Sat 5.9.

3:00 PM Hauptplatz – Die Prophezeiung

9:00 PM Donaupark Linz – Die Arche

Fabulous creatures traverse the city and transform it into a biotope full of wonders—all of them betokening impending catastrophe and rescue.
Linz is being flooded in 2009. The Klangwolke (Cloud of Sound) follows the river all the way back to humankind’s most ancient narratives. Watery deluges, floods of information, waves of human beings. During the hours leading up to the climax, the sights and sounds of warning are unmistakable. Would it behoove Linz, the city astride the Danube, to cleanse itself? Serious and absurd prophesies collide head on. Over the course of the day, wondrous creatures stream through the cityscape; animals and mythical beings pull the public in their wake. At nightfall, the scenery in front of the Brucknerhaus will be the site of a drama at the nexus of demise and salvation.

Konzeption, Co-Regie & Live-Video: Airan Berg
Konzeption, Co-Regie, Texte & Visuals: Martina Winkel
Konzeption, Kreaturendesign & Co-Regie: Roger Titley
Komposition: Dick van der Harst
Produktion: Susanne Tiefenbacher
Produktionsassistenz: Karin Imlinger
Marketing: Barbara Hinterleitner
Schauspiel: Andrea Eckert, Wolfram Berger
Dirigent: Martin Fuchsberger
Musik:
Studierende der Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität/ Klasse Blechbläser unter der Leitung von Bernhard Bär sowie Klasse der Schlagwerker unter der Leitung von Leonhard Schmidinger
sowie Ensemble von Dick van der Harst (Belgien):
Kurt Budé, Berlinde Daman, Lander Gyselinck, Jouni Isoherranen, Wim Konink, Bart Maris, Sebastian Matthyssens, Jean-Phillippe Poncin, Dirk Proost, Gilles Répond

Die Klangwolke ist eine Produktion des Brucknerhaus Linz / LIVA und des ORF OÖ in Kooperation mit Linz 2009 Kulturhauptstadt Europas.

David Rokeby: Very Nervous System, 1983-94, Version 1991

Opening hours:
August 28th 2009 – January 10th 2010
daily 10.00 AM – 6.00 PM, Thu 10.00 AM – 9.00 PM

Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Ernst-Koref-Promenade 1, 4020 Linz
www.see-this-sound.at

Promises in Sound and Vision

There are sounds and noises all over the museum, as artists today take an engagement with the sound of this world for granted. The former predominance of the visual has meanwhile been replaced by a multifaceted interplay of image and sound. See this Sound documents this development from the perspective of visual art and refers to the respective contemporary discussions and promises.

In eight sections the exhibition focuses on important milestones and historical-social points of reference, but without imposing a linear development. Starting from the filmic sound visualizations of the 1920s – so-called Eye Music – it traces the topos of traversing genre boundaries in the 1960s and questions psychedelic trance machines and multimedia sound environments about their social-political potential. The illusion of a “natural” interplay of image and sound, for instance in Hollywood movies, is countered by works that disclose the discrepancies of this purported synthesis, all the way to the loss of sound and the power of speech. In addition, there is a special focus on the local production conditions of sounds (industrial cities and industrial sounds), and on sound as a medium of institutional critique.

Collaboration with the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research has also enabled the scholarly treatment of specific media history issues presented within the framework of a web archive and in the exhibition.

Artistic and Scientific Lead: Stella Rollig and Dieter Daniels
Curator: Cosima Rainer
Assistant Curator: Manuela Ammer
Project Coordination: Veronika Floch
Scientific Collaboration LBI: Sandra Naumann

We 2.9. – Thu 3.9. 2009

Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Ernst-Koref-Promenade 1, 4020 Linz

Organizer: Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research
Concept: Dieter Daniels & Sandra Naumann
www.see-this-sound.at

Overall Director of the Conference: Dieter Daniels and Sandra Naumann
An event in conjunction with SEE THIS SOUND
A cooperation between the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research. and the Lentos Art Museum Linz with Linz 2009 European Capital of Culture

See this Sound – Sound-Image Relations in Art, Media and Perception

The project SEE THIS SOUND explores the past and present of the link between image and sound in art, media and perception. The starting point is the fact that our world of experience today is marked by an omnipresence of audiovisual products and structures, in which the cultural production of image and sound is closely intertwined artistically, and in terms of media technology and market strategy. SEE THIS SOUND reacts to this by presenting and discussing different realizations of contemporary art and art studies. The current fields of reference range here from pop culture to the theory of perception and media technology.

