Ars Electronica Festival
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Featured Artists 2014 Ars Electronica
Computers that recognize faces in clouds, cat faces, which are perceived as human faces, mirrors in which you can’t take a look and much more will be presented by the Featured Artists Shinseungback Kimyonghun at the 2014 Ars Electronica Festival.
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Project Fumbaro Eastern Japan – Getting Aid to Those Who Need It
Golden Nica winner Takeo Saijo succeeded in setting up a digital community that mobilized thousands of volunteers to help those whose lives were devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
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Linz’s Cathedral as a Musical Instrument
Projection mapping is being raised to the next level of artistic development in “Archifon III”, an interactive installation that Czech artists Tomáš Dvořák and Dan Gregor are staging at the grand opening of this year’s Ars Electronica Festival.
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Loophole for All – Freedom from Taxation for Everybody!
“Everyone should have the possibility of exploiting the same tax benefits that major corporations are constantly taking advantage of” ,Paolo Cirio stated. He describes his project as an attempt to democratize tax avoidance.
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ARTS2: The Art of Programming
The featured guest institution at this year’s Campus exhibition is the ARTS2 art academy in Mons, Belgium, the 2015 European Capital of Culture. In this interview, Professors Michel Cleempoel and François Zajéga offer a close-up look at the school’s multidisciplinary Digital Arts program.
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Device Art: Cool Tools
The Ars Electronica Center’s new “Device Art” exhibition features an extraordinary array of odd devices. What they have in common: whimsical outer shells with serious concepts inside. Hiroo Iwata has been a trendsetter in Device Art since its inception in 2004.
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Buddha on the Beach
Contemporary life is full of rapid changes, the virtual collides with reality, chaos is the ultimate master. At the 2014 Ars Electronica Festival the exhibition Buddha on the Beach presents Taiwanese works that take up the topic.
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First Look at the Festival Program 2014
The 2014 Ars Electronica Festival is quickly approaching and the lineup of events is shaping up nicely. So, this would be a great time for a sneak preview of some featured presentations and exhibitions. Here’s a peek at what you can look forward to at the opening on September 4th.
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2014 CyberArts Exhibition
The CyberArts Exhibition traditionally shows a selection of works singled out for recognition by the Prix Ars Electronica. In this interview Genoveva Rückert gets a foretaste of the 2014 CyberArts Exhibition.
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Detecting the Feelings of Plants
On the trail of the feelings of plants, Young Sun Kim goes in the course of his residency stay in the Ars Electronica Futurelab, by presenting sounds from the perspective of little flowers.
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File-sharing with Disarming Corruptor
With a critical project, in the field of digital manufacturing, Matthew Plummer-Fernandez won an Award of Distinction at the Prix Ars Electronica 2014. In an interview he talks about the software application „Disarming Corruptor“.
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Linz Dances with MovesReloaded and OscFluctuation
We’re pleased to announce two great public showcases for the 2014 Ars Electronica Festival, which Ars Electronica Futurelab and Salzburg University of Applied Sciences has been developed together in the context of a research project named CADET.
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Open Call to Take Part in the Future Innovators Summit
Through an open call innovators and creators worldwide are invited to compete for the Future Innovators Summit and become one of 24 “catalysts of change”.
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A Get-Acquainted Stroll around Festival City
Banks, schools, shops, pubs, courtyards, playing fields, avenues and lanes, display cases, churches and their façades and roofs—these are the Linz locations at which this year’s Ars Electronica Festival will be staged. Here’s a glimpse of what awaits you September 4-8, 2014.
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Time of Day and Appointments at a Glance
The 15-year-old student, Jonas Bodingbauer, developed a clock that lets you see not only the current time but also upcoming appointments. With his invention he received an Award of Distinction in the u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD category.
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On Search for Balance
“Balance from Within” is the title of the installation by Jacob Tonski, with whom he won an award in the category Interactive Art at Prix Ars Electronica 2014. In this interview he tells us what it is all about the balancing sofa.
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Femme Chanel – Emma Fenchel
With her found footage project the winner of the u19 – Create Your World category, Sarah Oos, accomplishes that novel narrative twists even have a way of occurring to those who’ve already seen this film several times.
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(e)motion-mirror: Reflected Feelings
Feelings are human. No computer in the world can outperform us when it comes to interpreting feelings and reacting to them. For this reason, Richard Sadek invented the (e)motion-mirror. It reflects the feelings of his viewer by detecting emotionally-charged facial movements and converts them into piano tones.
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Real Imaginary Objects to Touch
The Australian media artist Daniel Crooks had the goal, during his artist-in-residence program at the Ars Electronica Futurelab, to overcome the limits of the screen and generate physical three-dimensional sculptures from it. Whether he has succeeded, he says, together with Otto Naderer, in this interview.
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BlindMaps: City Navigation for visually impaired People
In an interview Markus Schmeiduch, winner of the category [the next idea] voestalpine Art and Technology Grant of the Prix Ars Electronica 2014, talks with us how BlindMaps came into being and why submission for Prix Ars Electronica prize consideration was the next logical step for him.
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Entangled Sparks
“Entangled Sparks” is the Ars Electronica Futurelab’s latest contribution to the EU’s Connecting Cities initiative. Veronika Pauser, the Futurelab staffer who heads “Entangled Sparks,” took some time out to answer a few of our questions and let us in on what the so-called LinzerSchnitte is all about.
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This Inspires Us 2014…
Two examples of incredible projects that Gerfried Stocker cites as sources of inspiration for this year’s festival theme, “C … what it takes to change,” are Projekt Daniel and Solar Mamas. That’s reason enough to take a closer look at them.
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C … what it takes to change
The 2014 Ars Electronica Festival is set for September 4-8. This year’s festival theme is called “C … what it takes to change”. Gerfried Stocker, the artistic director of Ars Electronica, gives us his take on what it takes to change.
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Project Genesis for Everybody
Nicole Grüneis of the Ars Electronica Center’s Education and Cultural Communication department designs together with her colleagues exhibitions’ supplementary program of guided tours and workshops. In this interview, she talks about mediating visitors’ encounters with “Project Genesis – Life from the Lab”.
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The artists have arrived
Every year before the festival, the OK Offenes Kulturhaus im OÖ Kulturquartier invites all the artists of the CyberArts for a welcome-drink. If it’s up to the artists, Festival Ars Electronica 2013 is ready to begin.
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Computer Games: Good Game – Bad Game?
Jeremiah Diephuis and Stefan Schraml collaborated with associates in the Linz gamer scene to launch GameStage. In this interview, the two game experts talk about computer gaming, their exhibition at the Ars Electronica Festival, and the game events coming up at FamilyDays in November.
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El Campo de Cebada – CyberArts 2013
When the CyberArts 2013 opens it’s doors on September 5th, El Campo de Cebada, winners of the Golden Nica in Digital Communities, will be part of it. It’s a self-managed camp in Madrid/Spain, cleverly showing what the urban space of the 21st century might look like. We have talked with Zuloark, the architects behind this…
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WIR SIND HIER – Jules Marshall: Apocalypse How? (Essay)
The Lying World – In the endlessness of today’s universe of information, we can no longer use the truth as a criterion to judge what we can trust.