Inhalt




Gerfried Stocker / Christine Schöpf
SIMPLICITY—the art of complexity

SIMPLICITY

John Maeda
SIMPLICITY—the art of complexity

John Maeda
Law 1: Reduce

Paola Antonelli / John Maeda
The Goal of Safety is about as
Simple as it Gets

Sam Hecht
The Acceleration of Having More with Less

Walter Bender
One Laptop per Child

Olga Goriunova
When New Media are No Longer New and
Everyone Creates on the Internet

Jason Kottke
Aggregating the Whole World

Peter Wippermann
Simplexity

Gary Chang
Simplicity in Space in the Age of Complexity

Wolfgang Blau
Longing for Simplicity

Re-Defining Public Service
What is Public Value and What Do Community
Media Have to Do with it?

Tsuyoshi Ozawa
Vegetable Weapons

GOING TO THE COUNTRY

Going to the Country

FEATURED ARTISTS

Paola Antonelli
John Maeda’s Fundamental Idea

Golan Levin
Some Thoughts Regarding John Maeda

John Maeda
Nature

Toshio Iwai
Beyond Media, Connecting Senses

Toshio Iwai
Morphovision – Distorted House

MOBILE CITY

Gerhard Blechinger
Art Becomes Technology

Bernd Wiemann
Innovation is No Coincidence

M+M
Song for C

Empfangshalle
As if we were alone!
New Spaces in the Public Sphere

Ran Tao / Jenny Chowdhury
Mobile Assassins

Jenny Chowdhury
The Cell Atlantic CellBooth

Aram Bartholl
Silver Cell 152 / 153

Graham Budgett / Jane Mulfinger
REGRETS Linz

Taylor Hokanson
Sledgehammer Keyboard

Christopher Romberg / Tobias Zucali
maschine – mensch

Sonja Meller
Wish Visuals
You Pick It, We Play It

Assocreation
Moon Ride

HyperWerk
nomadix – interaction on the move!

INSTALLATIONS

Aram Bartholl
Random Screen

Aram Bartholl
Papierpixel

Jonathan den Breejen / Marenka Deenstra
The PingPongPixel

Martin Frey
CabBoots

Gerhard Dirmoser / Dietmar Offenhuber
SemaSpace

Markus Decker / Dietmar Offenhuber
from dust till dawn

Nicole Knauer
curious implantation

electrolobby

David Cuartielles
Make It Simple
In the space between the KISS principle
and DIY philosophy

David Cuartielles
electrolobby – Make It Simple

Karin Ohlenschläger / Luis Rico
Productive Interventions from the Fringes
of Media Art

CAMPUS

Philip Dean, Media Lab at the University
of Art and Design Helsinki (TaiK)
The Beta Lounge

Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau
Tangible, Audible, Playable, Wearable
Interface Culture Student Works
at Ars Electronica 2006

Dieter Daniels / Claus Pias
When Cybernetics meets Aesthetics

Andreas Broeckmann, Dieter Daniels
Placing and Re-placing Media Art

The Upgrade! International

MUSIC FOR THE EYES

Dennis Russell Davies
Music for the Eyes

Maki Namekawa
When Music and Computer Programs
Grow Together

Some Sounds and Some Fury

Klangpark 2006
Music for a Landscape 269 / 271

ARS ELECTRONICA FUTURELAB

Susanne Scheel
Music Visualization – The Interplay
of Color and Sound

Ars Electronica Futurelab
The Further Adventures of Surfaces,
Sounds, Pixels and Colors
3-D Music Visualizations from the
Ars Electronica Futurelab

Johannes Deutsch
Vision Mahler
Wolfgang Winkler
The Visualization of Music

Ars Electronica Futurelab
The Visualization of Le Sacre
du Printemps

Klaus Obermaier
Music – Dance – Space
The Visualization of Le Sacre
du Printemps

Ars Electronica Futurelab
Pixelspaces 2006: Goblin City
Media, Art and Public Spaces

Ars Electronica Futurelab
WikiMap 324

Ars Electronica Futurelab
Theater and New Technologies
The Electric Grandmother

ARS ELECTRONICA ANIMATION FESTIVAL

Christine Schöpf / Dietmar Offenhuber
Ars Electronica Animation Festival

Prix Ars Electronica 2006

ARS ELECTRONICA CENTER

Nicoletta Blacher
Space Conquests: Do It Yourself!

Andrew Hieronymi
MOVE

Corebounce Art Collective
Digital Marionette

The Sancho Plan
The Sancho Plan

Takafumi Aoki
Kobito – Virtual Brownies

Kumiko Kushiyama – Presto / JST
Thermoesthesia

Sheldon Brown
The Scalable City

Tmema (Golan Levin and Zachary Lieberman)
The Manual Input Station

John Gerrard
Smoke Tree – A virtual sculpture

FESTO
Airacuda – Bionic Object with fin drive

Biographies