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Ars Electronica installations

As every year, the visitor is provided with a large selection of installations. A few examples:   - Mobility from Otto Bock       100 handheld mirors are moving. The 100 lights reflected from the mirrors dance on the opposite wall to build at the end a Chinese character.           - The particle This large sculpure of moving LED circles creating light spheres and sound, reflect the beginning of life on earth, a mixture of chaos and...

Ars Electronica center and U19

Ars Electronica is this year more centered around the Ars Electronica center itself. Wednesday's evening concert took place on the main deck there with the great Gameboy Music Club, the impressive Tesla Orchestra and Michael Mayr & Kid Soylent.     Last year Ars Electronica benefited from the huge Tabakfabrick space no longer available this year for the festival unfortunately. Too bad because it was a fantastic place to showcase major digital artworks. But fortunately, there are ...

Gamboy Music Club concert at Ars Electronica

Ars Electronica opening concert on the main deck of the Ars Electronica center. Mixture of old game console, music and the light scene using the entire center LED facade.

Ars Electronica in Linz : Origin – How It All Begins

  Leaving tomorrow for Linz, Austria, for the Ars Electronica festival. This year’s theme, Origin – How It All Begins, is organized in cooperation with CERN, the Geneva based institution with more than 8,000 scientists exploring, among other research, the origin of our universe. It is also a statement of Ars Electronica in favor of the importance of advanced basic research in our world highlighting efficiency and quick return on investment.. Always impressive to remembe...

Going to South by South West, the World Size Festival in Austin, Texas

Leaving this Thrusday for SXSW (South by South West) in Austin, Texas, of all places. My first time there. Glad to discover Austin and SXSW. Digitalarti even organized a partnership with SXSW.             The festival is so huge, there must be more than 1.000 conferences, workshops... There are 3 parts: Music, Film & Interactive. I will be there from the 11th to the 15th mostly for the Interactive part. The music side of the festival starts after with mor...

Ars Electronica Festival Afterthoughts

Soo much to see, hear, exchange, discover…  at this year's Ars Electronica festival. What remains afterward?    The sheer size of the location was a much discussed topic among visitors. Impressive? Too much? Great? Not enough budget to properly use the whole space? Too much cardboard? Fantastic space to showcase some great works? Too much space to showcase sometime basic work? Great meeting place? Too large to meet people? A bit of everything depending on who you talk to or on anyone's p...

Ars Electronica conferences – Open Source Life IV: Repair Society (and yourself)

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Ars Electronica organized an Open Source Symposium during the festival ending by this conference:  Repair Society (and yourself).   Moderated by Andreas Hirsch, the conference included Saskia Sassen on the digital training of the powerless ( with interesting parallels between2 opposite worlds: the finance industry and the powerless), Derrick de Kekhove on open source life and Jiochi Ito on the new meaning of life and the necessary changes among the world elites.     Sask...

Cloud of Sound event (Klangwolke): BABY JET, the Evening Show along the Danube during Ars Electronica

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As every year, a large public event is organized during the Ars Electronica festival along the Danube. This year's theme was BABY JET, the railroad of the future. The fantasized project, from artist Lawine Torren, is to create an underground, more than 1.000 km per hour, bullet train.        View from the Ars Electronica Center from the other side of the Danube among the BABY JET show crowd.     The crowd arriving along the river.      The...

Interview Christine Schopf, co-director Ars Electronica

Christine Schopf, co-director Ars Electronica, presents the history of the location of the festival, the Tabakfabrik, the festival theme "Repair" and the various aspects of the festival ranging from digital art, innovation to green focus, etc. Due to her busy agenda and the need for light, we organized the interview at the ground floor of building 1 hosting the New Work Factory, not the most artistic sp ...

Ars Electronica Golden Nicas Gala Awards Ceremony 2010

The Gala evening took place this year inside the Tabakfabrik where most of the Ars Electronica festival is taking place.     The gala evening was co-hosted by Christine Schopf co-director Ars Electronica and Gerfried Stocker, Ars Electronica Artistic Director. They were helped by Asimo.   All Golden Nicas where awareded to the winning teams. See detailed list of Golden Nicas awards and honorary mentions here.  ...

EyeWriter presentation at Ars Electronica Gala

EyeWriter presentation at the Ars Electronica Gala by the whole team:   Zach Lieberman (US), James Powderly (US), Tony Quan (US), Evan Roth, (US), Chris Sugrue (US) and Theo Watson (UK). Information at:http://www.eyewriter.org 

Ars Electronica Golden Nicas Awards 2010

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The Ars Electronica awards, the Golden Nicas, were awarded during the Ars Electronica Gala, September 3 at the Tabakfabrik.The list of Golden Nicas awards: COMPUTER ANIMATION / FILM / VFXNuit BlancheArev Manoukian (CA)http://www.arev.ca DIGITAL MUSICS & SOUND ARTrheo: 5 horizonsRyoichi Kurokawa (JP)http://www.ryoichikurokawa.com HYBRID ARTEar on ArmStelarc (AU)http://www.stelarc.va.com.au/http://www.stelarc.va.com.au/projects/earonarm/index.html INTERACTIVE ARTThe E...

Video Jonathan Schipper Measuring Angst at Ars Electronica

Jonathan Schipper artwork Measuring Angst has won the Honorary mention Hybrid Art at the Ars Electronica festival. The artwork and Jonathan Schipper's work analyses creative destruction. The artwork reproduces the moments in wich a bottle is thrown against a wall and shatters to pieces as shown on this picture: