Press Releases
Photo: Ars Electronica / Robert Bauernhansl
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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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Family Night at the Ars Electronica Center
(Linz, July 11, 2012) On Family Night, the Ars Electronica Center cordially invites young and old to stop by for family-style fun. Between 6 PM and 12 Midnight, families can create illuminated letters and soundcloudminiatures for the voestalpine Klangwolke and marvel at spectacular, high-definition imagery in Deep Space. And anyone who’d like to use the…
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Smartphone Security for Everyone
(Linz, July 9, 2012) Smartphones are flooding the market and so are application programs that run on them. But these so-called apps aren’t just a great source of help for such tasks as getting a local weather forecast, navigating strange neighborhoods or translating an exotic menu. They’re also an excellent way to spy on the…
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For Seniors: Come Closer! When Technology Approaches Our Body
(Linz, July 4, 2012) Every first and third Friday of the month, the Ars Electronica Center offers themed tours designed with seniors in mind. On July 6 & 20, visitor will learn some amazing things about imaging and diagnostic procedures involving microscopes, magnetic resonance technology and DNA analysis.
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Deep Space LIVE: Dancing under the Stars
(Linz, July 3, 2012) You can behold the wonders of astronomy and hear the Music of the Spheres this Thursday, July 5, 2012 in Deep Space LIVE. Visitors are in for a real treat from 8 to 9 PM, when astrophotographer Dietmar Hager presents brand-new images from the European Southern Observatory and takes his audience…
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Wilhering and Linz’s joint candidacy to host the Province Garden Show in 2019
(Linz, July 2, 2012) Wilhering and Linz seek to jointly host the Province Garden Show in 2019. “Wilhering and Linz are broaching the issue of their relationship and reconfiguring how they interact as neighbors. In doing so, the accent is on the role of the Danube as the region’s main artery. With the Province Garden…
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Ars Electronica 2012 Interim Results
(Linz, July 1, 2012) At the conclusion of the first half of 2012, Ars Electronica Linz GmbH is pleased to report excellent year-to-date results. Two particularly notable bright spots are the project revenues generated by the Ars Electronica Futurelab and AE Solutions. “For the current year, we’re projecting 70% higher revenues from these two divisions.…
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Big Turnout at the Ars Electronica Center
(Linz, June 29, 2012) Shortly before schools close for summer break here, crowds have been storming the Ars Electronica Center. This past Tuesday alone, attendance at the Museum of the Future was 1,221. Reservations for upcoming dates have been pouring in as well. During summer vacation, the AEC is offering a wide-ranging program for young…
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What Traces Do We Leave Behind in the Internet?
(Linz, June 26, 2012) On Thursday, June 28, 2012, Markus Zeilinger of the Department of Secure Information Systems at the Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences’ Hagenberg Campus will show what traces we leave behind after a bit of surfing on the internet and how they can be analyzed by companies and government agencies.
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Deep Space LIVE: The Postwar Years and Reconstruction in Linz
(Linz, June 25, 2011) Postwar Linz, a city divided into two occupation zones, is the subject of the next Deep Space LIVE this coming Thursday, June 28. Maria Jenner, a historian on the staff of the Municipal Archive, will screen large-formal historical images from 1945-55, a time when hunger was rampant in Linz and the…
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Family Days at the Ars Electronica Center Linz
(Linz, June 22, 2012) A program of fascination and fun for the whole family is being offered at the Ars Electronica Center once again this weekend. Young and old are invited to create illuminated letters and short pieces of music for the voestalpine Klangwolke, and watch Linz’s pro mountain biker Dominik Raab perform amazing live…
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voestalpine Klangwolke – The Cloud in the Web
(Linz, Austria / June 21, 2012) Brucknerhaus and Ars Electronica are staging this year’s voestalpine Klangwolke. Breathtaking technical effects, spectacular interplay of human protagonists and industrial robots, thousands of brilliantly glowing letters, singing lightning bolts and cool sound sculptures are the main elements being condensed into this Cloud in the Web, a Klangwolke the likes…
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Deep Space LIVE: Way back home
(Linz, June 18, 2012) Spectacular tricks and breathtaking stunts are guaranteed to blow the audience away at the next Deep Space LIVE on Thursday, June 21, 2012. A Red Bull Media House film crew accompanied Danny MacAskill, the hot young star of the street trial bike scene, on a trip from Edinburgh to his hometown,…
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Science Days: Out of Control
(Linz, June 15, 2012) At Science Days on June 16-17, 2012, specialists from the Department of Secure Information Systems at the Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences’ Hagenberg Campus will show what information about users is being gathered in conjunction with telecommunications data retention, how users can protect their Smartphone from incursions by undesirables, and…
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Brains for Everybody: Attention and Consciousness
(Linz, June 12, 2012) Neuroscientist Manuela Macedonia of the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig will deliver her next address at the Ars Electronica Center this Thursday, June 14, 2012 at 6:30 PM. Audience members will learn how the human brain focuses and shifts attention, and which mechanisms are involved in forming various states of consciousness…
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Deep Space LIVE: Jupiter – Size Matters
(Linz, June 11, 2012) Jupiter, our solar system’s largest planet, is the star of the next Deep Space LIVE this coming Thursday. In addition to displaying high-definition images taken by the ESO and NASA, astrophotographer Dietmar Hager will go into fascinating detail about Jupiter’s magnetic field, atmosphere and moons.