Press Releases
Photo: Ars Electronica / Robert Bauernhansl
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Deep Space LIVE: Red Bull Rampage in 3D
(Linz, October 17, 2011) Guests at the next Deep Space LIVE event will need nerves of steel. This time, the focus is on the world’s most extreme freeride mountain bike competition: Red Bull Rampage. The course through Zion National Park in Utah demands that riders master meter-high jumps and breakneck descents. And just to make…
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500,000 Visitors to the New Ars Electronica Center
(Linz, October 14, 2011) The 500,000th visitor to the new Ars Electronica Center got a gala reception yesterday from Linz Mayor Franz Dobusch and Deputy Mayor Erich Watzl together with Ars Electronica Linz GmbH CEOs Diethard Schwarzmair and Gerfried Stocker. Anita Stöttner, a native of nearby Hellmonsödt who’s currently attending a training course at BBRZ…
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Deep Space LIVE: To Serve and Protect
(Linz, 10.10.2011) Geschichte und Geschichten vom Linzer Feuerwehrwesen stehen diesen Donnerstag im Mittelpunkt von Deep Space LIVE. Die beiden Heimatforscher und Autoren Manfred Carrington und Andreas Reiter erzählen von spektakulären Einsätzen, großen Bränden und verheerenden Hochwässern. Mit einzigartigen Fotos und so manchen heiteren Anekdoten. Read more Photo: The fire brigade of Linz around 1920 /…
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The World At Night (TWAN)
(Linz, October 6, 2011) The World at Night (TWAN) is an international initiative to protect and preserve the night sky. Launched by Iranian science journalist Babak A. Tafreshi in 2007, TWAN’s team of committed activists now includes astrophotographers from all over the world. They create gorgeous photographs and time-lapse images of heavenly bodies by night…
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Especially for Seniors … Of Humankind and Machines
(Linz, October 3, 2011) On the first and third Friday of every 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…
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LINZ CHANGES Exhibition Tent
(Linz, September 28, 2011) Following its very successful premiere at the Urfahr Spring Fair, the LINZ CHANGES exhibition produced by the City of Linz and its municipal services & enterprises is being reprised at the Autumn Fair running October 1-9, 2011. The show spotlights the city’s development and shows what makes Linz such a wonderful…
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Long Night of Museums at Ars Electronica Center
(Linz, September 27, 2011) This coming Saturday, October 1, 2011, the Ars Electronica Center will once again be a featured venue during the Long Night of the Museums being held for the 12th time. Between 6 PM and 1 AM, visitors can take a highlights tour of the Museum of the Future, marvel at the…
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FamilyDays im Ars Electronica Center
Behold a virtual ocean in the form of a 16×9-meter aquarium full of sea creatures you design yourself, pet a cute little baby seal robot or go on a family-style scavenger hunt and learn lots of interesting stuff about the Ars Electronica Center. This coming weekend, the Museum of the Future is the go-to place…
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Seniors Experience … The Investigation of the Big Bang
(Linz, September 13, 2011) On the first Friday of every 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. This…
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Deep Space LIVE: Dancing under the Stars
(Linz, September 12, 2011) You can behold the wonders of astronomy and hear the Music of the Spheres this Thursday in Deep Space LIVE. Visitors are in for a real treat when astrophotographer Dietmar Hager presents brand-new images from the European Southern Observatory and takes his audience on a 3D journey to the center of…
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83,976 Festivalgoers Attended Ars Electronica 2011
(Linz, September 9, 2011) The final attendance figure — 83,976 — makes Ars Electronica 2011 the second most successful festival since 1979 in terms of the number of visitors — topped only by last year’s guest appearance at Linz’s architecturally extraordinary Tabakfabrik tobacco processing plant. The excellent turnout is a tribute to the festival’s outstanding…
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Ars Electronica 2011 Attendance Already at 69,725
(Linz, September 5, 2011) With 69,725 visitors as of 8 AM, September 5th, the 2011 Ars Electronica Festival is already a big hit! The biggest draws have been the opening event and the nightly entertainment lineup on the Maindeck of the Ars Electronica Center, Sam Auinger’s Night of Sound in St. Mary’s Cathedral, the CyberArts…
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Public Square Squared – The Front Lines of the Info-War
Opinions differ as to whether Facebook, Twitter & Co. play a positive or a negative role now. Some claim that social media lead to freedom and democracy, and cite the successful protest movements in Egypt and Tunisia to make their case. Totally wrong, say others, bringing up how rioting in the streets of London was…
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Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN
(Linz, September 3, 2011) Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN is a new international competition for digital artists to win a residency at CERN the world’s largest particle physics laboratory in Geneva. It is the first prize to be announced as part of the new Collide@CERN artists residency programme initiated by the laboratory. The winning artist will…
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CREATE YOUR WORLD
(Linz, August 30, 2011) “CREATE YOUR WORLD – Future Festival of the Next Generation” is a new festival with the festival for young people that will be held annually in conjunction with Ars Electronica. It’s an outgrowth of the u19 – freestyle computing category, a prize competition that focuses on the use of new technologies…
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WE GUIDE YOU
(Linz, August 28, 2011) The Ars Electronica Festival offers an appealing array of mediated encounters with festival attractions once again this year—for young and old, laypersons and experts alike. Guided tours around the festival grounds provide informative and surprising insights into media art and the natural sciences. Read more Photo: WE GUIDE YOU / rubra…
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Highlights of the 2011 Ars Electronica Festival
(Vienna, August 24, 2011) “ORIGIN – How It All Begins” is the title of the 2011 Ars Electronica Festival that spotlights leading-edge research on the fundamentals of the cosmos. On board this year is a renowned associate: CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. This year’s highlights include an electrifying opening event on the Main…
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Hot on the Trail of Quanta
(Linz, 21.8.2011) In Deep Space at the Ars Electronica Center, Dr. Johannes Kofler of the Austrian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information will give an account of the strange world of quanta and developments in the relatively new field of quantum information. Read more Photo: Miniaturized ion trap / C. Lackner…