ARS ELECTRONICA
Program - Sunday 7. September
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Festival Rallye »
10:00-12:30
Pfarrplatz
This program is offered only in German. Thank you for your understanding!
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Festival Parcours »
10:00-12:30
Pfarrplatz
This program is offered only in German. Thank you for your understanding!
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Festival - Do it yourself »
10:00-19:00
Pfarrplatz
Joining a tour group doesn’t turn you on? For do-it-yourselfers, we’re making available á la Open Source a basic package that you can/should expand and customize in accordance with your own personal needs and expectations. And to enable the whole festival community to profit from your efforts, we’re setting up a platform to which you can post impressions of all sorts, route descriptions and individual approaches to the festival program.
Conferences / Prix Ars Electronica
Prix Forum I - Hybrid Art »
10:00-11:30
Brucknerhaus
Participants of the Forum I:
Richard Kriesche (AT) - Member of the Jury
Helen Evans (FR/UK), Heiko Hansen (FR/DE), Yann Marussich (CH), Julius Popp (DE)
Conferences
Radio FRO Mediadays 2008 »
10:00-20:00
Kunstuniversität Linz / K2
Radio FRO Mediadays: “Open networks shaping society? Future in progress!” is the title of the 2008 Radio FRO media conference being staged in conjunction with the Ars Electronica Festival on September 6-7 at two locations. The focus will be on open and free, technical and social networks.
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Fallen Fruit »
10:00-21:00
Pfarrplatz
Fallen Fruit is an artists’ collaboration that investigates urban space, ideas of neighbourhood and new forms of located citizenship and community. All of these interrogations are done through the lens of fruit, which interests us for its simplicity, cultural and social value, and its persistence over centuries of representational art. Fruit is democratic, trans-cultural and valued across all social classes.
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Hybrid Playground »
10:00-14:00
Pfarrplatz
Hybrid Playground reflects upon the fact that all kids have video games and brings those to a playground, transforming it into a collaborative game.
campus 08
Animation Next - presented by CG-ARTS »
10:00-19:00
Kunstuniversität Linz / Hauptplatz
in collaboration with CG-ARTS / cooperation with Japan Media Arts Festival Executive Committee
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Keitai Trail! Mobile Video Workshop by "Media Exprimo" »
10:00-18:00
Kunstuniversität Linz / Hauptplatz
In this workshop, we collect “keitai” (mobile phone) video clips from participants, and make collaborative slide shows on screens. There is “keitai video shooting” team wearing Japanese traditional clothes may ask you to be video-shooted! This workshop aims to connect general people and media artists not only around Ars Electronica but also in the city of Linz.
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DPS (Digital Peep Show) »
10:00-19:00
Kunstuniversität Linz / Hauptplatz
Interactive DPS software and its workshop documents by Tomoe Moriyama, cooperated and originally developed by Taizo Matsumura
Specials
FM4 Surprise Breakfast - Sunny Side Up »
10:00-12:00
Pfarrplatz
FM4 presents Sunny Side Up on stage at Pfarrplatz with a live simulcast for the denizens of radioland.
Featured Art Scene / Exhibitions
Wind Code Image »
10:00-19:00
Lentos
Wind Code Image is a prototype of an interactive facade and interior wall that can interact with the wind or air conditioning systems within a building.
Featured Art Scene / Exhibitions
Bowlfuls of Sound »
10:00-19:00
Lentos
Bowlfuls of Sound is the name of two moving spherical objects – bowls – made in late 2005.
Featured Art Scene / Exhibitions
Modux 3.4 »
10:00-19:00
Lentos
The project Modux is an indicative example of research being introduced into the medium of visual arts, in which diverse information on various surfaces is brought together to form dense network systems, capable of interacting with the chosen energy, material, or matter, responsible for the transfer and processing of information.
Featured Art Scene / Exhibitions
O :: O :: O (Orbital Orientation Object) »
10:00-19:00
Lentos
The Orbital Orientation Object allows an individual to enter for a moment into the visual field of zero gravity – the individual’s horizon is in an unstable dynamic relationship with the apparent horizon.
