Press Releases

(Linz, 18.2.2011) The Bruckmüllerhaus adjacent to the bridgehead on the north bank of the Danube, the market on the Main Square, a tower of the province legislature building enwrapped in construction scaffolding, trolley cars driving on the left side of the street, and Danube steamships with their smokestacks flipped down to fit under the Railway…

(Linz, 16.2.2011) Go on a family-style scavenger hunt through the Museum of the Future, blast off on a virtual journey into outer space, isolate your own DNA (which you can then take home as a souvenir) and enjoy the best animated films from the 24-year history of the Prix Ars Electronica—FamilyDays at the Ars Electronica…

(Linz, 11.2.2011) Giordano Filippo Bruno was burned at the stake on February 17, 1600 on Rome’s Campo de’ Fiori. The grounds for his execution: he had dared to relegate the geocentric conception of the universe to the realm of fairy tales and, in its stead, to maintain that the universe is infinite and would exist…

(Linz, 10.2.2011) Funny commercials, thrilling stop-motion animation and a touching short about the abrupt end of a romantic liaison between two snails are among the great animated films honored by Prix Ars Electronica over the last 24 years. Highlights include “Luxo jr.” starring the animated desk lamp that garnered Pixar the very first Golden Nica…

(Linz, 8.2.2011) East Africa’s Rift Valley is a massive crack in the Earth’s crust. Created about 20 million years ago by enormous volcanic eruptions, it is now as much as 1,000 meters deep and 300 kilometers wide and gets about an inch wider every year. Filmmaker Erich Pröll visited the Rift Valley to make a…

(Linz, 3.2.2011) One Friday a 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 leisurely try out the many interactive installations, to pose questions, and to discuss their experiences…

(Linz, February 1, 2011) Behold Bronze Age burial mounds in 3D. The next Deep Space LIVE event this coming Thursday, February 3rd at the Ars Electronica Center promises to be a truly extraordinary experience! Heinz Gruber, a scholar who specializes in prehistory and ancient civilizations, and surveyor Dominik Schmedemann will present the remains of a…

(Linz, January 25, 2011) Treasures from the Archive of the City of Linz will be the centerpieces of a series of Deep Space LIVE events held at the Ars Electronica Center in cooperation with the Archive. The main attractions: pictures of Linz past and present, whereby each respective historical view will be contrasted to its…

(Linz, January 19, 2011) The Open PappLab in which customized cardboard furniture can be designed and produced, a chat with an algae engineer whose mission is to save the world and electronic components that can be eaten once their useful life is over are some of the highlights of REPAIR LabDays at the Ars Electronica…

(Linz, January 14, 2011) Here’s your big chance to experience what it’s like to race down the world’s most famous ski slope—hearing the whoosh of the wind and the skis gliding over the packed snow as you speed towards the finish line at 90 MPH! Red Bull and the Ars Electronica Center cordially invite you…

(Linz, 11.1.2011) The Sun is the hub of our solar system, and its light and warmth are the preconditions for all forms of life. So it’s no wonder that the Sun is among the most intensely studied heavenly bodies. How and when the Sun came into existence, what it consists of and how it functions—all…

(Linz, 17.12.2010) Weihnachtsschmuck basteln oder eine Schnitzeljagd quer durch das Museum der Zukunft unternehmen – ein “FamilyDays Special” im Ars Electronica Center bietet Interessantes und Lustiges für die ganze Familie. Read more Blinky / rubra / Printversion / Fotoalbum Ars Electronica Center

(Linz, December 13, 2010) Linz’s majorpix group generates images that open up extraordinary views of bizarre worlds. majorpix takes a common object like a match, bus ticket or a butterfly’s wing and produces macro exposures of its surfaces. Then the individual shots are assembled into a whole image that reveals fascinating details and totally unknown…

(Linz, November 29, 2010) An amazing 3D virtual stroll through turn-of-the-20th-century Linz is being staged by the Municipal Archive and the Ars Electronica Center. Stereoscopic images deliver an incredibly lifelike, three-dimensional experience of Linz at around the year 1900 … Read more Innenhof der Linzer Tabakfabrik im Jahr 1903 / Oberösterreichisches Landesarchiv / Printversion

(Linz, November 29, 2010) “Then/Now” literally describes the itinerary of a unique journey through Linz history being hosted by the municipal archive. It will feature one-of-a-kind historical images of the Linz cityscape in the first half of the last century juxtaposed to their contemporary counterparts captured from the identical perspective. This mode of visual comparison…

(Linz, November 24, 2010) Ars Electronica Center Linz is hosting its second LabDays event. The center of the action will be the laboratories—labs, for short—in the Main Gallery, where participants will be able to spend two amazing days experimenting, tinkering and playing under the watchful eyes of experts invited especially for the occasion. “Microcosmic” aptly…

(Linz, November 22, 2010) A systematic aerial laser scan of Upper Austria has been performed over the past few years. What it brought to light were earthen ramparts and trenches, mound graves (tumuli) and roads dating back to epochs long past, beds of long-since-dried-up streams, bomb craters from World War II, and thus many different…