Deep Space LIVE: Panoptikum / Natural Disasters

(Linz, June 5, 2013) In the wake of the flooding that just wreaked havoc in parts of Upper Austria, tomorrow’s Deep Space LIVE: Panoptikum will treat a most timely topic: the violent forces of nature.

CERN and Ars Electronica launch open call for the third Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN

(Geneva/Linz, 4 June 2013) CERN and Ars Electronica today launch an open call for artists working in the digital domain to apply for the third Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN .

From Austria to the World – Gigapixel Images of New York City Featured at Vienna Airport

(Linz / Schwechat, May 28, 2012) “From Austria to the World” is the theme of five extraordinary giga-pixel images of New York City now on display at the Austrian Star Alliance Terminal Check-in 3 at Vienna International Airport.

Terra Mater LIVE: Dingos – Australia’s Wild Dogs

(Linz, May 23, 2013) The next Terra Mater LIVE on Wednesday, May 29 sets its sights on Australia’s most dangerous and most successful hunter: the dingo.

Murmuration – When Swarms Dance in Flight

(Linz / Bergen, May 23, 2013) A swarm of 35 quadcopters was the featured attraction yesterday at “Murmuration,” an open-air event that kicked off the Bergen (Norway) International Festival, the largest of its kind in Northern Europe.

Prix Ars Electronica: The Winners 2013

(Linz, May 16, 2013) A total of 4,071 entries from 73 countries were submitted for prize consideration to the 2013 Prix Ars Electronica.

GameStage@AEC

(Linz, May 13, 2013) Computer games will take center stage at the Ars Electronica Center this Friday, May 17, 2013. This year’s GameStage@AEC showcases games developed in Austria.

Terra Mater LIVE: Miracles of Life – Oasis in Space

(Linz, May 6, 2013) “Oasis in Space,” the next installment of Terra Mater’s Miracles of Life series will be shown on Wednesday, May 8, 2013 on Deep Space’s 16×9-meter screen. This spectacular film reveals how Earth morphed over billions of years from a truly inhospitable place to an oasis of life, and what conditions were necessary for this to occur.

Ausstellung LINZ VERÄNDERT wieder großer Publikumserfolg

(Linz, May 3, 2013) This coming Saturday and Saturday are your last chances to visit the LINZ CHANGES exhibition at the Urfahr Spring Fair and take an entertaining and informative look at Upper Austria’s capital city and Linz’s municipal service providers.

Spectacular Nature Films at the Ars Electronica Center

Linz, April 29, 2013) Two breathtaking nature films screened in jumbo 16×9-meter format are this week’s featured attractions at Ars Electronica Center Linz.

Kulturstadt Linz am Urfahraner Frühjahrsmarkt

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Terra Mater LIVE: The Miracle of Life – The Nature of Energy

(Linz, April 23, 2013) In conjunction with this year’s featured theme “In Touch with the Earth,” all future episodes of TERRA MATER will be simulcast free of charge in the Ars Electronica Center’s Deep Space (16×9-meter, 4x high-definition screen) at the same time they’re broadcast on Servus TV (every Wednesday at 8:15 PM).

Deep Space LIVE: Panoptikum

(Linz, April 24, 2013) “Panoptikum” was a mainstay of Austria’s TV lineup for over 20 years. Now, it’s been reconceived and reformatted as a monthly online magazine in which Ars Electronica Artistic Director Gerfried Stocker, the Futurelab’s Horst Hörtner, and Christoph Kremer, head of the Center, will present a roundup of the latest developments in art, technology, science and society in Deep Space at the Ars Electronica Center Linz.

In Touch with the Earth

(Linz, April 19, 2013) Climate and vegetation zones, ice masses, mountain ranges and deep-sea trenches, bush and forest fires, the routes of migratory birds. Or how about metropolitan areas, networks of streets and railway lines, light pollution, production and consumption of energy, the internet and Big Data. The Ars Electronica Center’s high-definition examination of the multifarious interrelationships between the micro- and macrocosm, among local and global facts & circumstances is entitled “In Touch with the Earth.”

Ars Electronica Futurelab Visualizes TOSCA’s “Odeon”

(Linz, April 17, 2013) Today’s world premiere of “Odeon” by TOSCA at Linz’s newly-opened Musiktheater promises two hours full of supreme audiovisual artistry. The music and sound environments were created by Rupert Huber and Richard Dorfmeister (aka TOSCA); the visualizations are the work of the Ars Electronica Futurelab. The curtain goes up at 7:30 PM.

Science Days: Human Machine!

(Linz, April 10, 2013) During Science Days at the Ars Electronica Center this coming weekend, April 13-14, visitors can learn to build and program robot hands using Lego components, fly a quadcopter with a smartphone, get acquainted with Telenoid, the communications machine of the future, and discover how insights in the field of robotics can contribute to human health.

Deep Space LIVE: Fear of the Devil and Faith in Miracles

(Linz, April 8, 2013) Historian Cathrin Hermann of the Linz Municipal Archive and storyteller Claudia Edermayer will escort you through a world of fairytales from bygone days in Linz at the next Deep Space LIVE on Thursday, April 11, 2013.

NITSCH Retrospective: SENSE AND BEING

(Linz, April 4, 2013) The nitsch museum is marking Hermann Nitsch’s 75th birthday with an exhibition entitled “HERMANN NITSCH – SINNE UND SEIN” (SENSE AND BEING). It features works created over six decades and, for the first time at this facility, an interactive jumbo projection screen designed by the Ars Electronica Futurelab.

Deep Space LIVE: Life Cycles

(Linz, April 2, 2013) A don’t-miss documentary film is on tap at the next Deep Space LIVE on Thursday, April 4. The makers of “Life Cycles” really showed their love for detail, and the prizes for their amazing effort have been rolling in ever since.

30 Quadcopters Flew for Paramount’s “Star Trek – Into Darkness”

(Linz/London 24.3.2013) Following its world premiere at the Linz Klangwolke in September 2012, the Ars Electronica Futurelab’s computer-controlled swarm of four-rotor mini-whirlybirds—so-called quadcopters—took to the air again on Saturday, March 23, 2013 in a role and setting no less spectacular than the exciting technology itself: as high-tech heralds of Paramount’s “Star Trek – Into Darkness” that’s opening in movie theaters on May 9th. A squadron of 30 LED-studded AscTec Hummingbird quadcopters hovered above Potters Fields Park near London’s Tower Bridge and, in conjunction with Earth Hour, formed a three-dimensional Star Trek logo in the night sky.

Robots, Microcosmonauts and Awesome Snowboard Action

(Linz, March 26, 2013) Programming robots, marvelous microscopes and exciting snowboard stunts are the featured attractions at Ars Electronica Center Linz this Thursday, March 28, 2013.

Ars Electronica Festival 2013

(Linz, March 19, 2013) This year’s Ars Electronica Festival is set for September 5-9 in Linz. The title is TOTAL RECALL – The Evolution of Memory.

Of Sorcerer’s Apprentices and Virtual Aquariums

(Linz, March 18, 2013) This week’s lineup at the Ars Electronica Center is guaranteed to animate the passions of comic fans. The theme of the 5th NEXT COMIC FESTIVAL at the AEC is Comics and Music.

Family Days im Ars Electronica Center Linz

(Linz, March 12, 2013) The accent is on discovering, learning and having fun together as a family group this weekend at the Ars Electronica Center.

A Colorfully Varied Lineup at the AEC on Thursday Evening

(Linz, March 11, 2013) A diversified program of fascinating events awaits visitors to the Ars Electronica Center this Thursday, March 14, 2013.

Prix Ars Electronica Submission Deadline Extended

(Linz, March 6, 2013) Due to popular demand, the deadline for submitting entries to the Prix Ars Electronica has been extended. Now you have until March 20th to submit projects to the Prix Ars Electronica or to nominate works by others.

Exhibition Opening: people_scans

(Linz, March 5, 2013) The new “people_scans” exhibition at the Ars Electronica Center features full-body scans by Upper Austrian photographer Kurt Hörbst.

GameStage@AEC: Competitive Games

(Linz, March 4, 2013) GameStage@AEC is a new series at the Ars Electronica Center Linz dedicated to multifarious aspects of computer gaming.

Day of Museum Solidarity

(Linz, March 3, 2013) March 4, 2013 is the Day of Museum Solidarity. More than 160 museums, galleries and universities in the USA, Europe, Asia and Australia are taking part in a show of solidarity with cultural institutions in Bosnia-Herzegovina that, due to political disputes and budget constraints, have had to close their doors or are on the verge of doing so.

For Seniors: Time Is What It’s All About

(Linz, February 27, 2013) Every first and third Friday of the month, the Ars Electronica Center offers a themed tour designed with seniors in mind. On March 1st & 15th, visitors will get a guided tour of the “Zeit ist Held” exhibition.

The Stars at the Ars Electronica Center

(Linz, February 26, 2013) The accent is on astronomy this week in the Ars Electronica Center Linz.

Deep Space LIVE: WE – A Collection of Individuals

(Linz, February 19, 2013) Enjoy stunning footage of a group of skiers and friends, visit WE – A Collection of Individuals in the Deep Space.

Semester Break at the Ars Electronica Center Linz

(Linz, February 15, 2013) The Ars Electronica Center’s jam-packed lineup of fun activities is a great way to keep boredom at bay while school’s out.

Family Days at the Ars Electronica Center

(Linz, February 13, 2013) The accent is on discovering, learning and having fun together as a family group this weekend at the Ars Electronica Center.

Deep Space LIVE: A Smile Travels around the World

(Linz, February 12, 2013) “Bring a smile to our world” is the motto of a globe-spanning project by Linz photographer Florian Holter that he will present at the next Deep Space LIVE.

Deep Space LIVE: Earth’s Fire-Mountains

(Linz, February 4, 2013) The beauty and fascination of fire-spewing volcanoes are the explosive attractions at the next Deep Space LIVE.

Science Days: The Cell

(Linz, January 31, 2013) During Science Days at the Ars Electronica Center on the weekend of February 2-3, 2013, the focus will be on the cell, the tiniest unit of living organisms.

For Seniors: Inventing the New, Conserving the Old

(Linz, January 29, 2013) On February 1 and 15, senior visitors of the Ars Electronica Center will learn how historical buildings and sites from Antiquity are being registered by laser and rendered with graphics programs as part of an effort to conserve them for the future.

Deep Space LIVE: Lightfields – The Future of Digital Photography

(Linz, January 28, 2013) The next Deep Space LIVE on Thursday, January 31, 2013 at 8 PM will focus on light-field photography. Oliver Bimber, head of the Institute of Computer Graphics at Johannes Kepler University Linz, will elaborate on light-field technology and show how the new light-field cameras work.

Ars Electronica at Linz’s Leisure Travel Trade Show

(Linz, January 23, 2013) Ars Electronica will have a high-profile presence at this year’s Ferien Messe Linz, the big travel industry trade show at the Design Center Friday to Sunday, January 25-27, 2013. The Shadowgram interactive installation by AE Solutions is sure to wow the crowd just like it did in Venice and Tokyo!

Me and Me 2.0 – Identity Construction on the Web

(Linz, January 21, 2013) The psychology of self-portrayal on the internet will be the subject of a speech on Thursday, January 24, 2013 at the Ars Electronica Center.

Family Days im Ars Electronica Center Linz

(Linz, January 15, 2013) This coming weekend January 19-20, 2013, the Ars Electronica Center is staging Family Days featuring lots of cool activities for young and old alike.

Deep Space LIVE: Animation

(Linz, January 14, 2013) Breathtaking computer animation sequences are the featured attractions at the next Deep Space LIVE on Thursday, January 17, 2013. Christine Schöpf and Jürgen Hagler, both Prix Ars Electronica jurors, will screen a selection of works submitted for prize consideration to the 2012 Prix Ars Electronica’s Computer Animation / Film / VFX category.

KET – Kids Experience Technology

(Linz, January 11, 2013) KET – Kids Experience Technology is a traveling exhibition that’s made lots of fans. This will be its third guest appearance at the Ars Electronica Center. Last year’s presentation drew 2,278 young visitors in the span of 30 days. The aim is to enable 4-8-year-old to have fun taking independent, hands-on approaches to scientific phenomena and technical applications.

Ars Electronica’s Year in Review

(Linz, December 27, 2012) Ars Electronica Linz GmbH produced more projects—and more large-scale productions—in 2012 than ever before in its history. So it’s no surprise that this was a record-breaking year—in terms of public response, media impact and revenue as well.

Christmas Season at the Ars Electronica Center Linz

(Linz, December 19, 2012) The Christmas spirit will pervade Family Days at the Ars Electronica Center on December 22 & 23. The young and the young at heart are cordially invited to turn out season’s greeting cards on a laser cutter or use a special machine that helps you decorate Christmas tree ornaments. The Ars Electronica Center’s lineup of fun activities during Christmas vacation is a great way to keep the blues at bay while school’s out.

Submissions to the 2013 Prix Ars Electronica Are Now Being Accepted

(Linz, December 18, 2012) Entries for 2013 Prix Ars Electronica prize consideration may be submitted beginning today, December 18, 2012. The competition is being held in seven categories including one for Austrian youngsters. The leading barometer of current trends in media art, the Prix Ars Electronica annually attracts submissions from more than 70 countries.

Deep Space LIVE: X-Events – The Collapse of Everything

(Linz, December 14, 2012) On December 20th and thus the very eve of the end of the world predicted by many of the esoterically inclined, Deep Space LIVE will treat the question of what would happen when some human blunder actually did cause it all to fall apart. At 8 PM, John Casti (US), scientist, author and director of the X-Center research institute, will discuss so-called X-events, extreme situations that could cause our fragile political, social and economic systems to crash.

Ars Electronica Futurelab Developed RoboLab for Vienna’s Museum of Technology

(Linz, Vienna / December 10, 2012) The Ars Electronica Futurelab developed a RoboLab for Vienna’s Museum of Technology. The show features interactive installations having to do with seeing machines, sensor engineering, programming, and artificial intelligence.

Deep Space LIVE: Commemorative Plaques & Metal Sculpture. Monuments in Linz II

(Linz, December 7, 2012) Visitors to the next Deep Space LIVE on Thursday, December 13th will be taking a virtual stroll through Linz. Cathrin Hermann of the Municipal Archive will screen jumbo-scale, high-definition projections showing prominent (as well as some little-known) monuments and places of commemoration in Linz.

One Day on Earth at the Ars Electronica Center Linz

(Linz, December 6, 2012) On Wednesday, 12/12/2012, the Ars Electronica Center will feature an extraordinary motion picture project, one created on 10/10/2010 by a cast & crew of 19,000 people worldwide who filmed touching moments, triumphs and tragedies, or just ordinary elements of everyday life. American artist Kyle Ruddick then edited the submitted footage into a feature-length film entitled “One Day on Earth. On 12/12/2012, the next installment goes into production. Once again, all are invited to take part. From 9 AM to 5 PM, visitors to the Ars Electronica Center can shoot their own clips in the Museum of the Future and thereby contribute to this worldwide endeavor.

New Exhibition: Zeit ist Held – Time is What It’s All About

(Linz, December 6, 2012) Who’s in control of his/her time? Why is it that we always have too little of it, and why does it seem that the older we get, the faster time goes by? In conjunction with work on their master’s theses, students in the MultiMediaArt program at the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences confronted these issues and put what they came up with into the form of an exhibition that is running at the Ars Electronica Center Linz from December 7, 2012 to June 30, 2013.

Deep Space – Focal Point of the Ars Electronica Center

(Linz, December 3, 2012) At the next Deep Space LIVE on Thursday, December 6th, astrophotographer Dietmar Hager will elaborate on how and why human beings since time immemorial have sought their orientation in the stars, and also discuss the impediments humankind has had to surmount on our way from the archaic concepts of the past to our modern worldviews. Deep Space will also be the hub of Science Days this coming weekend, December 8-9, with presentations changing every half hour.

The International Space Time Concerto

(Linz, November 27, 2012) Visitors to the Ars Electronica Center can attend an extraordinary concert this Friday, November 30, 2012 at 9:30 AM. The International Space Time Concerto features musicians at five locations collaboratively playing nine pieces. The participating institutions are the Newcastle Conservatorium (Australia), the Ars Electronica Center, the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music (Singapore), the University of Waikato (New Zealand) and the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing.

Deep Space LIVE: From Country Town to City of Steel

(Linz, November 26, 2012) High-definition photographs detailing the emergence of heavy industry in Linz occupy the focal point at the next Deep Space LIVE on Thursday, November 11, 2012.

Family Days at the Ars Electronica Center

(Linz, November 20, 2012) The accent is on discovering, learning and having fun together as a family group this weekend at the Ars Electronica Center. Family Days on November 24-25, 2012 will feature high-energy tours of the AEC’s exhibits. In Deep Space LIVE Family, astrophotographer Dietmar Hager hosts a 3D journey through the universe and presents the latest images from NASA and the ESO.

