The electrolobby in the Brucknerhaus is the site of a series of workshops curated by David Cuartielles, the results of which will be presented in the electrolobby and then go on exhibit. Here, the spotlight will be on Arduino, open-source hardware that enables computer and cell phone users to control independent objects in the real world.

The trend towards simplicity is reflected not only in information technology and design; it’s also manifested by an ever-more-fervent longing for tranquility amidst the commotion all around us and a conception of the simple life that all too often becomes a cliché-ridden pastoral idyll. Back to nature, the new spirituality, and buzzwords like cocooning and neo-Biedermeier are examples of people’s efforts to demarcate realms for a retreat inwards.

The Make-it-Simple-workshops will highlight this year’s e-lobby kitchen. Concepts and results that emerge from the workshops will be presented and thrashed out.
Special thanks to Ö1

10:30 - 11:30: Prix Selection: Time in Motion:
Movement, rhythm, speed and standstill are the ingredients of this program. The spectrum ranges from a chase cartoon to suggestive visual music in which image, color, movement and sound blend together.

12:00 - 13:00: Prix Selection: Visual Effects and Commercials:
There’s hardly a feature film or ad spot made today that doesn’t utilize special effects. The most common ones are high-speed or highly unusual tracking shots, utopian scenery and death-defying stunts. In some films’ credits, the FX crew takes up more footage than all the other technicians combined. This program is a “greatest hits” compilation from recent films and commercials.

The urban domain is being infrastructurally upgraded into a multimedia environment as digitization makes its physical mark on the cityscape itself.

13:30 - 14:30: Prix Selection: Music Videos:
With the revival of analog trick techniques, the retro look has become totally hot in the music video production field. Rarely in the past has this genre included as much animation as it has in the last two years.

15:00 - 16:30: Prix Selection: Narration:
Storytelling has always been one of filmmakers’ main motivations. Recollections emerge from out of a photo album; roommates discuss some problems that have arisen and encounter the unexpected; an auto race charged with tension and excitement; and even discarded alarm clocks, which also have their stories to tell—these narratives relate common and uncommon situations from everyday life!

20:00 - 21:30: Electronic Theater

22:00 - 23:30: Electronic Theater

Cecily is the world’s first electric grandmother. At the Phoenix Theater, you can experience how a family’s life changes when their electric grandmother moves in!

A coproduction of Theater Phönix and Ars Electronica Futurelab. Virtual Scenography: Ars Electronica Futurelab / Christine Pilsl, Michael Lankes, Christopher Lindinger, Andreas Jalsovec, Stefan Schilcher. Actors: Randolf Destaller, Gabriele Deutsch, Thomas Pohl, Christian Scharrer, Waltraud Starck. Special thanks to Nana Susanne Thurner (u19 – freestyle computing).

Grand Cafe zum Rothen Krebsen & the Institute for Expanded Art in cooperation with the Media Lab Helsinki
www.roterkrebs.net, simplecity@gmx.at

In conjunction with the 2006 Ars Electronica’s Campus exhibition, the “Grand Cafe zum Rothen Krebsen,” the Institute for Expanded Art’s event space, will provide an ideal setting for sound- and performance-based Concerts and installations. In addition to projects from Media Lab Helsinki, the Institute for Expanded Art will also showcase regional artists active at the interface of performance and music, as well as works that have emerged from the Arduino Project. Rounding things out will be an all-evening Finnish-Austrian DJ set, simulations of the northern lights, and live acts.

A big-screen showing of the prizewinning works in the 2006 Prix Ars Electronica’s Computer Animation / Visual Effects category.

The situation of the world’s children is the theme of the 2006 Klangwolke (cloud of sound). Dutch songwriter and poet Herman van Veen will personally relate in word and song the story of Alfred Jodocus Kwak, a duck who’s involved as UNICEF’s ambassador for children’s rights. The 60th anniversary of the United Nations children’s aid organization also provides a fitting occasion for the Klangwolke to go into the living conditions of children around the world.

Presented by ORF Upper Austria and Brucknerhaus Linz. Supported by Telekom Austria and Generali Versicherung AG.

Takashi’s Seasons is a sequential live shadow puppet / video performance in which various scenes interpreting the four seasons are performed by a modern Utsushi-e artist.


By shine:
Sa/Sat 2.9.     So/Sun 3.9.     Mo/Mon 4.9.
21:00 - 22:30   Hauptplatz

By rain:
So/Sun 3.9.     During the “Some Sounds and Some Fury” intermissions
Mo/Mon 4.9.    Following “Digital Musics in Concert”
21:00 - 22:30    Brucknerhaus

A big-screen showing of the prizewinning works in the 2006 Prix Ars Electronica’s Computer Animation / Visual Effects category.

