Press Releases

(Linz, February 13, 2012) Full-tilt snowboard action is on tap at the next Deep Space LIVE on Thursday, February 16, 2012. The film “The Art of FLIGHT” features snowboard legend Travis Rice and other top international riders on slopes that no snowboarder has ever ridden before. State-of-the-art filmmaking equipment—some of it developed expressly for “The…

(Linz, February 9, 2012) The 2nd Science Days event at the Ars Electronica Center this coming weekend will be all about research on the brain. The venue, appropriately enough, is the in-house BrainLab, where visitors can steer robots and write words solely with their thoughts, and find out why certain optical illusions just fool adults…

(Linz, February 8, 2012) On Thursday, February 9, 2012, Manuela Macedonia, a neuroscientist at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, will talk about wine and the human brain. A wine tasting will provide a pleasant setting for visitors to find out how imbibing alcohol effects our perceptive faculties and our emotions, what happens in the…

(Linz, February 7, 2012) Spirit Lake, which was decimated by the powerful eruption of the Mount St. Helens volcano on May 18, 1980, is the featured attraction at the next Deep Space LIVE this Thursday, February 9. To shoot this documentary for Universum, the nature series on Austrian TV, Erich Pröll revisited this area 30…

(Linz, February 1, 2012) Every first and third Friday of the month, the Ars Electronica Center offers a themed tour custom-tailored to seniors. The guides make a concerted effort to dispense with English-language high-tech jargon, and to allow plenty of time for tour group members to pose questions and to discuss their experiences and impressions.…

(Linz, January 30, 2012) A show lavishly illustrated with superb images of one of our planet’s most impressive natural spectacles is set for Thursday, February 2 at 8 PM. The next Deep Space LIVE will feature meteorologist Andreas Pfoser on the aurora borealis, the causes of these so-called northern lights and the many forms they…

(Linz, January 27, 2012) Following up on its successful debut in February 2011 that drew 1,270 youngsters to the Ars Electronica Center in only 28 days, the KET – Kids Experience Technology traveling exhibition is returning for an encore presentation running January 31 to March 4. The show gives 4-8-year-olds the opportunity to playfully explore…

(Linz, January 25, 2012) Linz’s 2012 Vacation Trade Show is running January 27-29 at the Design Center. The Ars Electronica Center is putting its best foot forward as a rewarding destination for family outings. Sim Linz, an urban & geographic information system, enables visitors to the AEC’s installation to enjoy interesting and unusual views of…

(Linz, January 23, 2011) The history of the City of Linz will once again be the theme of a Deep Space LIVE series staged by the Ars Electronica Center in cooperation with the Archive of the City of Linz. The historical images not only offer visitors fascinating views of Linz in bygone days; high-definition visuals…

(Linz, January 18, 2012) It’s time for Family Days at the Ars Electronica Center once again this weekend. January 21-22 from 10 AM to 6 PM, we’re hosting a full lineup of events including tours designed with families in mind. Youngsters—and their chaperones too—can take part in a Puzzle Rallye that gets across lots of…

(Linz, January 12, 2012) Science Days will debut this weekend at the Ars Electronica Center Linz. From 10 AM to 6 PM, young and old will get to experiment to their heart’s content and learn quite a bit in the process. The hub of activity this time will be the AEC’s own BioLab, where visitors…

(Linz, January 10, 2012) Dr. Manuela Macedonia, a neuroscientist at the Max Planck Institute Leipzig, is the featured speaker this Thursday, January 12. Once again, her topic will be the human brain; this time, she’ll elaborate on the origins of love and precisely where in our head this occurs. Read more Photo: Premotor Cortex /…

(Linz, January 10, 2012) A lavishly illustrated evening devoted to historic maps is in store for visitors to the next Deep Space LIVE this Thursday, January 12, 8-9 PM. Günter Kalliauer, director of the Wels Municipal Archive, will spotlight Gerhard Mercator, one of the 16th century’s most important cartographers. The man who coined the term…

(Linz, January 3, 2012) All eyes will once again be on the skies at the next Deep Space LIVE this Thursday, January 5, 2012 at 8 PM. Astrophotographer Dietmar Hager will show how the universe’s cosmic recycling processes work and what we Earthlings can learn from this as we go about dealing more carefully and…

(Linz, January 2, 2012) This coming Tuesday and Thursday, Interactive-Creative Days at the Ars Electronica Center offer youngsters age 6-14 a great way to have some educational fun during Christmas break. On Tuesday, “Microcosmonauts” will offer insights into the wonderful world of the microcosm. Running at the same time is “NeXT Toprobot,” a display of…

(Linz, December 29, 2011) 2,436 school groups including 34,194 pupils have visited the Ars Electronica Center so far this year (as of December 22nd). Most came from the City of Linz and the Province of Upper Austria (17,863), followed by Salzburg (3,184), Vienna (2,648) and Lower Austria (2,637). The numbers from Bavaria (1,124) and The…

(Linz, December 28, 2011) A mix of science, history and cosmology is on tap at the next Deep Space LIVE on December 29, when a lavishly pictorial journey of discovery accompanies Magellan and Cook around the globe and out into space. The evening will be moderated by Norbert Frischauf, Gernot Grömer and Alexander Soucek of…

(Linz, December 19, 2011) The next Deep Space LIVE event this Thursday is all about rock climbing—or bouldering, to be more precise. A 50-minute Red Bull documentary film will spotlight four-time Bouldering World Cup overall champ and multiple World & European Championship medalist Kilian Fischhuber as he adventurously plays with the elements. In addition to…