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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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Deep Space LIVE: Ärzte ohne Grenzen

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  • Deep Space LIVE: 25 Jahre Kunst mit Malerei am Computer

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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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • The World’s Biggest Experiment

    (Linz, August 17, 2011) 4,200 scientists and engineers are utilizing the CMS detector, CERN’s second largest particle detector, to discover traces of the notorious Higgs boson and supersymmetry. The tricks and strategies these researchers are employing will be the subject of a presentation by Dietrich Liko of the Austrian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of High…

  • Sam Auinger – Featured Artist 2011

    (Linz, August 16, 2011) Each year, the Ars Electronica Festival showcases the work of a featured artist. This year, it’s Sam Auinger (AT/DE). Since the 1980s, the Linz native has been working in computer music, sound design and psychoacoustics, fields in which he has been doing pioneering work. Read more Photo: Sam Auinger / Thekla…

  • Tesla Orchestra at Ars Electronica Festival

    (Linz, August 11, 2011) The electrifying performance of the Tesla Orchestra is the featured attraction at this year’s festival opening. Fireballs, lightning, music and dance—the Tesla Orchestra (US) founded in 2009 by Ian Charnas (US) at Case Western Reserve University is a circus in grandiose style. The world’s two largest Tesla coils are the instruments…

  • The World of Macroscopic Quantum Physics

    (Linz, August 9, 2011) A foretaste of this year’s Ars Electronica Festival—theme: “ORIGIN – How It All Begins”—is in store for visitors to the Ars Electronica Center Linz this coming Thursday evening. In Deep Space, where eight 1080p Barco Galaxy projectors cover the venue’s floor and walls with breathtaking high-definition images in jumbo 16×9-meter format,…

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