Ars Electronica Center

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).

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…

From August 1, 2013, the new exhibition “Yours Synthetically” is all about the thematic topic of synthetic biology. Matthew Gardiner has put together the artistic works.

Miraikan’s Tsunagari-Project has landed in Linz, in the Deep Space of the Ars Electronica Center. For the first time, the visualisations of the GeoCosmos, a 6 metre wide sphere covered with millions of organic LEDs, are shown outside of the biggest technology-institute in Japan. We have talked to Maholo Uchida, curator of Miraikan and member…

Austrian game designers and their computer games will be the stars of the show at the 2nd GamesDay@AEC on May 17th. We recently caught up with Stefan Schraml to get the lowdown on the specifics (the lineup in detail) and the big picture (what this get-together is all about).

[:de]Das Experiment ist geglückt: 3.452 BesucherInnen, davon etwa 400 experimentierfreudige SchülerInnen und LehrerInnen, fünf Stunden langes Versuchen und Erklären, und ein Museum der Zukunft.

Just one more level, only this last jump, a single, final mission to complete … and my, how the evening just seems to fly by! Who hasn’t faced this situation? A lot has happened since Pacman & Friends came to town. Upcoming at the Ars Electronica Center is an intensive encounter with computer gaming, and…

Visitors to the Ars Electronica Center this weekend might well wonder why one of our installations is off limits. The reason Kazamidori the weathervane of the internet age, is temporarily unavailable is Culture Shutdown.

One day, 24 hours. You could break down these units even further into seconds, milliseconds and so forth. One might consider a day in terms of the Earth’s rotation, the time our planet takes to spin once on its axis, the Sun rising and setting, but then of course there’s also the night, and it…

[:de]Das Team hinter Zeit ist Held erzählt im Interview, wie die Idee zur Ausstellung entstanden ist, was sie persönlich aus der Recherche mitgenommen haben und worüber sie sich besonders freuen würden. Die Ausstellungseröffnung ist am 6.12. um 18:30 Uhr, nehmen Sie sich die Zeit!

You have your clocks, we have the time. But time is relative. There’s no substitute for taking time, even when it’s running like sand through your fingers. Is my time more valuable than yours? Lifetime, cooking time, Christmastime, prime time. Full-time? Time is something that determines everyday life, characterizes it, divides it up into quantifiable,…

Newcastle, Australia. Beijing. Singapore. Linz. Four cities, seemingly selected at random, will coalesce into a single integrated concert hall on November 30, 2012. The International Space Time Concerto brings together musicians all across the face of the Earth. Together with a chorus, they’ll perform nine pieces using instruments as well as iPhones and iPads.