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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 and Ars Electronica Futurelab staffers. It will run July 7 to August 28, 2011. Admission is free. Read more
![DEUS CANTANDO](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2192/5726359256_3be55005a4_m.jpg "“DEUS CANTANDO” plays with the interpretive capacities of the human brain. Transcription software makes it possible to reconstruct the frequency spectrum of a spoken text by means of a piano. Winfried Ritsch’s computer-controlled piano performs the “composition” with consummate precision. Each one of the 88 electromechanical fingers is capable of up to 16 keystrokes per second. The interpretive capacities of the human brain then transform what were initially abstract musical structures into a sequence of words in a human language. The result is an emphatic plea to save the Blue Planet and to protect human existence on Earth—the text of the 2009 Declaration of the International Environmental Criminal Court that was founded at the World Venice Forum pursuant to an initiative of Adolfo Pérez Esquivel and the Dalai Lama.
"DEUS CANTANDO (God, singing) for computer-controlled piano and screened text" is a work by Peter Ablinger, Winfried Ritsch, Thomas Musil (AT). The work was developed at the Intitue for Electronic Music Graz
credit: Florian Voggeneder")