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The Ars Electronica Festival features a diversified lineup of exhibitions, speeches and performances. Find out more about the daily highlights.
Hybrid Creatures and Paradox Machines
“Hybrid Creatures” is the unifying theme of a series of fascinating projects that represent artists’ takes on robotics, bionics and bio-engineering. This exhibition consists of astounding installations of artistically constructed apparatuses, poetically useless machines and sassy digital characters.
September 1-6, 2005
Train Station: 10 AM to 7 PM
Architekturforum Oberösterreich: 10 AM to 9 PM
Brucknerhaus: 10 AM to 7 PM
CyberArts 2005
This year’s most outstanding installations and projects from the Prix Ars Electronica’s Interactive Art and Digital Musics categories will be exhibited at the O.K Center for Contemporary Art. The featured attraction is “MILKproject,” for which Esther Polak and Ieva Auzina are being honored with a Golden Nica. The two artists utilize GPS satellite navigation technology to track shipments of milk from Latvian dairy farmers to consumers in the Netherlands and construct a digital map displaying stories and images gathered along the links in this logistical chain.
September 2-6, 2005
10 AM to Midnight
O.K Center for Contemporary Art
Ars Electronica Center Exhibition
The start of the Festival coincides with the premiere of new exhibits in the Museum of the Future. This year, the accent is on youth, with a presentation of the “greatest hits” from “u19 – freestyle computing,” Austria’s largest computer competition for young people held annually in conjunction with the Prix Ars Electronica. Another new attraction is the Humphrey II flight simulator that now lets users dive the beautiful blue Danube.
September 1-6, 2005
Ars Electronica Center
10 AM to 9 PM
Campus
This year, the Linz University of Art is hosting the Srishti School of Art Design and Technology from Bangalore in southern India. The guests have curated “TANA-BANA – Designing Substantive Freedoms,” an exhibition that shows how the primary indicators of the success of a society are the freedoms that its members enjoy—those essential freedoms that further the society’s capacity to help itself and to design its own world.
September 2-6, 2005
10 AM to 7 PM
Linz University of Art
electrolobby
Thought-provoking installations are in store for electrolobby visitors: for instance, the “Bankenstatementgenerator” that lets you decide the amounts of the debits and credits to your account; “Bordergames,” a video game about young illegal aliens from Morocco; and “prompt.(decoy2),” a Bluetooth-based data project designed to be installed in a public space.
September 1-6, 2005
10 AM to 7 PM
Brucknerhaus
electrolobby Kitchen
“HYBRID CLUSTERS & PARADOX ENCOUNTERS” is the theme of this year’s electrolobby Kitchen, the Ars Electronica Festival’s discussion forum and communications hub. Focal-point issues include media activism in Italy and Austria, openness in the context of free software and open cultures, cultural sustainability and the World Summit on the Information Society.
September 2-6, 2005
Brucknerhaus
Animation Festival
An animation festival is making its debut in the Ars Electronica lineup this year. Screenings will include the most outstanding submissions to the 2005 Prix Ars Electronica, the Animation Show of the Japan Media Arts Festival Tokyo and specially selected films that document the state of the art of animation technique and trends in visual design.
September 2-6, 2005
O.K Center for Contemporary Art
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