Autumn Line-up of Special Events at the Museum of the Future
Workshops and special tours are among the Ars Electronica Center’s top fall features. There’s a profusion of new interactive installations that make virtual worlds accessible to young and old alike and make for a family outing that’s as entertaining as it is educational. Visit Ars Electronica and discover how much fun getting smart can be!
Take a virtual tour of the imperial state rooms in Vienna’s Schönbrunn Palace, dive the underwater cyber-world of the beautiful blue Danube, and marvel at the pets of the future in our Robo-Zoo. A visit to the Ars Electronica Center delivers impressions from across the entire spectrum of high tech, but the chief focus constantly remains on the visitor’s proactive, hands-on encounter with installations designed to reveal the amazing possibilities new technologies have in store and how society will soon be utilizing them. Plus, we’ll be offering special tours and workshops throughout fall 2005 that provide in-depth background information about the exhibits and nurture participants’ efforts to get more actively involved. After all, confronting the technologies of the future also means scrutinizing them in detail with a critical eye.
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Cyberworlds – Special Tour
Visualization is one of today’s hottest topics and the list of its applications is constantly growing longer. Industry, R&D, professional training and entertainment are some of the numerous fields that are taking advantage of the possibilities of replicating reality using a computer. The Ars Electronica Center has accorded this trend the recognition it’s due by creating spaces specially designed to experience visualization. In addition to new programs for the CAVE, visitors can also discover the new V-Arena, a set-up customized for the encounter with astonishing 3D domains. Here, a host of applications illustrates the wide-ranging possibilities for putting amazing virtual worlds into everyday practice—from the reconstruction of Austria’s precious cultural heritage (for instance, the fabulous Millionenzimmer in Vienna’s Schönbrunn Palace) all the way to futuristic simulation models. The special Cyberworlds tour provides background information and details about what’s up in this field.
>>> Where&When? Cyberworlds – Special Tour
Dates (every Sunday from November 6 to December 18): November 6, 13, 20, 27; December 4, 11,18
Time: 1 PM
Duration: 2 hours
Age Group: 16 and up
Maximum number of participants: 12
Fee: €8 (AEC admission price included)
Please pre-register by calling 0732-7272-51 or via e-mail to center.bs@aec.at
Journey of Adventure
This is a playful way for youngsters to discover the Ars Electronica Center. Kids experience amazing new 3D worlds, slurp “virtual” beverages, create new sounds by drawing pictures, encounter the pets of the future in the Robo-Zoo, and beam themselves up into incredible fantasy worlds. And amidst all the fun, they’re getting enriching, hands-on experience with cutting-edge technology.
>>> Where&When? Journey of Adventure Tour
Dates (every Saturday and Sunday from November 5 to December 18): November 5, 6, 12, 13, 19, 20, 26, 27; December 3, 4, 10, 11, 17, 18
Time: 2 PM
Duration: 1½ hours
Age Group: 6 to 12 years
Fee: €4 (AEC admission price included)
No pre-registration necessary
And while the young adventures are off doing their thing, their adult chaperones can take a tour of their own at no extra charge beyond the price of admission (€6).
Getting Creative in Robolab
Robots are getting increasingly sophisticated and are performing an ever-wider range of tasks for their human masters. This comes as no surprise; nevertheless, there are still very few of us who have had personal contact with this new generation of mechanical gofers. Now, the Ars Electronica Center is offering visitors the opportunity to try their own hand at programming robots and to get an up-close-and-personal look at the pets of the future. And just in passing, as it were, participants also learn a thing or two about the latest developments in the field of robotics and the areas in which these modern-day helpmeets are being deployed.
>>> Where&When? Getting Creative in Robolab
Dates (every Saturday from November 5 to December 17): November 5, 12, 19,26; December 3, 10, 17
Time: 11 AM
Duration: 1½ hours
Age Group: 10 to 15 years
Maximum number of participants: 12
Fee: €5 (AEC admission price included)
Please pre-register by calling 0732-7272-51 or via e-mail to center.bs@aec.at
New Inhabitants of Gulliver’s World
In Gulliver’s World, the accent is on creativity and imagination. Seven interactive stations invite visitors to design a virtual world and generate the creatures that inhabit it. In “New Inhabitants of Gulliver’s World,” kids can shape plastiline modeling clay into their own personalized action figures for Gulliver’s World and then use a 3D scanner to insert their creations into the virtual realm. Last but not least, they can even “beam” themselves into Gulliver’s World and, as a little souvenir of the experience, take home a picture documenting their virtual outing with the figures they’ve created.
>>> Where&When? New Inhabitants of Gulliver’s World
Dates (every Saturday from November 5 to December 17): November 5, 12, 19,26; December 3, 10, 17
Time: 11 AM
Duration: 1½ hours
Age Group: 6 to 10 years
Maximum number of participants: 8
Fee: €5 (AEC admission price included)
Please pre-register by calling 0732-7272-51 or via e-mail to center.bs@aec.at
Children’s Birthday Party at the Museum of the Future
Guided tours and workshops specially designed for kids can also be booked in combination with our popular children’s birthday parties. We offer a wide variety of tours and workshops, as well as party treats and a kiddie cocktail.
>>> Where&When? Children’s Birthday Party at the Museum of the Future
Dates: By special arrangement; please call 0732-7272-51 or send an e-mail to center.bs@aec.at
Duration: 2½ hours
Age Group: 6 and up
Fee:
Variant 1 – birthday party with tour (without workshop): €12.20 per participant
Variant 2 – birthday party with tour and workshop: €15 per participant
Minimum number of participants: 5
Please pre-register by calling 0732-7272-51 or via e-mail to center.bs@aec.at
Additional information about dates and current offerings is available online at www.aec.at/center.
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