Deep Space LIVE

As a passanger of the Russian nuclear icebreaker Yamal, the strongest ship in the world, the scientific editor Prof. Mag. Josef Friedhuber reports on his trip to the North Pole.

40 traumatized chimpanzees previously used as test objects for a pharmaceutical company in a laboratory and infected with HIV and hepatitis viruses are now being cared for in a former safari park near Vienna of four animal keepers. On THU January 16, 2014, 8 PM, filmmaker Christian Rost gives personal insights into this touching story…

Thomas Bredenfeld, expert in the field of panoramic photography and author, talks about the fascination of wide-format pictures and how these can be created today. On THU December 12, 2013, Thomas Bredenfeld speaks during a Deep Space LIVE at the Ars Electronica Center.

If you want to present someone the city of Linz with a single picture, which would you choose? Mag.a Dr.in Cornelia Daurer from the Archive of the City of Linz knows many views of the town, as they have emerged in the last few centuries.

In an interview, Othmar Coser of the Austrian Space Forum talks about the use of satellites for natural disasters as they occur currently in the Philippines, but also about how we humans can else use this technology in space.

On THU March 7, 2013, the exhibition “people_scans” opens at the Ars Electronica Center. An interview with the photographer Kurt Hörbst about his full-body scans and his search of remarkable details in the human body.

We recently published an interview with Oliver Bimber, head of the Institute of Computer Graphics at Johannes Kepler University Linz, in which we went into the subject of light-field photography. On January 31, 2013, our interviewee will be the star of a Deep Space Live. To provide a sneak preview of what light-field photography is…

Mr. Casti, you turn your attention to extreme events that occur suddenly without warning and shake-up our world view. Do you know which catastrophic “X-Events” await us in Austria in the near future? Probably the most threatening X-event would be a nuclear accident in one of the neighboring countries. But an equally damaging, although longer…

The Deep Space Live – Series “LINZ_EINST/JETZT” which compares historical pictures of Linz with their current views is having it’s next installment on November 15th at the Ars Electronica Center. MMag. Maria Jenner, who’s taking care of coordinating and programming the series and works at the Archiv der Stadt Linz talks about how the cooperation…