The goal of the international symposium is an interdisciplinary exchange among the theoretical and aesthetic thematic fields of the project. At the intersection of different academic disciplines the conference touches, among others, on art and music studies, media and art theory, media archeology, and the history of media technology. Artistic presentations are integrated in the course of the conference to stimulate the dialogue between art and science.

Wed 2.9.  7:30 PM  Starting Performance
Branden W. Joseph in conversation with Tony Conrad, artist / University of Buffalo, Department of Media Study (US), followed by a performance by Tony Conrad

Thu 3.9.
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM Introduction
Dieter Daniels, Leiter Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research, Linz
Sandra Naumann, Academic Staff Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research, Linz

10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Panel 1: Media Art – Visual Art: Divergence or Dialogue?
Chris Salter, Assistant Professor of Digital Media Concordia University, Montreal
Christian Höller, author, curator, editor and co-publisher springerin, Vienna
David Rokeby, Artist, Toronto

2:00 PM – 4:00 PM Panel 2: Art, Science and Technology: Instruments or Artworks?
Birgit Schneider, Dilthey Scholarship of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, University of Potsdam, Institute  of Arts and Media
Yvonne Spielmann, Chair of New Media, University of the West of Scotland, School of Creative Industries, Glasgow
Golan Levin, Artist / Associate Professor of Electronic Art and Director of the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
“On the creation, experience and research of audiovisual interactive art” a conversation with Katja Kwastek, Vice-Director Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research., Linz,

5:00 PM – 7:00 PM Panel 3: Art and Music: Intermediality – Intermodality – Interdisciplinarity?
Branden W. Joseph, Frank Gallipoli Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art, Columbia University, New York, Department of Art History and Archaeology
Helga de la Motte-Haber, Technical University Berlin, Institute of Language and Communication, Department Musicology
Winner Media.Art.Research. Award 2009 for “Eye hEar: Music, Art, Film & the Culture of Synesthesia”:
Simon Shaw-Miller, Senior Lecturer and Head of School, School of History of Art, Film & Visual Media
Birkbeck College, University of London

7:00 PM Closing Performance
Mikomikona (Birgit Schneider & Andreas Eberlein, Berlin)
„Fouriertransformation I + II“ (Fourier Transformation I + II)
Sound-Vision performance with two overhead projectors

80+1 Basecamp, Hauptplatz

80+1 idea & concept: Ars Electronica Linz, voestalpine AG, Linz09
Ein Projekt für Linz 2009 Kulturhauptstadt Europas
www.80plus1.org

Inspired by Jules Verne’s world-famous classic, “80+1” takes you along on a virtual ‘round-the world journey via satellite hook-up and fiber optic cable. The itinerary includes 20 destinations, places where the future is being invented, mastered or, perhaps, thwarted. Thus, 20 issues of key importance to our future are up for discussion; the contributions to it take artistic, scientific and journalistic approaches to these issues. But beyond this wideranging confrontation with global themes, “80+1” will also delve into our own personal takes on and relations to the future, our hopes and our fears.

See all projects of 80+1

Quelle: Blast Theory

Fri 4.9. – Mon 7.9.

Deutsch & English

Starting point & tickets: 80+1-Basecamp, Hauptplatz

START: every 15 minutes between 7 pm and 10 pm

from 16 years on

The number of participants is limited

A production by Blast Theory, coproduced by the Mixed Reality Lab. Presented by Linz09 in cooperation with Ars Electronica. Funded by the British Council Austria.

http://www.blasttheory.co.uk

“Rider Spoke” is a work for cyclists combining theatre with game play and state of the art technology. It invites the audience to cycle through the streets of the city, equipped with a handheld computer. Using wi-fi technology, they search for a hiding place and record a short message there. And then they search for the hiding places of others. The audience can take part either on their own bike or borrow one supplied by Blast Theory.

“Rider Spoke” continues Blast Theory’s fascination with how games and new communication technologies are creating new social spaces. It poses further questions about where theatre may be sited and what form it may take. It invites the public to be co-authors of the piece and a visible manifestation of it as they cycle through the city. It locates the venue precisely in its local context and invites the audience to explore that context for its emotional and intellectual resonances.