Archiquarium

2004

The point of departure of the Archiquarium archive installation is Gerhard Dirmoser’s study “25 Years of Ars Electronica – An Overview as Memory Theater.” The Linz theoretician has produced a thematic cartography of all aspects that he considered relevant to Ars Electronica.

The large format wall chart generated with this data simultaneously constitutes the portal to an information space: Ars Electronica’s digital project archive that offers a complete overview of all projects realized since 1996 in conjunction with the Ars Electronica Center. By physically approaching a text element in the diagram, the user summons forth the virtual information hidden behind it. The technical basis of the interface is a series of radio frequency identification tags (RFIDs) that mark the corresponding locations on the diagram and can be read with a PDA. The physical wall diagram thus becomes a permeable surface and an interface with the data realm.

The installations making up the Archiquarium constitute a technical prototype for ergonomic access to and intuitive modes of working with complex collections of data and digital archives.

Ars Electronica Futurelab (A)

Datadesk / Datenpult: Philipp Seifried, Günther Kolar, Helmut Höllerl, Nina Wenhart, Dietmar Offenhuber, Stefan Feldler, Scott Ritter / Jakob Edelbacher, Stefan Hackl, Gerold Hofstadler
Data Wall / Datenwand: Gerhard Dirmoser, Stefan Feldler, Philipp Seifried, Helmut Höllerl, Nina Wenhart, Günther Kolar, Dietmar Offenhuber, Scott Ritter / Jakob Edelbacher, Stefan Hackl, Gerold Hofstadler
Timeslider / Zeitschiene: Dietmar Offenhuber, based on "ars topics" by Gerhard Dirmoser
Datapool / Datenpool: Birgit Benetseder, Gunther Schmidl, Nina Wenhart, Peter Senoner, Milena Rieser, Helmut Höllerl, Reinhold Bidner
Navigator: Günther Kolar, Gunther Schmidl, Nicolas Naveau
Author study "25 Years of Ars Electronica“: Gerhard Dirmoser
Exhibition Architecture: Scott Ritter / Jakob Edelbacher
Graphic Design, Software: Birgit Benetseder
Animation: Reinhold Bidner
Hardware Development: Stefan Feldler
Concept: Helmut Höllerl
Concept, Software: Dietmar Offenhuber
Content development: Milena Rieser
Graphic design, software: Philipp Seifried
Content development: Peter Senoner
Content research: Nina Wenhart
Database, Web development: Günther Kolar
Graphic design: Nicolas Naveau
Database development: Gunther Schmidl
Production: Ellen Fethke
Technical Consulting: Stefan Hackl, Gerold Hofstadler

Hardware Development: Stefan Feldler
Graphic Design, software: Philipp Seifried, Birgit Beireder
Content Research: Nina Wenhart
Concept: Helmut Höllerl
Concept, software: Dietmar Offenhuber
Diagram for the Memory Theater: Gerhard Dirmoser