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On September 6 it’s finally starting: Watch holograms like in Star Wars, edit videos in real time, as shown in Minority Report, or let your voice sculpt black fluids…
Following the motto “Code – the Language of our time” you can question the regularities, watch facades and join the unpleasant hunting.


From Justin Manor’s Cinéma Fabriqué, a video edit program, where you can alter videos like Tom Cruise with a single gesture, over Can you see me now? by Blast Theory, a street hunting where real and virtual words overlap, to nybble-engine-toolZ by Margarete Jahrmann and Max Moswitzer, a com-puter game that is changing shape and program all the time and that sends a peace-mail to the White House every time you fire a shot, every possible kind of Cyberarts is represented. And these are only few of the many projects that are presented within the framework of Cyberarts 2003 in the O.K – Centrum for contemporary Art.

At Campus – this year platform for the University for Design and Art Zurich – the front wall of the Art University is going to be transformed into one big keyboard that can only be handled by climbers (what helps to bring the process of programming to our consciousness and also slows it down) – children become programmers by play-ing with a lamp switching interface (as the title “Mommy, I want some super-algorithms too…!” explains felicitously) – SuPerVillainizer by LAN is a conspiring parable on the spreading surveillance after September 11. And these are only few of the award winning projects presented on September 6 – and a typewriter connected to a PC draws a clean ASCII-portrait of yours…

And in the Ars Electronica Center itself Adrian David Cheok’s Gulliver’s Box, which lets you appear as a hologram, celebrates its start – also, Elevated Space shows exhibitions of artwork in the lift of the Center and changes the means of transport into the place of art and the transport into physical art. Protrude, Flow by Sachiko Kodama and Minako Takeno allows you to alter a black fluid just by sounds and voices. Code as the language of our time means espe-cially that we have to find a new view on the world. It’s not about mere understanding but also about realizing. Realize it.
Also in the evening when the Visualized Klangwolke is moving over the Donaupark at 9 pm – this year made up by Christian Kolonovits and Chris Laska. The year’s spectacle with the sensual fusion of music, sound, light, pictures, projections and fireworks as well as experimental and acting elements always makes up a pom-pous prelude to the Festival week.

Afterwards, at 10:30 pm, it’s going on with login: Ars Electronica, taking place in the Peter Behrens Haus, where media art is represented physically and virtually. Award winning digital music, the first downloads and test runs to the Perform-ances can be found here, where the art scene congregates, discussing the topic of “Code” in the atmosphere of this old industrial area. Half commemorative event, half a suggestion for the coming Festival days, the hours until open end are enjoyed, al-ways with the reminiscence of interactive art in the background.

Be a part yourself and realize the worlds of “Codes” that lie behind the visible. From September 6 to September 11 all over Linz. Join the question posted by the artists of how codes do work and where, what they may mean, how they can be undermined consciously – and how they can be formed. Join in.

10:30 am – Cyberarts 2003 Opening / O.K Centrum für Gegenwartskunst
1:30 pm – Campus Opening / University for Artistic and Industrial Design
3:30 pm – Ars Electronica Center Opening / AEC
9:00 pm – Visualized Klangwolke / Donaupark
10:30 pm – login: Ars Electronica / Peter Behrens Haus (Former Tobacco Factory)
12.7.2003
Marcus Lust
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