Ars Electronica Festival
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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.
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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…