Linz

create your world Festival 2021

This year’s create your world festival takes its title very seriously and literally: It aims to provide opportunities to think about present and future scenarios in a lighthearted way. It offers a platform for young people to exchange ideas and have a good time together. Utopias may be created and unrealistic thoughts exchanged. Laughter is allowed and trust can be (re)built.

Theme Exhibition: Digital && Life

This year’s Ars Electronica Festival theme exhibition is dealing with the many different forms the relationship between the digital and all scales of life can assume. The artworks demonstrate the links technologies evolve to living things from the tiniest microbial organisms to the methods of examining our bodies and even shows the potential to facilitate the creation of life itself.

Frau Sammer

Frau Sammer

A very old lady with dementia, Ms. Sammer was born in Graz an der Mur in 2016. It's about everyday neighborhood conflicts, hipster cults and sometimes even love. With synth sounds, electric bass, two voices, rap and assi-sacral hymns the four Sammers show themselves shrill and quiet, virtuosic and virtual, amateurish and absolutely professional.

Pianographique 2021

Maki Namekawa (JP)

Maki Namekawa has created a new program for this year's Ars Electronica, bringing music by György Ligeti, Chick Corea and, for the first time, Polish composer Hania Rani to the visual arena of the Deep Space venue. She will be visually accompanied by Cori O'Lan, who will once again connect the Deep Space’s high-end graphics cards with his real time visualization system to provide an immersive visual interpretation of Maki Namekawa’s performance.

Sound Park - auditory scenes

In einer von visuellen Reizen dominierten Welt kann die auditive Wahrnehmung eine Oase der Ruhe sein. Der Klangpark - im Keplergarten der Johannes Kepler Universität Linz - bietet die Möglichkeit, sich zu entspannen und sich auf einen aktiven Hörprozess einzulassen. Die BesucherInnen sind eingeladen, die Augen zu schließen und ein klangliches Bewusstsein für einen ihnen unbekannten Raum entstehen zu lassen.

LXk:m:BIX

Andres Bosshard (CH)

The architecturally constructed echo reflection space of the library's inner courtyard becomes an acoustically transformed dream space for flying sound flags in a glass quadrant. Shadowy, recognizable reverberations from Bruckner's 9th and Lux Eterna are reanimated by a virtual sound mobile into a phatamorgana of space and time.

Choreophonic Dramaturgy

Andres Bosshard (CH)

I am invited to create a unique sound choreography of Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony and Ligeti’s Lux Eterna for live broadcast from the park of the JKU Library, in collaboration with the team at Ars Electronica.

RESCUE – post-industrial dynamics

Rupert Huber (AT), Zahra Mani (AT/PK/UK), Balázs Pándi (HU), Mia Zabelka (AT), Gavino Canu (IT)

RESCUE – post-industrial dynamics. Dystopian audio-visual imaginings by Rupert Huber, Zahra Mani, Balázs Pándi and Mia Zabelka with visuals by Gavino Canu. In collaboration with ORF OE1 Radiokunst-Kunstradio. Co-funded by the Creative Europe program of the EU.

Material Internet Field Kit: Linz

Vanessa Graf (AT)

The project Material Internet Field Kit: Linz is a collection of stories and images, a list of GPS coordinates, a map, and above all, an attempt to meet the embodied Internet in Linz.

Schrödinger’s Rat

Philipp Blume (AT), Gregor Ladenhauf (AT)

Schrödinger’s Rat is an interactive art sculpture and immersive experience, inspired by the famous thought experiment of Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger. As the first Austrian Burning Man artwork, it was honored with a Black Rock City Honoraria Grant by Burning Man Project in the context of the ”Multiverse” theme of 2020.