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Incredible performances, cool events and extraordinary concerts make Ars Electronica a festival beyond compare. And the annual excitement is about to happen one more time!
The “Art Walk” on the first day of the festival will let you accompany artists and curators to the openings of the individual exhibitions and obtain interesting insights into their work.
That evening, the Austrian Federal Railway’s Linz assembly shop will be the venue of “Suspended Engines,” the Ars Electronica opening party featuring DJs from Austria, India and Turkey. This is a one-of-a-kind setting for festivalgoers to celebrate the kickoff of a great festival week.
The highlight of the evening is a performance entitled “Emotional Traffic” by Maurice Benayoun and Jean Baptiste Barrière. Google search results are used as the basis of establishing a multifaceted emotional landscape on the part of the Internet and its users. From these data, the artists generate the visual and musical material that flows into their performance.
Like every year, the highpoint of the week is the Ars Electronica Gala in Linz’s Brucknerhaus. This evening is totally dedicated to the artists and the 2005 Prix Ars Electronica prizewinners—the recipients of the Golden Nicas, Awards of Distinction and Honorary Mentions.
The awards ceremony in the “u19 – freestyle computing” category for young people will be held in the Ars Electronica Center. The trophies and certificates will be handed over to the winners, and the up-and-coming young artists will present their projects.
The historical anniversaries and commemorations that Austria is marking in 2005 are the centerpiece of this year’s Visualized Klangwolke in the park along the banks of the Danube. Lawine Torrén, artist Hubert Lepka’s crew, will stage a remarkable spectacle entitled “Partition at the River.”
A very special concert evening is in store for festivalgoers attending “Listening between the Lines”: five hours, three concert halls, a full-size orchestra, Dolby 8.1, high-definition projections ... ideal preconditions for an intensive sensory passage through all stages at the interface of sound, code, music and visuals.
In “Secret Tribe” at the Brucknerhaus, Mercan Dede presents his superb new style of music that blends Near Eastern tonal traditions and digital sounds.
Associates of the Art University of Linz’s newly founded Institute for Interface Culture utilize realtime interfaces as musical instruments and demonstrate the results in live presentations and performances at the Ars Electronica Center.
Linz’s Main Square will be the focal point of “Hotspot.” This event will be the big kick-off of the City of Linz’s pioneering wireless LAN initiative. By 2008, several hundred public “hotspots” are to be set up throughout the city to provide free wireless Internet access for all. Parallel to these technical improvements, Linz will be launching a series of projects and initiatives to nurture youth culture and to enhance the quality of life in the neighborhoods. On the occasion of this project’s premiere, a virtual guest book linking up the individual neighborhoods with downtown is being installed on the Main Square. Everyone will be able to exchange pictures and comments via the Internet, notebook, PDA or cell phone, and make a contribution to this diary of the City of Linz.
“Hyprex” is the grand finale of this year’s Ars Electronica Festival. Good music and high-spirited revelry will bring down the curtain on the festival week and send everybody home feeling just fine, thank you!
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