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  • GeoCity Beijing Exhibited at Beijing Design Week 2012

    (Linz / Peking, September 27, 2012) GeoCity Smart City is the featured exhibition at Beijing Design Week 2012 running September 28 to October 14, 2012. Curated by the China Millennium Monument Museum of Digital Arts, the exhibition showcases promising smart city initiatives all over the world. GeoCity Beijing by AE Solutions plays a starring role.

  • Family Days at the Ars Electronica Center Linz

    (Linz, September 26, 2012) At Family Days in the Ars Electronica Center on Saturday and Saturday, September 29-30, the accent is on exploring, discovering and playing together as a group. In addition, an amazing Deep Space LIVE experience about mountain gorillas featuring breathtaking images by Elisabeth & Peter Pflügl.

  • Deep Space LIVE: HOME by Yann Arthus-Bertrand

    (Linz, September 24, 2012) An astonishing visual experience awaits visitors at the next Deep Space LIVE on Thursday, September 27. HOME, a film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, invites viewers to take a trip around the world with an itinerary that includes 50 countries and 120 shooting locations.

  • Lots Doing at the Ars Electronica Center

    (Linz, September 18, 2012) A great evening lineup awaits visitors this Thursday, September 20 at the Ars Electronica Center. The next installment of the Brains for Everybody series is set for 6:30 PM. Neuroscientist Manuela Macedonia will explain how and where in our brain decision-making processes take place and which factors can influence them. At…

  • Science Days: Machines with Sense and Sensors

    (Linz, September 13, 2012) Robots have long been an integral part of lifestyle products—they react to people and to their environment, and people react to them. At Science Days in the Ars Electronica Center, visitors learn to program and design small LEGO robots, tune in to the sounds of all sorts of machines, get acquainted…

  • Deep Space LIVE: From the Deep Blue Seas to the Fire of the Stars

    (Linz, September 11, 2012) A veritable deluge of high-intensity images awaits visitors to Deep Space LIVE this Thursday, September 13. Getting things started at 8 PM are the colorful underwater worlds captured by Linz nature film maker Erich Pröll. Then it’s time for celestial fireworks as astrophotographer Dietmar Hager takes you on a journey to…

  • Ars Electronica Festival 2012: THE BIG PICTURE – New Concepts for a New World

    (Linz, September 3, 2012) “The Big Picture – New Concepts for a New World” was the theme of the 2012 Ars Electronica Festival. In the “Big Pictures” that went on display, the viewfinder was focused on wide-angle images that capture the world that’s coming to be, pictures that do justice to globalization and network linkages,…

  • voestalpine Klangwolke – The Cloud in the Web

    (Linz / Austria, August 27, 2012) “The Cloud in the Web” is the title of the voestalpine Klangwolke that’s being produced jointly by the Brucknerhaus and Ars Electronica this year. The story of the networking of our world will be told in eight episodes accompanied by music derived exclusively from sound libraries on the internet.

  • Interaktiv-kreativ-Tage im August

    (Linz, August 5, 2012) Interactive-Creative Days at the Ars Electronica Center are a great cure for the summertime blues while school’s out. There’s lots of interesting stuff on tap: create illuminated letters and sound sequences for the voestalpine Klangwolke, design your own fairy-tale creatures, and reconfigure, expand and program LEGO-NXT robots.

  • Volunteers for voestalpine Klangwolke Production Team

    (Linz, August 3, 2012) The preparations for the voestalpine Klangwolke on September 1st are moving full speed ahead. Now, we’re recruiting volunteers to join the Klangwolke production staff: assembling LED suits and electronic components, performing maintenance routines on airborne robots, or manning signal flags as part of the Klangwolke choreography. The respective workshops are held…

  • For Seniors: Inventing the New, Conserving the Old

    (Linz, August 2, 2012) Every first and third Friday of the month, the Ars Electronica Center offers themed tours designed with seniors in mind. On August 3 & 17, visitors will learn how historical buildings and sites from Antiquity are being registered by laser and rendered with graphics programs as part of an effort to…

  • The Ars Electronica Center Spotlights the Best Illuminated Letters

    (Linz, August 1, 2012) People throughout Linz and Upper Austria have been busy constructing countless elaborately decorated illuminated letters in preparation for the voestalpine Klangwolke on September 1st . And the beat goes on! The best of the illuminated letters that will star in this year’s Klangwolke extravaganza are now on display for Ars Electronica…

  • Klangwolke Weekend Special

    (Linz, July 25, 2012) The preparations for the voestalpine Klangwolke are moving forward in high gear. Over recent days and weeks, lots of illuminated letters have been constructed and soundcloudminiatures composed. Now, it’s time to take these activities to the next level of intensity: Klangwolke Weekend Specials on July 28-28 and August 18-19, as well…

  • VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY

    (Linz, 24. Juli 2012) Mit „VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY“ entwickelte das Ars Electronica Futurelab ein interaktives Präsentationstool, um die Marke Swarovski eindrucksvoll erfahrbar zu machen. Eingesetzt wird „VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY“ im Rahmen der WELCOME EXPERIENCEs, mit der Swarovski neue MitarbeiterInnen im Unternehmen empfängt.

  • SoundWalks on the voestalpine Plant Grounds

    (Linz, July 24, 2012) Hundreds of soundcloudminiatures have already been uploaded to the voestalpine Klangwolke’s website. Sound collages, rhythms and noises are among them; so are finished music tracks. Now, attention is shifting to two SoundWalks through the fascinating acoustic domain of Linz’s world of steel.

  • CERN and Ars Electronica launch open call for the Second Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN

    (Geneva and Linz 18 July 2012) CERN and Ars Electronica today launch an open call for artists working in the digital domain to apply for the second Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN . The winner will receive a fully-funded residency at CERN and Ars Electronica to create new dimensions in their artistic practice by encounters with…

  • Summer Camps at the Ars Electronica Center Linz

    (Linz, July 16, 2012) The Ars Electronica Center has a special program of activities lined up for youngsters aged 5-14 in July and August. At the Summer Camp on three consecutive mornings, kids can learn to compose their own tracks in a pro-quality sound studio, breathe life into machines they construct themselves, and perform fascinating…

  • Impetus and Movement

    (Berlin / Linz, July 12, 2012) The third exhibition produced jointly by Volkswagen and Ars Electronica opens on Thursday, July 12, 2012. “Impetus and Movement” is the show’s title; Automobil Forum Unter den Linden reprises as the venue. Here, artists from Europe, the USA and Japan have created mises-en-scène for deliveries of an impulse and…

  • Science Days: The Blueprint of Life

    (Linz, July 19, 2012) DNA, life’s most sophisticated blueprint, will be the star of Science Days on the weekend of July 21-22 in the Ars Electronica Center. Visitors will learn how a human being’s unique genetic makeup in constructed and how scientists go about analyzing it.

  • Interactive-Creative Days in July

    (Linz, July 13, 2012) Interactive-Creative Days at the Ars Electronica Center are a great cure for the summertime blues while school’s out. There’s lots of interesting stuff on tap: create illuminated letters and sound sequences for the voestalpine Klangwolke, design your own fairy-tale creatures, and reconfigure, expand and program LEGO-NXT robots.

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