Here’s a terrific idea for an extra special birthday party for your child this year! How about inviting the youthful celebrants to spend the big day discovering virtual worlds and trying their hands at interactive games?

Kids—and their parents too—love birthday celebrations at the Ars Electronica Center, and the new exhibition’s interactive features double partygoers’ pleasure on this very special day! Chaperoned by one of our expert Infotrainers, the birthday boy or girl and his/her entourage of well-wishers go on a journey of discovery through the fascinating world of computer technology.

In “Gulliver’s World,” kids can jointly design a fantasy landscape and use plastiline modeling clay and a 3D scanner to create digital action figures that they can endow with particular qualities and dispatch on an exploratory mission through Gulliver’s World. You can even step inside the Greenbox and “beam” yourself into the landscape, and then e-mail an image of it to yourself as a souvenir of an unforgettable experience!

The Center’s 1st Upper Level is dedicated to u19 – freestyle computing, Ars Electronica’s computer competition for young people. Here, you can check out the 2007 prizewinners and get your own creative juices flowing in the new Animation Studio. This is also where our youngest visitors can get acquainted with QuiQui and accompany the little green dragon on some great adventures!

The “Humphrey II Flight & Dive Simulator” lets you careen through Linz from the depths of the blue Danube to the wild blue yonder. In “Move,” game players need speed and agility to beat the computer. “The Sancho Plan” is kids’ big chance to really kick out the jams—electronic drum pads control a varied cast of animated characters through an evolving musical adventure. Visitors to the CAVE are transported into virtual realities: strange planets, labyrinths and Renaissance cities.

Plus, for birthday girls and boys who are Museum of the Future regulars, we can even arrange a special program featuring mini-workshops focusing on robotics, sensors and film animation. “Pictures in Motion” participants get hands-on experience using a simple stop-action procedure to create cartoon sequences in the Center’s Animation Studio. Fascinating experiments with LEGO robots and sensors are on the workshop agenda at “Get Creative in Robolab.”

Following a thrilling journey of discovery through the Ars Electronica Center, partygoers are invited to partake of some birthday refreshments: a custom-made pizza and a kiddie cocktail to wash it down. Then, to climax the festivities, there’s cake topped by birthday candles!

Reservation
To make reservations, please call 0732/7272/51 or send an e-mail to center@aec.at.

Children’s Birthday Party
at the Ars Electronica Center Graben 15

Minimum number of participants: 6
Fee per participant
without workshop: € 14,-
Fee per participant
with workshop: € 15,-
Images in Motion,
Ages 6-10, max. 8 participants
Robolab,
Ages 10-14, max. 8 participants
Age: 6 and up Duration: 2 ½ hours (including a tour lasting 1 ½ hours)

Birthday Snack:(in the pizzeria next to the AEC)
Kid’s-size pizza with a choice of toppings, a kiddie cocktail, a drink and birthday cake.