The Connected Earth exhibition at the Ars Electronica Center provides insights into the complex network that connects our planet, featuring works by renowned international artists as well as interactive stations for learning. In the evening, the media façade of the Ars Electronica Center on the banks of the Danube in Linz becomes a playground for media art.
daily
18:00–20:00 Select SOS Landmarks for Future or Climate Countdown via Play the Facade
20:00–24:00 hourly in a loop:
00–05 From Green to Red
05–10 SOS Landmarks for Future
10–15 Climate Countdown
15–00 Connected Centre
Climate Countdown
Liang Jimenez (US), Alexa VanSuch (US), Reed Reed (US)
Inspired by our rapidly changing climate, Climate Countdown takes the viewer through a dynamic audiovisual experience of extreme weather events. It shows an accelerated process of climate change and the resulting weather extremes.
Landmarks for Future
Jakob Glasner (AT), Katrin Kober (AT)
SOS Landmarks for Future confronts us humans with the question of who will come to the aid of the ecosystem and thus our own future. The abbreviation SOS leaves room for interpretation: Save Our Souls? Save Our Species? Swap Our System? – What do we want to preserve or change?
Connected Centre
Peter Holzkorn (AT), Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)
Every living being communicates its connection to the world. Considering this connected earth, the AEC, iconic for Linz, its own character shaped by its meaning for us citizens, is re-imagined as a being with skin, body, breath, and eyes, touching the city with its surfaces and the minds of the passers-by with its colours.
From Green to Red – 800,000 Years of Rising CO2 Levels
Beatie Wolfe (GB), Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)
From Green to Red, from art rebel Beatie Wolfe, is a stirring environmental protest piece about human impact on the planet, built using 800,000 years of NASA’s historic CO2 data. Taken from the title of a song Wolfe wrote in 2006 after seeing An Inconvenient Truth, this award-winning project has been presented at the Nobel Prize Summit, MIT, the London Design Biennale and COP26 (as the largest art statement of the conference).
From Green to Red takes the audience on a journey through our planet’s timeline, and specifically human impact, offering a powerful and dynamic visualization of 800,000 years of rising CO2 levels. Beatie Wolfe’s innovation translates intangible data, and a vast timeline often beyond our capacity to consider, into something that everyone can access and feel in the length of a song. “This piece is about re-presenting data in a way that people can literally see differently, using the power of art and music to make it evocative and relatable,” Wolfe says, “so that people can really get a sense of where we are right now.”
On the occasion of the Ars Electronica Festival 2024, the artwork was adapted by the Ars Electronica Futurelab for the façade of the Ars Electronica Centre. The historical CO2 data collected by NASA was converted into colours to impressively illuminate the façade.