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A Project of the City of Linz Municipal Enterprises There is probably no other city in Austria that has undergone such a dramatic transformation in recent years as Linz. Today, the Province of Upper Austria’s capital is modern, open, socially conscious, public spirited and green. Now, the City of Linz has created an exhibition that [...]
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Ars Wild Card is an iPhone application developed by Ars Electronica Linz as a participative workshop tool for exhibitions and interventions in public spaces. This application and QR codes assigned to each exhibited project make it possible to generate content about the works on display in a frame with which installation visitors can photograph the [...]
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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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CAVE technology was yesterday. Deep Space is right now. Experience a new dimension of travel through space and time. Immerse yourself into breathtaking 3D stereo universes featuring jumbo-format, high-definition images that will absolutely blow you away!
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The Ars Electronica Futurelab’s projects focus on a thematic domain at the nexus of art, technology and society. Quell.Code (Source.Code), a media installation created especially for SAP’s corporate headquarters, is a prototypical example of this tripartite encounter.
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This installation’s focus is set on the Borealis Linz Donau Marathon of LIVA, the biggest running sports event in Upper Austria, which has developed into a spectacular and respected event in the European runners’ scene within six years. Starting with 5.600 runners in the year of 2002, more than 15.000 runner took part in the [...]
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LILO is a local railway in Upper Austria, which was opened in 1912, covering the route Linz – Eferding – Waizenkirchen – Peuerbach – Neumarkt. In the context of the Urfahraner Markt, LILO celebrates its 100-year existence with a book presentation at the Exhibition tent “Linz verändert” on May 1, 7.00 pm. The E-locomotive “Liesl” [...]
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Linz in Numbers presents different facts about the city and the work of “Unternehmensgruppe Linz” (UGL). The slide shows displayed on the screens can be selected by topic: Future Linz, Social Aspects, Life, Education, Traffic, Infrastructure, Health, Sports & Leisure, Culture. The visitors can skim through the facts, according to their interests. Through another button [...]
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The research project BackMeUp deals with the advantages and disadvantages of Cloud Storage – the outsourcing of personal data on external servers on the internet, as it is done millions of times on facebook, Dropbox, webmail accounts, iCloud, and many other online services. For a period of two years, the project team will investigate the [...]
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In the context of the project Smart City Linz, supported by the Austrian Climate and Energy Fund, the Ars Electronica Futurelab is currently on its way to Linz in the year 2050. The members of the Smart City Linz consortium—the Futurelab, the City of Linz, Linz Strom GmbH, Austrian Institute of Technology, Austrian Energy Agency [...]
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