The Electromagnetic Street Bon Dance Festival will honor the tradition of ancient Japanese festivals of fire, water, wind and earth, and will be dedicated to electricity, essential in the modern age. Join us in a frenzy of playing and dancing around a solar-powered, off-grid stage, where old electrical appliances are revived as new electromagnetic instruments.…
How do Upper Austrian composer Anton Bruckner and American rock duo The White Stripes fit together? The NoFive project aims to explore this intriguing question. Notably, there is a striking similarity between a recurring theme from Bruckner’s 5th Symphony and the White Stripes’ iconic Seven Nation Army riff.
An interactive performance explores the complex dynamics of female bodies under patriarchy and capitalism. The Brainless Dancer highlights invisible social forces symbolized by elements of air and distance, representing influential factors transcending physical space. The artist’s body, serving as both medium and protagonist, invites active participation.
‘Sioscadh’ is part of a broader project focusing on collective sonic intelligence. The performance will involve live improvization of the human, machine and plant, exploring alternative histories of botanical nomenclature.
Everything that breathes cares and is cared for. You enter a world and merge with it — a society shaped through care, through action but also inaction. Simple acts of collective and individual efforts can change the world. There always will have been worlds is a participatory theater piece that explores the thin lines and…
In the fabric of existence, woven with threads of intention, lies the profound influence of wishes. Yet the journey of a wish is not in one direction alone. Just as wishes shape matter, so does matter reciprocally mold wishes. Harness the transformative power of loose sand to build and destroy everything your world should consist…
Deep Space by Ars Electronica is an innovative platform that utilizes cutting-edge technology to offer immersive and interactive experiences. The exciting session showcases the growing Deep Space Community, featuring immersive experiences from diverse locations across Europe, Asia, and the Americas.
Since March 15th, Europe’s tallest exhibition hall, the Gasometer Oberhausen, has been taking visitors on a journey down to the fascinating depths of the world’s oceans with its new permanent exhibition. The highlight of the exhibition is The Wave: a projection over 1,000 square meters in size, on which lifelike animations from the mysterious world…
The opening performance of the European Capital of Culture Salzkammergut 2024—the so-called Powder Dance by Doris Uhlich—caused great outrage throughout (Upper) Austria with its nudity, dance and diversity.
#ALPHALOOP is an innovative performance exploring the intersection of nature and technology through techno-shamanism. Inspired by Timothy Leary’s cybernetic shamanism and northern Quebec’s myths, it critiques Extended Reality (XR) technology and spirituality.
Numerous styles have found their way into Lou Asril’s work: in addition to soul and RnB, which initially dominated, pop, hip-hop and electronic music are strong influences that continue to help him find his very own style. Lou Asril released his second EP RETROMIX21 in March 2023. It was followed by some exciting live performances:…
The second quantum revolution as a musical spectacle: Lasers, mirrors, non-linear crystals—an experimental setup from the hi-tech laboratory in the middle of Linz’s new cathedral. Entangled photons—the quanta of light—become conductors and direct Bruckner’s Perger Präludium in a way that no human could.