Featured Art Scene / Exhibitions
Th strategies (tactic/haptical strategies) »
10:00-19:00
Lentos
What is and how does interaction really look like? The concept of spatial orientation is based on the spatial planes and axes and on the directions that we see as left, right, etc. The perception of a blind person meanwhile brings up the synthesis of distal and proximal perception. The link becomes especially significant when the blind person navigates with something as distant as a satellite – or something navigates him (?).
Featured Art Scene / Exhibitions
Brainscore (in collaboration with Darij Kreuh), Brainloop »
10:00-19:00
Lentos
Brainscore and Brainloop explore a complete fusion between a user and a digital universe by synchronizing an electromagnetic and electric field.
Featured Art Scene / Exhibitions
INSULAR Technologies »
10:00-19:00
Lentos
The "International Networking System for Unified Long-distance Advanced Radio" was conceived in 1999 as a worldwide open and decentralized radio network for the transfer of secure data in the high frequency range (1 MHz - 30 MHz) using digital HF communication. A stable communication flow is ensured through the use of the PACTOR 3 protocol and the existence of an autonomous infrastructure aimed at making users independent from the existing proprietary telecommunication infrastructure.
Featured Art Scene / Exhibitions
Micro Flesh »
10:00-19:00
Lentos
Micro Flesh features five projects in which microbiology of the human body is explored in various ways: 37°C (2001/3), Micro cosm (2002/6), In-Time (2005/7), Unique (2006), Hair Lasje (2005/7).
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we guide you - you guide us »
10:00-21:00
Pfarrplatz
We don't need no education.
We don't need no thought control.
No dark sarcasm in the classroom.
Teachers leave those kids alone.
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MobileLab »
10:00-21:00
Pfarrplatz
With their collaborative performance tool MobileLab, three students at the KHM–Academy of Media Arts Cologne will be conducting a “research performance” that investigates what takes place at the 2008 Ars Electronica Festival in the interactive zone where prediction, coincidence and experience meet.
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KODOU »
10:00-21:00
Pfarrplatz
KODOU is a kind of stethoscope which detects sounds of internal organs and amplifies them into the place.
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Die Form der Unruhe: rebell.tv »
10:00-21:00
Pfarrplatz
How is communications behavior being transformed under the impact of digitization? What changes when it’s no longer letterpress printing—a linear-causal sequential array of trains of thought—that characterizes the exchange of ideas among human beings, but rather hyperlinks, connections, relations, conversations?
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Pfarrplatz-FM4-Studio »
10:00-19:00
Pfarrplatz
Ars Electronica on the air! From 5. to 7.9. FM4 will be broadcasting live from Linz.
Featured Art Scene / Exhibitions
Origami Space Race »
10:00-19:00
Lentos
The Origami Space Race project is an initiative for alternative space program which uses contemporary art system as a platform for development and promotion of ecologically based space technologies and its applications on earth.
Featured Art Scene / Exhibitions
Robot Partner 02. - Automated Table Modification »
10:00-19:00
Lentos
The meta-project robot partner aims towards understanding the basics and relations of partnership, between living beings as well as between humans and machines.
Featured Art Scene / Exhibitions
A Tree is Dreaming of Uirapuru »
10:00-19:00
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.
Animation Festival / Exhibitions
young animations »
10:00-21:00
Ars Electronica Center - Museum der Zukunft
Witty, off-beat, subtle, tragic and serious animated work produced by young filmmakers will be screened during the festival in the Ars Electronica Center’s VR Arena.
we guide you / Exhibitions
u19 - screenkids.tv »
10:00-21:00
Ars Electronica Center - Museum der Zukunft
screenkids.tv produces programming for the new generation of media consumers, youngsters whose attention span corresponds to the length of a music video and who are used to zapping through channels and across media to assemble their own entertainment lineup. screenkids.tv reaches these kids and young people right where they congregate nowadays—on the Internet and, while they’re on the go, via their mobile devices.
campus 08
Ukiyo-Engine »
10:00-19:00
Kunstuniversität Linz / Hauptplatz
Special support and special thanks to / collaborators / participants and committee members: CG-ARTS/Japan Media Arts Festival Executive Committee / The EU-Japan Fest Japan Committee/ Content Science Education Program /IAMAS/NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC]/The Machine Industry Memorial Foundation (TEPIA)
Featured Art Scene / Exhibitions
K21 »
10:00-19:00
Lentos
K21 has the genetic code of its predecessor, K67, and yet, as its progeny, it responds to the spirit of the times and the need for multipurpose organic growth in structures for commerce, work and living, in the form of modules for urban nomads, city dwellers, commuters and tourists.
