Press Releases
Photo: Ars Electronica / Robert Bauernhansl
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CERN and Ars Electronica launch open call for the third Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN
(Geneva/Linz, 4 June 2013) CERN and Ars Electronica today launch an open call for artists working in the digital domain to apply for the third Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN .
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From Austria to the World – Gigapixel Images of New York City Featured at Vienna Airport
(Linz / Schwechat, May 28, 2012) “From Austria to the World” is the theme of five extraordinary giga-pixel images of New York City now on display at the Austrian Star Alliance Terminal Check-in 3 at Vienna International Airport.
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Terra Mater LIVE: Dingos – Australia’s Wild Dogs
(Linz, May 23, 2013) The next Terra Mater LIVE on Wednesday, May 29 sets its sights on Australia’s most dangerous and most successful hunter: the dingo.
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Murmuration – When Swarms Dance in Flight
(Linz / Bergen, May 23, 2013) A swarm of 35 quadcopters was the featured attraction yesterday at “Murmuration,” an open-air event that kicked off the Bergen (Norway) International Festival, the largest of its kind in Northern Europe.
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Prix Ars Electronica: The Winners 2013
(Linz, May 16, 2013) A total of 4,071 entries from 73 countries were submitted for prize consideration to the 2013 Prix Ars Electronica.
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GameStage@AEC
(Linz, May 13, 2013) Computer games will take center stage at the Ars Electronica Center this Friday, May 17, 2013. This year’s GameStage@AEC showcases games developed in Austria.
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Terra Mater LIVE: Miracles of Life – Oasis in Space
(Linz, May 6, 2013) “Oasis in Space,” the next installment of Terra Mater’s Miracles of Life series will be shown on Wednesday, May 8, 2013 on Deep Space’s 16×9-meter screen. This spectacular film reveals how Earth morphed over billions of years from a truly inhospitable place to an oasis of life, and what conditions were…
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Ausstellung LINZ VERÄNDERT wieder großer Publikumserfolg
(Linz, May 3, 2013) This coming Saturday and Saturday are your last chances to visit the LINZ CHANGES exhibition at the Urfahr Spring Fair and take an entertaining and informative look at Upper Austria’s capital city and Linz’s municipal service providers.
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Spectacular Nature Films at the Ars Electronica Center
Linz, April 29, 2013) Two breathtaking nature films screened in jumbo 16×9-meter format are this week’s featured attractions at Ars Electronica Center Linz.
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Kulturstadt Linz am Urfahraner Frühjahrsmarkt
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Terra Mater LIVE: The Miracle of Life – The Nature of Energy
(Linz, April 23, 2013) In conjunction with this year’s featured theme “In Touch with the Earth,” all future episodes of TERRA MATER will be simulcast free of charge in the Ars Electronica Center’s Deep Space (16×9-meter, 4x high-definition screen) at the same time they’re broadcast on Servus TV (every Wednesday at 8:15 PM).
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Deep Space LIVE: Panoptikum
(Linz, April 24, 2013) “Panoptikum” was a mainstay of Austria’s TV lineup for over 20 years. Now, it’s been reconceived and reformatted as a monthly online magazine in which Ars Electronica Artistic Director Gerfried Stocker, the Futurelab’s Horst Hörtner, and Christoph Kremer, head of the Center, will present a roundup of the latest developments in…
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In Touch with the Earth
(Linz, April 19, 2013) Climate and vegetation zones, ice masses, mountain ranges and deep-sea trenches, bush and forest fires, the routes of migratory birds. Or how about metropolitan areas, networks of streets and railway lines, light pollution, production and consumption of energy, the internet and Big Data. The Ars Electronica Center’s high-definition examination of the…
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Ars Electronica Futurelab Visualizes TOSCA’s “Odeon”
(Linz, April 17, 2013) Today’s world premiere of “Odeon” by TOSCA at Linz’s newly-opened Musiktheater promises two hours full of supreme audiovisual artistry. The music and sound environments were created by Rupert Huber and Richard Dorfmeister (aka TOSCA); the visualizations are the work of the Ars Electronica Futurelab. The curtain goes up at 7:30 PM.
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Science Days: Human Machine!
(Linz, April 10, 2013) During Science Days at the Ars Electronica Center this coming weekend, April 13-14, visitors can learn to build and program robot hands using Lego components, fly a quadcopter with a smartphone, get acquainted with Telenoid, the communications machine of the future, and discover how insights in the field of robotics can…
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Deep Space LIVE: Fear of the Devil and Faith in Miracles
(Linz, April 8, 2013) Historian Cathrin Hermann of the Linz Municipal Archive and storyteller Claudia Edermayer will escort you through a world of fairytales from bygone days in Linz at the next Deep Space LIVE on Thursday, April 11, 2013.
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NITSCH Retrospective: SENSE AND BEING
(Linz, April 4, 2013) The nitsch museum is marking Hermann Nitsch’s 75th birthday with an exhibition entitled “HERMANN NITSCH – SINNE UND SEIN” (SENSE AND BEING). It features works created over six decades and, for the first time at this facility, an interactive jumbo projection screen designed by the Ars Electronica Futurelab.
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Deep Space LIVE: Life Cycles
(Linz, April 2, 2013) A don’t-miss documentary film is on tap at the next Deep Space LIVE on Thursday, April 4. The makers of “Life Cycles” really showed their love for detail, and the prizes for their amazing effort have been rolling in ever since.
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30 Quadcopters Flew for Paramount’s “Star Trek – Into Darkness”
(Linz/London 24.3.2013) Following its world premiere at the Linz Klangwolke in September 2012, the Ars Electronica Futurelab’s computer-controlled swarm of four-rotor mini-whirlybirds—so-called quadcopters—took to the air again on Saturday, March 23, 2013 in a role and setting no less spectacular than the exciting technology itself: as high-tech heralds of Paramount’s “Star Trek – Into Darkness”…
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Robots, Microcosmonauts and Awesome Snowboard Action
(Linz, March 26, 2013) Programming robots, marvelous microscopes and exciting snowboard stunts are the featured attractions at Ars Electronica Center Linz this Thursday, March 28, 2013.