Press Releases

Photo: Ars Electronica / Robert Bauernhansl

  • Sonic Intermedia: UEA

    (Linz, October 15, 2010) “Sonic Intermedia” is a new concert series featuring contemporary computer music. It is produced jointly by the Ars Electronica Center and the Anton Bruckner Private University. Inaugural guests are Simon Waters of the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK and several doctoral candidates at that school. Concertgoers will be treated…

  • 2010 Attendance at the Ars Electronica Center: 111,111 and Climbing!

    (Linz, October 13, 2010) The Ars Electronica Center has confirmed its status as a major attraction once again in 2010. On Tuesday, Johann Freudenthaler, a 66-year-old retiree from Linz, became the 111,111th visitor to the Ars Electronica Center this year  … Read more (from left to right) Dr. Erich Watzl, Johann Freudenthaler, Diethard Schwarzmair /…

  • Deep Space LIVE: La Luna – Where there’s a moon, there’s life

    (Linz, October 12, 2010) At an average of about 384,000 kilometers off in space, the Moon orbits the Earth. It takes a little less than a month to make one revolution. We always see the same side of our planet’s satellite, which, like Earth, also rotates on its axis. Even with the naked eye, we…

  • Codes & Clowns

    (Linz, October 7, 2010) He juggled Indian clubs and cruised around college campuses and research labs on a unicycle. He programmed the world’s first wearable computer, which he then used to win $10,000 at roulette in Las Vegas. He created a mechanical mouse that could find its way out of any labyrinth, tinkered together the…

  • NEW: LabDays at the Ars Electronica Center

    (Linz, October 6, 2010) The Ars Electronica Center Linz cordially invites you to attend the premiere of LabDays on Saturday, October 9 and Sunday, October 10, 2010. The center of these wide-ranging activities will be the laboratories in the Main Gallery. Guests will be able to experiment, tinker and play games all day long together…

  • The Long Night of Museums 2010

    (Linz, September 29, 2010) The ORF – Austrian Broadcasting Company cordially invites you to attend the 11th annual Long Night of Museums on Saturday, October 2, 2010. From 6 PM to 1 AM, a single ticket (regular: €13, discount: €11, kids 12 and under free) provides access to all Austrian museums. A record 650 artistic…

  • Deep Space LIVE: Light Speed

    (Linz, September 27, 2010) Nothing goes faster than light. Light travels 299,792,458 meters — almost 300,000 kilometers, 186,000 miles — in a single second. Light takes no more than 1.3 seconds for the trip between the Moon and Earth. So it’s no wonder that precisely measuring this mind-boggling speed confronted science with a tough problem.…

  • Deep Space LIVE: Best of Animationfestival 2010, Part I

    (Linz, September 21, 2010) Computer Animation / Film / VFX category has been a mainstay of the Prix Ars Electronica since 1987. This competition category honors outstanding independent artistic and scientific works as well as commercial high-end productions in the film, advertising and entertainment industries. The judges take artistic originality and excellent technical implementation into…

  • Deep Space LIVE: Constellations

    (Linz, September 14, 2010) Shooting stars as “the gods pointing their fingers”; promising constellations highlighting the birth of one destined for greatness or serving as signposts to guide travelers across deserts and oceans—the heavens have always has a special significance for humankind. The Ars Electronica Center and Dietmar Hager cordially invite you to a Deep…

  • Oribotics – Robotics in Full Bloom

    (Linz, September 4, 2010) Meadows are abloom with flowers at the Ars Electronica Futurelab. This colorful garden—interactive, of course—was created in cooperation with Australian origami and media artist Matthew Gardiner and the University of Linz’s new Institute of Polymer Product Engineering. During the 2010 Ars Electronica Festival (September 2-11), they’ll be bringing the industrial architecture…

  • REPAIR – ready to pull the lifeline / Ars Electronica Festival 2010

    The 2010 Ars Electronica Festival takes place from September 2-11, on the grounds of what used to be Linz’s tobacco processing plant (Gruberstraße 1, 4020 Linz).  X THE TOPIC: REPAIR – READY TP PULL THE LIFELINE The 2010 Ars Electronica Festival is intensely focusing on humankind’s current ecological, economic and political crises. This set won’t…

  • LightNight

    (Linz, August 4, 2010) LightNight at the Ars Electronica Center is a brilliant encounter with the phenomenon of light in all its multifarious manifestations. Tours through the Museum of the Future by night, workshops, a Deep Space LIVE event featuring Herbert Raab of the Astronomical Society of Linz, and the official launch of the façade…

  • ASIMO meets Ars Electronica

    (Linz, August 4, 2010) Honda’s leading-edge humanoid robot ASIMO will makes its public debut in Austria at this year’s Ars Electronica Festival. September 2-8 in Linz, festivalgoers will have the opportunity to experience an impressive demonstration of ASIMO’s extraordinary capabilities at Deep Space in the Ars Electronica Center. Read more ASIMO / Honda / Printversion…

  • Sense the Invisible

    (Linz, July 27, 2010) Eight interactive works by the Japanese artists’ collective h.o will be on display in the Ars Electronica Center July 30 to September 12. This isn’t a spatially discrete exhibit; the works are dispersed throughout the facility and thus constitute an invitation to take an entertaining journey of discovery through the Museum…

  • Raise Your Voice

    (Linz, July 27, 2010) A “garbage slick” four times larger than Germany is now floating in the middle of the Pacific. The Rio Grande, Ganges, Nile, Mekong and others of the world’s most important river systems are on the verge of ecological collapse. Worldwide, 40% more CO2 will be emitted this year than in 1990—CO2…

  • Deep Space LIVE: Making the Visible Visible

    (Linz, July 1, 2010) Our perception of the world (or of what we distinguish as “reality”) is inseparably embedded in space and time. Any change of this perception makes us uneasy. Or is our entrée to undreamt-of freedom(s). Regardless of how any one of us ultimately experiences such an extraordinary situation, one thing’s for sure:…

  • Poerty of Motion – ARS ELECTRONICA featured at VW’s Automobil Forum Unter den Linden

    (Linz, June 28, 2010) ARS ELECTRONICA  is making its first appearance at VW’s showcase venue in Berlin, Automobil Forum Unter den Linden. “Poetry in Motion,” an exhibition created especially for the German capital, will run June 25-September 5, 2010. The works that comprise it constitute a fascinating synthesis of art, technology, science and socio-cultural development. Volkswagen’s…

  • Deep Space LIVE: Europe’s World-Record Eye on the Sky – The European Extremely Large Telescope

    (Linz, June 18, 2010) The decision has been finalized: Europe’s super-telescope will be built. The upshot will be an astronomical observatory of superlative dimensions. Featuring almost 1,000 individual mirrors and an active opening 42 meters wide, its light collection surface will be as large as six tennis courts. This gigantic main mirror will be mounted…

  • The World in 100 Years – A Journey through the History of the Future

    (Linz, June 16, 2010) Our longing to know the future is timeless. Just like our burning desire to co-determine and change the course of events transpiring in this world. The exhibition “The World in 100 Years – A Journey through the History of the Future” pays tribute to some great thinkers and activists who were…

  • Deep Space LIVE: Nostalgia in 3D

    (Linz, June 14, 2010) Susi Windischbauer and Christoph Kremer of the Ars Electronica Center invite you to accompany them on a 3D nostalgia trip on June 17, 2010. More than 50 stereoscopic images provided by the Prints and Photographs Online Catalog of the Library of Congress and a specially developed projection process now make it…