Data Security Online and a Journey Back into the Stone Age

(Linz, November 19, 2012) A very interesting and highly varied program is on tap at the Ars Electronica Center this coming Thursday evening, November 22, 2012. Getting the ball rolling at 6:30 PM is Robert Matzinger in his address entitled “Survival in the Jungle of the Data-Headhunters”. Then at 8 PM, Linz adventurers Elisabeth & Peter Pflügl present an account of their arduous journey into a little-known part of Indonesia.

Diversified Thursday Lineup at the Ars Electronica Center Linz

(Linz, November 12, 2012) A fascinatingly diversified lineup is in store for visitors to the Ars Electronica Center at 6:30 PM on Thursday, November 15, 2012. In the final installment in the “Brains for All” series, Manuela Macedonia, a neuroscientist at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, will go into how the brain processes linguistic information and why reading and learning can give rise to difficulties. Then at 8 PM, Fritz Mayrhofer and Anneliese Schweiger of the Linz Municipal Archive will present historical and contemporary images that illustrate the architectural metamorphosis the city has undergone from the late 19th century to the present.

Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN: Bill Fontana Wins Residency Award

(Linz / Geneva, November 8, 2012) The second Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN Residency Award was today awarded to the 65 year-old american artist, Bill Fontana. With an international reputation for his pioneering experiments in sound art work, which has been featured in some of the world’s leading arts institutions, such as Tate Modern and The Whitney Museum of American Art

Science Days: Peeks inside the Brain

(Linz, November 7, 2012) Give some thought to the human brain during Science Days at the Ars Electronica Center on the weekend of November 10-11. Besides finding out all sorts of interesting things about how the brain works, visitors will witness how imaging techniques make mental activity visible and see other tools developed to better understand cerebral functions. There will also be opportunities to perform an eye operation with a virtual scalpel and to use eye tracking to draw conclusions about one’s own brain activity.

Deep Space LIVE: Together We Are Strong – Interactive Galaxies

(Linz, November 5, 2012) Colliding galaxies form the epicenter of the next Deep Space LIVE this Thursday, November 11 at 8 PM. Astrophotographer Dietmar Hager will show how galaxies exert mutual attraction via gravitation and just what happens when they finally meet! Deep Space at the Ars Electronica Center is also the go-to place to behold the world’s largest group portrait, a 16×9-meter mosaic made up of countless snapshots taken by shutterbugs who attended the voestalpine Klangwolke last September.

For Seniors: Come Closer! When Technology Approaches Our Body

(Linz, November 29, 2012) Every first and third Friday of the month, the Ars Electronica Center offers themed tours designed with seniors in mind. On November 2 & 16, visitors will learn some amazing things about imaging and diagnostic procedures involving microscopes, magnetic resonance technology and DNA analysis.

Family Days and Concert for Experimental Computer Music

(Linz, October 24, 2012) It’s time for Family Days at the Ars Electronica Center once again this weekend. October 27 & 28 from from 10 AM to 6 PM, Ars Electronica will be hosting tours designed with families in mind and in Deep Space, storyteller Claudia Edermayer will relate tales of Linz in days of yore. Then historian Cathrin Hermann of the Linz City Archive will shed some light on the respective historical context.

Deep Space LIVE: Räubersleut und Ritterstreit – Sagen aus dem alten Linz

(Linz, October 22, 2012) Tales of Linz in days of yore will be the center of rapt attention at the next Deep Space LIVE on October 25. Storyteller Claudia Edermayer will relate ripping yarns including the Sagas of the Iron Hand, the Losensteiner Tournament and Bandit Chieftain Michl Landl. Then historian Cathrin Hermann of the Linz City Archive will shed some light on the respective historical context.

A Colorfully Varied Lineup at the AEC on Thursday Evening

(Linz, October 15, 2012) A diversified program of fascinating events awaits visitors to the Ars Electronica Center this Thursday evening, October 18, 2012. Kicking things off is neuroscientist Manuela Mazedonia’s latest presentation in the Brains for Everybody series. She’ll discuss the extent to which learning a musical instrument at an early age fosters a child’s linguistic skills and how music is processed by the brain. Taking over are Erwin Kraus and Christian Greifeneder from the Province of Upper Austria’s Bureau of Geoinformation and Real Estate. They used lasers to create three-dimensional models of the regional topography that can help identify centuries-old defensive emplacements and roads. Then, false color aerial imagery near the infrared range of the spectrum then delivers information about the vitality of the area’s vegetation.

Science Days: Out of Control

(Linz, October 10, 2012) At the next Science Days on October 13-14, 2012, specialists on the staff of the Department of Secure Information Systems at the Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences’ Hagenberg Campus will explain what information about internet users is being stored in conjunction with telecommunications data retention, how you can protect your smartphone from undesirable incursions, and how restoring lost computer data works. Finally, tours through the “Out of Control” exhibition show what steps people can take to better protect their privacy online.

Deep Space LIVE: Transmutations

(Linz, October 8, 2012) An experimental audiovisual performance will be the centerpiece of the next Deep Space LIVE. Through the manipulation of a feedback loop consisting of image converters hooked up to cathode ray tube TV sets, Gregor Göttfert and Florian Voggeneder experiment with the reciprocal interplay of signal and interference, image and sound, and analog & digital visual aesthetics.

LINZ CHANGES

(Linz, October 7, 2012) At this year’s Urfahr Autumn Fair, the latest LINZ CHANGES exhibition offered another entertaining and educational look at Upper Austria’s capital city and its municipal services division. This time around, the substantive focus was on energy efficiency and conservation. As always, this fourth edition of LINZ CHANGES was a big hit with fairgoers. The most popular attractions were the jumbo-scale, high-definition Linz panoramas, the Shadowgram, and the energy efficiency crafts workshop at which tinkerers could turn out solar-powered toy bugs. “We once again succeeded in attracting lots of people to the exhibition space, and, once inside, keeping them interested by offering fascinating interactive installations,” is how Ars Electronica CFO Diethard Schwarzmair summed things up. “The redesigned exterior space featuring lounge chairs provided by Linz Tourismus proved to be a highly effective concept as well.”

Long Night of the Museums at the Ars Electronica Center Linz

(Linz, October 4, 2012) This year’s ORF-Long Night of the Museums runs on October 6. Over 670 museums and galleries throughout Austria are participating by staging evening events for night owls who are culture vultures too. The lineup at the Ars Electronica Center Linz includes live remote hookups to renowned centers of art & science throughout the world. Visitors will be able to use their own smartphone to pilot drones through the AEC’s lobby, create blinking brooches and glowing hair bands, and enjoy breathtaking visuals at a Best of Deep Space program.

Deep Space LIVE: Vertriders

(Linz, October 1, 2012) Breathtaking mountain panoramas and downhill runs on death-defying trials are on tap at the next Deep Space LIVE on Thursday, October 4. Filmmaker Hannes Mair accompanied a group of vertriders—mountain bike freeriders in rugged alpine terrain—on a tour in the mountains of Tyrol, and brought back some impressive footage of picturesque peaks and steep paths with hard rock on one side and nothing but air on the other. Vertrider Axel Kreuter will do the moderating.

Conserving Energy for the Fun of It and the World’s Largest Group Photo

(Linz, September 28 2012) The City of Linz’s municipal services division will present its fourth LINZ CHANGES exhibition at the Urfahr Autumn Fair running September 29 to October 7. The show spotlights the historical development of Upper Austria’s capital city, highlights what makes it such a great place to live, work and play, and brings out what it takes to keep things running smoothly on a daily basis and moving forward.

GeoCity Beijing Exhibited at Beijing Design Week 2012

(Linz / Peking, September 27, 2012) GeoCity Smart City is the featured exhibition at Beijing Design Week 2012 running September 28 to October 14, 2012. Curated by the China Millennium Monument Museum of Digital Arts, the exhibition showcases promising smart city initiatives all over the world. GeoCity Beijing by AE Solutions plays a starring role.

Family Days at the Ars Electronica Center Linz

(Linz, September 26, 2012) At Family Days in the Ars Electronica Center on Saturday and Saturday, September 29-30, the accent is on exploring, discovering and playing together as a group. In addition, an amazing Deep Space LIVE experience about mountain gorillas featuring breathtaking images by Elisabeth & Peter Pflügl.

Deep Space LIVE: HOME by Yann Arthus-Bertrand

(Linz, September 24, 2012) An astonishing visual experience awaits visitors at the next Deep Space LIVE on Thursday, September 27. HOME, a film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, invites viewers to take a trip around the world with an itinerary that includes 50 countries and 120 shooting locations.

Lots Doing at the Ars Electronica Center

(Linz, September 18, 2012) A great evening lineup awaits visitors this Thursday, September 20 at the Ars Electronica Center. The next installment of the Brains for Everybody series is set for 6:30 PM. Neuroscientist Manuela Macedonia will explain how and where in our brain decision-making processes take place and which factors can influence them. At 8 PM Deep Space LIVE serves up a double shot of adrenaline courtesy of the folks at Red Bull Media House—a breathtaking documentary film about Norwegian extreme athlete and BASE jumper Karina Hollekim.

Science Days: Machines with Sense and Sensors

(Linz, September 13, 2012) Robots have long been an integral part of lifestyle products—they react to people and to their environment, and people react to them. At Science Days in the Ars Electronica Center, visitors learn to program and design small LEGO robots, tune in to the sounds of all sorts of machines, get acquainted with the Telenoid as the communications device of the future, and experience how findings in the field of robotics can make a positive contribution to human health.

Deep Space LIVE: From the Deep Blue Seas to the Fire of the Stars

(Linz, September 11, 2012) A veritable deluge of high-intensity images awaits visitors to Deep Space LIVE this Thursday, September 13. Getting things started at 8 PM are the colorful underwater worlds captured by Linz nature film maker Erich Pröll. Then it’s time for celestial fireworks as astrophotographer Dietmar Hager takes you on a journey to galaxies far, far away.

Ars Electronica Festival 2012: THE BIG PICTURE – New Concepts for a New World

(Linz, September 3, 2012) “The Big Picture – New Concepts for a New World” was the theme of the 2012 Ars Electronica Festival. In the “Big Pictures” that went on display, the viewfinder was focused on wide-angle images that capture the world that’s coming to be, pictures that do justice to globalization and network linkages, that depict the way our world is increasingly growing together and simultaneously drifting apart. The festival was assembling models that can serve as paragons and best-practice examples from art and science, that offer inspirational demonstrations of how an open-minded way of looking at a larger whole not only reveals more of it but also brings totally new insights to light. Once again, scientists, scholars and artists from all over the world convened in Linz to present their projects and theories and put them up for discussion.

voestalpine Klangwolke – The Cloud in the Web

(Linz / Austria, August 27, 2012) “The Cloud in the Web” is the title of the voestalpine Klangwolke that’s being produced jointly by the Brucknerhaus and Ars Electronica this year. The story of the networking of our world will be told in eight episodes accompanied by music derived exclusively from sound libraries on the internet.

Interaktiv-kreativ-Tage im August

(Linz, August 5, 2012) Interactive-Creative Days at the Ars Electronica Center are a great cure for the summertime blues while school’s out. There’s lots of interesting stuff on tap: create illuminated letters and sound sequences for the voestalpine Klangwolke, design your own fairy-tale creatures, and reconfigure, expand and program LEGO-NXT robots.

Volunteers for voestalpine Klangwolke Production Team

(Linz, August 3, 2012) The preparations for the voestalpine Klangwolke on September 1st are moving full speed ahead. Now, we’re recruiting volunteers to join the Klangwolke production staff: assembling LED suits and electronic components, performing maintenance routines on airborne robots, or manning signal flags as part of the Klangwolke choreography. The respective workshops are held every Tuesday in August at 10 AM, 2 PM and 6 PM in the Ars Electronica Center. As a token of our thanks for their public-spiritedness, volunteers will receive free passes to the Ars Electronica Center and Ars Electronica Festival T-shirts.

For Seniors: Inventing the New, Conserving the Old

(Linz, August 2, 2012) Every first and third Friday of the month, the Ars Electronica Center offers themed tours designed with seniors in mind. On August 3 & 17, visitors will learn how historical buildings and sites from Antiquity are being registered by laser and rendered with graphics programs as part of an effort to conserve them for the future. In the Ars Electronica Center’s Deep Space, tour participants will have the opportunity to explore the ancient cities of Thebes and Pompeii in 3D.

The Ars Electronica Center Spotlights the Best Illuminated Letters

(Linz, August 1, 2012) People throughout Linz and Upper Austria have been busy constructing countless elaborately decorated illuminated letters in preparation for the voestalpine Klangwolke on September 1st . And the beat goes on! The best of the illuminated letters that will star in this year’s Klangwolke extravaganza are now on display for Ars Electronica Center visitors to admire in the new ABC Showcase.

Klangwolke Weekend Special

(Linz, July 25, 2012) The preparations for the voestalpine Klangwolke are moving forward in high gear. Over recent days and weeks, lots of illuminated letters have been constructed and soundcloudminiatures composed. Now, it’s time to take these activities to the next level of intensity: Klangwolke Weekend Specials on July 28-28 and August 18-19, as well as two workshops focusing of recording and remixing sounds.

VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY

(Deutsch) (Linz, 24. Juli 2012) Mit „VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY“ entwickelte das Ars Electronica Futurelab ein interaktives Präsentationstool, um die Marke Swarovski eindrucksvoll erfahrbar zu machen. Eingesetzt wird „VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY“ im Rahmen der WELCOME EXPERIENCEs, mit der Swarovski neue MitarbeiterInnen im Unternehmen empfängt.

SoundWalks on the voestalpine Plant Grounds

(Linz, July 24, 2012) Hundreds of soundcloudminiatures have already been uploaded to the voestalpine Klangwolke’s website. Sound collages, rhythms and noises are among them; so are finished music tracks. Now, attention is shifting to two SoundWalks through the fascinating acoustic domain of Linz’s world of steel.

CERN and Ars Electronica launch open call for the Second Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN

(Geneva and Linz 18 July 2012) CERN and Ars Electronica today launch an open call for artists working in the digital domain to apply for the second Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN . The winner will receive a fully-funded residency at CERN and Ars Electronica to create new dimensions in their artistic practice by encounters with the world of science. This is the second year of the collaboration between CERN and Ars Electronica. Online submissions should be made here http://collide.aec.at, the closing date is 26 September 2012.

Summer Camps at the Ars Electronica Center Linz

(Linz, July 16, 2012) The Ars Electronica Center has a special program of activities lined up for youngsters aged 5-14 in July and August. At the Summer Camp on three consecutive mornings, kids can learn to compose their own tracks in a pro-quality sound studio, breathe life into machines they construct themselves, and perform fascinating experiments with electronic circuits.

Impetus and Movement

(Berlin / Linz, July 12, 2012) The third exhibition produced jointly by Volkswagen and Ars Electronica opens on Thursday, July 12, 2012. “Impetus and Movement” is the show’s title; Automobil Forum Unter den Linden reprises as the venue. Here, artists from Europe, the USA and Japan have created mises-en-scène for deliveries of an impulse and the processes launched thereby as means of scrutinizing the tension and interplay between self-determination and disenfranchisement. The spectrum of their works includes subversive strategies for asserting a claim to a presence in the public sphere, unconventional methods of seeing the world though another’s eyes, and nonsensical machines designed to carry out simple tasks in as complicated a way as possible. “Impetus and Movement” runs through Sunday, September 16, 2012. Admission is free of charge.

Science Days: The Blueprint of Life

(Linz, July 19, 2012) DNA, life’s most sophisticated blueprint, will be the star of Science Days on the weekend of July 21-22 in the Ars Electronica Center. Visitors will learn how a human being’s unique genetic makeup in constructed and how scientists go about analyzing it.

Interactive-Creative Days in July

(Linz, July 13, 2012) Interactive-Creative Days at the Ars Electronica Center are a great cure for the summertime blues while school’s out. There’s lots of interesting stuff on tap: create illuminated letters and sound sequences for the voestalpine Klangwolke, design your own fairy-tale creatures, and reconfigure, expand and program LEGO-NXT robots.

Family Night at the Ars Electronica Center

(Linz, July 11, 2012) On Family Night, the Ars Electronica Center cordially invites young and old to stop by for family-style fun. Between 6 PM and 12 Midnight, families can create illuminated letters and soundcloudminiatures for the voestalpine Klangwolke and marvel at spectacular, high-definition imagery in Deep Space. And anyone who’d like to use the façade of the Ars Electronica Center as a lighting console and generate colorful visuals to accompany their favorite songs should definitely bring along their smartphone or MP3 player.

