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The first day of the Festival begins with the presentation of the new Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital Culture and Media Science and ends with a really big show.
The new Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital Culture and Media Science is being established in Linz. Its mission is scholarly research on and archiving of the works of digital art in the extensive Ars Electronica Archive. To mark this occasion, a Digital Archives Conference is being held at the Lentos Museum, where experts from all over the world will be discussing issues having to do with the institute’s activities.
Likewise at the Lentos, Ulf Langheinrich’s “Waveform B” installation will premiere at 1:30. Through projections and the use of stroboscopes, two symmetrically constructed exhibition spaces impart totally different spatial impressions.
Two exhibitions will open at the Linz University of Art: “TANA-BANA – Designing Substantive Freedoms” from the Srishti School of Art Design and Technology in Bangalore, India, and “Interface Culture” from the program of the same name at the University of Art. The works on display are by artists, students, graduates and artists-in-residence.
Associates of the Srishti School of Art Design and Technology will also deliver a performance entitled “The Unstruck Sound” at 7:30 PM on Linz’s Hauptplatz (Main Square). Musical traditions that have been handed down from generation to generation are the theme the artists have chosen.
The City of Linz is launching a major wireless LAN initiative, during the course of which several hundred publicly accessible hotspots will be set up all around town by the year 2008. The kick-off event will be held on the Hauptplatz in conjunction with the Ars Electronica Festival.
The day wraps up with the big opening night event at which the Austrian Federal Railway’s Linz assembly shop will serve as an unusual backdrop for performances and concerts. Interesting sights and sounds will be provided by “bastard’s revenge,” “5mm,” “Emotional Traffic” and “dashes on the slinky stuff.”
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