Featured Art Scene
Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana / The Video and New Media Chair »
10:00-19:00
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.
Featured Art Scene / Exhibitions
Eat a bit »
10:00-19:00
Lentos
Eat a bit project introduces first utensils of Digital Kitchen. Using Human Control Interface, edible objects may be printed out using 2D or 3D printing technologies, and existing raw-foods heat-treated using laser-cutting technologies.
Featured Art Scene / Exhibitions
My Work is a Play with Life »
10:00-19:00
Lentos
Ive Tabar developed his artistic language (idiolect) in a truly unique way. Considering that he does not have an academic background, it can be said that his artistic discourse emerged from practice - his dexterity in the handling of materials and tools.
Featured Art Scene / Exhibitions
Robot Rabbit »
10:00-19:00
Lentos
Robot Rabbit is an automatic installation that opposes the inflexible rhythm of the machine to the biological growth of the live grass. Modified toy rabbit stands on a mini-patch of real live grass. The rabbit repeats continuously the words 'robot, rabbit' at a rate of 1 word/second. A mechanical counter is incremented at each word. The growing grass is automatically watered by an electric pump when the humidity level gets low.
Featured Art Scene / Exhibitions
Inside / Out »
10:00-19:00
Lentos
'Drawing on his first-hand knowledge of technology, Klif savours going back, to the history of the medium, manipulating in unexpected ways the screen itself as the main instrument. The reality of physical space and the virtual one exist in parallel; in a space shattered with screens we exist in both at the same time. The result is not schizophrenia, but pleasure. The dimension of uniqueness, in which the main role is played by the principle of coincidence, and the sensation of freedom that it creates with its electronic ambiences, offer the public the royal space that they deserve.'
(Radmila Iva Jankovic from the text of the exhibition catalogue, 2005)
Featured Art Scene / Exhibitions
Juniors’ Returns »
10:00-19:00
Lentos
Plants which grow in hydroponic gardens are synonymous with the industrial production of vegetable, which grow in artificial and precisely controlled conditions, protected from natural asymmetries. The result is predictable and safe. The vegetables are typically good looking and tasteless.
Featured Art Scene / Exhibitions
Fuck Me Now Or Lose Me Forever »
10:00-19:00
Lentos
Fuck Me Now Or Lose Me Forever draws form disparate sources-biology, technology, and pop culture.
Featured Art Scene / Exhibitions
Assimilation »
10:00-19:00
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.
Featured Art Scene / Exhibitions
BIOplay: Bacteria Cultures »
10:00-19:00
Lentos
BIOplay: Bacteria Cultures is a component of a larger body of work called InsideOut: Laboratory Ecologies. This work is based on my experiences as a non-specialist working in a variety of scientific laboratories.
Prix Ars Electronica / we guide you
CyberArts Parcours »
11:00-12:30
OK Offenes Kulturhaus Oberösterreich
Digital art at the highest level—the 2008 CyberArts Exhibition in the OK once again brings together the best work submitted for prize consideration to the Prix Ars Electronica, the premiere international competition for computer art and thus the standard and showcase of excellence in digital art worldwide.
Conferences / Prix Ars Electronica
Prix Forum II - Interactive Art »
11:30-13:00
Brucknerhaus
Participants of the Forum II:
Sonia Cillari (IT) - Member of the Jury
Julius von Bismarck (DE), Jeff Lieberman, Dan Paluska (US), Norimichi Hirakawa (JP)
Conferences
LEF@ARS: At the crossroads of media Arts&Science and Technology Education in the 21st Century - what is to be done? »
13:00-15:00
Ars Electronica Center - Museum der Zukunft
Conferences
Pixelspaces 2008: "Pixel-Spaces" »
13:00-18:00
Brucknerhaus
“Pixel-Spaces,” the latest installment in the Ars Electronica Futurelab’s annual conference series, presents selected international R&D facilities and labs that are teaching and/or working at the interface of artistic-creative media production and technological research.
