Exhibitions
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Between Mistake and Fake: The 2018 Theme Exhibition
An extensive exhibition is dedicated to Error – the Art of Imperfection, this year’s theme of the Ars Electronica Festival (September 6-10, 2018). This show, divided into two parts, is a protracted encounter with mistakes, deviations from the norm, and fakes. This interview tells how scientific and artistic perspectives are confronting one another here, and…
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Media Art on the Art Market: Gallery Spaces
Difficulties with maintenance, obsolete technologies or a lack of understanding of how high-tech works—media art confronts the classic art market with numerous challenges. Gallery Spaces at the Ars Electronica Festival September 6-10, 2018 will host exhibitions and panel discussions elaborating on these facts & circumstances.
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“Notary of an Epoch”: BEEP Electronic Art Collection in the Gallery Spaces
The BEEP Electronic Art Collection will exhibit selected works in the Gallery Spaces at the Ars Electronica Festival September 6-10, 2018. In this interview, Director Vicente Matallana talks about media art on the art market and the challenges his work entails.
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Political Conflicts on the Drawing Board: COMIC CULTURE CLASH
The 2018 NEXTCOMIC Festival is about open in Steel City. One of the venues is the Ars Electronica Center, where, on Saturday, March 17th, comics illustrator Titus Ackermann will present a book entitled “COMIC CULTURE CLASH” in which 20 artistic duos deploy the comic medium to deal with 20 political conflicts. In this interview, he…
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New This Autumn at the Ars Electronica Center
Like every year, selected works featured at the Ars Electronica Festival then go on display for an additional run at the Ars Electronica Center. We find out which works those are, why they were singled out, and what surprises await visitors to the new VRLab in this interview with Kristina Maurer, exhibition producer at the…
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Digital Design Weekend: The Longing for New Worlds
This is the second time that several young Austrian artists had an opportunity to present their works on Digital Design Weekend in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
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Fronius: An Electric Arc Highlights a Trade Show
Fronius is the global market leader in robotic welding, and has made a name for itself worldwide in the field of arc & resistance spot welding. This year, Ars Electronica Solutions designed the company’s stand at SCHWEISSEN & SCHNEIDEN 2017 in Düsseldorf, the world’s premier trade show for welding and cutting technology. In this interview,…
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RADICAL ATOMS: Rethinking Materials
A fresh update from the Tangible Media Group, an interdisciplinary research facility at MIT Media Lab in Cambridge MA, USA, is the latest attraction of the RADICAL ATOMS exhibition in the Ars Electronica Center. These three programmable materials are presented in this interview with Prof. Hiroshi Ishii, the director and founder of the lab.
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CyberArts 2017: Excellence in Media Art
The CyberArts exhibition running during the Ars Electronica Festival September 7-11, 2017 once again showcases this year’s Prix Ars Electronica prizewinners. In this interview, the exhibition staff tells us about the show and the accompanying program of events including OK Night.
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Nonvisual Art: Novel Images of Magical Beauty
Lisa Buttinger displayed meticulous attention to the most minute details as she went about completing her graduation project at Linz’s High School for Artistic Design. In this interview, she talks about what she calls nonvisual art, an innovative artistic medium that has garnered her twofold honors—the Golden Nica in the 2017 Prix Ars Electronica’s u19…
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Turnton Docklands: Walk-through Environmental Dystopia and Possible Vision of the Future
The Linz-based artists’ collective Time’s Up builds walk-through worlds, physical narratives, in which every object tells a story. At Ars Electronica Festival September 7-11, 2017, festivalgoers will be able to experience one of them: “Turnton Docklands.” We talked to Time’s Up about this mix of environmental dystopia, social utopia and disturbing future scenario.
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TIME OUT .07 – Between Individual and Society
TIME OUT .07, the seventh in this ongoing series of exhibitions, is now running at the Ars Electronica Center. TIME OUT is staged twice a year in cooperation with Linz Art University to showcase recent works of media art by students in the school’s Time-based and Interactive Media program. The Blog is spotlighting some of…
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TIME OUT .07 – Warm Light and Soft Wax
The TIME OUT .07 exhibition that opened last week is part of the series of installations staged twice a year jointly by Ars Electronica and Linz Art University. Recent media art projects by students in the school’s Time-based and Interactive Media program are on display in the Ars Electronica Center. The Blog is spotlighting the…
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TIME OUT .07 – Homey Sounds and Industrial Mass Production
The 7th installment in the TIME OUT exhibition series opened on Tuesday, May 23, 2017. In cooperation with Linz Art University, the Ars Electronica Center is showcasing recent media art projects by students in the school’s Time-based and Interactive Media program. The Blog is spotlighting the participating students. In this installment, Lisa Bickel and Clemens…
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TIME OUT .07 – Lost Friendships and Aesthetic Scars
The 7th installment in the TIME OUT exhibition series opens on Tuesday, May 23, 2017 at 6:30 PM. In cooperation with Linz Art University, the Ars Electronica Center is showcasing recent media art projects by students in the school’s Time-based and Interactive Media program. Sarah Hiebl and Marlene Reischl, two of the artists participating in…
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Industrial Robots in the Service of Art
Part 2 of the “Creative Robotics” exhibition series premiered in February. This time, the focus is on robots that have normally been deployed in conjunction with industrial assembly processes but are now increasingly being used as catalysts for innovation in such fields as the graphic arts, design and architecture.
