Day 3: Full Power ahead

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Photo: Tom Mesic

How quickly time passes. The third day of the 2014 Festival Ars Electronica in Linz is already history: On Saturday the last two groups of the Future Innovators Summits, groups E and F, met each other at a common breakfast in the Arkade.

Photo: Florian Voggeneder

In those days, the Akademisches Gymnasium was not only hostel for inspiring discussions of the Future Innovators in the classrooms, the festival visitors were also able to get a personal impression of the different projects at the Future Innovators Exhibit.

Photo: Florian Voggeneder

The Ars Electronica Playground at the Akademisches Gymnasium covered the projects of Ars Electronica Futurelab and Ars Electronica Solutions and moved them temporarily into the city. Thus, the Spaxels were presented inside the gym hall with their first public indoor flights.

Photo: Florian Voggeneder

Outside, in the courtyard of the Akademisches Gymnasium, the hustle and bustle of u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD continued. At this year’s Festival for the young generation especially the topic of film was well represented. Many young people moved around with their video cameras, or made video experiments in the temporary film studios of the Akademisches Gymnasium.

Photo: Florian Voggeneder

But Saturday also was marked by the Prix Ars Electronica. While the projects of the winners were showed in the exhibition “CyberArts 2014” at OK im OÖ Kulturquartier, the winners and jury members met each other at the Prix Forums. The discussion of the Prix Category “Computer Animation / Film / VFX” started in the Deep Space of the Ars Electronica Center.

Photo: Tom Mesic

The conversations continued in the early afternoon during a talk about “Interactive Art”. Right next to the forum, the sofa of the Golden Nica winner Jacob Tonski still balanced on one leg.

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Parallel to the Prix forum a very special video experiment got under way in the city center. The LipDub invited young and old to move through the shopping center Arkade and on the streets of the city of Linz accompanied by the sounds of the ABBA song “Take a Change on Me”. So a collective music video was created, recorded with different cameras by the participants themselves.

Photo: Martin Hieslmair

Meanwhile, the Future Innovators Summit went on. At the lunchbox the innovators met the mentors Hiroshi Ishii, Gloan Levin and Joachim Sauter.

Photo: Florian Voggeneder

At the Ursulinensaal of OK im OÖ Kulturquartier the Prix Forum III was the next program. With his speech Roy Ascott, the first winner of the new Prix category “Visionary Pioneer of Media Art”, inspired the festival visitors – including Edward A. Shanken and Derrick de Kerckhove.

Photo: Tom Mesic

Shota Mori is surely the best person at the Festival for pulling out during smartphones. Several presentations of the “iPhone Quick Draw System” were part of the todays program.

Photo: Florian Voggeneder

In the basement of Ars Electronica Futurelab the experiment “Take a Number, Leave Your Head” invited the visitors to participate in this art experience.

Photo: Florian Voggeneder

Those who are particularly interested in certain subject areas, were well advised to attend one of the many WE GUIDE YOU tours through the FestivalCity. Whether highlights, digital history, tours in Turkish or a tour for the hearing impaired – the variety of guiding tours was great at this festival to go.

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The beautiful weather finally offered the perfect conditions for the voestalpine Klangwolke, an open-air event next to the Danube.

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The OK Night added finally a point to the third day of the festival before it continued a few hours later with the Sunday program.

Photo: Florian Voggeneder

An overview of all activities during the Festival Ars Electronica 2014 you will find on ars.electronica.art/c!

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