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.

Award-winning artists will discuss their work at the Prix Forums.

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

Music for a landscape—for the Danube and the riverside park adjacent to the Brucknerhaus—is the leitmotif of this year’s Klangpark. A high-performance loudspeaker system delivering superb sound reproduction will be set up to provide an optimal listening experience throughout the alfresco concert venue.
The piece selected for the 2006 Klangpark is Robert Ashley’s Music with Roots in the Aether, an exciting approach to staging a musical project and combining it with visual forms of expression.

The media world’s complexity as well as the density of its information offerings have increased exponentially due to the emergence of new network media like weblogs and wikis. Simultaneously, “old” analog technologies like community radio & TV are themselves undergoing a renaissance as instruments that explicitly perform public service functions and thus produce “public value.” These developments have put pressure on public broadcasting systems to justify their status as recipients of financing from mandatory subscriber fees.

10:30 - 12:00: u19 - freestyle animation
Participants in the Prix Ars Electronica’s annual competition for young people show how it’s done. The choice of tools and media is open—ya know, freestyle computing, just like it sez. And the stuff these talented young animators and up-and-coming directors have come up with is really cool. This 2006 “best of” lineup was curated by Sirikit Aman.

12:30 - 13:30: 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.

14:00 - 15:00: 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.

15:30 - 16:30: Prix Selection: Small World Machines
The world as a fantastic machine whose mechanism does not always obey laws we are capable of grasping. The inhabitants of it are sometimes grains of sand and sometimes tiny gears. A mix of poetic, absurd and occasionally furious miniatures.

17:00 - 18:30: Prix Selection: Exquisite Monsters
The world of computer animation is inhabited by many different species of monsters—friendly ones and menacing ones too, those that are mechanical, animalistic and human. The computer becomes a genetics lab in which the engineers’ inventiveness knows no limits.

19:00 - 20:00: Generative Animation
A program of current artistic examples of processual, program-controlled image design curated by artists Lia (A) and Miguel Carvahais (ES).

20:30 - 22:00: Prix Selection: Monochromatic/b/w
Color reduction and a language of graphic forms are the characteristics of this program. The content is a highly diverse mix of short stories.

22:30 - 23:30: Prix Selection: Late Night
A program for night people with a dark sense of humor: offbeat situations, stirring flashes of inspiration and trashy aesthetics assure a thoroughly tolerable chill-out.

The object of this game is to temporarily lay claim to a public space and impart a design to it in a very unconventional way. The players—all 100 – 200 of them—are issued little flags of different colors; they then form a square on a slope of Schlossberg, a hill overlooking Linz. Pedestrians on the nearby Nibelungen Bridge or in the Urfahr neighborhood are invited to call in requests for patterns they’d like to see on Schloßberg. The players on Schloßberg then jointly attempt to visually implement the requested image, choosing the appropriate colors and waving the corresponding flags.
To pre-register as a player: spiel@afo.at or 0664 / 954 96 57.
Afterwards, all players are invited to partake of a buffet!

Upgrade! was founded in 1999 in New York by Yael Kanarek as a regular get-together of artists and curators working in the field of New Media. It has since developed into an international network that is held together by a shared interest in art and technology, and by members’ efforts to bridge gaps between cultures. Upgrade! attaches great importance to localization and reflects state-of-the-art creative developments via cutting-edge technology.

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).

Pixelspaces is the series of symposia staged annually by the Ars Electronica Futurelab. They take up the latest trends and scrutinize them from the perspective of a media laboratory. At this year’s installment entitled Goblin City, participants will present projects and approaches at the nexus of media, art and public space.

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.

Mediating between the realm of acoustic instruments and the domain of electronic and digital sounds is the prime mission of the long concert night that has become a fixed feature on Ars Electronica’s lineup. The great Bruckner Orchestra conducted by Dennis Russell Davies and featuring Maki Namekawa on piano will enable us to partake of extraordinary performances that span in virtuoso fashion the entire range bounded by these musical antipodes.

Moreover, the grand evening concert’s program represents not only an encounter of different musical worlds and generations; the music itself as a level of expression will also be provided with a visual augmentation. In conjunction with each of the works to be performed, a different artist has been invited to create a digital visualization that accompanies the composition, plumbs its depths, and even constitutes the artist’s own interpretation of the music.

