Ars Electronica Festival
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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.
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CyberArts 2013 – Martin Sturm interviewed
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.
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GameLab – A Youth Meeting at u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD
It’s official! The EU’s Youth in Action program has agreed to sponsor GameLab, a European young people’s conclave developed and submitted for funding by Ars Electronica together with mb21 (Germany), bugnplay.ch (Switzerland) und C319 (Hungary). We’re thrilled; the participants will be too! But, like, what’s this GameLab all about, actually?
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WIR SIND HIER – Lets build a user generated sculpture in Linz
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…
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WIR SIND HIER – Make your own REMIX of history
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…
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Update WIR SIND HIER – Where are we?
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.
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WIR SIND HIER – Opening TOTAL RECALL – The Evolution of Memory
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.
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TOTAL RECALL – The Evolution of Memory
In this interview, Gerfried Stocker presents the theme and content of the 2013 Ars Electronica Festival.
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THE BIG PICTURE – Different Angles
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…
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Resümee
Das u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD hat uns fünf Tage lang Spaß, Unterhaltung, spannende Momente und interessante Projekte geboten. Von verschiedenen Workshops, bis hin zu einer spannenden Siegerehrung, war alles dabei – es wurde ausprobiert, fotografiert, geschauspielert, getanzt und gebastelt.
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Festival impressions from the Museum of the Future
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…
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The Klangwolken Miniatures in it’s temporary final form
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.
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Festivalrally on Sunday
Ziemlich spannend wars heute bei der Festivalrallye. Wir waren als Kreagraphen unterwegs und kreierten unser eigenes Bild vom Festival. Dabei halfen uns die Werkszeuggürtel, die unter anderem eine Lupe, eine blaue Brille, ein Kaleidoskop, einen Geräuschtrichter usw. beinhalteten. Damit konnten wir uns eine neue Sicht verschaffen, denn schließlich wollten wir einmal alles neu betrachten und…
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The Blogger and the Festival
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…
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Last day, bummer.
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…
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ABC Parade & voestalpine Klangwolke
[:de]Gestern fand die voestalpine Klangwolke, unter dem Motto „Die Wolke im Netz“, statt. Eingeleitet wurde das Ereignis von der ABC Parade, die angeführt von der voestalpine Blaskapelle, vom AEC zum Linzer Hauptplatz wanderte.
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Games und süße Genüsse in der Festivalstadt
[:de]Der heutige Tag stand ganz im Zeichen „Gaming“! Ob nun eine Schnitzeljagd mit dem Smartphone durch Linz oder ein Kampf gegen die bösen „SMorcS“, die Hauptsache war: aktiv! Das Bloglab- Team stellt dir die heutigen Highlights kurz vor.
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Day 4: It’s all about music
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…
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Rupert Huber – teardrops
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.
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Weitere Wendepunkte
[:de]Am dritten Tag des u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD standen wieder Wendepunkte am Plan. Der Workshop des österreichischen Roten Kreuzes ”Wendepunkt. Ändere deine Richtung!” ging in die zweite Runde. Am Vormittag gab es ein Expertenfrühstück, bei dem die Experten der Podiumsdiskussion, welche am Freitag statt fand, eingeladen waren, mit den Jugendlichen über globale Probleme zu…
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ABC-Werkstatt & SoundLab
[:de]Heute ist es soweit, die voestalpine Klangwolke “Die Wolke im Netz” findet statt und wir haben die Projektleiterin der ABC-Werkstatt Juliane Leitner gefragt was sich dort alles so tun wird und was es mit den riesigen Buchstaben auf sich hat.
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Day 3, suggesting a menu
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…
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Hitchhiking from Linz to the “Merseyside Pool of Life” and Back with AEC Letters along for the Ride
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…
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Von Auszeichnungen und Wendepunkten
[:de]Trotz der beschwerenden Wetterlage herrschte am 2. Tag des u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD Festivals Hochstimmung beim Team und den Besuchern. Wir vom Bloglab-Team waren für euch hautnah bei den wichtigsten Events des Tages dabei, welche wir euch kurz vorstellen möchten.