Ars Electronica Export
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Hybrids – The Power Resides in the Spaces Between
The “Hybrids” exhibition co-produced by Ars Electronica is running until January 15, 2017 at the Onassis Cultural Center in Athens. It focuses attention on new forms of artistic expression that interconnect disparate genres and thereby cut across the boundary between art and technology.
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Engineering the Future – A Weekend in London
This year’s Digital Design Weekend took place on Saturday & Sunday, September 24-25 in London. Participants included the Austrian Cultural Forum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and Ars Electronica Linz, which jointly presented six recent projects by media artists from Austria.
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FLY FACTORY – Are Insects the Food of the Future?
Well, in any case, Búi Bjarmar Aðalsteinsson thinks it’s possible. His project is a breeding ground for flies whose larvae can be harvested and processed into foodstuffs. “Fly Factory” is now on display in the “EARTH LAB – Artists as Catalysts” exhibition in Moscow.
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HUMAN FACTOR: What Interconnects Art and Industry
Ars Electronica Export is making another guest appearance in Berlin. The “HUMAN FACTOR – endless prototyping” exhibition running until August 27, 2016 at DRIVE. Volkswagen Group Forum Berlin displays art and industry’s common denominator—the human being, the human factor that’s constantly trying out prototypes for existential models in humankind’s ongoing struggle to resist extinction. Here…
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EARTH LAB – Our Planet on the Examination Table
An exhibition produced jointly by Moscow’s Polytechnic Museum and Ars Electronica Export presents new takes on the future of our planet. “EARTH LAB – Artists as Catalysts” shows how artists from all over the world see Earth. Here, we show you a few impressions.
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HUMAN FACTOR: Endless prototyping
“HUMAN FACTOR – endless prototyping,” an exhibition running July 1-August 27, 2016 at DRIVE. Volkswagen Group Forum Berlin, features a series of artistic prototypes demonstrating new and innovative linkages between art and industry. In this interview, curator Martin Honzik talks about the advantages prototypes have over their counterparts in serial production, and exactly what exhibition…
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EARTH LAB: The Artistic View at Earth
EARTH LAB, an exhibition produced jointly by the Polytechnic Museum in Moscow and Ars Electronica Export, presents new and unconventional ways of looking at our Blue Planet. In this interview, the two curators, Natalia Fuchs and Manuela Naveau, brief us about this remarkable lab on the underground level of Moscow’s Red October chocolate factory.
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Crystall: Russian media art from the 1960s
With his light organ, the Russian artist Bulat Galeev has already experimented in the 1960s with the interplay of art and science. The musical instrument has now brought back to life by Natalia Fuchs, curator of the Polytech.Science.Art Week.
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Back to Materia Prima
The question of the starting point, the Materia Prima of our world, quickly comes up when art gets in contact with science and vice versa. The correspondent exhibition of Ars Electronica and LABoral in Spain deals with the interaction of these two fields.
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Nick Ervinck: 3D printing out of passion
Nick Ervinck is a master of 3D printing. In an interview with Ars Electronica he talks about the sources of inspiration for his organic and surreal sculptures and why he is so fascinated about 3D printing.
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Ars Electronica in the Knowledge Capital
The Knowledge Capital in Osaka is getting ready to host its second Forum, a get-together design especially for those who’d like to get inspired by artistic points of view. Here, Ars Electronica’s Emiko and Hideaki Ogawa give us a briefing.
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The Art of applying Physics
During ITU Telecom World 2014 Mohammed A. ElRaffie offered workshops for building the world’s simplest robots. The participants experienced for the first time how inspiring their everyday surrounding can be and how simple it is to use commonplace stuff as components to build something new.
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Mobile Hydroelectric Power
One of the creative, future-oriented projects presented in “The Lab” is Rotor, a moderately priced, small, mobile power plant that delivers a “plug-and-play,” instant solution to the problem of providing electricity to regions beyond the grid.
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The Lab
On Sunday, December 7 2014, this year’s ITU Telecom World 2014 started in Doha. In the context of an open laboratory situation Ars Electronica Linz and ITU Telecom World 2014 present “The Lab”.
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CODE – The Language of Our Time
“The more powerful this technology and the machines are, the more powerful is also the code that drives these machines”. Gerfried Stocker talks about the relationship between code and art.
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It’s Time for AEC
The ITU World 2013, which took place between the 19th and the 22nd November in Bangkok/Thailand, was a great success – not only as a conference. Ars Electronica Export curated the exhibition The Lab which presented different artistic positions belonging to the topic. Philipp Huemer was one of the Infotrainers that travelled to Bangkok from…
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ITU Telecom World 2013: The Future of ICT is our Future
Blaise Judja-Sato, Executive Manager of ITU Telecom, talks about the immense importance of information and communication technology (ICT) at present time – a time which can be called in any case as a “revolution” in his opinion.
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The Blind Robot at The Lab
The Blind Robot by Louis-Philippe Demers (CA) has received a Honorary Mention in Hybrid Art at the Prix Ars Electronica 2013. It was on display during the CyberArts 2013 at TOTAL RECALL – The Evolution of Memory and is part of The Lab, an exhibition curated by Ars Electronica for the ITU Telecom World 2013.
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Urban Audio Zaragoza – Florian Türcke
Paseo Project is one of the project supported by Prix Ars Electronica. The competition is currently open for submissions. To give you an idea of what might happen if you win, german artist Florian Türcke is sharing insight.
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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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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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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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Like A Second Nature – WALL
Rejane Cantoni and Leonardo Crescenti are the creative brains behind the kinetic installation WALL, which is currently on display in Berlin and will move to Linz in a couple of weeks. During the preparations for “Like A Second Nature”, there was time for a chat.
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KNOWLEDGE CAPITAL Ars Electronica Creative Cloud – Zach Lieberman
Ars Electronica Creative Cloud is a workshop series held in the Knowledge Capital (http://kc-i.jp/en/) of Osaka in a brand-new creative hub for innovation through a fusion of human creativity and technology. 10 creative workshops will be conducted in this cultural program curated by Ars Electronica, starting June 2013 to May 2014, including cutting-edge talk sessions…
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Alistair McClymont – Like A Second Nature
Alistair McClymont is an artist from the UK, his “Limitations of Logic and the Absence of Absolute Certainty” is showing in Berlin in the VW Automobil Forum Unter den Linden als part of “Like A Second Nature”. Find out what he has to say about his work!
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Like A Second Nature – Interview with the architects
“Like a Second Nature” is the latest exhibition Ars Electronica and VW have jointly staged in VW’s Automobilforum Unter den Linden in Berlin. The opening is set for June 6th. The exhibition design is by Jürgen Haller and Christoph Weidinger, two architects going by the name of any:time. 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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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.