Some Sounds and Some Fury is a further step in an ongoing collaboration between Brucknerhaus Linz
and Ars Electronica that attempts to create new experimental fusions between music and visual art.

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

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

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.

Award-winning artists will discuss their work at the Prix Forums.

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

Music for a landscape—for the Danube and the riverside park adjacent to the Brucknerhaus—is the leitmotif of this year’s Klangpark. A high-performance loudspeaker system delivering superb sound reproduction will be set up to provide an optimal listening experience throughout the alfresco concert venue.
The piece selected for the 2006 Klangpark is Robert Ashley’s Music with Roots in the Aether, an exciting approach to staging a musical project and combining it with visual forms of expression.

The media world’s complexity as well as the density of its information offerings have increased exponentially due to the emergence of new network media like weblogs and wikis. Simultaneously, “old” analog technologies like community radio & TV are themselves undergoing a renaissance as instruments that explicitly perform public service functions and thus produce “public value.” These developments have put pressure on public broadcasting systems to justify their status as recipients of financing from mandatory subscriber fees.

14:00 - 15:00: 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.

15:30 - 16:30: Prix Selection: Small World Machines
The world as a fantastic machine whose mechanism does not always obey laws we are capable of grasping. The inhabitants of it are sometimes grains of sand and sometimes tiny gears. A mix of poetic, absurd and occasionally furious miniatures.

17:00 - 18:30: Prix Selection: Exquisite Monsters
The world of computer animation is inhabited by many different species of monsters—friendly ones and menacing ones too, those that are mechanical, animalistic and human. The computer becomes a genetics lab in which the engineers’ inventiveness knows no limits.

19:00 - 20:00: Generative Animation
A program of current artistic examples of processual, program-controlled image design curated by artists Lia (A) and Miguel Carvahais (ES).

20:30 - 22:00: Prix Selection: Monochromatic/b/w
Color reduction and a language of graphic forms are the characteristics of this program. The content is a highly diverse mix of short stories.

22:30 - 23:30: Prix Selection: Late Night
A program for night people with a dark sense of humor: offbeat situations, stirring flashes of inspiration and trashy aesthetics assure a thoroughly tolerable chill-out.

The object of this game is to temporarily lay claim to a public space and impart a design to it in a very unconventional way. The players—all 100 – 200 of them—are issued little flags of different colors; they then form a square on a slope of Schlossberg, a hill overlooking Linz. Pedestrians on the nearby Nibelungen Bridge or in the Urfahr neighborhood are invited to call in requests for patterns they’d like to see on Schloßberg. The players on Schloßberg then jointly attempt to visually implement the requested image, choosing the appropriate colors and waving the corresponding flags.
To pre-register as a player: spiel@afo.at or 0664 / 954 96 57.
Afterwards, all players are invited to partake of a buffet!

Upgrade! was founded in 1999 in New York by Yael Kanarek as a regular get-together of artists and curators working in the field of New Media. It has since developed into an international network that is held together by a shared interest in art and technology, and by members’ efforts to bridge gaps between cultures. Upgrade! attaches great importance to localization and reflects state-of-the-art creative developments via cutting-edge technology.

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).

Pixelspaces is the series of symposia staged annually by the Ars Electronica Futurelab. They take up the latest trends and scrutinize them from the perspective of a media laboratory. At this year’s installment entitled Goblin City, participants will present projects and approaches at the nexus of media, art and public space.

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.

Mediating between the realm of acoustic instruments and the domain of electronic and digital sounds is the prime mission of the long concert night that has become a fixed feature on Ars Electronica’s lineup. The great Bruckner Orchestra conducted by Dennis Russell Davies and featuring Maki Namekawa on piano will enable us to partake of extraordinary performances that span in virtuoso fashion the entire range bounded by these musical antipodes.

Moreover, the grand evening concert’s program represents not only an encounter of different musical worlds and generations; the music itself as a level of expression will also be provided with a visual augmentation. In conjunction with each of the works to be performed, a different artist has been invited to create a digital visualization that accompanies the composition, plumbs its depths, and even constitutes the artist’s own interpretation of the music.

Some Sounds and Some Fury is a further step in an ongoing collaboration between Brucknerhaus Linz
and Ars Electronica that attempts to create new experimental fusions between music and visual art.

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

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