Deep Space LIVE: Mount St. Helens – Der Vulkan lebt

(Deutsch) (Linz, 7.2.2012) Der Spirit Lake, durch den gewaltigen Ausbruch des Vulkans Mount St. Helens am 18. Mai 1980 schwer in Mitleidenschaft gezogen, steht diesen Donnerstag, 9. Februar, im Mittelpunkt von Deep Space LIVE. Für die Aufnahmen zu einer Universum-Doku durfte der Naturfilmer Erich Pröll 30 Jahre nach der Naturkatastrophe das Gebiet besuchen und als Erster wieder im Spirit Lake tauchen und filmen. Im Deep Space des Ars Electronica Center erzählt Pröll Wissenswertes über den Vulkan, zeigt Teile der Universum-Folge und lässt hinter die Kulissen der Dreharbeiten blicken.

Für SeniorInnen: Von Menschen und Maschinen

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_Einst/Jetzt 2

(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.

Family Days im Ars Electronica Center Linz

Deep Space LIVE: Best of Animation

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

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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 [...]

Sounds like Universe

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 [...]