Take Away (data to go) / Specials
Public Fruit Jam »
13:00-16:00
Pfarrplatz
Take part in a Public Fruit Jam! Bring in fruit you´ve cultivated yourself or found "growing wild." Then we´ll all make marmalade together.
Conferences / Prix Ars Electronica
Prix Forum III - Digital Musics »
14:00-15:30
Brucknerhaus
Participants of the Forum III:
Paul D. Miller (US) - Member of the Jury
Sergi Jordà (ES), Günter Geiger (AT), Martin Kaltenbrunner (AT), Marcos Alonso (ES), hans w. koch (DE), Teri Rueb (US)
Conferences
acar2: WerkNetz - Sustainable Design of a Cultivated Equilibrium »
14:00-23:59
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.
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Public Business Ethics Workshop »
14:00-16:00
Kunstuniversität Linz / K2
THE WORKSHOP IS CANCELLED
This workshop is part of the Overtures project.
Prix Ars Electronica / we guide you
CyberArts Parcours »
15:00-16:30
OK Offenes Kulturhaus Oberösterreich
Digital art at the highest level—the 2008 CyberArts Exhibition in the OK once again brings together the best work submitted for prize consideration to the Prix Ars Electronica, the premiere international competition for computer art and thus the standard and showcase of excellence in digital art worldwide.
we guide you
Festival Rallye »
15:30-18:00
Pfarrplatz
This program is offered only in German. Thank you for your understanding!
we guide you
Festival Parcours »
15:30-18:00
Pfarrplatz
This program is offered only in German. Thank you for your understanding!
Conferences / Prix Ars Electronica
Prix Forum IV - Digital Communities »
15:30-17:00
Brucknerhaus
Participants of the Forum:
Isaac Mao (CN) - Member of the Jury
Wu Yuanjing (CN), Jeana Frost (US), David Sasaki (US)
Take Away (data to go)
Hybrid Playground »
15:30-18:00
Pfarrplatz
Hybrid Playground reflects upon the fact that all kids have video games and brings those to a playground, transforming it into a collaborative game.
Conferences / Prix Ars Electronica
Prix Forum V - Computer Animation / Film / VFX »
17:00-18:30
Brucknerhaus
Participants of the Forum V:
Jürgen Hagler (AT) - Member of the Jury
Chris Lavis (CA), Maciek Szczerbowski (CA), Jason Walker (CA), Taku Kimura (JP), Amael Isnard (FR), Manuel Javelle (FR), Clément Picon (FR)
Featured Art Scene
Voicings - The performance is cancelled due to illness. »
18:30-18:45
Linz
The performance is cancelled due to illness. Ars Electronica wishes the artist a speedy recovery, and apologize for any inconvenience.
In the construction of musical instruments as well as the human voice itself, the term “voicings” refers to the process of manipulating the mechanics of an individual note in order to change or refine the timbre or volume of that note.
Featured Art Scene
OCTEX ATTENTION: The performance on Sunday was cancelled due to bad weather. »
18:45-19:00
Pfarrplatz
OCTEX's (aka Jernej Marusic) musical path started in the late 1990s, when he fell in love with the sound of old analog synthesizers and started conducting Organic Crackle and Tone EXperiments (Octex).
Events, Concerts & Performances
Sonorous Embodiment »
19:30-00:00
Lentos, Brucknerhaus, Donaupark
This sixth installment of Ars Electronica’s gala concert evening gets back to this series’ roots by focusing on the man-music-technology nexus. The concert will establish a link between what might be seen from a contemporary perspective as “old” New Music and the latest trends in this genre: electro-acoustic music by Dieter Kaufmann, visualized orchestral works by Edgar Varése, Elliot Carter and Michel van der Aa, traditional Chinese instruments with electronics and acrobatic voice performance, which audience members can experience with their senses and also participate in interactively.
Events, Concerts & Performances