Smartphone Security for Everyone

(Linz, July 9, 2012) Smartphones are flooding the market and so are application programs that run on them. But these so-called apps aren’t just a great source of help for such tasks as getting a local weather forecast, navigating strange neighborhoods or translating an exotic menu. They’re also an excellent way to spy on the smartphone’s user. On July 12, Prof. Robert Kolmhofer of the Department of Secure Information Systems at the Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences’ Hagenberg Campus will demonstrate how apps deal with users’ personal data and how to protect them from unauthorized access.

For Seniors: Come Closer! When Technology Approaches Our Body

(Linz, July 4, 2012) Every first and third Friday of the month, the Ars Electronica Center offers themed tours designed with seniors in mind. On July 6 & 20, visitor will learn some amazing things about imaging and diagnostic procedures involving microscopes, magnetic resonance technology and DNA analysis.

Deep Space LIVE: Dancing under the Stars

(Linz, July 3, 2012) You can behold the wonders of astronomy and hear the Music of the Spheres this Thursday, July 5, 2012 in Deep Space LIVE. Visitors are in for a real treat from 8 to 9 PM, when astrophotographer Dietmar Hager presents brand-new images from the European Southern Observatory and takes his audience on a 3D journey to the center of the Milky Way and areas where the stars of the future are being born. The musical accompaniment will be a live performance by musician Thomas Nordwest.

Wilhering and Linz’s joint candidacy to host the Province Garden Show in 2019

(Linz, July 2, 2012) Wilhering and Linz seek to jointly host the Province Garden Show in 2019. “Wilhering and Linz are broaching the issue of their relationship and reconfiguring how they interact as neighbors. In doing so, the accent is on the role of the Danube as the region’s main artery. With the Province Garden Show, we’re linking tradition to innovation, and imparting fresh momentum that opens up long-term opportunities,” explained Wilhering Mayor Mario Mühlböck.

Ars Electronica 2012 Interim Results

(Linz, July 1, 2012) At the conclusion of the first half of 2012, Ars Electronica Linz GmbH is pleased to report excellent year-to-date results. Two particularly notable bright spots are the project revenues generated by the Ars Electronica Futurelab and AE Solutions. “For the current year, we’re projecting 70% higher revenues from these two divisions. In other words, we’re now estimating gross revenues from projects at €5.9 million,” said a delighted Diethard Schwarzmair. With a total of 74,500 visitors thus far in 2012, the Ars Electronica Center is maintaining last year’s record pace. And work is underway on the next big attractions: the voestalpine Klangwolke at the end of August and the Ars Electronica Festival in early September. Preparations have already been wrapped up for the “Impetus and Movement” exhibition opening on July 11 at Automobil Forum Unter den Linden in Berlin.

Big Turnout at the Ars Electronica Center

(Linz, June 29, 2012) Shortly before schools close for summer break here, crowds have been storming the Ars Electronica Center. This past Tuesday alone, attendance at the Museum of the Future was 1,221. Reservations for upcoming dates have been pouring in as well. During summer vacation, the AEC is offering a wide-ranging program for young and old alike.

What Traces Do We Leave Behind in the Internet?

(Linz, June 26, 2012) On Thursday, June 28, 2012, Markus Zeilinger of the Department of Secure Information Systems at the Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences’ Hagenberg Campus will show what traces we leave behind after a bit of surfing on the internet and how they can be analyzed by companies and government agencies.

Deep Space LIVE: The Postwar Years and Reconstruction in Linz

(Linz, June 25, 2011) Postwar Linz, a city divided into two occupation zones, is the subject of the next Deep Space LIVE this coming Thursday, June 28. Maria Jenner, a historian on the staff of the Municipal Archive, will screen large-formal historical images from 1945-55, a time when hunger was rampant in Linz and the housing shortage here was acute.

Family Days at the Ars Electronica Center Linz

(Linz, June 22, 2012) A program of fascination and fun for the whole family is being offered at the Ars Electronica Center once again this weekend. Young and old are invited to create illuminated letters and short pieces of music for the voestalpine Klangwolke, and watch Linz’s pro mountain biker Dominik Raab perform amazing live stunts and tricks in Deep Space. Special family-style tours through the Ars Electronica Center are on the lineup too.

voestalpine Klangwolke – The Cloud in the Web

(Linz, Austria / June 21, 2012) Brucknerhaus and Ars Electronica are staging this year’s voestalpine Klangwolke. Breathtaking technical effects, spectacular interplay of human protagonists and industrial robots, thousands of brilliantly glowing letters, singing lightning bolts and cool sound sculptures are the main elements being condensed into this Cloud in the Web, a Klangwolke the likes of which has never been seen before. And best of all: anyone who wants to get actively involved in making it happen is cordially invited to do so!

Deep Space LIVE: Way back home

(Linz, June 18, 2012) Spectacular tricks and breathtaking stunts are guaranteed to blow the audience away at the next Deep Space LIVE on Thursday, June 21, 2012. A Red Bull Media House film crew accompanied Danny MacAskill, the hot young star of the street trial bike scene, on a trip from Edinburgh to his hometown, Dunvegan, Scotland. Expert commentary will be provided by Linz trial biker Dominik Raab.

Science Days: Out of Control

(Linz, June 15, 2012) At Science Days on June 16-17, 2012, specialists from the Department of Secure Information Systems at the Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences’ Hagenberg Campus will show what information about users is being gathered in conjunction with telecommunications data retention, how users can protect their Smartphone from incursions by undesirables, and how to restore purportedly lost computer information. Tours through the “Out of Control – What the Internet Knows about You” exhibition will demonstrate the steps that Web users can take to protect their private sphere.

Brains for Everybody: Attention and Consciousness

(Linz, June 12, 2012) Neuroscientist Manuela Macedonia of the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig will deliver her next address at the Ars Electronica Center this Thursday, June 14, 2012 at 6:30 PM. Audience members will learn how the human brain focuses and shifts attention, and which mechanisms are involved in forming various states of consciousness such as being awake and asleep, being in a coma, and having an out-of-body experience. Please preregister by calling 0732/7272.51 or sending an e-mail to center@aec.at.

Deep Space LIVE: Jupiter – Size Matters

(Linz, June 11, 2012) Jupiter, our solar system’s largest planet, is the star of the next Deep Space LIVE this coming Thursday. In addition to displaying high-definition images taken by the ESO and NASA, astrophotographer Dietmar Hager will go into fascinating detail about Jupiter’s magnetic field, atmosphere and moons.

“ZeitRaum” at Vienna International Airport’s New Terminal

(Linz / Vienna, June 6, 2012) “ZeitRaum” (TimeSpace) is an interactive art installation the Ars Electronica Futurelab designed for the new terminal at Vienna International Airport. It creates real-time interpretations of arriving and departing flights. “ZeitRaum” consists of a series of stations that accompany departing passengers on their way to their gates. The airport authority will also be using the installation for half of the available time as an ad medium.

Long Night of the Stages at the Ars Electronica Center

(Linz, June 1, 2012) Raise the curtain on theater, dance and fairy tales! Once again this year, the Ars Electronica Center is hosting the Long Night of the Stages. Awaiting theatergoers both young and old are exciting narratives and musical artistry, impressive dance performances and spectacular visuals in Deep Space. Whoever would like to be a part of this year’s voestalpine Klangwolke can attend a workshop to produce letters of the alphabet that light up by remote control, or visit the new SoundLab and get an introduction to the world of audio production.

Construct Light-Up Letters for the Klangwolke

(Linz, May 31, 2012) The Klangwolke Werkstatt at the Ars Electronica Center opens its doors on Saturday, June 2, 2012 at 6 PM. This is place to go to create illuminated letters of the alphabet for the voestalpine Klangwolke on September 1. The Klangwolke Werkstatt is open whenever the AEC is. Admission is free of charge, and so are the construction materials.

For Seniors: Everything Out of Control?

(Linz, May 30, 2012) Every first and third Friday of the month, the Ars Electronica Center offers a themed tour designed with seniors in mind. On June 1 & 15, the focus is on the traces we leave behind as we make our accustomed rounds through the internet, and what steps we can take to better protect our personal data online.

Deep Space LIVE: Linz 1933 – 1945

(Linz, May 28, 2012) Previously unreleased images of Linz between 1933 and 1945 will be on display at the next Deep Space LIVE on Thursday, May 31. Walter Schuster, director of the Archive of the City of Linz, will speak about the time from the beginning of the Civil War until the end of World War II and illustrate his talk with large-format historical photographs. Among the motifs: stew being dispensed to the needy on Hauptplatz, construction of the new Nibelungen Bridge, and a model of the Opera Square and Boulevard the Nazis were planning to build.

Apparition Wins Angel Award at the Brighton Festival

(Linz, May 25, 2012) “Apparition,“ a dance performance developed collaboratively by composer/media artist Klaus Obermaier and the Ars Electronica Futurelab, has been honored at the Brighton Festival, England’s largest art festival, with an Argus Angel Award for outstanding artistic achievement.

Family Days at Ars Electronica Center Linz

(Linz, May 24, 2012) It’s time for Family Days at the Ars Electronica Center once again this weekend. May 26-27 from 10 AM to 6 PM, we’re hosting a full lineup of events including tours designed with families in mind. Youngsters—and their chaperones too—can take part in a Puzzle Rallye that gets across lots of cool stuff about the Ars Electronica Center. In Deep Space, scuba diver and underwater photographer Peter Pflügl will present astounding images of the undersea world at 4 PM both days.

Deep Space LIVE: Behind the Wall

(Linz, May 21, 2012) The Israeli-Palestinian conflict will occupy the focal point at the next Deep Space LIVE this Thursday, May 24. Stefan Schwarzmair, a member of the Ars Electronica Center staff, will talk about his experiences and impressions gained during two stints as a volunteer for Palestinian aid organizations on the West Bank. He’ll tell about living and working with Palestinians amidst walls, barbed wire and checkpoints.

VISUAL SOUND TOUR – The Linz Sinfonietta

(Linz, May 17, 2012) “VISUAL SOUND TOUR – The Linz Sinfonietta” will be the Linz Music School’s third guest appearance at the Ars Electronica Center. On Monday, May 21 at 7 PM, student musicians under the direction of Petra Wurz and Marco Palewicz will perform amidst spectacular high-definition graphics in Deep Space. The focus, both musically and visually, will be on the City of Linz itself. All the works were written by Linz musicians; the projected images are provided by the Municipal Archive and nature filmmaker Erich Pröll. There’ll also be an exhibit of stencil graffiti photographed around town. Admission is free.

New SoundLab in the Ars Electronica Center

(Linz, May 16. 2012) The Ars Electronica Center’s brand new SoundLab makes its debut on Thursday, May 17, 2012 at 7 PM. It’s a setting for five sound installations, and also features a fully functional sound studio including six workstations equipped with audio software for recording, remixing and producing. On the opening night lineup are a live jam and workshops designed to give an impression of the amazing possibilities available to visitors. Over the coming weeks, the SoundLab will be dedicated to preparations for the upcoming voestalpine Klangwolke and production of Klangwolke Miniatures.

Science Days: Images of the Brain

(Linz, May 11, 2012) The next Science Days at the Ars Electronica Center will showcase “Images of the Brain.” Throughout the weekend (May 12-13), the BrainLab will focus on images and our perception of them. Visitors can look forward to learning lots of interesting stuff about optical illusions, and they’ll have the opportunity to watch Linz artists Katharina Klaczak, Ursula Hübner, Peter Sommerauer, Ingrid Tragler, Alexander Jöchl and Veronika Merl paint pictures using only the power of their thoughts. Visitors can also get hooked up to a brain-computer interface and try out “brain painting” for themselves.

TECHNO LOG 12: Interface Human – Challenge Machine

(Linz, May 10, 2012) TECHNO LOG 12 is set for Monday, May 21 at the Ars Electronica Center. “Interface Human – Challenge Machine” is the theme of this one-day in-depth conference. Kicking things off will be keynote speeches by two internationally renowned experts: Dr. Ulrich Eberl, director of innovation communication at Siemens AG, Munich, and Prof. Peter Purkathofer, director of the UID Lab at the Department of Information Science at Vienna University of Technology. TECHNO LOG 12 is being staged jointly by the Ars Electronica Futurelab’s Center for Advances in Digital Entertainment Technologies (CADET) and the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences.

Fascinating Thursday Evening Lineup at the Ars Electronica Center

(Linz, May 9, 2012) An interesting evening program awaits visitors to the Ars Electronica Center on Thursday, May 10. At 6:30 PM, Manuela Macedonia, a neuroscientist at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, gives a rundown on what goes into being successful. Then at 8 PM, Deep Space LIVE showcases the fascinating sport of skydiving. Members of Linz’s Union Parachuting Club will screen breathtaking footage of their jumps.

Prix Ars Electronica 2012: The Results

(Linz, May 8, 2012) A total of 3,674 entries from 72 countries were submitted for prize consideration to the 2011-12 Prix Ars Electronica.

LINZ CHANGES Exhibition Tent Drew Big Crowds

(Linz, May 7, 2012) Back by popular demand, the LINZ CHANGES exhibition tent made its third appearance at the Urfahr Fair from April 28 to May 6 and got a tremendous reception once again this year. Lots of folks took advantage of the opportunity to enjoy this creative and entertaining presentation of the City of Linz and all it has to offer. An audience favorite was the “Finger Marathon” in which guests could use tablet computers to let their fingers do the running over a stretch of Linz’s biggest race. Other very popular attractions were the 16-meter-long panorama wall featuring high-definition photos of the cityscape, the 150-m2 aerial view of Linz laid out on the tent’s floor, and the “Views” installation with its historical postcards and interactive table offering an excursion into the city’s past.

For Seniors: A Journey in Pictures from Microscopic to Galactic

(Linz, May 2, 2012) Every first and third Friday of the month, the Ars Electronica Center offers a themed tour custom-tailored to seniors. The guides make a concerted effort to dispense with English-language high-tech jargon, and to allow plenty of time for tour group members to pose questions and to discuss their experiences and impressions. On tap on May 4 & 18 are a journey in pictures—impressive images taken with a microscope and a telescope.

Deep Space LIVE: Fascinating Oceans

(Linz, April 27, 2012) Scuba diver and underwater photographer Peter Pflügl invites you to take a journey through a spectacularly beautiful submarine world on Thursday, May 3. Visitors will encounter extraordinary sea creatures and learn some interesting things about how they live and behave. In addition to presenting fascinating underwater photography, Pflügl will give some insights into how he works, his photographic techniques and the equipment necessary.

LINZ CHANGES Exhibition Tent

(Linz, April 26, 2011) Back by popular demand after getting such a great reception in past years, the LINZ CHANGES exhibition tent is making its third appearance in Urfahr at the 2012 Spring Fair. The show highlights the development of Upper Austria’s capital city and its surrounding region, showcasing what Linz has to offer to locals and visitors alike, and indicating what it takes to keep daily life here functioning smoothly and progressing. Arrayed across 700 m2 of exhibition space are, in addition to a giant floor print, 11 interactive installations conceived and executed by the Ars Electronica Futurelab. They impart a fascinating and informative picture of Linz. Education is this year’s theme.

voestalpine Klangwolke – The Cloud in the Net

(Linz, April 25, 2012) Breathtaking technical effects, spectacular interplay of human and robotic protagonists, thousands of brilliantly glowing letters and artistic illumination of the cityscape of the Austrian city of Linz itself, singing lightning bolts and wonderful worlds of sound compose this Klangwolke, an account of the interconnectedness of our world. The Brucknerhaus and Ars Electronica are precipitating the voestalpine Klangwolke, the cloud of sound that forms above the city of Linz in September. And anyone can become a part of this “cloud in the Net”; everyone can contribute their own musical fragments or homemade letters of light to this extravaganza.

Lange Nacht der Forschung im Ars Electronica Center

(Deutsch) (Linz, 24.4.2012) Bei der Langen Nacht der Forschung am 27. April bewegen BesucherInnen sechsbeinige Roboter oder den Spieleklassiker Pac Man Roboter Kraft der eigenen Gedanken, blicken hinter die Kulissen des Ars Electronica Futurelab und erfahren mehr über ein Projekt mit der Blutbank Linz, das mit Hilfe von Rasterelektronenmikroskopen den Alterungsprozess von roten Blutzellen erforscht.

Deep Space LIVE: Verschwundenes Linz

(Deutsch) (Linz, 23.4.2012) Im Rahmen von Deep Space LIVE beleuchtet Markus Altrichter vom Archiv der Stadt Linz diesen Donnerstag die bauliche Entwicklung der Stadt während der letzten Jahrhunderte und präsentiert faszinierende Aufnahmen von längst abgerissenen Gebäuden, die über lange Jahre das Linzer Stadtbild prägten. Mittels großformatiger Projektionen erwachen eindrucksvolle Bauten wie die Wollzeugfabrik, Hatschekvilla oder das Hotel Weinzinger für kurze Zeit wieder zu neuem Leben.