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InduSTORY or The Art of Telling Industry Stories
The seventh edition in the “Ars Electronica in the Knowledge Capital” series tells the story of the design of a product from the future to its materialization. Until May 7, 2017, the visitors of the special exhibition in Osaka will look at two approaches of prototypes, which are summarized under the title “InduSTORY”.
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Highlight: The Made-to-Order Lamp
It’s elegantly designed and individually customized to suit the space it illuminates. Highlight, Jussi Ängeslevä’s lamp generated via 3-D printer, features a shape that satisfies users’ (lighting) needs.
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Linz’s Klemens Brosch: A Genius for Drawing
Born in Linz in 1894, Klemens Brosch went on to become one of 20th-century Austria’s most outstanding graphic artists, best known for his magical landscapes and melancholy imagery. Deep Space is now featuring jumbo-format projections of some of his small-scale drawings.
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The Future of Self-Service in the Data Kitchen
By designing a futuristic foodwall the Ars Electronica Futurelab adds up to SAP’s aspiration in providing a futuristic gastro-concept with its freshly opened “Data Kitchen” restaurant.
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Berlin’s New Meeting Place For Start-ups: SAP Data Space
For 15 years SAP has collaborations with the Linz-based Ars Electronica Futurelab. The newest project had its disclosure on the 12th of December at Berlin Mitte: the „Data Space“ at Rosenthalerstraße 38.
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Engineering the Future – A Weekend in London
This year’s Digital Design Weekend took place on Saturday & Sunday, September 24-25 in London. Participants included the Austrian Cultural Forum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and Ars Electronica Linz, which jointly presented six recent projects by media artists from Austria.
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Black Hole Horizon: Sounds into Soap Bubbles
Thom Kubli’s work “Black Hole Horizon” turns sounds into three-dimensional objects. Big black horns emit deep tones that form soap bubbles. The work can be seen live at the 2016 Ars Electronica Festival. We recently had a chance to chat with the artist about his work.
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CyberArts 2016: The Best of Media Art
One of the highlights of each year’s Ars Electronica Festival is always the CyberArts exhibition, a showcase of the works singled out for recognition by the Prix Ars Electronica, one of the most important awards honoring creativity and pioneering spirit in the digital media genre. Here, Genoveva Rückert, the curator of CyberArts 2016, tells us…
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HUMAN FACTOR: What Interconnects Art and Industry
Ars Electronica Export is making another guest appearance in Berlin. The “HUMAN FACTOR – endless prototyping” exhibition running until August 27, 2016 at DRIVE. Volkswagen Group Forum Berlin displays art and industry’s common denominator—the human being, the human factor that’s constantly trying out prototypes for existential models in humankind’s ongoing struggle to resist extinction. Here…
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EARTH LAB – Our Planet on the Examination Table
An exhibition produced jointly by Moscow’s Polytechnic Museum and Ars Electronica Export presents new takes on the future of our planet. “EARTH LAB – Artists as Catalysts” shows how artists from all over the world see Earth. Here, we show you a few impressions.
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RADICAL ATOMS: When Visions Become Tangible
Prof. Hiroshi Ishii is the director of the MIT Media Lab’s Tangible Media Group. His team’s mission is to envision new forms of human-machine interaction and to enable us to experience and grasp the ideas of tomorrow today. His vision of RADICAL ATOMS also inspired this year’s Ars Electronica Festival theme.
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HUMAN FACTOR: Endless prototyping
“HUMAN FACTOR – endless prototyping,” an exhibition running July 1-August 27, 2016 at DRIVE. Volkswagen Group Forum Berlin, features a series of artistic prototypes demonstrating new and innovative linkages between art and industry. In this interview, curator Martin Honzik talks about the advantages prototypes have over their counterparts in serial production, and exactly what exhibition…