Ars Electronica Festival 2012
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GeoPulse Beijing – creative visualization of constantly changing cityscapes and demography
By 2050 85% of the world’s population will live in cities, quite a startling fact! Populations are growing at a startling rate and migration to urban centres is on the increase as people go in search of better lives, employment and opportunity. For cities such as Beijing, that is rapidly changing daily in terms of…
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Everyday Rebellion: Multi-Media Resource for Sharing Non-Violent Resistance Methodology
Ars Electronica’s internationally -renowned annual international festival of media arts for 2012 entitled THE BIG PICTURE is fast approaching. The festival team is delighted to offer you as we do every year yet another world class feast of fantastic concepts, ideas, discussion and projects that explores the relationship between art, science and technology, and how…
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Dance! u19 is fully awake now
So let’s get things moving with a tricky question: What the hell are these people doing here and why? Think you can do the WICKED? Yeah? Then do it—‘cause that’s what this video was made for! Matthias Bergsmann took the many, many soundcloudminiatures and cooked them up into a new piece of music. And Magdalena…
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voestalpine SoundWalk, the first and the second
This is what recording sounds at the voestalpine looks like. Recorden is not the only thing you do. You edit, cut, mix and compose music out of what you’ve recorded. If you want to join in, go to the Klangwolke-website.
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Turning point. Change your direction.
At what point do I begin to take action? What has to happen for me to get actively involved? How do I react when someone else needs help? I’m out for a fun night on the town and a brawl breaks out. The old lady in the apartment on the 2nd floor can’t make it…
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Quadrocopters at the voestalpine Klangwolke
Cloud finds out details about what is planned for the Klangwolke. This is a testflight with 12 UAV.
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Hugive arrives in Linz
Does the connection work? Yeah, the connection is up and running! The festivalteam is happy about their new collegues. Hugvie ATR Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratory Our tele-operated androids Telenoid and Elfoid, which are designed with just the most basic human features and movements, implement new telecommunication media to convey the sense of a human presence. Our…
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A mysterious Start to u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD
Welcome to the u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD Quiz Blog! We’ll be reporting regularly on top-secret activities and preparations for the u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD Festival. Plus, we have some puzzling questions to pose and really pique your curiosity. Once again this year, the Festival Village will be jam-packed with great stuff to investigate…
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Lehrwerkstätten der voestalpine
Die voestalpine bietet verschiedensten Unternehmen in Linz und Oberösterreich die Möglichkeit, ihre Lehrlinge unter ausgezeichneten Bedingungen ausbilden zu lassen. Außerdem beteiligen sich die Lehrwerkstätten auch an der voestalpine Klangwolke, in welcher Form genau, kann man im Video erfahren.
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LED – Balls, Amanogawa – Project
Unfortunately, the Ars Electronica did not get the permission to use this project during the voestalpine Klangwolke. Still, this blogpost offers some nice visuals. Members of the Amanogawa-Team (Japanese-only website) have visited Linz to check out what their LED-Balls behave like in the Danube. 50 000 of those balls will be part of the performance…
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Gerhard Kürner talks about the voestalpine Klangwolke – The Cloud in the Web
Gerhard Kürner, Head of Communications of voestalpine AG, talks about the commitement of voestalpine towards the Klangwolke and why only giving money never was an option for the company.
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voestalpine SoundWalk
Safety first, that’s why you need a helmet. Grab an iPad to record, or use one of the provided fieldrecorders The workshops of the Klangwolke are not only about making music or edit sounds, they are also about experiencing various rooms and surroundings, not by the means that we use most, namely our eyes, but…
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Audio to Midi to Klangwolken ABC
Josh and Ray Gardiner are currently working on a solution on how to light up the Klangwolken ABC during the voestalpine Klangwolke and they’ve come up with a pretty clever solution. Marco Palewicz, Josh Gardiner, Chris Bruckmayr and Ray Gardiner at the Futurelab The idea is quite simple and awesome: Take the information that is…
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The preparations continue
The second projectiontest at the Linz Harbour is supposed to bring information about the the behaviour of the containermatrix, which is essentially a really, really, really big screen. The Klangwolken ABC is growing, not only at the Ars Electronica Center or at home, but also at the OTELOS, open spaces to bring your ideas to…
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Let’s go!
A lot of people already working on the
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New videos and pictures of the voestalpine Klangwolke
Another Klangwolke Miniature is born and works it’s way through to the voestalpine Klangwolke. Marco Palewicz, Chris Bruckmayr and Michael Kaczorowski talk about details and targets of the Klangwolke Miniatures. Fotos of some testprojections for the voestalpine Klangwolke This is a small part of the containermatrix which is going to swim on the Danube and…
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C.LOUD Pro documents the voestalpine Klangwolke
Martina Sochor , David Panhofer and Barbara Heinzl of C.LOUD Pro C.LOUD Pro will be following the progress of this event all the way up to the big show in September and documenting it in sound and picture. What they see and what they suss out will be displayed weekly in the form of a…
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Lightningtest for voestalpine Klangwolke
The Donaupark is going to be the stage for the voestalpine Klangwolke, and even the buildings, usually fullfilling their functions in a very silent way, will be part of this stage. Check out the video to get a glimpse of what will be happening on September 1st 2012.
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Klangwolken Miniatures, some inspiration
Die Klangwolkenminiaturen sollen möglichst viele Leute dazu anregen, sich mit verschiedensten Klängen auseinanderzusetzen. Inspiration wartet förmlich hinter jeder Hausmauer, an jeder Straßenecke, jede Lichtung im Wald und jedes Stiegenhaus beinhaltet so viel Geräusch, so viel Musik, so viel Rhythmus, so viele Dinge, die wir im Alltag kaum wahrnehmen, weil wir sie zu oft wahrnehmen, und…
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SoundLab, first impressions
The Making of the SoundLab The Opening So, here’s what the hands-on sound studio looks like. Seven workstations are available. Thanks to audio routing, all signals collected at the digital mixing console (from microphones, synthesizers, instruments, what have you…) can be sent to all workstations and processed there. The nice folks at Ableton have provided…
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“CREATE YOUR WORLD” CAMP in Linz
Summer hasn’t even begun yet and we’re already looking forward to its final month. But it’s easy to see why: u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD, the 2012 future festival of the next generation, is set for August 30-September 3. This year, the Kinderfreunde, Upper Austria’s youth advocacy organization, is even offering the opportunity to spend…
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voestalpine Soundcloud – The Cloud in the Web
The voestalpine Klangwolke – The Cloud in the Web says: “Hello!” It’s all about participation, join the cloud with sounds and characters. Find all information, dates and projects on ars.electronica.art/klangwolke.
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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.…