Ars Electronica Festival
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The Bloglab crew sez Hi!
[:de]Natalie, Katrin, Judith und Erli sind das diesjährige Bloglab-Team und berichten vom u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD. Es wird viele Fotos, Videos und Textbeiträge geben und täglich wird ein Video mit den Highlights des Tages auf DorfTV ausgestrahlt. Vorbeischaun in unserem Container ist auf jeden Fall erlaubt.
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Let’s go! – Day 1
Finally THE BIG PICTURE opens it’s doors. Read on to find out what you should not miss on day 1. The Ars Electronica Center and Quarter are expecting you! u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD starts on 1 pm with the warmup, the exhibitions (Desire Of Codes, Interface Cultures, Campus-Exhibition and CyberArts) are opened one by…
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HVL001 – TIEFDRUCKGEBIET – The original sub-bass concert for tuned cars at THE BIG PICTURE 2012
a HEAVYLISTENING experience by Carl Schilde & Anselm Venezian Nehls Prepare yourself for a multi-sensory experience at this year’s Ars electronica Festival! Usually a symbol for urban individuality, here twelve tuned cars form an orchestra, collectively creating a wave-field that is rather felt than heard. Each car uses a massive subwoofer to play extremely low…
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Astronomy at THE BIG PICTURE
Throughout cultural history there was never a time, when man was not significantly influenced by the starry night skies. When we look into human activities in several continents we find one common frame of reference when it comes to the question: how did we come up with an episteme? It is the starry universe. So…
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The Festival Menu: Tasty treats to look forward to at u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD 2012
Das Festival beginnt morgen Tagen und hier präsentieren wir euch, was sich an den fünf Festivaltagen so abspielen wird. Die Tageshighlights gib es jeweils am Vortag auf Facebook. Stellt euch euer eigenes Festivalmenü damit zusammen! Den absoluten Überblick habt ihr beim Schedule.
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u19 Festival Village is rising!
A lot of things are going on since last week! The u19 Festival Village is built around Ars Electronica Center. We have a lot of pictures about it! In this article you also get to know papplab, the “cardbord-fitters” who are creating u19s furniture. There are also news concerning the ABC-Parade and the dancing on…
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And if you’re not willing …
Interview with Ingo Leindecker and Thomas Diesenreiter
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GeoPulse Beijing – creative visualization of constantly changing cityscapes and demography
By 2050 85% of the world’s population will live in cities, quite a startling fact! Populations are growing at a startling rate and migration to urban centres is on the increase as people go in search of better lives, employment and opportunity. For cities such as Beijing, that is rapidly changing daily in terms of…
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Everyday Rebellion: Multi-Media Resource for Sharing Non-Violent Resistance Methodology
Ars Electronica’s internationally -renowned annual international festival of media arts for 2012 entitled THE BIG PICTURE is fast approaching. The festival team is delighted to offer you as we do every year yet another world class feast of fantastic concepts, ideas, discussion and projects that explores the relationship between art, science and technology, and how…
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Dance! u19 is fully awake now
So let’s get things moving with a tricky question: What the hell are these people doing here and why? Think you can do the WICKED? Yeah? Then do it—‘cause that’s what this video was made for! Matthias Bergsmann took the many, many soundcloudminiatures and cooked them up into a new piece of music. And Magdalena…
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voestalpine SoundWalk, the first and the second
This is what recording sounds at the voestalpine looks like. Recorden is not the only thing you do. You edit, cut, mix and compose music out of what you’ve recorded. If you want to join in, go to the Klangwolke-website.
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Turning point. Change your direction.
At what point do I begin to take action? What has to happen for me to get actively involved? How do I react when someone else needs help? I’m out for a fun night on the town and a brawl breaks out. The old lady in the apartment on the 2nd floor can’t make it…
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Quadrocopters at the voestalpine Klangwolke
Cloud finds out details about what is planned for the Klangwolke. This is a testflight with 12 UAV.
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A mysterious Start to u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD
Welcome to the u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD Quiz Blog! We’ll be reporting regularly on top-secret activities and preparations for the u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD Festival. Plus, we have some puzzling questions to pose and really pique your curiosity. Once again this year, the Festival Village will be jam-packed with great stuff to investigate…
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Lehrwerkstätten der voestalpine
Die voestalpine bietet verschiedensten Unternehmen in Linz und Oberösterreich die Möglichkeit, ihre Lehrlinge unter ausgezeichneten Bedingungen ausbilden zu lassen. Außerdem beteiligen sich die Lehrwerkstätten auch an der voestalpine Klangwolke, in welcher Form genau, kann man im Video erfahren.
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LED – Balls, Amanogawa – Project
Unfortunately, the Ars Electronica did not get the permission to use this project during the voestalpine Klangwolke. Still, this blogpost offers some nice visuals. Members of the Amanogawa-Team (Japanese-only website) have visited Linz to check out what their LED-Balls behave like in the Danube. 50 000 of those balls will be part of the performance…
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voestalpine SoundWalk
Safety first, that’s why you need a helmet. Grab an iPad to record, or use one of the provided fieldrecorders The workshops of the Klangwolke are not only about making music or edit sounds, they are also about experiencing various rooms and surroundings, not by the means that we use most, namely our eyes, but…
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Audio to Midi to Klangwolken ABC
Josh and Ray Gardiner are currently working on a solution on how to light up the Klangwolken ABC during the voestalpine Klangwolke and they’ve come up with a pretty clever solution. Marco Palewicz, Josh Gardiner, Chris Bruckmayr and Ray Gardiner at the Futurelab The idea is quite simple and awesome: Take the information that is…
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“CREATE YOUR WORLD” CAMP in Linz
Summer hasn’t even begun yet and we’re already looking forward to its final month. But it’s easy to see why: u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD, the 2012 future festival of the next generation, is set for August 30-September 3. This year, the Kinderfreunde, Upper Austria’s youth advocacy organization, is even offering the opportunity to spend…
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THE BIG PICTURE – New Concepts for a New World
Christine Schöpf presents the festivaltopic Gerfried Stocker tells about the developemtn of the topic in detail. Martin Honzik talks about u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD THE BIG PICTURE – New Concepts for a New World is the theme of Festival Ars Electronica 2012. Check out ars.electronica.art/thebigpicture for more information and follow this blog for backgroundinfo.…