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  • Deep Space LIVE: Animation

    (Linz, January 14, 2013) Breathtaking computer animation sequences are the featured attractions at the next Deep Space LIVE on Thursday, January 17, 2013. Christine Schöpf and Jürgen Hagler, both Prix Ars Electronica jurors, will screen a selection of works submitted for prize consideration to the 2012 Prix Ars Electronica’s Computer Animation / Film / VFX…

  • KET – Kids Experience Technology

    (Linz, January 11, 2013) KET – Kids Experience Technology is a traveling exhibition that’s made lots of fans. This will be its third guest appearance at the Ars Electronica Center. Last year’s presentation drew 2,278 young visitors in the span of 30 days. The aim is to enable 4-8-year-old to have fun taking independent, hands-on…

  • Ars Electronica’s Year in Review

    (Linz, December 27, 2012) Ars Electronica Linz GmbH produced more projects—and more large-scale productions—in 2012 than ever before in its history. So it’s no surprise that this was a record-breaking year—in terms of public response, media impact and revenue as well.

  • Christmas Season at the Ars Electronica Center Linz

    (Linz, December 19, 2012) The Christmas spirit will pervade Family Days at the Ars Electronica Center on December 22 & 23. The young and the young at heart are cordially invited to turn out season’s greeting cards on a laser cutter or use a special machine that helps you decorate Christmas tree ornaments. The Ars…

  • Submissions to the 2013 Prix Ars Electronica Are Now Being Accepted

    (Linz, December 18, 2012) Entries for 2013 Prix Ars Electronica prize consideration may be submitted beginning today, December 18, 2012. The competition is being held in seven categories including one for Austrian youngsters. The leading barometer of current trends in media art, the Prix Ars Electronica annually attracts submissions from more than 70 countries.

  • Deep Space LIVE: X-Events – The Collapse of Everything

    (Linz, December 14, 2012) On December 20th and thus the very eve of the end of the world predicted by many of the esoterically inclined, Deep Space LIVE will treat the question of what would happen when some human blunder actually did cause it all to fall apart. At 8 PM, John Casti (US), scientist,…

  • Ars Electronica Futurelab Developed RoboLab for Vienna’s Museum of Technology

    (Linz, Vienna / December 10, 2012) The Ars Electronica Futurelab developed a RoboLab for Vienna’s Museum of Technology. The show features interactive installations having to do with seeing machines, sensor engineering, programming, and artificial intelligence.

  • Deep Space LIVE: Commemorative Plaques & Metal Sculpture. Monuments in Linz II

    (Linz, December 7, 2012) Visitors to the next Deep Space LIVE on Thursday, December 13th will be taking a virtual stroll through Linz. Cathrin Hermann of the Municipal Archive will screen jumbo-scale, high-definition projections showing prominent (as well as some little-known) monuments and places of commemoration in Linz.

  • One Day on Earth at the Ars Electronica Center Linz

    (Linz, December 6, 2012) On Wednesday, 12/12/2012, the Ars Electronica Center will feature an extraordinary motion picture project, one created on 10/10/2010 by a cast & crew of 19,000 people worldwide who filmed touching moments, triumphs and tragedies, or just ordinary elements of everyday life. American artist Kyle Ruddick then edited the submitted footage into…

  • New Exhibition: Zeit ist Held – Time is What It’s All About

    (Linz, December 6, 2012) Who’s in control of his/her time? Why is it that we always have too little of it, and why does it seem that the older we get, the faster time goes by? In conjunction with work on their master’s theses, students in the MultiMediaArt program at the Salzburg University of Applied…

  • Deep Space – Focal Point of the Ars Electronica Center

    (Linz, December 3, 2012) At the next Deep Space LIVE on Thursday, December 6th, astrophotographer Dietmar Hager will elaborate on how and why human beings since time immemorial have sought their orientation in the stars, and also discuss the impediments humankind has had to surmount on our way from the archaic concepts of the past…

  • The International Space Time Concerto

    (Linz, November 27, 2012) Visitors to the Ars Electronica Center can attend an extraordinary concert this Friday, November 30, 2012 at 9:30 AM. The International Space Time Concerto features musicians at five locations collaboratively playing nine pieces. The participating institutions are the Newcastle Conservatorium (Australia), the Ars Electronica Center, the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of…

  • Deep Space LIVE: From Country Town to City of Steel

    (Linz, November 26, 2012) High-definition photographs detailing the emergence of heavy industry in Linz occupy the focal point at the next Deep Space LIVE on Thursday, November 11, 2012.

  • Family Days at the Ars Electronica Center

    (Linz, November 20, 2012) The accent is on discovering, learning and having fun together as a family group this weekend at the Ars Electronica Center. Family Days on November 24-25, 2012 will feature high-energy tours of the AEC’s exhibits. In Deep Space LIVE Family, astrophotographer Dietmar Hager hosts a 3D journey through the universe and…

  • Data Security Online and a Journey Back into the Stone Age

    (Linz, November 19, 2012) A very interesting and highly varied program is on tap at the Ars Electronica Center this coming Thursday evening, November 22, 2012. Getting the ball rolling at 6:30 PM is Robert Matzinger in his address entitled “Survival in the Jungle of the Data-Headhunters”. Then at 8 PM, Linz adventurers Elisabeth &…

  • Diversified Thursday Lineup at the Ars Electronica Center Linz

    (Linz, November 12, 2012) A fascinatingly diversified lineup is in store for visitors to the Ars Electronica Center at 6:30 PM on Thursday, November 15, 2012. In the final installment in the “Brains for All” series, Manuela Macedonia, a neuroscientist at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, will go into how the brain processes linguistic…

  • Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN: Bill Fontana Wins Residency Award

    (Linz / Geneva, November 8, 2012) The second Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN Residency Award was today awarded to the 65 year-old american artist, Bill Fontana. With an international reputation for his pioneering experiments in sound art work, which has been featured in some of the world’s leading arts institutions, such as Tate Modern and The…

  • Science Days: Peeks inside the Brain

    (Linz, November 7, 2012) Give some thought to the human brain during Science Days at the Ars Electronica Center on the weekend of November 10-11. Besides finding out all sorts of interesting things about how the brain works, visitors will witness how imaging techniques make mental activity visible and see other tools developed to better…

  • Deep Space LIVE: Together We Are Strong – Interactive Galaxies

    (Linz, November 5, 2012) Colliding galaxies form the epicenter of the next Deep Space LIVE this Thursday, November 11 at 8 PM. Astrophotographer Dietmar Hager will show how galaxies exert mutual attraction via gravitation and just what happens when they finally meet! Deep Space at the Ars Electronica Center is also the go-to place to…

  • For Seniors: Come Closer! When Technology Approaches Our Body

    (Linz, November 29, 2012) Every first and third Friday of the month, the Ars Electronica Center offers themed tours designed with seniors in mind. On November 2 & 16, visitors will learn some amazing things about imaging and diagnostic procedures involving microscopes, magnetic resonance technology and DNA analysis.

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