At day’s end, there’s nothing like Quarter Nightline in the Stadtwerkstatt to wind things up on a high note.

decker/reiter work on various soundscape ordering patterns behind turntables, computer and synthesizer. They’ll be followed by staalplaat and a live performance of a mono erosive surround-sound installation entitled Yokomono that was singled out for recognition with an Honorary Mention in the 2006 Prix Ars Electronica’s Digital Musics category. DJ ddkern’s extraordinary stylistic mix will conclude the evening with a bang.

The electrolobby in the Brucknerhaus is the site of a series of workshops curated by David Cuartielles, the results of which will be presented in the electrolobby and then go on exhibit. Here, the spotlight will be on Arduino, open-source hardware that enables computer and cell phone users to control independent objects in the real world.

The trend towards simplicity is reflected not only in information technology and design; it’s also manifested by an ever-more-fervent longing for tranquility amidst the commotion all around us and a conception of the simple life that all too often becomes a cliché-ridden pastoral idyll. Back to nature, the new spirituality, and buzzwords like cocooning and neo-Biedermeier are examples of people’s efforts to demarcate realms for a retreat inwards.

The Make-it-Simple-workshops will highlight this year’s e-lobby kitchen. Concepts and results that emerge from the workshops will be presented and thrashed out.
Special thanks to Ö1

The urban domain is being infrastructurally upgraded into a multimedia environment as digitization makes its physical mark on the cityscape itself.

13:30 - 14:30: Prix Selection: Music Videos:
With the revival of analog trick techniques, the retro look has become totally hot in the music video production field. Rarely in the past has this genre included as much animation as it has in the last two years.

15:00 - 16:30: Prix Selection: Narration:
Storytelling has always been one of filmmakers’ main motivations. Recollections emerge from out of a photo album; roommates discuss some problems that have arisen and encounter the unexpected; an auto race charged with tension and excitement; and even discarded alarm clocks, which also have their stories to tell—these narratives relate common and uncommon situations from everyday life!

20:00 - 21:30: Electronic Theater

22:00 - 23:30: Electronic Theater

Cecily is the world’s first electric grandmother. At the Phoenix Theater, you can experience how a family’s life changes when their electric grandmother moves in!

A coproduction of Theater Phönix and Ars Electronica Futurelab. Virtual Scenography: Ars Electronica Futurelab / Christine Pilsl, Michael Lankes, Christopher Lindinger, Andreas Jalsovec, Stefan Schilcher. Actors: Randolf Destaller, Gabriele Deutsch, Thomas Pohl, Christian Scharrer, Waltraud Starck. Special thanks to Nana Susanne Thurner (u19 – freestyle computing).

Grand Cafe zum Rothen Krebsen & the Institute for Expanded Art in cooperation with the Media Lab Helsinki
www.roterkrebs.net, simplecity@gmx.at

In conjunction with the 2006 Ars Electronica’s Campus exhibition, the “Grand Cafe zum Rothen Krebsen,” the Institute for Expanded Art’s event space, will provide an ideal setting for sound- and performance-based Concerts and installations. In addition to projects from Media Lab Helsinki, the Institute for Expanded Art will also showcase regional artists active at the interface of performance and music, as well as works that have emerged from the Arduino Project. Rounding things out will be an all-evening Finnish-Austrian DJ set, simulations of the northern lights, and live acts.

A big-screen showing of the prizewinning works in the 2006 Prix Ars Electronica’s Computer Animation / Visual Effects category.

The situation of the world’s children is the theme of the 2006 Klangwolke (cloud of sound). Dutch songwriter and poet Herman van Veen will personally relate in word and song the story of Alfred Jodocus Kwak, a duck who’s involved as UNICEF’s ambassador for children’s rights. The 60th anniversary of the United Nations children’s aid organization also provides a fitting occasion for the Klangwolke to go into the living conditions of children around the world.

Presented by ORF Upper Austria and Brucknerhaus Linz. Supported by Telekom Austria and Generali Versicherung AG.

Takashi’s Seasons is a sequential live shadow puppet / video performance in which various scenes interpreting the four seasons are performed by a modern Utsushi-e artist.


By shine:
Sa/Sat 2.9.     So/Sun 3.9.     Mo/Mon 4.9.
21:00 - 22:30   Hauptplatz

By rain:
So/Sun 3.9.     During the “Some Sounds and Some Fury” intermissions
Mo/Mon 4.9.    Following “Digital Musics in Concert”
21:00 - 22:30    Brucknerhaus

A big-screen showing of the prizewinning works in the 2006 Prix Ars Electronica’s Computer Animation / Visual Effects category.

At day’s end, there’s nothing like Quarter Nightline in the Stadtwerkstatt to wind things up on a high note.

decker/reiter work on various soundscape ordering patterns behind turntables, computer and synthesizer. They’ll be followed by staalplaat and a live performance of a mono erosive surround-sound installation entitled Yokomono that was singled out for recognition with an Honorary Mention in the 2006 Prix Ars Electronica’s Digital Musics category. DJ ddkern’s extraordinary stylistic mix will conclude the evening with a bang.