Visual Instruments
Visual Instruments Group
One of the Ars Electronica Futurelab’s areas is dedicated to the dissolution of barriers between virtual and real space. Visual Instruments deals with the question of appropriate instruments to cross the borders between the real and virtual worlds. Visual Instruments looks for solutions in available strategies of content and technology, and for new instruments, which have yet to be developed.
Opening both worlds for each other equals the creation of an imaginary space, which is made available for staging. The work of Visual Instruments concentrates on the perception of viewers, recipients and actors of and within this imaginary space. The “stage in one’s head” as a research area.
The theme of Visual Instruments has been in existence at the laboratory since the founding days of the Ars Electronica Futurelab. Special attention has been given to it since the start of a project series in 2006, which concentrates on (media) performances. The common feature of these projects is the concern to develop and continue the possibilities of expanding stage space.
Recent Projects
At the opening of the Haydn Festspiele 2011, the Ars Electronica Futurelab provided the visualizations for Antonín Dvořák’s “From a New World” and for Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 94 “Surprise”. For the development of the visualization of the two symphonies the musical message was decisive: On the one hand, Dvorak’s piece is almost a pictorial [...]
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On September 3 and 4, 2011, the 11th Pixelspaces Symposium took place in the context of the Ars Electronica Festival. The conference series, which raises questions at the nexus of art, research and society, has been established as a dynamic platform of a community consisting of artists and researchers. On the first day of the [...]
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Ars Electronica presents a film especially produced for the dodecahedron “Kometor”, a media artwork conceptualized by Billa and Manfred Hebenstreit in the city of Peuerbach/Hausruckviertel. Assisted by the impressive software “Univew” by SCISS, astronome Dietmar Hager accompanies the visitors to outer space. The journey’s starting point is the city of Peuerbach. From there, the double [...]
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The World in the Moon by Joseph Haydn. At the 2009 International Bruckner Festival Il mondo della luna has been performed in the Brucknerhaus by the Bruckner Orchestra Linz under conductor Martin Sieghart.
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