Ars Electronica Festival
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CyberArts 2016: The Best of Media Art
One of the highlights of each year’s Ars Electronica Festival is always the CyberArts exhibition, a showcase of the works singled out for recognition by the Prix Ars Electronica, one of the most important awards honoring creativity and pioneering spirit in the digital media genre. Here, Genoveva Rückert, the curator of CyberArts 2016, tells us…
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Presenting: The Alchemists of Our Time
The theme of the 2016 Ars Electronica Festival is RADICAL ATOMS – and the alchemists of our time. But who are these people, actually? In the theme exhibition, you’ll find out all about the artists, scientists, activists and entrepreneurs whose unorthodox approaches and inspiring projects are bound to make an impact on our future. In…
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P2P Foundation: Concentrated Knowledge for All
Who has access to knowledge and information online? Who controls this exchange and who can profit from it? These issues of decisive importance to our digital future are the P2P Foundation’s bread and butter. In recognition of their committed work, the non-profit organization is this year’s recipient of the Golden Nica in the Prix Ars…
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A Festival Goes Green: A Visit to Linz City Gardens
The 2016 Ars Electronica Festival doesn’t kick off until September 8th but the preparations are already running at full speed. Not only does our in-house production crew have their hands full; our associates have been busy too. The staff of Linz City Gardens, for instance, has been cultivating thousands of flowers to adorn the festival’s…
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POSTCITY, Pre-Festival: A Tour through Our Festival Location
The former Austrian Postal Service logistics center at Linz’s main train station is scheduled for demolition. But before it’s taken down, it will serve, one more time, as an extraordinary event location—POSTCITY, the 2016 Ars Electronica Festival’s prime venue. Martin Honzik, director of the festival, recently took us on a little preview tour of the…
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u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD: Youngsters Join the Curatorial Staff
The Prix Ars Electronica’s u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD category is an annual opportunity for young people to garner recognition for their creative projects with great future promise. And once again this year, the prizewinning works are being honored and exhibited at the Ars Electronica Festival September 8-12, 2016. The new wrinkle this year: the…
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2016 STARTS Prize: Art as Catalyst
The first STARTS Prize competition was conducted by Ars Electronica on behalf of the European Commission this year. The mission: recognizing excellence at the nexus of science, technology and art. Here’s an overview of the winners as well as a few very interesting runners-up and nominees.
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RADICAL ATOMS: When Visions Become Tangible
Prof. Hiroshi Ishii is the director of the MIT Media Lab’s Tangible Media Group. His team’s mission is to envision new forms of human-machine interaction and to enable us to experience and grasp the ideas of tomorrow today. His vision of RADICAL ATOMS also inspired this year’s Ars Electronica Festival theme.
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Hello spies, can you hear me?
“Can you hear me?” was a temporary network that artists Christoph Wachter and Mathias Jud set up above the rooftops of the German government district in Berlin to downright force intelligence agencies to listen in on what they and thousands of other people were saying. Besides getting the agents’ attention, the artists are also the…
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2016 Ars Electronica Festival at the PostCity
Mind the date: From September 8 to 12, 2016, the PostCity, the former former postal service’s letter & parcel distribution central railway station in Linz, again will be a central point of the Ars Electronica Festival.
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Rhizome: Everything Is Interconnected
We zoom into a world that’s incessantly in motion, one in which everything is connected to everything else and the figures are constantly morphing. This animated film by Boris Labbé has been singled out for recognition with a Golden Nica by the 2016 Prix Ars Electronica.
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RADICAL ATOMS: The Machine Becomes Material
In this interview with Gerfried Stocker, Ars Electronica’s artistic director elaborates on the theme of the 2016 Ars Electronica Festival and provides some impressive examples illustrating it. Here’s a preview of what awaits festivalgoers in September 2016 in Linz.
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Express to impress: Square Talk wins at the IxD-Awards
At the Ars Electronica Festival in 2014, three participants in the Ars Electronica Futurelab Academy Programme presented SquareTalk. The project recently won the ‘expression’ category at the prestigious 2016 IXDA awards.
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MAXON: “Creativity engenders visual trends”
MAXON, a Germany-based software developer, has been creating 3-D graphic tools since the mid-1980s. Cinema 4D is one of them. In association with Maxon, the Ars Electronica Animation Festival will showcase prizewinning works of computer animation in September 2016.
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False Positive: How exact is digital profiling?
The idea of tycoons and governmental institutions being able to know more about us than ourselves by tracing our internet behavior, is a rather frightening one. But in reality, they know less than we think – that point has been proven by Mark Shepard, Julian Oliver and Moritz Stefaner with their project “False Positive” which…
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Flame: Fiery Encounter in the Sign of Power
With last year’s topic of the EU project „Connecting Cities“, the focus was on making the invisible visible. In the course of the 2015 edition of the Ars Electronica Festival, the subject-matter “In/Visible City“ was impressively staged via a media installation called “Flame” by the artists Tamer Aslan and Onur Sönmez. With this interview, you…
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The Sixth Wave of Mass Extinction
The experimental/industrial/techno duo raum.null delivers the musical accompaniment to a nightmarish vision of mass extinction hopped up on disturbing visuals courtesy of VJs VeroVisual, voidsignal and Flockaroo.
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You are a number now
You have left everything behind and have just arrived at a refugee camp. Now a period begins in which you are only noticed as a number. In his lecture development worker Kilian Kleinschmidt persuaded that this does not need to be this way.
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Video Mapping: Animations beyond the screen
Ferry wheels, historic buildings and cactuses – it does not always have to be a flat and limiting screen, where animations can be projected on, as shown in the video mappings by Romain Tardy.
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Social Capital in the City
In 2050 about two-thirds of the world’s population will live in cities. Geeta Mehta, professor at the Columbia University, is thinking about our living together in the future.
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“So I went the boring way”
2015 Golden Nica winner Alex Verhaest and Pascal Floerks, this year’s winner of an Award of Distinction, talked with jury member Erick Oh about their animations and motifs behind.
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SOYA C(O)U(L)TURE – Useful Things arise out of Waste
The winners of the [the next idea] Art and Technology Grant voestalpine 2015 is XXLab with their project SOYA C(O)U(L)TURE. Their ambitious goal is to combat water pollution and poverty in Indonesia.
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Day 5: Last Day at the PostCity
Day 5 and thus the final day of the 2015 Ars Electronica Festival is over! We thank all who have made this festival so memorable: all artists, scientists, activists and contributors! Here is a look back at the last day.
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Day 4: Citizen Day at the Ars Electronica Festival
Sunday was Citizen Day in the PostCity with projects designed to get locals to rethink Linz and to discover and develop new perspectives. In the evening many artists and symposia speakers already had to leave. We take a look back on an eventful festival Sunday.
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Day 3: About Markets and Prix winners
Informative, entertaining, spectacular. The third day of the 2015 Ars Electronica Festival is already over. We have recorded a few moments of this day.
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Day 2: Hustle and Bustle in the PostCity
Day 2 of the 2015 Ars Electronica Festival is over and it was symposia day! But also in u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD and the theme exhibition was a hustle and bustle.
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Day 1: The PostCity flourishs
The first day of the 2015 Ars Electronica Festival already marks the wide range of exhibitions and events – and gives a foretaste of the following four festival days in Linz.
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Mercedes-Benz F 015 Luxury in Motion in Linz
Two days before the start of the Ars Electronica Festival, the research vehicle Mercedes-Benz F 015 Luxury in Motion made a stop on the main square of Linz for an European premiere.