
Press Releases
Photo: Ars Electronica / Robert Bauernhansl
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Astrophotography Made Easy
(Linz, March 6, 2012) At astrophotographer Dietmar Hager’s workshop this Thursday, March 8 you can learn to use a webcam and free software to take beautiful shots of the Moon and the planets of our Solar System. All you need to bring with you is a laptop; the images for processing will be provided by…
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Deep Space LIVE: Cartographic Treasures III – Surveying
(Linz, March 5, 2011) The next Deep Space LIVE this coming Thursday, March 8 will take a look at surveying the world. In Part 3 of the Cartographic Treasures series, Günter Kalliauer, director of the Wels Municipal Archive, will present fascinating maps from the 18th and 19th centuries.
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For Seniors: Pictures, Pictures Everywhere
(Linz, March 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.…
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Vortragsreihe Medien – Technik – Gesellschaft
(Linz, 28.2.2012) Eine interessante Vortragsreihe mit Gerfried Stocker, dem künstlerischen Leiter der Ars Electronica Linz GmbH, steht im März am Programm von Volkshochschule Linz und Ars Electronica Center. Unter dem Titel Medien – Technik – Gesellschaft gibt Stocker an drei Abenden einen kultur- und sozialgeschichtlichen Überblick über die technologischen Entwicklungen und damit einhergehenden Veränderungen während…
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Deep Space LIVE: Astrophotography
(Linz, February 27, 2012) The focus is on astrophotography at the next Deep Space LIVE on Thursday, March 1, 2012. A documentary by internationally renowned, prizewinning filmmaker Erich Pröll takes a behind-the-scenes look at astrophotographer Dietmar Hager’s observatory in Upper Austria’s Mühlviertel region. And all those who’d like to take their own pictures of the…
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Deep Space LIVE: Best of Linz in 3D
(Linz, February 22, 2012) The Archive of the City of Linz will present a nostalgic pictorial tour of Linz in 1900 at the next Deep Space LIVE event this coming Thursday, February 23, 2012. Never-before-exhibited stereographic 3D images make the Linz of yesteryear come alive. Motifs include buildings torn down long ago, popular outing destinations…
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Interactive-Creative Days during Semester Break
(Linz, February 16, 2012) Interactive-Creative Days at the Ars Electronica Center are a great way to keep from getting a case of the semester break blues. On Tuesday, February 21, you can learn how to design fantastic creatures on a drawing computer, and then use a laser cutter to turn them into real paper figures.…
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Family Days at the Ars Electronica Center Linz
(Linz, February 14, 2012) The next installment of Family Days is set for Saturday and Sunday, February 18 & 19, 2012 at the Ars Electronica Center. From 10 AM to 6 PM, there’ll be guided tours designed with families in mind. In a Puzzle Rallye, young and old can learn lots of interesting things about…
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Deep Space LIVE: The Art of FLIGHT
(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…
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Science Days: Brain Research
(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…
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Brains for Everybody Lecture Series: How Wine Goes to Your Head
(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…
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Deep Space LIVE: Mount St. Helens – The Volcano is Active
(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…
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For Seniors: Of Humans and Machines
(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.…
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Deep Space LIVE: The Northern Lights – Fireworks in the Heavens
(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…
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“KET – Kids Experience Technology”
(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…
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Ars Electronica Center at this year’s Vacation Trade Show in Linz
(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…
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Deep Space LIVE: Linz_Then&Now II
(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…
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AE Solutions Shadowgram Makes a Statement at actb 2012
(Linz, January 21, 2012) This year’s actb–Austrian and Central European Travel Business trade show is running January 22-24 in Vienna. AE Solutions is on the scene with Shadowgram, an interactive installation commissioned by Österreich Werbung, Austria’s national tourism organization.
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FamilyDays at Ars Electronica Center Linz
(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…
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Deep Space LIVE: Best of Animation
(Linz, January 16, 2012) Breathtaking computer animation sequences are the featured attractions at the next Deep Space LIVE this Thursday. Prix Ars Electronica jurors Christine Schöpf and Jürgen Hagler will screen outstanding work submitted for prize consideration in the Computer Animation / Film / VFX category in 2011.