OUT OF CONTROL – What the Internet Knows about You

(Linz, April 18, 2012) A clash over the possession and dissemination of personal data is now raging worldwide. Politicians and bureaucrats, corporate executives and civil rights activists—it seems they’re all squabbling about who may, should or must know what about us and retain it how long! And regardless of who finally prevails in this skirmish, the victory comes with a short expiration date. Why? Because the internet and the services that make it up are changing so rapidly that we users and our elected officials can hardly keep pace. “Out of Control – What the Internet Knows about You,” the Ars Electronica Center’s new exhibition produced jointly with the Department of Secure Information Systems at the Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences’ Hagenberg Campus, scrutinizes the constantly shifting border between the public and private spheres, and the opportunities and risks this entails for us users. “Out of Control – What the Internet Knows about You” will be running from April 19th to the end of 2012.

Science Days: Menschen mit Sinn und Sensoren

(Deutsch) (Linz, 17.4.2012) Roboter haben heute längst Einzug in Lifstyle-Produkte und Prothetik gehalten. Sie reagieren auf den Menschen und seine Umwelt und der Mensch reagiert auf sie. Bei den Science Days programmieren BesucherInnen Minicomputer, die Geräusche, Licht oder Bewegungen wahrnehmen, lernen den Telenoid als Kommunikationsmaschine der Zukunft kennen oder erfahren von Materialien, die auf ihre Umwelt reagieren.

Deep Space LIVE: Higgs, wo bist du?

(Deutsch) (Linz, 16.4.2012) Donnerstag, 19.April, stehen das Forschungszentrum CERN und die Suche nach dem Higgs-Teilchen im Mittelpunkt von Deep Space LIVE. Michael Doser (AT/CH), Senior Research Physicist am Physics Department des CERN, gibt ab 20:00 Uhr Einblicke in die aktuelle Forschung am CERN und versucht zu ergründen, ob das Higgs Boson wirklich existiert oder nicht.

Family Days im Ars Electronica Center Linz

(Deutsch) (Linz, 12.4.2012) Diesen Samstag und Sonntag, 14. & 15.4.2012, finden im Ars Electronica Center wieder Family Days statt. Zwischen 10:00 und 18:00 erwarten BesucherInnen speziell auf Familien abgestimmte Führungen, können Groß und Klein bei einer Rätselrallye jede Menge Interessantes über das Ars Electronica Center erfahren oder den Deep Space besuchen, wo Astrofotograf Dietmar Hager zu einer 3-D-Reise durch das Weltall lädt und dabei Sagen und Mythen über Planeten und Sternbildern erzählt.

Deep Space LIVE: Eye in the Sky

(Deutsch) (Linz, 10.4.2012) Im Rahmen von Deep Space LIVE zeigt Othmar Coser vom Österreichischen Weltraumforum atemberaubende Satellitenaufnahmen von der Erde. Ein bildreicher Abend, der den BesucherInnen die Schönheit des blauen Planeten eindrucksvoll vor Augen führt. Im Format 16 x 9 Meter.

Für SeniorInnen: Vom Pinselstrich zum Pixel

(Deutsch) (Linz, 4.4.2012) Jeden ersten und dritten Freitag im Monat lädt das Ars Electronica Center zu eigens für SeniorInnen konzipierten Schwerpunktführungen. Sämtliche Erklärungen kommen dabei mit so wenigen (englischen) Fachausdrücken wie möglich aus und es ist stets ausreichend Zeit Fragen zu stellen und sich über Erlebnisse und Eindrücke auszutauschen. Am 6. und 20. April erfahren BesucherInnen bei einem Rundgang durch die Ausstellung „Neue Bilder vom Menschen“ allerlei Wissenswertes über alte und neue Techniken der Bildgebung.

Exhibition Opening: Pingo ergo sum

(Linz, April 3, 2012) “Pingo ergo sum” (I paint; therefore, I am) is the new exhibition running at the Ars Electronica Center from April 6 to May 27. It features the art of brain painting whereby people can render pictures without using their hands, a keyboard or a mouse. A brain-computer interface (BCI) registers the painter’s brainwaves and transmits them to a computer. By using only the power of his/her own thoughts, the painter can select from among a wide array of brushes, forms and colors and use them to paint pictures. At the exhibition opening on Thursday, April 5 in Deep Space at the Ars Electronica Center, Adi Hoesle (DE) will create just such a brain painting. There will also be a live remote hookup to Kunsthalle Rostock, where brain painting has been the center of attention for a week already. Audience members assembled in Deep Space at the AEC will be able to observe a live demonstration of brain painting in Rostock by a woman suffering from locked-in syndrome.

Interaktiv-kreativ-Tage in den Osterferien

(Deutsch) (Linz, 2.4.2012) Die Interaktiv-kreativ-Tage im Ars Electronica Center versprechen in den Osterferien abwechslungsreiche Unterhaltung. Dienstag, 3. April, werden auf einem Zeichencomputer fantastische Kreaturen entworfen, die mit Hilfe eines Lasercutters in richtige Papierwesen verwandelt werden können, während bei PicoCricket ein kleiner Computer zum hupenden Fahrzeug oder zu einer leuchtenden Blume umprogrammiert und verändert werden kann. Donnerstag, 5. April, entstehen aus Schrott wunderbare Traummaschinen und werden Ostereier von einem Roboter mit selbst gestalteten Mustern bemalt. Das Programm im Überblick:

Deep Space LIVE: Der Antikythera Mechanismus

(Deutsch) (Linz, 27.3.2012) Faszinierendes rund um den Antikythera Mechanismus, eine über 2000 Jahre alte Rechenmaschine aus dem antiken Griechenland, präsentiert Gerfried Stocker, Künstlerischer Leiter der Ars Electronica Linz GmbH, diesen Donnerstag im Rahmen von Deep Space LIVE.

Deep Space LIVE: Denkmäler & Co“ in Linz

(Deutsch) (Linz, 26.3.2012) Linzer Erinnerungsorte und Gedenkstätten stehen Donnerstag, 29. März, im Mittelpunkt von Deep Space LIVE. Cathrin Hermann vom Archiv der Stadt Linz erzählt von der Bedeutung und den historischen Hintergründen ausgewählter Denkmäler oder Orte und zeigt, welche „Schätze“ es im Linzer Stadtgebiet zu entdecken gibt.

Family Days im Ars Electronica Center Linz

(Deutsch) (Linz, 21.3.2012) Diesen Samstag und Sonntag, 24. & 25.3.2012, finden im Ars Electronica Center wieder Family Days statt. Zwischen 10:00 und 18:00 Uhr erwarten BesucherInnen speziell auf Familien abgestimmte Führungen, können Groß und Klein bei einer Rätselrallye jede Menge Interessantes über das Ars Electronica Center erfahren oder den Deep Space besuchen, wo Naturfilmer Erich Pröll beeindruckende Aufnahmen des Vulkans Mount St. Helens präsentiert.

Ereignisreicher Donnerstag im Ars Electronica Center

(Deutsch) (Linz, 19.3.2012) Ein umfassendes Programm erwartet BesucherInnen des Ars Electronica Center diesen Donnerstag, 22. März. Um 18:30 erläutert die Neurowissenschafterin Manuela Macedonia, inwiefern neurophysiologische und bildgebende Methoden wichtige Fragen über den menschlichen Geist beantworten können. Ab 19:00 spricht Ars Electronica Leiter Gerfried Stocker im letzten Teil der Reihe „Medien – Technik – Gesellschaft“ über verschiedene Mitgestaltungsmöglichkeiten in der Mediengesellschaft und um 20:00 präsentieren Christine Schöpf und Jürgen Hagler, beide in der Jury des Prix Ars Electronica, ein Best of der beim Prix Ars Electronica 2011 eingereichten Arbeiten der Kategorie „Computer Animation / Film / VFX“.

NEXTCOMIC Festival 2012 at the Ars Electronica Center

(Linz, March 14, 2012) The 2012 NEXTCOMIC Festival is the featured event at the Ars Electronica Center March 15-23. The lineup includes a gameplay performance with a pirate sea battle theme, drawing comics for the whole family, and a computer game corner sponsored by the Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences’ Hagenberg Campus. On Thursday, March 15, Deep Space LIVE will host the premiere of Mangarium Reloaded, a 3-D comic world designed by the Austrian Association of Illustrators that visualizes the Alpine Republic flooded in the wake of climate change.

CERN welcomes its first artist in residence

(Linz, Geneva, 13.3.2012) Creative collisions have begun at CERN with the arrival of Julius von Bismarck as the laboratory’s first Collide@CERN artist in residence. A rising star of the international arts scene, von Bismarck will team up with theoretical physicist James Wells as he works alongside the lab’s engineers and scientists for the next two months before moving to the Ars Electronica Futurelab in Linz, Austria for the second part of his residency. Von Bismarck and Wells will give a public presentation in CERN’s Globe of Science and Innovation on 21 March. Doors open at 18:45.

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Science Days: The Workshop of the Future

(Linz, March 7, 2012) Experience how a machine paints Easter eggs, design fantasy worlds with a drawing tablet and print them with an adhesive foil plotter, and create keychain ornaments—the Ars Electronica Center’s Fab(rication)Lab will be the hub of activities during Science Days this coming weekend, March 10-11.

Astrophotography Made Easy

(Linz, March 6, 2012) At astrophotographer Dietmar Hager’s workshop this Thursday, March 8 you can learn to use a webcam and free software to take beautiful shots of the Moon and the planets of our Solar System. All you need to bring with you is a laptop; the images for processing will be provided by Dietmar Hager.

Deep Space LIVE: Cartographic Treasures III – Surveying

(Linz, March 5, 2011) The next Deep Space LIVE this coming Thursday, March 8 will take a look at surveying the world. In Part 3 of the Cartographic Treasures series, Günter Kalliauer, director of the Wels Municipal Archive, will present fascinating maps from the 18th and 19th centuries.

For Seniors: Pictures, Pictures Everywhere

(Linz, March 1, 2012) Every first and third Friday of the month, the Ars Electronica Center offers a themed tour custom-tailored to seniors. The guides make a concerted effort to dispense with English-language high-tech jargon, and to allow plenty of time for tour group members to pose questions and to discuss their experiences and impressions. On tap on March 2 & 16 at 2 PM are encounters with images—including their various functions and possible associations.

Vortragsreihe Medien – Technik – Gesellschaft

(Linz, 28.2.2012) Eine interessante Vortragsreihe mit Gerfried Stocker, dem künstlerischen Leiter der Ars Electronica Linz GmbH, steht im März am Programm von Volkshochschule Linz und Ars Electronica Center. Unter dem Titel Medien – Technik – Gesellschaft gibt Stocker an drei Abenden einen kultur- und sozialgeschichtlichen Überblick über die technologischen Entwicklungen und damit einhergehenden Veränderungen während der vergangenen drei Jahrzehnte. Diesen Donnerstag, 1.3.2012, stehen die Wechselwirkungen zwischen technologischen und gesellschaftlichen Revolutionen im Mittelpunkt. Die Veranstaltung findet im Wissensturm statt und startet um 19:00 Uhr.

Deep Space LIVE: Astrophotography

(Linz, February 27, 2012) The focus is on astrophotography at the next Deep Space LIVE on Thursday, March 1, 2012. A documentary by internationally renowned, prizewinning filmmaker Erich Pröll takes a behind-the-scenes look at astrophotographer Dietmar Hager’s observatory in Upper Austria’s Mühlviertel region. And all those who’d like to take their own pictures of the starry night sky can get some practical instruction that shows just how easy it is even with not very sophisticated equipment. And as a follow-up on March 8 at 6:30 PM, Hager will hold a workshop to show you how use various computer programs to process your stellar imagery.

Deep Space LIVE: Best of Linz in 3D

(Linz, February 22, 2012) The Archive of the City of Linz will present a nostalgic pictorial tour of Linz in 1900 at the next Deep Space LIVE event this coming Thursday, February 23, 2012. Never-before-exhibited stereographic 3D images make the Linz of yesteryear come alive. Motifs include buildings torn down long ago, popular outing destinations in bygone days, and impressions of how everyday life used to be in Linz. Serving as tour guide will be Walter Schuster, director of the Archive of the City of Linz. ATTENTION: Due to the many reservations we’ve already received, we’ll be presenting two showings in succession. Tickets are still available only for the presentation at 8:30 PM.

Interactive-Creative Days during Semester Break

(Linz, February 16, 2012) Interactive-Creative Days at the Ars Electronica Center are a great way to keep from getting a case of the semester break blues. On Tuesday, February 21, you can learn how to design fantastic creatures on a drawing computer, and then use a laser cutter to turn them into real paper figures. At “Everybody into the Lab!” you’ll learn to clone plants and to isolate your own DNA from the skin inside your mouth. On Thursday, February 23, the Microcosmonauts workshop will provide startling insights into the wonderful world of the microcosm. Running simultaneously is NeXT Toprobot, a look at how robots perceive their environment and react to it.

Family Days at the Ars Electronica Center Linz

(Linz, February 14, 2012) The next installment of Family Days is set for Saturday and Sunday, February 18 & 19, 2012 at the Ars Electronica Center. From 10 AM to 6 PM, there’ll be guided tours designed with families in mind. In a Puzzle Rallye, young and old can learn lots of interesting things about the Ars Electronica Center. And Deep Space will be the setting for a play geared to get young audience members mentally and physically active as two game pieces go on an adventure within a board game.

Deep Space LIVE: The Art of FLIGHT

(Linz, February 13, 2012) Full-tilt snowboard action is on tap at the next Deep Space LIVE on Thursday, February 16, 2012. The film “The Art of FLIGHT” features snowboard legend Travis Rice and other top international riders on slopes that no snowboarder has ever ridden before. State-of-the-art filmmaking equipment—some of it developed expressly for “The Art of FLIGHT”—provides incredible high-definition images. This Curt Morgan film was produced by Red Bull Media House in cooperation with Brain Farm Digital Cinema.

Science Days: Brain Research

(Linz, February 9, 2012) The 2nd Science Days event at the Ars Electronica Center this coming weekend will be all about research on the brain. The venue, appropriately enough, is the in-house BrainLab, where visitors can steer robots and write words solely with their thoughts, and find out why certain optical illusions just fool adults and not kids.

Brains for Everybody Lecture Series: How Wine Goes to Your Head

(Linz, February 8, 2012) On Thursday, February 9, 2012, Manuela Macedonia, a neuroscientist at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, will talk about wine and the human brain. A wine tasting will provide a pleasant setting for visitors to find out how imbibing alcohol effects our perceptive faculties and our emotions, what happens in the brain when we enjoy a sip of wine, and why the superb red you had on your last vacation tastes so lousy when you get it home.

Deep Space LIVE: Mount St. Helens – The Volcano is Active

(Linz, February 7, 2012) Spirit Lake, which was decimated by the powerful eruption of the Mount St. Helens volcano on May 18, 1980, is the featured attraction at the next Deep Space LIVE this Thursday, February 9. To shoot this documentary for Universum, the nature series on Austrian TV, Erich Pröll revisited this area 30 years after the catastrophe and became the first filmmaker to dive Spirit Lake and shoot underwater footage there. In Deep Space at the Ars Electronica Center, Pröll will provide interesting background about the volcano, show a clip from his Universum episode, and give a behind-the-scenes look at work on the set.

For Seniors: Of Humans and Machines

(Linz, February 1, 2012) Every first and third Friday of the month, the Ars Electronica Center offers a themed tour custom-tailored to seniors. The guides make a concerted effort to dispense with English-language high-tech jargon, and to allow plenty of time for tour group members to pose questions and to discuss their experiences and impressions. On tap on February 3 & 17 will be human-machine encounters in the AEC’s own RoboLab. Then, it’s on to the “What Machines Dream Of” exhibition that features devices of astonishing beauty in which rationality and perfection were nowhere near the top of the design agenda.

Deep Space LIVE: The Northern Lights – Fireworks in the Heavens

(Linz, January 30, 2012) A show lavishly illustrated with superb images of one of our planet’s most impressive natural spectacles is set for Thursday, February 2 at 8 PM. The next Deep Space LIVE will feature meteorologist Andreas Pfoser on the aurora borealis, the causes of these so-called northern lights and the many forms they [...]

“KET – Kids Experience Technology”

(Linz, January 27, 2012) Following up on its successful debut in February 2011 that drew 1,270 youngsters to the Ars Electronica Center in only 28 days, the KET – Kids Experience Technology traveling exhibition is returning for an encore presentation running January 31 to March 4. The show gives 4-8-year-olds the opportunity to playfully explore scientific phenomena and technological applications.

Ars Electronica Center at this year’s Vacation Trade Show in Linz

(Linz, January 25, 2012) Linz’s 2012 Vacation Trade Show is running January 27-29 at the Design Center. The Ars Electronica Center is putting its best foot forward as a rewarding destination for family outings. Sim Linz, an urban & geographic information system, enables visitors to the AEC’s installation to enjoy interesting and unusual views of Upper Austria’s capital; Linz Sights presents historic images of the city; and Shadowgram gives guests an opportunity to express their dreams and ideas having to do with travel.

