Program - Projects A-Z

Ars Foyer

A New Cultural Advertising Project »

04.09. - 09.09. | 10:00-19:00 Uhr

Brucknerhaus

A New Cultural Advertising Project is an experimental new form of advertisement using T-shirts. In this project, using the Ars Electronica Festival 2008 as its target “product”, the artists break the traditional boundaries of advertising to regain its value, effectiveness, and appeal.

Conferences / Theme Symposium

A New Cultural Economy Symposium I »

05.09. | 10:30-13:30 Uhr

Brucknerhaus

The industrial revolution, capitalism and the emergence of the firm as the primary vehicle for innovation and development shifted a great deal of focus to the notion of property as the anchor and pillar for the creation of value.

Conferences / Theme Symposium

A New Cultural Economy Symposium II »

05.09. | 15:00-18:00 Uhr

Brucknerhaus

Over the last century, we have seen the development of mass media which enabled a commoditization of media. While the production and distribution costs were high, this system allowed corporations to invest in and recoup these costs by creating huge consumer markets for “content”.

Conferences / Theme Symposium

A New Cultural Economy Symposium III »

06.09. | 10:30-13:30 Uhr

Brucknerhaus

Academics, artists, philosophers and religious scholars have pursued the truth through the ages in academic institutions, monasteries, laboratories and the halls of the elite. Contributing to the pursuit of truth in any of these fields required membership, education, funding and authority.

Conferences / Theme Symposium

A New Cultural Economy Symposium IV »

06.09. | 15:00-18:00 Uhr

Brucknerhaus

The Internet enables people to participate without asking permission and provides a voice and the tools of communication to everyone. The “public” has evolved from “subjects” to a semi-conscious “public” to an actively engaged and self-organizing sphere capable of non-violent collective action at a global scale.

Exhibitions / Prix Ars Electronica

a plaything for the great observers at rest »

04.09. - 09.09. | 10:00-00:00 Uhr

OK Offenes Kulturhaus Oberösterreich

In the installation a plaything for the great Observers at rest, the audience can control the viewpoint and switch between a geocentric model and a heliocentric model by operating the device, a conceptual model of the sun and the earth.  

Featured Art Scene

A Small Contribution to the Genesis of Everyday Life »

05.09. | 21:45-22:15 Uhr

Lentos

The two performers are connected to the instruments electronic network. They can produce sound by approaching each other and further, by establishing any form of physical contact like touching, hitting, kissing, etc. The sound that they produce also runs through their bodies in form of electricity, thus it causes a rather painful experience. It is the simple personal interaction we all long for, despite the possibility of getting hurt.

Featured Art Scene / Exhibitions

A Tree is Dreaming of Uirapuru »

04.09. - 09.09. | 10:00-19:00 Uhr

Lentos

The legend: An extraordinary Amazonian bird Uirapuru sings only once a year, while building its nest. Uirapuru's song is so beautiful that all the other birds stop singing to listen to it. Both in legend and reality Uirapuru represents a symbol of rarefied beauty and loneliness.

Featured Art Scene

Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana / The Video and New Media Chair »

04.09. - 09.09. | 10:00-19:00 Uhr

Lentos

An under-graduate course and a full post-gradual programme for video and new media studies was launched at the academy in 1988. They include with the conceptualisation of theoretical foundations as well as the planning of production procedures and the invention of interfaces for interactive real time communication. Each project is managed by a production team that involves the author (student at the academy) and students from the Faculty of Computer and Information Science. The works are the result of a successful model of networking and the inter-connection of arts and sciences.

Exhibitions

acar2: WerkNetz »

04.09. - 09.09. | 10:00-19:00 Uhr

afo architekturforum oberösterreich

Exhibition of Research Projects by the acar2 Partner Network

Conferences

acar2: WerkNetz - Sustainable Design of a Cultivated Equilibrium »

07.09. | 14:00-23:59 Uhr

afo architekturforum oberösterreich

Revitalization Project
Finding new uses for deserted train stations as a decentralized platform for the design of post-industrial forms of production in the context of sustainability.

Events, Concerts & Performances

All Inclusive »

04.09. | 19:38-23:00 Uhr

Pöstlingberg

A tempting trip will kick off “A New Cultural Economy,” the 2008 Ars Electronica Festival. This All Inclusive event invites festivalgoers to take an excursion up Pöstlingberg, one of Linz’s most beloved daytrip destinations and tourist attraction par excellence.

Exhibitions / Specials

All of Linz - A Group Photo fom Above »

04.09. - 09.09. | 10:00-18:00 Uhr

Altes Rathaus

During the festival 2007 Ars Electronica invited everyone in Linz to take part in a group portrait, and hundreds Linzers responded by sending messages directly back via the heavens – on banners, “creatively” mowed lawns and other works of art!

campus 08

Animation Next - presented by CG-ARTS »

04.09. - 09.09. | 10:00-19:00 Uhr

Kunstuniversität Linz / Hauptplatz

in collaboration with CG-ARTS / cooperation with Japan Media Arts Festival Executive Committee

Exhibitions / Prix Ars Electronica

Appeel »

04.09. - 09.09. | 10:00-00:00 Uhr

OK Offenes Kulturhaus Oberösterreich

Appeel is a virus spreading through interacting individuals. Surfaces are covered by thousands of colored stickers laid out in a grid. Peeling a sticker off leaves a white spot in the grid, hence people start individually and collectively changing its appearance. Once off the wall, the stickers ask to be stuck somewhere: people begin putting them on objects, walls, people; they collect them, they compose new images, they write messages. Slowly, the little stickers spread, appearing further away from their source and occupying space.

Animation Festival

Ars Electronica Animation Festival »

05.09. - 09.09. | 10:00-20:00 Uhr

OK Offenes Kulturhaus Oberösterreich

These works include impressive special effects, hilarious cartoons, poetic narratives, dynamic music videos, science fiction, manga style, anime, surprising points of view, strange worlds and much, much more. And for the second time, the 2008 Ars Electronica Animation Festival will be screening programs for interested, curious and open-minded festival audiences in Linz and, simultaneously, at the Museumsquartier in Vienna.

Events, Concerts & Performances

Ars Electronica Gala »

05.09. | 18:30-22:00 Uhr

Brucknerhaus

An evening totally dedicated to the artists themselves. The 2008 Ars Electronica gala featuring the presentation of the Golden Nicas to the Prix Ars Electronica prizewinners is one of the Festival’s highlights.

Ars Foyer

Ars Foyer Stage »

04.09. - 09.09. | 10:00-19:00 Uhr

Brucknerhaus

As the successor to open x and electrolobby, Ars Foyer is the latest response to the need to provide within the Ars Electronica Festival format an informal setting for production, presentation and discussion.

Featured Art Scene / Exhibitions

Assimilation »

04.09. - 09.09. | 10:00-19:00 Uhr

Assimilation was an event which, in its own way, puts into the question the idea of beauty. In fact, it was a dinner made of skin and fat that appeared as surgical surplus after an aesthetic operation of face-lifting.

Exhibitions / Prix Ars Electronica

Augmented Sculpture Series »

04.09. - 09.09. | 10:00-00:00 Uhr

OK Offenes Kulturhaus Oberösterreich

Augmented Sculpture Series is focused on the temporary quality of space, investigating space-time as space in transformation. For this purpose, two layers are produced that explore different aspects of the space-time reality.

Strictly as documentation.

Supported by Interactivos07

Prix Ars Electronica 2008, Honorary Mention Interactive Art