A highlight of each year’s festival is the CyberArts exhibition featuring installations, videos and performances singled out for recognition by the Prix Ars Electronica. Martin Sturm, director of the OK Center for Contemporary Art, is responsible for the exhibition’s design. In this interview, he reveals some of what awaits festivalgoers in 2013.
We’re building a user generated sculpture in Linz from old analog and digital devices, and you can help us! Tell us your ideas! Show us your vision! Send us Material! What should the sculpture look like? Show us a picture of your ideas or tell us how it could look in the comments section of our website. You…
In Occupy History, users can produce a six-second looped video using the Twitter tool Vine. Vines should show how history (and memory along with it) has been transformed by the lens of pop culture. Pictures and symbols have been given new interpretations and new connotations. A few popular examples are Hipster Hitler, Che Guevara as…
Writing for the online art project WIR SIND HIER (Opening Festival Ars Electronica 2013), David Dorrell reveals why the modern world is a sinister place, and how it could have gotten so far.
TOTAL RECALL – The Evolution of Memory starts on September 5th. The opening event is “We are here”, a transdisciplinary performance about memory, consciousness, responsibility and surveillance. We have talked to Salvatore Vanasco, one of the initiators of this project and no stranger to Ars Electronica.
In this interview, Gerfried Stocker presents the theme and content of the 2013 Ars Electronica Festival.
65000 people have THE BIG PICTURE, for 5 days they were listening to talks, explored exhibitions, saw a lot of different projects from the world of art, technology and society, have been challenged by radical ideas. In this blogpost, we want to share different views from different people, so if you have pictures, videos, audio…
Inside the Deep Space the BIG PICTURE and its oversized presentations had their reasonable space. The exhibition “Out of Control” acquiesced well into the festival like the three Klangwolken stations of the museum: The ABC workshop, where visitors had the possibility to create their own illuminated letters for the voestalpine Klangwolke, the SoundLab, our own…
Marco Palewicz (AT) presented the mix he made out of hundreds of Klangwolke Miniatures during the Picknick in the Cloud. If you’ve missed the track or simply want to listen it again, the track is now avaible on Soundcloud.
First day, and the sun is shining. The weather is not the best during THE BIG PICTURE, but at least it’s not raining the whole day.You can fly with Quadrocopters at the u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD – Festivalstadt. You control them using a smartphone or tablet. Unfortunately, those are not the Quadrocopters that are…
Today is the Ars Electronica Music Day featuring a lot of interesting stuff, for example Crystal Sounds of a Synchrotron by Jo Thomas. Listening to this piece on a wonderful pa and very nice environment sure makes you understand why it has won the Golden Nica this year. Of course, all Exhibitions are open today…
On Sunday, the Picknick in the Cloud is the final chapter of the voestalpine Klangwolke, turning the Klangwolkenminiatures into the stars of the day. The last panel of the THE BIG PICTURE – Symposium is starting at 11 am at the Brucknerhaus, if you can’t make it, check out the livestream at ars.electronica.art/thebigpicture. Another highlight…
The Ars Electronica uses the Mariendom in Linz as a place for an audioinstallation. This year, it’s Rupert Huber’s teardrops. Enjoy the video and enjoy the installation, which will turn into a concert after the voestalpine Klangwolke.
Starting at 5 pm at the Ars Electronica Center, you can join the Klangwolken-ABC-Parade and show off your LED-Letters and tune into the Klangwolke with like-minded people. Speaking of likeminded: Johann Grubner made a special journey this summer, hitchhiking from Linz to Liverpool. What’s so special about it? He had some letters from the Klangwolke…
July 12, 2012, gas station on the Autobahn in Ansfelden, about 7:30 AM. There wasn’t much time for picture taking, ‘cause it wasn’t long before I was enjoying a pleasant chat with a young lady in her car on the way to Schärding. Liverpool: George Harrison had his point of view, one that was precise…
Quadrocopter draw figures into the nightsky More Quadrocopters One of many LED-Dancers. The buildungs in Urfahr turn into canvases. Episodes from the history of film and pictures from space are shown Choppers stand for the symbiosis of man and machine The voestalpine V is part of the show
Today is the kick-off of the THE BIG PICTURE – Symposium. If you can’t make it to the Brucknerhaus, follow the symposium via the livestream on ars.electronica.art/thebigpicture. The ARCHIVIA starts at 11:30 in the Wissensturm near the Hauptbahnhof Linz. The evening will see the Prix Ars Electronica Gala, where the Golden Nicas are awarded to…