Deep Space LIVE: Linz_Then&Now II

(Linz, January 23, 2011) The history of the City of Linz will once again be the theme of a Deep Space LIVE series staged by the Ars Electronica Center in cooperation with the Archive of the City of Linz. The historical images not only offer visitors fascinating views of Linz in bygone days; high-definition visuals for which Deep Space is famous also reveal details that can’t be seen using conventional display techniques. At each presentation, a guest speaker will be on hand to provide expert commentary. On January 26, Linz_Then&Now II will spotlight architectural changes to the Linz cityscape in the 19th and 20th centuries. Moderators are Fritz Mayrhofer and Annelise Schweiger of the Archive of the City of Linz.

AE Solutions Shadowgram Makes a Statement at actb 2012

(Linz, January 21, 2012) This year’s actb–Austrian and Central European Travel Business trade show is running January 22-24 in Vienna. AE Solutions is on the scene with Shadowgram, an interactive installation commissioned by Österreich Werbung, Austria’s national tourism organization.

FamilyDays at Ars Electronica Center Linz

(Linz, January 18, 2012) It’s time for Family Days at the Ars Electronica Center once again this weekend. January 21-22 from 10 AM to 6 PM, we’re hosting a full lineup of events including tours designed with families in mind. Youngsters—and their chaperones too—can take part in a Puzzle Rallye that gets across lots of cool stuff about the Ars Electronica Center. In Deep Space, the Linz dance theater Helix presents “The King’s Last Move,” a detective story/dance piece for kids age 5 and up.

Deep Space LIVE: Best of Animation

(Linz, January 16, 2012) Breathtaking computer animation sequences are the featured attractions at the next Deep Space LIVE this Thursday. Prix Ars Electronica jurors Christine Schöpf and Jürgen Hagler will screen outstanding work submitted for prize consideration in the Computer Animation / Film / VFX category in 2011.

Science Days zu Biotechnologie im Ars Electronica Center

(Linz, January 12, 2012) Science Days will debut this weekend at the Ars Electronica Center Linz. From 10 AM to 6 PM, young and old will get to experiment to their heart’s content and learn quite a bit in the process. The hub of activity this time will be the AEC’s own BioLab, where visitors [...]

Lecture Series: Brains for Everybody

(Linz, January 10, 2012) Dr. Manuela Macedonia, a neuroscientist at the Max Planck Institute Leipzig, is the featured speaker this Thursday, January 12. Once again, her topic will be the human brain; this time, she’ll elaborate on the origins of love and precisely where in our head this occurs. Read more Premotor Cortex / Manuela [...]

Deep Space LIVE: Cartographic Treasures II – Mercator Atlas

(Linz, January 10, 2012) A lavishly illustrated evening devoted to historic maps is in store for visitors to the next Deep Space LIVE this Thursday, January 12, 8-9 PM. Günter Kalliauer, director of the Wels Municipal Archive, will spotlight Gerhard Mercator, one of the 16th century’s most important cartographers. The man who coined the term [...]

Deep Space LIVE: The Frugal Universe

(Linz, January 3, 2012) All eyes will once again be on the skies at the next Deep Space LIVE this Thursday, January 5, 2012 at 8 PM. Astrophotographer Dietmar Hager will show how the universe’s cosmic recycling processes work and what we Earthlings can learn from this as we go about dealing more carefully and [...]

Interactive-Creative Days at the Ars Electronica Center

(Linz, January 2, 2012) This coming Tuesday and Thursday, Interactive-Creative Days at the Ars Electronica Center offer youngsters age 6-14 a great way to have some educational fun during Christmas break. On Tuesday, “Microcosmonauts” will offer insights into the wonderful world of the microcosm. Running at the same time is “NeXT Toprobot,” a display of [...]

Almost 35,000 Pupils Visited Ars Electronica Center Linz in 2011

(Linz, December 29, 2011) 2,436 school groups including 34,194 pupils have visited the Ars Electronica Center so far this year (as of December 22nd). Most came from the City of Linz and the Province of Upper Austria (17,863), followed by Salzburg (3,184), Vienna (2,648) and Lower Austria (2,637). The numbers from Bavaria (1,124) and The [...]

Deep Space LIVE: Cosmos – The Discovery of the World

(Linz, December 28, 2011) A mix of science, history and cosmology is on tap at the next Deep Space LIVE on December 29, when a lavishly pictorial journey of discovery accompanies Magellan and Cook around the globe and out into space. The evening will be moderated by Norbert Frischauf, Gernot Grömer and Alexander Soucek of [...]

Deep Space LIVE: Climbing Elements

(Linz, December 19, 2011) The next Deep Space LIVE event this Thursday is all about rock climbing—or bouldering, to be more precise. A 50-minute Red Bull documentary film will spotlight four-time Bouldering World Cup overall champ and multiple World & European Championship medalist Kilian Fischhuber as he adventurously plays with the elements. In addition to [...]

Winterwunderzeit: FamilyDays im Ars Electronica Center

(Linz, December 15, 2011) Pet a cute little baby seal robot, learn all sorts of amazing stuff during a scavenger hunt through the Ars Electronica Center, and visit Deep Space to experience storyteller Claudia Edermayer’s delightful Christmas tales. This Saturday and Sunday, the Museum of the Future is hosting the next installment of FamilyDays. Making [...]

Deep Space LIVE: Humankind and the Cosmos: A Subtle Analogy

(Linz, December 13, 2011) At the next Deep Space LIVE this Thursday, December 15, astrophotographer Dietmar Hager will address the question of whether there exist analogies between the macro- and microcosms, and, if so, what form they take and how they might help to explain why the universe is constructed the way it is. Hager [...]

Poetry of Motion at Osaka’s BREEZÉ BREEZÉ Shopping Mall

(Linz / Osaka, December 12, 2011) Each of the six interactive works Ars Electronica is exhibiting December 10-18, 2011 at the BREEZÉ BREEZÉ Shopping Mall in Osaka is a highly individual take on the poetry of motion. The show is being produced jointly by Ars Electronica Linz, Kansai Telecasting Corporation and BREEZÉ BREEZÉ Shopping Mall [...]

Ars Electronica Looks Back on a Very Successful Year in 2011

(Linz, December 9, 2011) 178,000 museum visitors, 83,976 festival guests, 3,611 Prix submissions from 74 countries, the very successful launch of the new CREATE YOUR WORLD festival for young people and the start of a three-year collaboration with CERN, a 33% increase in project assignments on the books of the Ars Electronica Futurelab, excellent attendance [...]

Julius Von Bismarck wins first Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN

(Linz / Geneva, December 6, 2011) The first Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN was today awarded to the 28-year-old German artist, Julius Von Bismarck for the quality of his ideas and his ability to make playful creative collisions between the arts and science. With a growing international reputation for his diverse and experimental artistic practice, Von [...]

SeniorInnen erfahren … von Weltmaschinen und dem Ursprung aller Dinge

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Deep Space LIVE: Sun, Moon and Planets: A Tour of Olympia

(Linz, November 28, 2011) Jupiter, Mercury, Neptune and Mars. These resounding appellations designate not only the planets of our Solar System; they’re also the names of Roman gods. On the evening of December 1st, astrophotographer Dietmar Hager will explore astronomy’s link to the folklore of Antiquity and elaborate on the mythology of the various heavenly [...]

LabDays: Gehirn

(November 24, 2011) Our thoughts will turn to the brain during LabDays on the weekend of November 26-27 in the Ars Electronica Center. Speeches by experts including psychoanalyst Dr. Hans-Otto Thomashoff will impart many valuable insights into our thinking apparatus, and there will be plenty of opportunities for in-depth Q&A afterwards. Read more Brain-Computer Interface [...]

Deep Space LIVE: Everything is Possible – The Art of Photography in the Digital Age

(Linz, November 21, 2011) The exhibition featuring 400 of the best photos from the Trierenberg Super Circuit, the world’s largest photographic art competition, is running in Linz’s New City Hall until November 27th. And on November 24th at 8 PM, there’s a really special visual treat in store for visitors to Deep Space LIVE. Chris [...]

FamilyDays at Ars Electronica Center Linz

(Linz, November 16, 2011) Behold a virtual ocean in the form of a 16×9-meter aquarium full of sea creatures you design yourself, pet a cute little baby seal robot or go on a family-style scavenger hunt and learn lots of interesting stuff about the Ars Electronica Center. This coming weekend, November 19-20, the Museum of [...]

Deep Space LIVE: Touching the Sky

(Linz, November 15, 2011) On Thursday, parachutists will be descending on Deep Space LIVE. Barbara Hinterleitner and Michael Gugler from UNION Skydiving Club Linz will present breathtaking videos of their flights above town, thrilling footage of mid-air formations and exciting sequences shot at indoor wind tunnels in which air currents make it possible to simulate [...]

Ars Electronica Center Will Be Bathed in Blue on World Diabetes Day

(Linz, November 11, 2011) To call attention to World Diabetes Day on November 14th, the façade of the Ars Electronica Center will shine in solid blue. In 2010, more than 900 buildings and monuments in 84 countries were illuminated in this way to raise consciousness for diabetes. The international symbol of this disease is a [...]

The End of the Night

(Linz, November 14, 2011) In the nighttime sky above our cities, the natural radiance of heavenly bodies is increasing being drowned out by the pervasive glow of artificial lighting. There has long been scientific proof that the absence of nighttime darkness has a negative impact on the ecosystem, endangers numerous nocturnal species and impairs the [...]

SeniorInnen entdecken … The World At Night

(Deutsch) Rúrí: Performance – Künstlerinnengespräch – Buchpräsentation

Deep Space LIVE: Cartographic Treasures I

(Linz, November 7, 2011) An evening dedicated to graphically superb historical maps awaits visitors to the next Deep Space LIVE this Thursday, November 10th, 8-9 PM. Günter Kalliauer, director of the City of Wels’ Municipal Archive, will present cartographic treasures and discuss them as valuable sources for historical research, as creations of high artistic value, [...]

Deep Space LIVE: Linz_Einst/Jetzt II

(Linz, October 31, 2011) The next Deep Space LIVE event will feature extraordinary images of Linz past and present. Dr. Fritz Mayrhofer, former director of the Archive of the City of Linz and publisher of numerous works on Linz history, and Dr. Anneliese Schweiger, head of the institution’s Department of Documentation, will accompany guests on [...]

Prix Ars Electronica Featured at the Opening of the New Institute for Internet and Society in Berlin

(Linz, October 25, 2011) The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society opens today. Sponsored by Google and operated jointly by Berlin’s Humboldt University, Berlin University of the Arts, and the Social Science Research Center Berlin, the new research facility will work closely with the Hans Bredow Institute to focus on issues having to [...]

Ars Electronica Wins a Caesar

(Linz, October 21, 2011) At this year’s Caesar Award gala in the Linzer Tabakfabrik, Ars Electronica Linz GmbH’s LINZ CHANGES exhibition tent was honored with the Upper Austrian advertizing prize in the Event category. The innovative exhibition presenting fascinating and unusual insights into Linz as a place to live and work was commissioned by Unternehmensgruppe [...]

FamilyDays im Ars Electronica Center Linz

(Linz, October 19, 2011) Behold a virtual ocean in the form of a 16×9-meter aquarium full of sea creatures you design yourself, pet a cute little baby seal robot or go on a family-style scavenger hunt and learn lots of interesting stuff about the Ars Electronica Center. This coming weekend, October 22-23, the Museum of [...]

Deep Space LIVE: Astra, quo vadis?

(Linz, 24.10.2011) Am Donnerstag erwartet BesucherInnen von Deep Space LIVE ein bildgewaltiger Abend über die Entstehung und Entwicklung von Sternen. Ab 20:00 Uhr erzählt Astrofotograf Dietmar Hager welche Bedingungen es für die Entstehung von Sternen braucht, erläutert woraus sie bestehen und zeigt, welche Methoden bei der ESO, der Europäischen Südsternwarte, angewendet werden um Sterne beim [...]

Deep Space LIVE: Red Bull Rampage in 3D

(Linz, October 17, 2011) Guests at the next Deep Space LIVE event will need nerves of steel. This time, the focus is on the world’s most extreme freeride mountain bike competition: Red Bull Rampage. The course through Zion National Park in Utah demands that riders master meter-high jumps and breakneck descents. And just to make [...]

500,000 Visitors to the New Ars Electronica Center

(Linz, October 14, 2011) The 500,000th visitor to the new Ars Electronica Center got a gala reception yesterday from Linz Mayor Franz Dobusch and Deputy Mayor Erich Watzl together with Ars Electronica Linz GmbH CEOs Diethard Schwarzmair and Gerfried Stocker. Anita Stöttner, a native of nearby Hellmonsödt who’s currently attending a training course at BBRZ [...]

Deep Space LIVE: To Serve and Protect

(Linz, 10.10.2011) Geschichte und Geschichten vom Linzer Feuerwehrwesen stehen diesen Donnerstag im Mittelpunkt von Deep Space LIVE. Die beiden Heimatforscher und Autoren Manfred Carrington und Andreas Reiter erzählen von spektakulären Einsätzen, großen Bränden und verheerenden Hochwässern. Mit einzigartigen Fotos und so manchen heiteren Anekdoten. Read more The fire brigade of Linz around 1920 / Lentia [...]

The World At Night (TWAN)

(Linz, October 6, 2011) The World at Night (TWAN) is an international initiative to protect and preserve the night sky. Launched by Iranian science journalist Babak A. Tafreshi in 2007, TWAN’s team of committed activists now includes astrophotographers from all over the world. They create gorgeous photographs and time-lapse images of heavenly bodies by night [...]

Especially for Seniors … Of Humankind and Machines

(Linz, October 3, 2011) On the first and third Friday of every month, the Ars Electronica Center offers a themed tour custom-tailored to seniors. The guides make a concerted effort to dispense with English-language high-tech jargon, and to allow plenty of time for tour group members to pose questions and to discuss their experiences and [...]

LINZ CHANGES Exhibition Tent

(Linz, September 28, 2011) Following its very successful premiere at the Urfahr Spring Fair, the LINZ CHANGES exhibition produced by the City of Linz and its municipal services & enterprises is being reprised at the Autumn Fair running October 1-9, 2011. The show spotlights the city’s development and shows what makes Linz such a wonderful [...]

Long Night of Museums at Ars Electronica Center

(Linz, September 27, 2011) This coming Saturday, October 1, 2011, the Ars Electronica Center will once again be a featured venue during the Long Night of the Museums being held for the 12th time. Between 6 PM and 1 AM, visitors can take a highlights tour of the Museum of the Future, marvel at the [...]

Deep Space LIVE: Ärzte ohne Grenzen

Deep Space LIVE: 25 Jahre Kunst mit Malerei am Computer

FamilyDays im Ars Electronica Center

Behold a virtual ocean in the form of a 16×9-meter aquarium full of sea creatures you design yourself, pet a cute little baby seal robot or go on a family-style scavenger hunt and learn lots of interesting stuff about the Ars Electronica Center. This coming weekend, the Museum of the Future is the go-to place [...]

Seniors Experience … The Investigation of the Big Bang

(Linz, September 13, 2011) On the first Friday of every month, the Ars Electronica Center offers a themed tour custom-tailored to seniors. The guides make a concerted effort to dispense with English-language high-tech jargon, and to allow plenty of time for tour group members to pose questions and to discuss their experiences and impressions. This [...]

Deep Space LIVE: Dancing under the Stars

(Linz, September 12, 2011) You can behold the wonders of astronomy and hear the Music of the Spheres this Thursday in Deep Space LIVE. Visitors are in for a real treat when astrophotographer Dietmar Hager presents brand-new images from the European Southern Observatory and takes his audience on a 3D journey to the center of [...]

83,976 Festivalgoers Attended Ars Electronica 2011

(Linz, September 9, 2011) The final attendance figure — 83,976 — makes Ars Electronica 2011 the second most successful festival since 1979 in terms of the number of visitors — topped only by last year’s guest appearance at Linz’s architecturally extraordinary Tabakfabrik tobacco processing plant. The excellent turnout is a tribute to the festival’s outstanding [...]

Ars Electronica 2011 Attendance Already at 69,725

(Linz, September 5, 2011) With 69,725 visitors as of 8 AM, September 5th, the 2011 Ars Electronica Festival is already a big hit! The biggest draws have been the opening event and the nightly entertainment lineup on the Maindeck of the Ars Electronica Center, Sam Auinger’s Night of Sound in St. Mary’s Cathedral, the CyberArts [...]

Public Square Squared – The Front Lines of the Info-War

Opinions differ as to whether Facebook, Twitter & Co. play a positive or a negative role now. Some claim that social media lead to freedom and democracy, and cite the successful protest movements in Egypt and Tunisia to make their case. Totally wrong, say others, bringing up how rioting in the streets of London was [...]

Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN

(Linz, September 3, 2011) Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN is a new international competition for digital artists to win a residency at CERN the world’s largest particle physics laboratory in Geneva. It is the first prize to be announced as part of the new Collide@CERN artists residency programme initiated by the laboratory. The winning artist will [...]

CREATE YOUR WORLD

(Linz, August 30, 2011) “CREATE YOUR WORLD – Future Festival of the Next Generation” is a new festival with the festival for young people that will be held annually in conjunction with Ars Electronica. It’s an outgrowth of the u19 – freestyle computing category, a prize competition that focuses on the use of new technologies [...]

WE GUIDE YOU

(Linz, August 28, 2011) The Ars Electronica Festival offers an appealing array of mediated encounters with festival attractions once again this year—for young and old, laypersons and experts alike. Guided tours around the festival grounds provide informative and surprising insights into media art and the natural sciences. Read more WE GUIDE YOU / rubra / [...]

Highlights of the 2011 Ars Electronica Festival

(Vienna, August 24, 2011) “ORIGIN – How It All Begins” is the title of the 2011 Ars Electronica Festival that spotlights leading-edge research on the fundamentals of the cosmos. On board this year is a renowned associate: CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. This year’s highlights include an electrifying opening event on the Main [...]

Hot on the Trail of Quanta

(Linz, 21.8.2011) In Deep Space at the Ars Electronica Center, Dr. Johannes Kofler of the Austrian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information will give an account of the strange world of quanta and developments in the relatively new field of quantum information. Read more Miniaturized ion trap / C. Lackner / [...]

The World’s Biggest Experiment

(Linz, August 17, 2011) 4,200 scientists and engineers are utilizing the CMS detector, CERN’s second largest particle detector, to discover traces of the notorious Higgs boson and supersymmetry. The tricks and strategies these researchers are employing will be the subject of a presentation by Dietrich Liko of the Austrian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of High [...]

Sam Auinger – Featured Artist 2011

(Linz, August 16, 2011) Each year, the Ars Electronica Festival showcases the work of a featured artist. This year, it’s Sam Auinger (AT/DE). Since the 1980s, the Linz native has been working in computer music, sound design and psychoacoustics, fields in which he has been doing pioneering work. Read more Sam Auinger / Thekla Ehling [...]

Tesla Orchestra at Ars Electronica Festival

(Linz, August 11, 2011) The electrifying performance of the Tesla Orchestra is the featured attraction at this year’s festival opening. Fireballs, lightning, music and dance—the Tesla Orchestra (US) founded in 2009 by Ian Charnas (US) at Case Western Reserve University is a circus in grandiose style. The world’s two largest Tesla coils are the instruments [...]

The World of Macroscopic Quantum Physics

(Linz, August 9, 2011) A foretaste of this year’s Ars Electronica Festival—theme: “ORIGIN – How It All Begins”—is in store for visitors to the Ars Electronica Center Linz this coming Thursday evening. In Deep Space, where eight 1080p Barco Galaxy projectors cover the venue’s floor and walls with breathtaking high-definition images in jumbo 16×9-meter format, [...]

ORIGIN – INVESTIGATING THE BIG BANG

(Linz, August 4, 2011) The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is featured in the new exhibition at Ars Electronica Center Linz. The show spotlights the history, organization and objectives of this extraordinary research facility at which 10,000 scientists are attempting to solve the mystery of The Big Bang. Their lab is the largest piece [...]

Seniors discover … Worldviews and Urban Layouts

(Linz, August 2, 2011) On the first Friday of every month, the Ars Electronica Center offers a themed tour custom-tailored to seniors. The guides make a concerted effort to dispense with English-language high-tech jargon, and to allow plenty of time for tour group members to pose questions and to discuss their experiences and impressions. This [...]

What Machines Dream Of – Ars Electronica at Volkswagen’s Automobil Forum Unter den Linden Venue

(Berlin, July 7, 2011) Following last year’s successful “Poetry of Motion” show, Ars Electronica has been invited back for another guest appearance at Automobil Forum Unter den Linden in Berlin. The exhibition being produced in cooperation with Volkswagen AG is entitled “What Machines Dream Of.” It will feature 14 works by 11 internationally renowned artists [...]

Interaktiv-kreativ-Tage im Ars Electronica Center

(Linz, July 13, 2011) Interactive-Creative Day at the Ars Electronica Center will keep you from getting a dose of the summertime blues. A pleasant jaunt through the exhibition highlights and excellent workshops for youngsters age 6-14 are on tap every Tuesday and Thursday between July 19 and August 25. Read more Fabelwesen / Karina Hurnaus [...]

Nacht der Familie und Family Days im Ars Electronica Center

(Linz, July 11, 2011) This coming weekend, the focus will be on families at the Ars Electronica Center. There‘s a great program lined up for Family Night on Friday from 6 PM to Midnight — 3-D fairy tales and high-definition imagery in jumbo 16×9-meter format, blinking fashion accessories hand-made by our young guests, quickie intro [...]

Deep Space LIVE: Saturn – Lord of the Rings

(Deutsch) (Linz, 5.7.2011) Beim letzten Deep Space LIVE vor der Sommerpause dreht sich alles um den Saturn. Neben allerlei Wissenswertem rund um den zweitgrößten Planeten unseres Sonnensystems präsentiert Astrofotograf Dietmar Hager auch jede Menge Infos über die Raumfähre Cassini und den Jupitermond Titan. Der nächste Deep Space LIVE findet dann wieder am Donnerstag, 8. September, statt.

Passenger ARTspace

(Linz, 4.7.2011) Spannende Multimedia-Kunstprojekte der Ars Electronica erleben Reisende derzeit am Flughafen Wien: Noch bis 31. August 2011 sind unter dem Titel „Passenger ARTspace“ vier Installationen eingerichtet, die von Passagieren interaktiv gesteuert werden können. Read more Shadowgram / Florian Voggeneder / Printversion / Album

Iron Mask – White Torture

(Linz, June 30, 2011) “Iron Mask, White Torture,” the project for which artist Marissa Lôbo was honored with the Marianne von Willemer Prize in 2010, will be presented at the Ars Electronica Center from July 2nd to August 26th. The installation deals with resistance to sexism and racism, and consists of a video projection, a [...]

Deep Space LIVE: Historical Events in Linz

(Linz, June 27, 2011) The last installment (for now) in the Deep Space LIVE series is set for Thursday, June 30 at 8 PM, and will showcase historical treasures from the holdings of Linz’s City Archive. Staff historian Markus Altrichter will display photos of significant historical events in Linz — for example, the so-called February [...]

The King’s Final Move

(Linz, June 24, 2011) A theatrical performance for children is coming up at the Ars Electronica Center. In conjunction with the SCHÄXPIR Theater Festival, the Helix Dance Theater and Ars Electronica are jointly staging “Der letzte Zug des Königs” (The King’s Final Move), a dance-based whodunit developed especially for Deep Space and for novice detectives [...]

FamilyDays im Ars Electronica Center

(Linz, June 16, 2011) Go on a family-style scavenger hunt from one end of the Museum of the Future to the other, behold a virtual ocean full of sea creatures young creatives designed themselves, and pet a cute little baby seal robot—FamilyDays at the Ars Electronica Center offer fascinating activities that are fun for the [...]

Deep Space LIVE: “The Key to the Brain”

(Linz, June 13, 2011) “The Key to the Brain will focus on leading-edge research on the brain. Visitors can look forward to incredible, high-definition graphic insights into how the human brain works, an overview of methods used in the neurosciences, and anecdotes from scientist Manuela Macedonia’s daily life on the job at the Max Planck [...]

Deep Space LIVE: A Future for the Past

(Linz, June 6, 2011) In the course of the coming Deep Space LIVE, Maurizio Seracini of the Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Archaeology and Architecture in San Diego will speak (in English) about the contribution engineering is making to the preservation and understanding of humankind’s cultural heritage. He will present the latest results of [...]

Visual Sound Tour

(Linz, June 3, 2011) Following their extremely well-received concert last year, the Linz Music School is staging repeat performances at the Ars Electronica Center. Students under the direction of Petra Wurz and Marco Palewicz will be appearing in front of—or actually “in”—Deep Space’s spectacular, jumbo-format visual projections. The musical program being performed at this extraordinary [...]

Long Night of the Stages at the Ars Electroncia Center

(Linz, May 31, 2011) The Long Night of the Stages will be reprised in Linz and the Ars Electronica Center has a fascinating program lined up for guests of all ages. Featured presentations include a 3D fairytale, a sneak preview of a danced detective story, and fascinating worlds of imagery in jumbo, 16×9-meter format. The [...]

Seniors Experience … the Conquest of the Microcosm

(Linz, May 30, 2011) On the first Friday of every month, the Ars Electronica Center offers a themed tour custom-tailored to seniors. The guides make a concerted effort to dispense with English-language high-tech jargon, and to allow plenty of time for tour group members to pose questions and to discuss their experiences and impressions. This [...]

The results of the Prix Ars Electronica 2011

(Linz, May 27, 2011) 3,611 projects from 74 countries were submitted for prize consideration to the 2011 Prix Ars Electronica. The Digital Musics & Sound Art category tallied the most entries (717), followed by Computer Animation / Film / VFX (684), u19 Create Your World (637), „Interactive Art“ (566), „Hybrid Art“ (471), „Digital Communities“ (407) [...]

Vortrag: Sprache im Gehirn

(Linz, May 24, 2011) The next lecture of Manuela Macedonia, a neuroscientist on the staff of the Max Planck Institute Leipzig, will explain which areas of the brain process speech and which ones produce speech. It will go into detail about the various capabilities required to learn to use language and show the effects that [...]

FamilyDays at Ars Electronica Center Linz

(Linz, May 24, 2011) Go on a family-style scavenger hunt from one end of the Museum of the Future to the other, behold a virtual ocean full of sea creatures young creatives designed themselves, and pet a cute little baby seal robot—FamilyDays at the Ars Electronica Center offer fascinating activities that are fun for the [...]

Deep Space LIVE: Historical Seals and Documents

(Linz, May 23, 2011) In the course of Deep Space LIVE, Maria Jenner will present the most precious historical seals and documents held by the Archive of the City of Linz. These priceless treasures include the certificate granting Linz permission to hold a yearly market fair beginning in 1382 as well as an epistle dated [...]

Deep Space LIVE: ESO – Switch on the Radio

(Linz, May 16, 2011) Tune in to radio astronomy at the next Deep Space LIVE presentation. Dietmar Hager, astrophotographer and Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, will host a high-definition look at the European Southern Observatory that operates one of the world’s most powerful radio telescopes. Situated at over 5,000 meters above sea level atop [...]

Ars Electronica Center Depicted on Austria’s Newest Stamp

(Linz, May 12, 2011) The Republic of Austria’s newest postage stamp features the Ars Electronica Center Linz. The 7-cent stamp was designed by Austrian artist Rainer Prohaska. Read more stamp Ars Electronica Center / Österreichische Post / Printversion / Album

LabDays: Robotinity

(Linz, May 11, 2011) The Ars Electronica Center cordially invites you to its 4th LabDays this coming weekend. Experts on hand especially for this event will offer insights into the fascinating world of state-of-the-art robotics. Venues include the new RoboLab, Deep Space and the “What Machines Dream Of” exhibit. Read more Telenoid, Hiroshi Ishiguro / [...]

71,524 enjoyed the LINZ CHANGES Experience

(Linz, May 9, 2011) Work commenced in early 2010 on the LINZ CHANGES exhibition, which premiered at the Urfahr Spring Fair April 30-May 8, 2011. The bottom line surpassed all projections: a total of 71,524 guests viewed exhibits that take an entertaining and informative approach to spotlighting the city government and its municipal agencies and [...]

Deep Space LIVE: Meisterwerke und Lieblingsstücke

(Linz, May 9, 2011) There’s an extraordinary treat in store for guests at the next Deep Space LIVE. The guests are directors of two of Vienna’s—and the world’s—great museums, each of whom will present an object in the respective museum’s permanent collection that is her/his personal favorite. Sabine Haag, director of Vienna’s Museum of Art [...]

Lecture Series: Brains for Everybody

(Linz, May 4, 2011) More and more people are finding out about the exciting advances being made in brain research. The main reason for this heightened interest is the modern imaging technology that lets us see how the brain actually works. In May and June, the Ars Electronica Center Linz is hosting a lecture series [...]

LINZ CHANGES Exhibition Tent has already drawn 47,560 visitors

(Linz, May 4, 2011) The halfway point of this year’s Urfahr Spring Fair is a good opportunity for a preliminary assessment of the new LINZ CHANGES exhibition tent. But it’s already time to bring out the superlatives: this Linz showcase has proven to be a big draw, with attendance already at 47,560! Read more LINZ [...]

Origin – How It All Begins / Ars Electronica Festival 2011

(Linz, May 5, 2011) “Origin – How It All Begins” is the theme of Ars Electronica 2011. It will run from August 31st to September 6th. In cooperation with CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, the festival will be dedicated to the fascinating world of leading-edge research on the basic principles of the cosmos. [...]

Deep Space LIVE: Robotic Surgery

(Linz, May 2, 2011) Visitors to the next Deep Space LIVE will have the extraordinary opportunity to observe a robot-assisted operation—the complete removal of a patient’s prostate. Expert commentary will be provided by Dr. Wolfgang Loidl, director of the Department of Urology and the First Upper Austrian Prostate Center at the Hospital of the Sisters [...]

LINZ CHANGES Exhibition Tent

(Linz, April 29, 2011) 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 showcases these developments in a [...]

Deep Space LIVE: Trinity Column & Co.–Monuments in Linz

(Linz, April 27, 2011) Linz’s monuments will be featured at the next Deep Space LIVE. Cathrin Hermann, historian at the Archive of the City of Linz, will provide interesting artistic and historical insights into several Linz memorials and places of commemoration. She’ll also offer impressions of the way of life and thinking of the people [...]

Deep Space LIVE: “As numerous as the stars in the sky.”

(Linz, April 18, 2011) At the next Deep Space LIVE astrophotographer Dietmar Hager will offer detailed insights into the world of astronomy and cosmology. Among other things, he’ll show how astronomers used to measure distances and how it’s done today. Read more Milky Way, NASA / courtesy of nasaimages.org / Printversion / Album Deep Space

Ars Electronica at the 2011 Province Garden Show

(Linz, April 15, 2011) This year’s Garden Show of the Province of Upper Austria is being held from April 15 to October 2 in Ansfelden. One of the featured exhibitors is the Ars Electronica Center Linz, which is offering visitors the opportunity to get a close-up look at the cell structure of plants. Reflected light [...]

FamilyDays im Ars Electronica Center Linz

(Linz, April 12, 2011) Go on a family-style scavenger hunt from one end of the Museum of the Future to the other, behold a virtual ocean full of sea creatures young creatives designed themselves, and pet a cute little baby seal robot—FamilyDays at the Ars Electronica Center offer fascinating activities that are fun for the [...]

Deep Space LIVE: Studios

(Linz, April 11, 2011) Linz artist Norbert Artner and Martin Hochleitner, director of the Landesgalerie Linz, cordially invite you to accompany them on a photographic excursion in Deep Space. Their images of ateliers and studios will present places where art is not just put on display but where it is actually created. Read more Atelier [...]

A Box-Office Hit

(Linz, April 8, 2011) The Ars Electronica Center welcomed 4,083 visitors yesterday, Thursday, April 7, 2011. This was the largest daily attendance figure since the new and enlarged facility opened in January 2009. The big draws were Experimentale 2011, a Deep Space LIVE event with Dietmar Hager and the new RoboLab that debuted in early [...]

Deep Space LIVE: ESO – The Success Story of the European Southern Observatory

(Linz, April 4, 2011) Astrophotographer Dietmar Hager has a special treat in store at the next Deep Space LIVE — a behind-the-scenes look at the European Southern Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert, site of some of the world’s largest and most technically advanced telescopes. Read more ESO’s Paranal Observatory / Rivi / Printversion / Album

Seniors Discover … What Machines Dream Of

(Linz, March 29, 2011) One Friday a month, the Ars Electronica Center offers a themed tour custom-tailored to seniors. The guides make a concerted effort to dispense with English-language high-tech jargon, and to allow plenty of time for tour group members to leisurely try out the many interactive installations, to pose questions, and to discuss [...]

Deep Space LIVE: Historical Aerial Views of Linz

(Linz, March 28, 2011) Anneliese Schweiger, director of the documents division of the Archive of the City of Linz, will screen historical bird’s-eye-view images to show how the cityscape has evolved since the mid-20th century. The stops along this high-flying itinerary include Froschberg (with its not-yet-domed stadium), the old glassmaking plant on Kapuzinerstraße, the halls [...]

