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 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.

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

10:30 - 12:00: Japanese Animation:
Visual imaginativeness and unconventional narrative forms characterize animation made in Japan. This program curated by the Japan Media Arts Festival showcases a cross-section of artistic productions from recent years.

12:30 - 13:30: Generative Animation:
A program of current artistic examples of processual, program-controlled image design curated by artists Lia (A) and Miguel Carvahais (ES).

Agenda:

Update on the Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts (ISEA)
Nina Czegledy, chair, ISEA Board

Update on ISEA2006: August, 2006, San Jose, California, USA
Introducing the ISEA2008 hosts

14:00 - 15:00: 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.

15:30 - 16:30: 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.

19:00 - 20:30: 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.

21:00 - 22:00: 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.

22:30 - 23:30: 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.

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).

At which venues of artistic production does art enter into a dialog with media, science and technology? What can these locations tell us about the unique aspects of working in media art? How are they connected to various scientific, academic, military, economic and other contexts? What is the source of the legitimacy ascribed nowadays to the existence of a separate discourse and special institutions dedicated to media art? What are the specific features of these places, and where might their future lie?

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.

The concert featuring the prize winners in the Prix Ars Electronica’s Digital Musics category: l’île re-sonante by Eliane Radigue (FR), psychic stress soundtracks by Joe Colley (US) and Voodooluba by Niobe (Yvonne Cornelius, DE). Emanuel Jauk, winner of an Honorary Mention in the u19 – freestyle computing category, will perform his piece ac_form.

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.

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.

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

Agenda:

Update on the Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts (ISEA)
Nina Czegledy, chair, ISEA Board

Update on ISEA2006: August, 2006, San Jose, California, USA
Introducing the ISEA2008 hosts

14:00 - 15:00: 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.

15:30 - 16:30: 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.

19:00 - 20:30: 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.

21:00 - 22:00: 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.

22:30 - 23:30: 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.

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).

At which venues of artistic production does art enter into a dialog with media, science and technology? What can these locations tell us about the unique aspects of working in media art? How are they connected to various scientific, academic, military, economic and other contexts? What is the source of the legitimacy ascribed nowadays to the existence of a separate discourse and special institutions dedicated to media art? What are the specific features of these places, and where might their future lie?

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.

The concert featuring the prize winners in the Prix Ars Electronica’s Digital Musics category: l’île re-sonante by Eliane Radigue (FR), psychic stress soundtracks by Joe Colley (US) and Voodooluba by Niobe (Yvonne Cornelius, DE). Emanuel Jauk, winner of an Honorary Mention in the u19 – freestyle computing category, will perform his piece ac_form.

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.