Program - Projects A-Z

Second City

05.09. - 11.09.10:00-22:00

Marienstraße 5

Calling the Glacier – A Mobile Elegy

Calling the Glacier – A Mobile Elegy
Sound researcher Kalle Laar enables cellphone users to get connected with the Pasterze Glacier flanking Großglockner, Austria’s highest mountain. Microphones set up on site provide users with an up-close-and-personal auditory experience: the actual sounds—hissing, trickling, creaking, grunting and groaning—made by this melting ice-giant. This inexorable glacial process will betransmitted directly in real time to cellphones as a sound collage, and allow usto witness a matter of fact that has an impact on us all.
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Exhibitions

06.09. - 11.09.10:00-00:00

OK Offenes Kulturhaus Oberösterreich

Camera Lucida: Sonochemical Observatory

Camera Lucida: Sonochemical Observatory
The camera lucida (light chamber) transforms sound waves directly into light emissions.
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campus2.0

07.09. - 11.09.10:00-19:00

Kunstuniversität Linz / Hauptplatz

Campillow

Campillow
With a pillow as magnifying glass in their hands, visitors navigate across a map of the world and zoom themselves into the scenery.This map made up of webcam feeds makes it possible to explore the course of the sun and happenings in public places worldwide. Around the globe via pillow.
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Second City

06.09. - 09.09.21:00-04:00

Pfarrplatz

Capture your City

Capture your City
Capture Your City is a mobile workshop that will be Stadtwerkstatt’s base on Pfarrplatz. A combination working and living space, the temporary architecture will serve as the point of departure for neighborhood reconnaissance tours by STWST’s editorial staff and artists in residence.
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campus2.0

06.09. - 11.09.10:00-19:00

Kunstuniversität Linz / Hauptplatz

chain reaction

chain reaction
A Jacob's ladder is a folk toy consisting of blocks of wood held together by strings or ribbons. The strings are affixed in such a way that a block can tip in only one direction. When the ladder is held at one end, blocks appear to cascade down the strings. However, this effect is a visual illusion that’s the result of one block after another flipping over.
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Second City

05.09. - 11.09.10:00-22:00

Marienstraße 4

Chat

Chat
Just like in World of Warcraft or Second Life,two participants communicate with eachother in the form of brief text messagesinput via keyboard. Immediately afterthey've been entered, the written communiqués appear in a comic-strip-likedialogue balloon projected above the speaker’s head. The projection surface isput in place by a technician positioned behind the “speaker” with the help of atelescoping pole featuring a built-in miniature projector.
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Exhibitions

05.09. - 11.09.10:00-21:00

Ars Electronica Center - Museum der Zukunft

chic-o-mat

chic-o-mat
The chic-o-mat lets you (virtually) change your appearance, age and gender. This is done by overlaying an automatically produced self-portrait with the image of another person.
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Exhibitions / Prix Ars Electronica

06.09. - 11.09.10:00-00:00

OK Offenes Kulturhaus Oberösterreich

Cloaca

Cloaca
The purpose of this machine is to create a reproduction of the human digestive system without reference to human physical features. The functions of the respective stages of digestion are mimicked, as it were, through the use of various different containers, each with its own particular chemical content.
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Conferences

10.09.13:30-19:00

Kunstuniversität Linz / K2

Closeness vs Dislocation – Contextualising Net-Based Art

Closeness vs Dislocation – Contextualising Net-Based Art
The field of media art was expanded in the 1990s to include the genre of network art. Exploratory and dynamically creative, critically probing and transcending the boundaries of both the medium and the very concept of art itself, it has nevertheless often been declared obsolete.
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A day in the city

08.09.15:30-16:00

Mobiles Ö1 Atelier / Hauptplatz

Concert for 260 Headphones

Concert for 260 Headphones
Seppo Gruendler: extended-guitar, electronics, gadgets
Josef Klammer: drums, percussion, electronics
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Exhibitions / Prix Ars Electronica

06.09. - 11.09.10:00-00:00

OK Offenes Kulturhaus Oberösterreich

Conservation of Intimacy

Conservation of Intimacy
Two people sitting and rocking on a wooden bench cause small blasts of air in an adjacent space. The resulting turbulence causes balls in the space to swirl about.
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campus2.0

06.09. - 11.09.10:00-19:00

Kunstuniversität Linz / Hauptplatz

Crucifixion

Crucifixion
The cross has become an abstract symbol, the events at the place of the crucifixion tend to be forgotten. The installation “crucifixion” intended for the side altar of a church, tells these stories.
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Exhibitions / Second City

05.09. - 11.09.10:00-22:00

Marienstraße 10

CUBE

CUBE
Where you are. Where we are." The application of CUBE Bits of Moments is an artwork which involves everyone visiting Linz during the Ars Electronica Festival, including you in front of this artwork, making them ultimately a participant, conscious or unconscious, of this artwork. Four drawings on the wall and the table in this room each illustrate the flow of people visiting Ars Electronica Festival. A sensor installed at the entrances of four exhibition sites (Pfarrplatz, Ars Electronica Center, Marienstraße 7 and 10) sends information to express real-time presences of visitors also at Pixelspaces.
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