Operate the World’s Most Modern Surgical Robot

(Linz, March 23, 2011) Visitors to the Ars Electronica Center had the extraordinary opportunity to get hands-on experience with da Vinci, the Ferrari of surgical robots. Staff experts from the Krankenhaus der Barmherzigen Schwestern (Hospital of the Sisters of Mercy) Linz and representatives of Intuitive Surgical, the system’s manufacturer, were on hand to provide support [...]

Deep Space LIVE: ‘Round-the-World Run: Desert Madness!

(Linz, March 21, 2011) For two years, a camera crew accompanied Austrian ultra-long-distance runner Christian Schiester through four deserts and as many continents—1,000 kilometers across the most extreme regions on Earth. The result is a breathtaking documentary that will be screened Thursday, March 24 in Deep Space LIVE at the Ars Electronica Center. Read more [...]

The Ars Electronica Futurelab and Salzburg University of Applied Sciences Are Blazing Trails into the Future of Digital Entertainment Technologies

(Linz, March 18, 2011) Playful research that doesn’t just aim to entertain is what the Center for Advances in Digital Entertainment Technologies is all about. The mission: take the latest breakthroughs in full-body & gesture tracking, bio-signal sensor systems and 3D technology and utilize them in projects beyond the realm of the computer game sector. [...]

Hands-On Astronomy

(Linz, March 17, 2011) Snap telescopic pictures of the night sky over Linz, view brand-new 16×9-meter astro-photos from Chile’s Atacama Desert, get a sniff of the atmosphere on Jupiter and find out how much you weigh on the various planets of our Solar System—during the Central European Deepsky Imaging Conference (CEDIC) Friday, March 18 to [...]

Deep Space LIVE: The Virtual Reconstruction of Hadrian’s Temple

(Linz, March 14, 2011) “Hadrian’s Temple” in the ancient city of Ephesus is one of the best-known archeological monuments and top tourist attractions in Turkey today. Although rediscovered and almost completely reconstructed already by 1956, the chronology, function and interpretation of this significant building are still matters of uncertainty. The ÖAI–Austrian Archaeological Institute and the [...]

Robotinity & What Machines Dream Of

(Linz, March 10, 2011) Nanorobots cruising our bloodstream, retinal and cochlear implants, therapy robots and telecommunications androids, a talking piano and The World Machine—two spectacular new exhibitions at the Ars Electronica Center highlight a phenomenon that is becoming a part of everyday life we take increasingly for granted: the comingling of nature and high-tech. Astounding [...]

Deep Space LIVE: Opening a Portal to Heaven: The Apotheosis of St. Ignatius

(Linz, March 7, 2011) Deep Space LIVE lets you take an eye-popping look at baroque trompe l’oeil painting. The high-definition focus will be on Andrea Pozzo’s spectacular frescoes on the ceiling of the Church of Saint Ignatius of Loyola at Campus Martius in Rome. Your guides on this journey of discovery into the history of [...]

NEXTCOMIC Festival at the Ars Electronica Center Linz

(Linz, March 2, 2011) The Ars Electronica Center is hosting a highlight-filled lineup of NEXTCOMIC Festival events March 4-11 including the premiere of a virtual 3D ocean starring Lucky Luke artist Achdé, speeches for comic aficionados, and drawing workshops with Austrian character designer Florian Satzinger. Kicking things off with a BANG at Deep Space LIVE [...]

Create Your World at the 2nd Kids’ Carnival in Venice

(Venice, February 27, 2011) “Create Your World” is the programmatic title of the show Ars Electronica has curated for the Venice Biennale’s 2nd Kids’ Carnival running February 26-March 8, 2011. This exhibition showcases the creative work being done by today’s young generation of artists. It has been intentionally conceived to challenge and to encourage—by young [...]

Deep Space LIVE: Linz at around 1900

(Linz, 18.2.2011) The Bruckmüllerhaus adjacent to the bridgehead on the north bank of the Danube, the market on the Main Square, a tower of the province legislature building enwrapped in construction scaffolding, trolley cars driving on the left side of the street, and Danube steamships with their smokestacks flipped down to fit under the Railway [...]

FamilyDays

(Linz, 16.2.2011) Go on a family-style scavenger hunt through the Museum of the Future, blast off on a virtual journey into outer space, isolate your own DNA (which you can then take home as a souvenir) and enjoy the best animated films from the 24-year history of the Prix Ars Electronica—FamilyDays at the Ars Electronica [...]

Deep Space LIVE: Giordano Filippo Bruno

(Linz, 11.2.2011) Giordano Filippo Bruno was burned at the stake on February 17, 1600 on Rome’s Campo de’ Fiori. The grounds for his execution: he had dared to relegate the geocentric conception of the universe to the realm of fairy tales and, in its stead, to maintain that the universe is infinite and would exist [...]

Fascination Animation

Deep Space LIVE: Deep Fault – the Rift Valley in East Africa

(Linz, 8.2.2011) East Africa’s Rift Valley is a massive crack in the Earth’s crust. Created about 20 million years ago by enormous volcanic eruptions, it is now as much as 1,000 meters deep and 300 kilometers wide and gets about an inch wider every year. Filmmaker Erich Pröll visited the Rift Valley to make a [...]

Seniors Discover GeoCity

(Linz, 3.2.2011) One Friday a month, the Ars Electronica Center offers a themed tour custom-tailored to seniors. The guides make a concerted effort to dispense with English-language high-tech jargon, and to allow plenty of time for tour group members to leisurely try out the many interactive installations, to pose questions, and to discuss their experiences [...]

Deep Space LIVE: Bronze Age Gravesites in 3D

(Linz, February 1, 2011) Behold Bronze Age burial mounds in 3D. The next Deep Space LIVE event this coming Thursday, February 3rd at the Ars Electronica Center promises to be a truly extraordinary experience! Heinz Gruber, a scholar who specializes in prehistory and ancient civilizations, and surveyor Dominik Schmedemann will present the remains of a [...]

Ars Electronica Linz Gmbh: 2010 was an Outstanding Year

(Linz, February 1, 2011) 3,083 Prix submissions, 90,227 Festivalgoers and 162,438 visitors to the Center, exhibitions in Tokyo, Berlin and Mexico City with attendance topping 300,000, approximately €1 million in R&D funding for the Futurelab, 7% growth in staff size, and the third best financial results in Ars Electronica’s history—this brief overview of our activities [...]

Deep Space LIVE: Schätze aus dem Stadtarchiv Linz

(Linz, January 25, 2011) Treasures from the Archive of the City of Linz will be the centerpieces of a series of Deep Space LIVE events held at the Ars Electronica Center in cooperation with the Archive. The main attractions: pictures of Linz past and present, whereby each respective historical view will be contrasted to its [...]

LabDays: REPAIR

(Linz, January 19, 2011) The Open PappLab in which customized cardboard furniture can be designed and produced, a chat with an algae engineer whose mission is to save the world and electronic components that can be eaten once their useful life is over are some of the highlights of REPAIR LabDays at the Ars Electronica [...]

Deep Space LIVE: Die Streif in 3D

(Linz, January 14, 2011) Here’s your big chance to experience what it’s like to race down the world’s most famous ski slope—hearing the whoosh of the wind and the skis gliding over the packed snow as you speed towards the finish line at 90 MPH! Red Bull and the Ars Electronica Center cordially invite you [...]

Deep Space LIVE: O Sole Mio

(Linz, 11.1.2011) The Sun is the hub of our solar system, and its light and warmth are the preconditions for all forms of life. So it’s no wonder that the Sun is among the most intensely studied heavenly bodies. How and when the Sun came into existence, what it consists of and how it functions—all [...]

FamilyDays Special: Winterwunderzeit

(Linz, 17.12.2010) Weihnachtsschmuck basteln oder eine Schnitzeljagd quer durch das Museum der Zukunft unternehmen – ein “FamilyDays Special” im Ars Electronica Center bietet Interessantes und Lustiges für die ganze Familie. Read more Blinky / rubra / Printversion / Fotoalbum Ars Electronica Center

Deep Space LIVE: Under the Magnifying Glass

(Linz, December 13, 2010) Linz’s majorpix group generates images that open up extraordinary views of bizarre worlds. majorpix takes a common object like a match, bus ticket or a butterfly’s wing and produces macro exposures of its surfaces. Then the individual shots are assembled into a whole image that reveals fascinating details and totally unknown [...]

Climbing the St(Age) of Participation

(Linz, December 10, 2010) The Ars Electronica Futurelab is the only non-university R&D facility to be granted funding this year by the FWF–Austrian Science Fund’s PEEK arts development program. Beginning in 2011, the Futurelab will collaborate with renowned media artist, choreographer and composer Klaus Obermaier (AT) on a three-year project that aims to develop interactive [...]

Deep Space LIVE: Linz at around 1900 in 3D

(Linz, November 29, 2010) An amazing 3D virtual stroll through turn-of-the-20th-century Linz is being staged by the Municipal Archive and the Ars Electronica Center. Stereoscopic images deliver an incredibly lifelike, three-dimensional experience of Linz at around the year 1900 … Read more Innenhof der Linzer Tabakfabrik im Jahr 1903 / Oberösterreichisches Landesarchiv / Printversion

Deep Space LIVE: Linz_Then/Now

(Linz, November 29, 2010) “Then/Now” literally describes the itinerary of a unique journey through Linz history being hosted by the municipal archive. It will feature one-of-a-kind historical images of the Linz cityscape in the first half of the last century juxtaposed to their contemporary counterparts captured from the identical perspective. This mode of visual comparison [...]

„Mikrokosmische” LabDays im Ars Electronica Center

(Linz, November 24, 2010) Ars Electronica Center Linz is hosting its second LabDays event. The center of the action will be the laboratories—labs, for short—in the Main Gallery, where participants will be able to spend two amazing days experimenting, tinkering and playing under the watchful eyes of experts invited especially for the occasion. “Microcosmic” aptly [...]

Deep Space LIVE: Upper Austria in the Light on an Invisible Laser

(Linz, November 22, 2010) A systematic aerial laser scan of Upper Austria has been performed over the past few years. What it brought to light were earthen ramparts and trenches, mound graves (tumuli) and roads dating back to epochs long past, beds of long-since-dried-up streams, bomb craters from World War II, and thus many different [...]

Deep Space LIVE: Milky Way – At Home in a Dome

(Linz, November 15, 2010) You can’t miss it in the sky on a clear, dark night: that bright, cloudy band stretching clear across the heavens is The Milky Way. It’s a collection of about 200 billion stars proceeding along their trajectories around an inconceivably gigantic black hole that holds the entire galaxy together. Dietmar Hager [...]

Deep Space LIVE: Adrenalin

(Linz, November 8, 2010) Deep Space LIVE with Hermann Erber is the place to go for a real live adrenalin rush. This week’s screening features incredible images of extreme athletes whose daredevil stunts take them to the physical and mental limits. BASE jumping from the south face of Austria’s Dachstein, ice climbing in Japan, Canada [...]

Long Night of Research 2010

(Linz, November 2, 2010) Using only the power of one’s thoughts to conjure up letters on a computer monitor? Writing whole words without even lifting a finger? Cloning a plant and then cultivating its living copy right in the Ars Electronica Center? An extraordinary array of installations at the interface of art, technology and society [...]

Deep Space LIVE: Irgendwo (Somewhere)

(Linz, November 2, 2010) “Irgendwo” (Somewhere) is a photographic exhibition accompanied by live music. The pictures are divided into six chapters. They show different parts of the world, very diverse moods and highly contrasting settings for human life. “Irgendwo” is an extremely personal journey—one that takes place in the minds of those beholding these images. [...]

Futurelab at Tokyo Midtown DESIGN TOUCH 2010

(Linz, November 2, 2010) The 2010 DESIGN TOUCH exhibition that just opened in the Tokyo Midtown complex showcases the future of design. As Special Guest 2010, the Ars Electronica Futurelab is spotlighting design methods with great future promise. They’re being presented in workshops, lectures and the DESIGN TOUCH Exhibition at Tokyo Midtown’s Galleria, where 11 [...]

Deep Space LIVE: Best of Ars Electronica Animation Festival 2010, Part II

(Linz, October 25, 2010) “Computer Animation / Film / VFX” category has been a mainstay of the Prix Ars Electronica since 1987. This competition category honors outstanding independent artistic and scientific works as well as commercial high-end productions in the film, advertising and entertainment industries. The judges take artistic originality and excellent technical implementation into [...]

Deep Space LIVE: Evangelion: 1.11 You Are (Not) Alone

(Linz, October 18, 2010) “Evangelion: 1.11 You Are (Not) Alone” is based on “Neon Genesis Evangelion,” a 1995 Japanese anime TV series. The plot centers on a battle between human beings and powerful creatures called Angels. “Evangelion: 1.11 You Are (Not) Alone” is a genre mix of science fiction, action and mecha. It’s one of [...]

FOCUS LINZ

(Linz, October 15, 2010) Linz has changed. Many things that Linzers take completely for granted today were not part of the cityscape only a few years ago. The FOCUS LINZ initiative spotlights these changes and invites everyone living in Linz to get involved. The setting of this journey through time and the urban realm is [...]

Sonic Intermedia: UEA

(Linz, October 15, 2010) “Sonic Intermedia” is a new concert series featuring contemporary computer music. It is produced jointly by the Ars Electronica Center and the Anton Bruckner Private University. Inaugural guests are Simon Waters of the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK and several doctoral candidates at that school. Concertgoers will be treated [...]

2010 Attendance at the Ars Electronica Center: 111,111 and Climbing!

(Linz, October 13, 2010) The Ars Electronica Center has confirmed its status as a major attraction once again in 2010. On Tuesday, Johann Freudenthaler, a 66-year-old retiree from Linz, became the 111,111th visitor to the Ars Electronica Center this year  … Read more (from left to right) Dr. Erich Watzl, Johann Freudenthaler, Diethard Schwarzmair / [...]

Deep Space LIVE: La Luna – Where there’s a moon, there’s life

(Linz, October 12, 2010) At an average of about 384,000 kilometers off in space, the Moon orbits the Earth. It takes a little less than a month to make one revolution. We always see the same side of our planet’s satellite, which, like Earth, also rotates on its axis. Even with the naked eye, we [...]

Codes & Clowns

(Linz, October 7, 2010) He juggled Indian clubs and cruised around college campuses and research labs on a unicycle. He programmed the world’s first wearable computer, which he then used to win $10,000 at roulette in Las Vegas. He created a mechanical mouse that could find its way out of any labyrinth, tinkered together the [...]

NEW: LabDays at the Ars Electronica Center

(Linz, October 6, 2010) The Ars Electronica Center Linz cordially invites you to attend the premiere of LabDays on Saturday, October 9 and Sunday, October 10, 2010. The center of these wide-ranging activities will be the laboratories in the Main Gallery. Guests will be able to experiment, tinker and play games all day long together [...]

The Long Night of Museums 2010

(Linz, September 29, 2010) The ORF – Austrian Broadcasting Company cordially invites you to attend the 11th annual Long Night of Museums on Saturday, October 2, 2010. From 6 PM to 1 AM, a single ticket (regular: €13, discount: €11, kids 12 and under free) provides access to all Austrian museums. A record 650 artistic [...]

Deep Space LIVE: Light Speed

(Linz, September 27, 2010) Nothing goes faster than light. Light travels 299,792,458 meters — almost 300,000 kilometers, 186,000 miles — in a single second. Light takes no more than 1.3 seconds for the trip between the Moon and Earth. So it’s no wonder that precisely measuring this mind-boggling speed confronted science with a tough problem. [...]

Deep Space LIVE: Best of Animationfestival 2010, Part I

(Linz, September 21, 2010) Computer Animation / Film / VFX category has been a mainstay of the Prix Ars Electronica since 1987. This competition category honors outstanding independent artistic and scientific works as well as commercial high-end productions in the film, advertising and entertainment industries. The judges take artistic originality and excellent technical implementation into [...]

Deep Space LIVE: Constellations

(Linz, September 14, 2010) Shooting stars as “the gods pointing their fingers”; promising constellations highlighting the birth of one destined for greatness or serving as signposts to guide travelers across deserts and oceans—the heavens have always has a special significance for humankind. The Ars Electronica Center and Dietmar Hager cordially invite you to a Deep [...]

Oribotics – Robotics in Full Bloom

(Linz, September 4, 2010) Meadows are abloom with flowers at the Ars Electronica Futurelab. This colorful garden—interactive, of course—was created in cooperation with Australian origami and media artist Matthew Gardiner and the University of Linz’s new Institute of Polymer Product Engineering. During the 2010 Ars Electronica Festival (September 2-11), they’ll be bringing the industrial architecture [...]

REPAIR – ready to pull the lifeline / Ars Electronica Festival 2010

The 2010 Ars Electronica Festival takes place from September 2-11, on the grounds of what used to be Linz’s tobacco processing plant (Gruberstraße 1, 4020 Linz).  X THE TOPIC: REPAIR – READY TP PULL THE LIFELINE The 2010 Ars Electronica Festival is intensely focusing on humankind’s current ecological, economic and political crises. This set won’t [...]

