to fill the paper with…
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THE BIG PICTURE – New Concepts for a New World
Christine Schöpf presents the festivaltopic Gerfried Stocker tells about the developemtn of the topic in detail. Martin Honzik talks about u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD THE BIG PICTURE – New Concepts for a New World is the theme of Festival Ars Electronica 2012. Check out ars.electronica.art/thebigpicture for more information and follow this blog for backgroundinfo.…
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Texta “Grotesk” feat. Soprano & Average – The Ars Electronica Center as a videoset
Texta, one of the most famous Hip-Hop-Crews from Austria, have shot their last video for “Grotesk” at the Ars Electronica Center. Using the floors, cellar and facade as a backdrop for a computergame, Wolfang Schober has produced quite an impressive video. Enjoy!
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Prix-Jury 2012, Michael Doser
What’s a scientist doing, mingling with the artists, and trying to blend in with a group that some consider at the antipodes to his own tribe? An opposition characterized by rationality vs. instinct, by thought vs. emotion? Not so fast… C.P. Snow had it wrong at a fundamental level: the two cultures permeate each other;…
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u19 Teamwork
Klimakids is a project group that won an Honorary Mention in 2011. These “climate kids” are a class at Oberlaa Elementary School. They’re using their blog to raise awareness of the climate and environmental protection, and they even give conservation tips. The winner of the 2011 Golden Nica grand prize did it with teamwork. More…
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Prix-Jury 2012, Leila Nachawati
The Jury for Prix 2012, Round 2: This time it’s Leila Nachawati talking, she’ll look for interesting projects in the category “Digital Communities”.
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KET – Kids Experience Technology 2012. A Retrospective Look
“That was the best day of my life” and other such expressions of pure, youthful delight were responses heard frequently by the Infotrainers who mediated kids’ encounters with the content of the KET exhibition that ran from January 31 to March 4 at the Ars Electronica Center. Produced by the OTELO Association, KET is a…
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Aus dem Rahmen – Ars Electronica Center Linz auf ORF III
Am Freitag, dem 9. März um 21:50 Uhr gibt es AUS DEM RAHMEN – ARS ELECTRONICA CENTER LINZ – Museumsmagazin mit Karl Hohenlohe auf ORFIII zu sehen. Ein Rundgang durchs Center mit interessanten Einblicken.
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u19 and Animations
Let us in on your idea for the world of tomorrow and this year’s Golden Nica could have your name on it! u19-CREATE YOUR WORLD is the competition for creative young people up to age 19 who live in Austria and whose idea of having fun is coming up with something new. We welcome all…
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The Prix-Jury 2012 introduced, Liu Yan
From April 20th to 22nd 2012, the jury of Prix Ars Electronica 2012 will meet in Linz to decide on the winners of the Golden Nicas 2012. The weekend will be interesting, fascinating, but also tiring. Hundreds of projects want to be evaluated and rated, a daunting task. To give you a look behind the…
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The deadline for submissions for Prix Ars Electronica 2012 has been postponed to March 14th 2012.
The team of Prix Ars Electronica 2012 is browsing through the already submitted projects. There’s still time to
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Let us in on your idea for the world of tomorrow and this year’s Golden Nica could have your name on it! u19-CREATE YOUR WORLD is the competition for creative young people up to age 19 who live in Austria and whose idea of having fun is coming up with something new. We welcome all…
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Ars Wild Card
Here’s a situation that lots of museum visitors are sure to have experienced on occasion: you’re standing in front of a work that absolutely blows you away, and you’re immediately overcome by the irresistible urge to tell the whole world all about this incredible piece of art—what it is, who created it, and exactly what…
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Time is running out…
APA/Der Standard In common parlance, Austrian citizens are no longer considered innocent until proven guilty as of April 1, when “the usual suspects” comes to mean: everybody. All telecommunications providers will then be obliged to store data having to do with their customers’ calls and maintain them for six months. This will enable authorities to…
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Favorites: Brain Computer Interface
My favorite installation at the Ars Electronica Center is the BrainLab’s Brain-Computer Interface. BCI establishes a link between the human brain and a computer. It’s similar to an electroencephalogram (EEG), a measurement of the brain’s electrical activity. You put on a special cap studded with electrodes hooked up to cables, and they transmit the activities…
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BioLab, an Introduction
BioLab closely resembles the typical picture people have in mind of a laboratory. Here, you’ll find all sorts of equipment, stuff that most of us would have a hard time telling apart from a coffeemaker or a fridge. Test tubes and containers holding seedlings and specimens adorn the shelves. But there’s one big difference between…
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Data preservation, soon to be true
The Republic of Austria promptly responded to censure of it by the EU in July 2010 and amended the data protection rules in effect in this country accordingly. Specifically, this has to do with data retention—i.e. legal regulations mandating storage of data propagated via telecommunications channels due to the possibility that they could contain illegal…
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Science Days, Review and Outlook
Biology made the start. The visitors, teachers, pupils, physicists and others had the chance to try out things like DAPI-Coloring (the coloring of cells), the visualisation of DNA or check out what their bodies look in detail, using a scanning electron microscope. The next Science Days will be on February 11th and 12th and will…
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SOPA, Resistance and Why It Could Have an Impact on Any of Us
xkcd.comoffers a comic for every situation Essentially, this legislation submitted to the U.S. Senate in October 2011 has to do with control—the control of content and access to that content. It’s disguised as a measure to deal with the very real problem of illegal dissemination of content protected by copyright. After all, stricter control is…
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Poetry of Motion – Ars Electronica Export in Osaka, Japan, Dezember 2011
An Ars Electronica exhibition in an Osaka shopping mall at the nexus of glamorous and conspiratorial elements set into motion
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Favorites: TWAN-Globe
I’m a photography enthusiast, so of course my favorite installation is the TWAN Globe in GeoCity. A touchscreen lets users rotate the sphere bristling with digital pins that mark the spots on our planet’s surface where the shots that make up “The World at Night” exhibition were taken. There are 84 of them, each one…
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New Views of Humankind – Robotinity – An Introduction
Entering the Ars Electronica Center’s Main Gallery, the AEC’s largest exhibition space, brings you face-to-face with “New Views of Humankind.” The installation is divided into four themes, which this blog will elaborate on over the coming weeks. Let’s start things off with Robotinity.