Pixelspaces Exhibition

The Ars Electronica Futurelab will curate its own exhibition to accompany the Pixelspaces symposium.

Pixelspaces Exhibition

05.09. - 11.09.10:00-22:00

Marienstraße 10

Amagatana

“Amagatana” (the name means “rainy sword” in Japanese) is an example of Ubiquitous Content that is a mystical sword for enjoying the blithe feeling after the rain. “Amagatana” seems to be just a plastic umbrella. However, it makes a sound of swords clashing in response to the player’s swing.  “Amagatana” also gives us the consciousness “What is your reality is not everybody's reality”. The project is granted by CREST, JST.
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Pixelspaces Exhibition

05.09. - 11.09.10:00-22:00

Marienstraße 10

bliin YourLIVE!

bliin YourLIVE! – a Caress spin-off – is a mobile social platform for location interaction, community, content & commerce. Users can spot, trace and share experiences – pictures, videos, audio and text – with one another in real-time on Google Maps.
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Pixelspaces Exhibition

05.09. - 11.09.10:00-22:00

Marienstraße 10

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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Pixelspaces Exhibition

05.09. - 11.09.10:00-21:00

Ars Electronica Center - Museum der Zukunft

Digital Pheromones

Ants in search of food leave behind scents called pheromones that help other ants find the shortest path to the food source.
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Pixelspaces Exhibition

05.09. - 11.09.10:00-22:00

Marienstraße 10

Echologue

Echologue is a site-specific, public interface that intends to take an active role in sensing the identity of a location from the voices of its people. Similar to a smart mirror, it proposes an intelligent display that can reflect the socio-cultural aspects of its environment and help the space be about the people passing by.
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Pixelspaces Exhibition

05.09. - 11.09.10:00-22:00

Marienstraße 10

Flick_rBoard

Flick_rBoard hosts a network linking up input stations in Vienna and Linz with Flickr.com. Tablet PCs register handwritten notes and pictograms, and let users add scribbles to stock images stored in memory, which appear in the form of Post-its and Polaroids on several digital bulletin boards.
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Pixelspaces Exhibition

05.09. - 11.09.10:00-22:00

Marienstraße 10

Jaiku Mobile

Users of Jaiku post thoughts (Jaikus), converse, and establish a central presence for social networking. They share life stream information at one location and connect with friends doing the same; their presences are monitored and updated in real time.
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Pixelspaces Exhibition

05.09. - 11.09.10:00-22:00

Marienstraße 10

JUMP ("MOGA")

Jump is an example of Ubiquitous Cinema that connect people on the globe through user contribution and participation, both physical presence and virtual presence. This project is a big mash up of digital and analogue, screen media and performing arts, online community and physical community, user created contents and professional created contents.
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Pixelspaces Exhibition

05.09. - 11.09.10:00-22:00

Marienstraße 10

Le Sacre du Printemps

This 3D projection of a 2006 performance of Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring) showcases an artistic approach that has garnered international acclaim for the Ars Electronica Futurelab. The development of work-specific virtual modes of interpretation for music, song and dance conceptually expand classical artistic genres to create fascinating, innovative forms of expression.
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Pixelspaces Exhibition

05.09. - 11.09.10:00-22:00

Marienstraße 10

MUPE

User and device context awareness are the main differentiating factor of mobile services compared to online services on PCs. Taking advantage of these unique features, Multi-User Publishing Environment (MUPE) is an application platform for mobile online multi-user context-aware services, games and applications. MUPE allows anyone to create their own mobile services, games and applications using a plethora of technologies to reduce the complexity of developing mobile services.
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Pixelspaces Exhibition

05.09. - 11.09.10:00-22:00

Marienstraße 10

Orpheus Mirror

With their body movements, installation visitors can influence the movements of multiple visual levels behind their own reflections. The visual levels also extend across to adjacent displays, so that a total of three users, by coordinating their movements with one another, have the possibility of creating three complete images on three displays.
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Pixelspaces Exhibition

05.09. - 11.09.10:00-22:00

Marienstraße 10

Post-Bits

Modeled after paper Post-Its, Post-Bits combine the affordances of physical tiny sticky memos and the digital handling of visual information. Post-Bits function as a kind of physical augmented reality interface, enabling people to arrange multimedia content in embodied physical spaces. Tangible properties of paper such as flipping, flexing, scattering and rubbing are mapped to controlling or perceiving aspects of the multimedia content such as scrubbing, sorting, or up- or down-loading dynamic media (video, graphics, dynamic text).
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Pixelspaces Exhibition

05.09. - 11.09.10:00-22:00

Marienstraße 10

Source.Code

The actual business operations currently being carried out by SAP Corporation's worldwide staff are visualized at the company's new headquarters complex in Walldorf, Germany in the form of abstract creatures that react to visitors' presence. A real-time excerpt from these massive flows of data provide a glimpse into what is the Ars Electronica Futurelab's biggest solo commission project to date.
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Pixelspaces Exhibition

05.09. - 11.09.10:00-22:00

Marienstraße 10

SUN_D

Sunlight is, as a rule, the natural enemy of displays that work with some form of artificial illumination. SUN_D takes advantage of this inherent shortcoming and presents various prototypes of sunlight displays that illustrate the potential to use this free and inexhaustible light source.
Winning Project [the next idea] Art and Technology Grant, Prix Ars Electronica 2007
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Pixelspaces Exhibition

05.09. - 11.09.10:00-22:00

Marienstraße 10

Think

Think encourages meetings between people with ideas and thoughts in public environments. The installation is spread over a variety of locations, including an online web site and onfield tables feeding back to a central visualization of the shared content. By sharing thoughts through different interfaces, Think reaches both event participants and the general public. Thus, it links the event and its forum in time and space with other communities. As the festival proceeds, the wall evolves to an interactive representation of the collective mind and reflects visitor’s reactions against their experiences.
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