Digital Graffiti is an innovative technology platform that was developed starting in 2001. It allowed virtual messages and information to be left like electronic post-its in any location. Using mobile devices such as PDAs (personal digital assistants), notebooks and later smartphones, these messages were retrieved on a location-specific basis and superimposed on the real environment…
The collaboration between SAP and Ars Electronica has been in place since 2002. This partnership is a prototype for new models of collaboration between art, business, technology and society. The collaboration ranges from media art presentations at SAP events and novel visualizations of information to joint research projects and innovative social initiatives.
On September 26th and 28th, 2004, a concert performance of Richard Wagner’s Das Rheingold under the direction of Dennis Russell Davies and the Bruckner Orchestra Linz took place in the Great Hall of the Brucknerhaus Linz with an interactive 3D visualization by Johannes Deutsch and Ars Electronica Futurelab.
The theme of Gulliver’s World is the relationship between virtual and material realities, and the reality that’s constructed by combining these two components.