Ars Electronica FESTIVAL

CyberArts

06.09. - 11.09.10:00-00:00

OK Offenes Kulturhaus Oberösterreich

Autoinducer_Ph-1 (cross cultural chemistry)

On the basis of traditional rice cultivation methods, this installation is a reflection on the machine-like nature of ecologies. It probes into and interferes with the symbiotic relationship between the cyanobacteria Anabaena and the water fern Azolla.
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CyberArts

06.09. - 11.09.10:00-00:00

OK Offenes Kulturhaus Oberösterreich

Biological Habitat: Breeding Spaces Technology, Made in Space

The “Made in Biosphere & Made in Space” project plans to use DNA as cosmic universal code: strands of DNA embedded in bioreactors are to develop autonomously into new forms of life in the biosphere and in outer space.
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CyberArts

06.09. - 11.09.10:00-00:00

OK Offenes Kulturhaus Oberösterreich

Camera Lucida: Sonochemical Observatory

The camera lucida (light chamber) transforms sound waves directly into light emissions.
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CyberArts

06.09. - 11.09.10:00-00:00

OK Offenes Kulturhaus Oberösterreich

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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CyberArts

06.09. - 11.09.10:00-00:00

OK Offenes Kulturhaus Oberösterreich

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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CyberArts

06.09. - 11.09.10:00-00:00

OK Offenes Kulturhaus Oberösterreich

Digit

An author sits at a desk and writes a screenplay, but does so with just his index finger and thus without a pen.
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CyberArts

06.09. - 11.09.10:00-00:00

OK Offenes Kulturhaus Oberösterreich

Exploding Camera

Two days before 9/11, Ahmad Schah Massoud, one of the most important members of the anti-Taliban resistance, was murdered. Two suicide bombers masquerading as journalists killed him with an explosive device concealed inside a TV camera that they detonated during a purported interview.
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CyberArts

06.09. - 11.09.10:00-00:00

OK Offenes Kulturhaus Oberösterreich

Freqtric Project

Skin contact as interface system. This project explores the communications possibilities engendered by physical contact.
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CyberArts

06.09. - 11.09.10:00-00:00

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Nothing Happens

In this telematic performance, Internet users work together via mouse click to make a series of objects tip over.
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CyberArts

05.09. - 11.09.10:00-00:00

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Park View Hotel

An art project in a public space extending from Cesar Chavez Plaza, a park in downtown San José, California, to the adjacent Fairmont Hotel.
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CyberArts

05.09. - 11.09.10:00-00:00

OK Offenes Kulturhaus Oberösterreich

Reverse-Simulation Music

Reverse-Simulation Music is a new, experimental form of music in which the differentiation among performer, composer and audience does not apply.
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CyberArts

06.09. - 11.09.10:00-00:00

OK Offenes Kulturhaus Oberösterreich

Se Mi Sei Vicino

The human body as interface, installation visitors as potential performers; on a floor equipped with sensors, there stands a man who functions as an antenna.
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CyberArts

06.09. - 11.09.10:00-00:00

OK Offenes Kulturhaus Oberösterreich

Seeker

In this work, the causal connections among territorial borders, flows of migrants, and the occurrence of raw materials that are at the center of violent disputes are depicted on three interactive screens.
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CyberArts

06.09. - 11.09.10:00-00:00

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SGM-Iceberg-Probe

The SGM Iceberg Probe has been designed to allow the user to “penetrate” layers of ice and visually explore underground realms threatened by global warming and multicultural business interests.
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CyberArts

06.09. - 11.09.10:00-00:00

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SHO(U)T

Based on the ability to recognize feelings, SHO(U)T reacts to the emotional content of messages conveyed to it by installation visitors.
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CyberArts

06.09. - 11.09.10:00-00:00

OK Offenes Kulturhaus Oberösterreich

SymbioticA: The Art and Science Collaborative Research Laboratory, University of Western Australia, Perth (represented by its co-founder and Artistic Director Oron Catts) (AU)

SymbioticA is an artistic laboratory dedicated to the research, learning and critique of life sciences.
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CyberArts

06.09. - 11.09.10:00-00:00

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Unreflective Mirror

Installation visitors wearing polarized filter glasses look into a mirror that is “false” in every respect. In it, they see only their glasses but not themselves.
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CyberArts

06.09. - 11.09.10:00-00:00

OK Offenes Kulturhaus Oberösterreich

White Lives on Speaker

Sculpture by means of sound is the theme of this work in which a white fluid on a vibrating loudspeaker membrane brings forth a variety of different forms.
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