LightNight

(Linz, August 4, 2010) LightNight at the Ars Electronica Center is a brilliant encounter with the phenomenon of light in all its multifarious manifestations. Tours through the Museum of the Future by night, workshops, a Deep Space LIVE event featuring Herbert Raab of the Astronomical Society of Linz, and the official launch of the façade [...]

ASIMO meets Ars Electronica

(Linz, August 4, 2010) Honda’s leading-edge humanoid robot ASIMO will makes its public debut in Austria at this year’s Ars Electronica Festival. September 2-8 in Linz, festivalgoers will have the opportunity to experience an impressive demonstration of ASIMO’s extraordinary capabilities at Deep Space in the Ars Electronica Center. Read more ASIMO / Honda / Printversion [...]

Sense the Invisible

(Linz, July 27, 2010) Eight interactive works by the Japanese artists’ collective h.o will be on display in the Ars Electronica Center July 30 to September 12. This isn’t a spatially discrete exhibit; the works are dispersed throughout the facility and thus constitute an invitation to take an entertaining journey of discovery through the Museum [...]

Raise Your Voice

(Linz, July 27, 2010) A “garbage slick” four times larger than Germany is now floating in the middle of the Pacific. The Rio Grande, Ganges, Nile, Mekong and others of the world’s most important river systems are on the verge of ecological collapse. Worldwide, 40% more CO2 will be emitted this year than in 1990—CO2 [...]

Deep Space LIVE: Making the Visible Visible

(Linz, July 1, 2010) Our perception of the world (or of what we distinguish as “reality”) is inseparably embedded in space and time. Any change of this perception makes us uneasy. Or is our entrée to undreamt-of freedom(s). Regardless of how any one of us ultimately experiences such an extraordinary situation, one thing’s for sure: [...]

Poerty of Motion – ARS ELECTRONICA featured at VW’s Automobil Forum Unter den Linden

(Linz, June 28, 2010) ARS ELECTRONICA  is making its first appearance at VW’s showcase venue in Berlin, Automobil Forum Unter den Linden. “Poetry in Motion,” an exhibition created especially for the German capital, will run June 25-September 5, 2010. The works that comprise it constitute a fascinating synthesis of art, technology, science and socio-cultural development. Volkswagen’s [...]

Deep Space LIVE: Europe’s World-Record Eye on the Sky – The European Extremely Large Telescope

(Linz, June 18, 2010) The decision has been finalized: Europe’s super-telescope will be built. The upshot will be an astronomical observatory of superlative dimensions. Featuring almost 1,000 individual mirrors and an active opening 42 meters wide, its light collection surface will be as large as six tennis courts. This gigantic main mirror will be mounted [...]

The World in 100 Years – A Journey through the History of the Future

(Linz, June 16, 2010) Our longing to know the future is timeless. Just like our burning desire to co-determine and change the course of events transpiring in this world. The exhibition “The World in 100 Years – A Journey through the History of the Future” pays tribute to some great thinkers and activists who were [...]

Deep Space LIVE: Nostalgia in 3D

(Linz, June 14, 2010) Susi Windischbauer and Christoph Kremer of the Ars Electronica Center invite you to accompany them on a 3D nostalgia trip on June 17, 2010. More than 50 stereoscopic images provided by the Prints and Photographs Online Catalog of the Library of Congress and a specially developed projection process now make it [...]

Deep Space LIVE: The Ashes of Eyjafjallajökull

(Linz, June 9, 2010) The Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull erupted on the morning of April 14, 2010. Because it was covered by a layer of ice, enormous quantities of ash (produced when magma comes into contract with water) were spewed into the atmosphere. Over the following days, the activities of this glacier volcano led to the [...]

Deep Space LIVE: Gaudenzio Ferrari’s Passion of Christ

(Linz, May 21, 2010) The life and passion of Jesus Christ have been the subjects of countless works of art in the Christian world. A superb example of the artistic treatment of Christ’s Passion is a 1513 work by Gaudenzio Ferrari. This 8×10-meter fresco adorns the Santa Maria delle Grazie Church in Varallo Sesia in [...]

Prix Ars Electronica 2010

(Linz, May 17, 2010) 3,083 projects from 70 countries were submitted for prize consideration to the 2010 Prix Ars Electronica. The u19 – freestyle computing category tallied the most entries (657), followed by Digital Musics (615), Interactive Art (562) and Computer Animation (494). The 34 jurors took three and a half days to evaluate all [...]

Deep Space LIVE: Between Rapacious Self-Interest and a Clear Conscience

(Linz, May 18, 2010) It’s taken the “less government, more private enterprise” crowd only a few decades to bring a colossal disaster down upon the world. An economic, ecological and social mess that will take many years and a huge amount of money to clean up. The only thing that’s still unclear is where we [...]

Deep Space LIVE: Humankind amidst the Cosmos: Our Origins and Our Place in the Universe

(Linz, May 6, 2010) We’re all made of cosmic dust. Whether it’s hydrogen, oxygen, carbon or the iron that carries oxygen through our bloodstream—every atom that makes up our bodies was once part of a star. On May 6, 2010, Dietmar Hager and the Ars Electronica Center are jointly hosting Deep Space LIVE, a search [...]

Innocence – Futurelab creates interactive Installation for Linz’s PASSAGE Shopping Center

(Linz, May 5, 2010) At the invitation of PASSAGE CEO Werner Prödl, the Ars Electronica Futurelab has created an interactive installation custom tailored to The PASSAGE. “Innocence” is the title of a work that has to do with Linzers’ childhood memories of The PASSAGE … Read more Innocence, PASSAGE Linz / Ars Electronica Futurelab / [...]

Girls’ Day

(Linz, April 22, 2010) The Ars Electronica Center participated in Girl’s Day once again this year and gave 12 young women the opportunity to get a behind-the-scenes look at the Museum of the Future. “The message we want to get across to these young ladies is that it’s a lot of fun to be creative [...]

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Linz Marathon 2010 – Reconnoiter the Course Virtually in Deep Space

(Linz, April 6, 2010) 42.195 kilometers; total altitude change: 18 meters; two Danube bridges; 11 refreshment stations… So much for the key facts & figures of the 9th OMV Linz Donau Marathon in which approximately 15,000 runners will compete this coming Sunday. As a lead-in to the big race, the Ars Electronica Center’s Deep Space [...]

Maundy Thursday in Deep Space: The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci

(Linz, March 29, 2010) The Thursday before Easter is a wonderful occasion to get a close-up view of what is arguably the world’s most famous mural painting: The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci. This extraordinary masterpiece by the great universal genius will be the featured attraction in the Ars Electronica Center’s Deep Space from [...]

AEC Featured at Bleib G‘sund 2010

(Linz, March 10, 2010) This year’s “Bleib G’sund” health expo presents a wealth of information about lifestyle and well-being. One of the highlights is the Ars Electronica Center’s exhibit produced jointly with Zeiss, Otto Bock, Hirox Europe and Linz General Hospital. It’s a fascinating excursion though the conceptual and visual worlds of the life sciences [...]

Adventures in Computer Science

(Linz, March 4, 2010) Why can a scratched DVD still be played? How come so many digital images can be stored on a single memory card, but there are still some problems that not even the fastest computer can solve? The more than 20 experimental installations that make up “Adventures in Computer Science” will provide [...]

NEXTCOMIC Festival 2010

(Linz, February 24, 2010) Linz’s 2nd NEXTCOMIC Festival kicks off tomorrow, February 25, 2010. There are a total of 12 venues, each dedicated to a different domain at the interface of comics, the visual arts, character design, architecture, film and animation. One of the prime locations for these encounters is the Ars Electronica Center. Here, [...]

Science Journal: “Branching Morphogenesis” at the AEC is one of the world’s best scientific visualizations of 2009

(Linz, February 22, 2010) The prestigious US journal “Science” has just named Jenny Sabin’s “Branching Morphogenesis” to its 2009 list of the world’s best scientific visualizations. This work, pictured on the cover of the journal’s February issue, has been on display at Linz’s Ars Electronica Center since January 2, 2009 … Read more Branching Morphogenesis [...]

Voynich-Manuscript

(Linz, December 8, 2009) It’s the world’s most mysterious manuscript—a book written by an unknown author, illustrated with images that are as bizarre as they are puzzling, and using a language that not even the best cryptographers have succeeded in deciphering. So it’s no wonder that this text plays a role in Dan Brown’s latest [...]

Focus on Robotics Weekend

(Linz, November 25, 2009) Some evince our striving for efficiency; others manifest a longing to create machines in our own image. It’s the development of humanoid robots in particular that teaches us a lot about ourselves. The lineup at the Ars Electronica Center’s Focus on Robotics Weekend includes programming robots, scrutinizing the link between nature [...]

2009 Has Been a Very Successful Year for Ars Electronica

(Linz, November 30, 2009) Nearly 230,000 visitors, big demand for the facility as an event venue, rave revues for the food & beverage offerings, and two international architectural prizes—less that a year after its grand opening, the new AEC has already made a strongly positive impression. 3,017 works from 68 countries were submitted for Prix [...]

Focus on Biotech Weekend

(Linz, November 17, 2009) On Saturday, November 21 & Sunday, 22, 2009, the BioLab of the Ars Electronica Center is the gathering place for people young and old who are curious about the amazing things happening at the leading edge of the life sciences. … Read more BioLab, Copyplant / Ferrando & Lammerhuber / Printversion [...]

Long Night of Research 2009

(Linz, November 6, 2010) The 2009 Long Night of Research is set for Saturday, November 7th. The Museum of the Future is one of 570 participating institutions nationwide. The moment the sun sets—4:35 PM—the Ars Electronica Centerkicks off a series of special events. Eight exhibits staffed by experts in their respective fields invites visitors to [...]

HUMAN NATURE / Ars Electronica Festival 2009

(Linz, September 3, 2010) The HUMAN NATURE will occupy the focal point at the next Ars Electronica Festival September 3-8, 2009. In Ars Electronica’s signature fashion, this research will be carried out at an array of locations that go beyond classic conference venues and cultural spaces to pervade the entire cityscape. For the first time, [...]

DEVICE ART

(Linz, September 3, 2009) “Device Art” is a relatively new Japanese art form, a synthesis of art, design,technology, science and entertainment. Here, new technologies merge with elements of traditional Japanese culture. Launched in the early 1990s, Device Art’s mission is above all to show what it means to live in a world that is increasingly pervaded by technologies. [...]

STARDUST

(Linz, July 1, 2009) Millions of TV viewers were glued to their sets on July 20, 1969 to witness a historic event: Neil Armstrong becoming the first human being to set foot on the Moon. “One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind …” The Ars Electronica Center marks the 40th anniversary of the Moon landing [...]

GeoCity

(Linz, June 16, 2009) Planet Earth will have 10 billion inhabitants in 2050, more than two-thirds of them living in cities. All over the world, metropolitan areas are exploding into new megacities. Homo sapiens is evolving into homo urbanicus, a being whose hopes—and, all too often, disappointments—are connected more closely than ever before to the [...]

Prix Ars Electronica 2009

(Linz, 27.05.2009) The 2009 Prix Ars Electronica received 3,017 entries from 68 countries. The jury of top international experts convened for three days (April 17-19)—deliberating practically ‘round-the-clock—to evaluate all submissions and select the best of them for honors. This year‘s winners will be singled out for recognition with six Golden Nica statuettes, an award from [...]

ARS INTRINSICA – Images from the Human Body’s Innermost Realms

(Linz, May 11, 2009) ARS INTRINSICA focuses on forms and structures of the human organism and of inanimate objects. Large-format prints reveal kaleidoscopic worlds of imagery that seem to be products of an artist’s imagination but have actually been captured live by hightech equipment. Scientific techniques such as computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging now being used in medical-radiological [...]

Ars Electronica Center at Graben 15 Closed since Monday

(Linz, October 13, 2008) About 87,000 visitors toured the Ars Electronica Center’s temporary quarters at Graben 15 on the corner of Dametzstraße. This brief chapter of AEC history concluded on Monday, October 13. Now, the focus is on the new and expanded Museum of the Future located adjacent to the Nibelungen Bridge in Urfahr. AEC [...]

A NEW CULTURAL ECONOMY / Ars Electronica Festival 2008

(Linz, September 4, 2008) In 2008, Ars Electronica is scrutinizing the value of intellectual property and thereby facing one of the core issues of our modern knowledgebased society: that of freedom of information vs. copyright protection, big profit-making opportunities vs. the vision of an open knowledge-based society that seeks to build its new economy on [...]

Prix Ars Electronica 2008

(Linz,  June 16, 2008) 3,075 works from 62 countries were submitted for prize consideration to the 2008 Prix Ars Electronica. Beckoning 2008 winners are six Golden Nica statuettes, an award from the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research and prize money totaling 115,000 euros … Read more reactable / Jordà, Geiger, Kaltenbrunner, Alonso / Printversion / Album

“Memento” by Futurelab is a part of a commemorative ceremony

(Linz, May 5, 2008) On May 5, 1945—63 years ago today—troops of the 3rd US Army’s 11th Armored Division liberated the Mauthausen concentration camp. In accordance with a 1997 resolution passed by both houses of Austria’s Parliament, the 5th of May is now marked as a day of commemoration and public expression of opposition to [...]

Futurelab at Festiwal Wiosny

(Linz, March 19, 2008) Igor Stravinsky’s ballet “The Rite of Spring” was performed yesterday evening at Festiwal Wiosny in Poznan, Poland. The three-dimensional staging of this masterpiece was the work of Linz’s Ars Electronica Futurelab and Viennese media artist Klaus Obermaier. Le Sacre du Printemps / Klaus Obermaier, Ars Electronica Futurelab / Printversion / Album

EUROBY 2008

(Linz, May 28, 2008) This year’s European Robot Football Cup will be held in Linz from 15-22 June 2008. Just like the “real” European Cup, the matches will be played in Switzerland and Austria. Euroby 2008 / Robertba / Printversion / Album

Ars Electronica Futurelab at CeBIT

(Linz, March 3, 2008) Vodafone Group R&D is presenting the prototype concept for its “Papyrus” project developed jointly with the Ars Electronica Futurelab March 4-9 at CeBIT (Booth Vodafone D2, Future Zone).

Valentine’s Day at the Ars Electronica Center

(Linz, February 12, 2009) Calling all lovers! The Ars Electronica Center and several other Linz museums have a lovely program lined up for the day that celebrates love … Valentintag, s.h.e. / Pilo / Printversion / Album

Developing Worlds

(Linz, January 31, 2008) From the Big Bang to the digital universe, from one-celled organisms to the digital alter ego: a joint effort by Schlossmuseum Linz and the Ars Electronica Center opens up fascinating insights into the history and the future of modern man. Gulliver’s World / Pilo / Printversion / Album

ABOUT Ars Electronica Linz GmbH

With its specific orientation and the long-term continuity it has displayed since its inception in 1979, Ars Electronica is an internationally unique platform for digital art and media culture. It consists of four divisions: an avant-garde festival, a competition honoring outstanding work being done throughout this field, a museum carrying out an educational mission, and [...]

ABOUT Ars Electronica Festival

Ars Electronica made its debut on September 18, 1979. This festival of art, technology and society spotlighted the emerging Digital Revolution. Within a few years, Ars Electronica developed into one of the world’s foremost media art festivals. And its growing success was paralleled by the expansion of its annual lineup of events. Read more Bleu [...]

About Prix Ars Electronica

1987 initiiert, gilt der Prix Ars Electronica längst als schlechthin der Trendbarometer der internationalen Medienkunstszene. Ein Mal im Jahr kürt eine hochkarätige Jury die besten zeitgenössischen Arbeiten und verleiht ihren UrheberInnen die Goldenen Nicas, die „Oscars der Medienkunst“ …

ABOUT Ars Electronica Futurelab

1996 initiiert, liefert das Ars Electronica Futurelab zunächst den inhaltlich-technischen Support für das im gleichen Jahr eröffnete Ars Electronica Center. Daran hat sich nichts geändert, nur dass sich die Aktivitäten des Labors längst nicht mehr darauf beschränken und heute von der Konzeption und Realisierung von Ausstellungsprojekten über die Entwicklung künstlerischer Installationen bis hin zu Forschungs- [...]

ABOUT Ars Electronica Center

„Museum der Zukunft“ steht im Untertitel des Ars Electronica Center und bringt Programm und Anspruch gleichermaßen zum Ausdruck. Das Prinzip der Interaktion wird hier zur umfassenden Partizipation erweitert und der gemeinsamen Präsenz von Kunst und Wissenschaft eine thematisch wie inszenatorisch tragende Rolle beigemessen. 1996 zum ersten Mal eröffnet, erfuhr das Haus im Vorfeld des Linzer [...]