07.09.

17:00 Führung durch die Ausstellung „NANK – Neue Arbeit Neue Kultur – Community Production“

17:45 Start der Diskussion

„Von der Ware Arbeit zur wahren Arbeit – Die Linzer Tabakfabrik als Zukunftsprojekt“ – Unter diesem Motto lädt die Initiative NANK (Neue Arbeit Neue Kultur) im Rahmen des Festivals Ars Electronica am Dienstag, 7. September, zu einer hochkarätig besetzten Podiumsdiskussion mit Vertretern aus Politik, Wirtschaft und Kultur in die Tabakfabrik Linz ein.

Wie wird das Gelände der ehemaligen Tabakfabrik in Zukunft genutzt werden können, welche wirtschaftlichen, kulturellen, sozialen und politischen Möglichkeiten und Notwendigkeiten sind bereits vorhanden oder müssen noch entwickelt werden? Die Tabakwerke als mögliches Kulturhaus, als Heimat der Kreativwirtschaft und der „Neuen Arbeit“ – Linz als Impulsgeber für neue Arbeitskonzepte und Green Technologies sind nur einige Fragen, die besprochen werden.

Über die Zukunft einer ganzen Stadt werden Stadtrat Johann Mayr (SPÖ), Vizebürgermeister Erich Watzl (ÖVP), Robert Bauer (ATW Nachnutzungs-Studie), Gerhard Haderer (Künstler), Gerfried Stocker (Künstlerischer Geschäftsführer Ars Electronica) und der Philosoph und Vordenker der „Neuen Arbeit“ Frithjof Bergmann mit dem Publikum diskutieren.

Moderation: Regina Patsch (ORF)

Sorry, this entry is only available in German.

VJ Joint Broadcasting Event presented by Orange

HELLO EUROPE: Live Coding Performance
3.9. 21:00-22:00, Hof

Gábor Papp, Ágoston Nagy (Kitchen Budapest, HU), David Stolarsky (US) (Ars Electronica Futurelab), Stefan Tiedje (Public Art Lab Berlin – Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, DE), Slub (FACT, Liverpool, GB), presented by Orange.

AGF (DE)  und Sebastian Neitsch, Woeishi Lean (AT) (Visuals)
3.9. 22:00 – 23:00, Hof

The performance of the German musician AGF is transferred from the courtyard of the tobacco factory in Linz to various cities in Europe via live video stream and can be experienced as sound and vision on the media facades of these cities.  Meanwhile in Linz,  the Austrian artists and VJs Sebastian Neitsch and Woeishi Lean immerse the historic façades of Linz tobacco factory with a mix of light and image signals from European media facades.

Orange Kunden haben am 3.9. kostenlos Zutritt auf das Areal der Tabakfabrik Linz, zu sämtlichen Ausstellungen und Performances untertags und der Nightline bis spät in die Nacht – jeweils mit einer Begleitung. Als Orange Kunde einfach das Handy mit der „Orange“ Betreiber Anzeige beim Eintritt vorweisen.

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Please note that this program has been designed especially to reach the young people of Linz. Accordingly, only the German language will be used. Thanks for your understanding!

For Adults.

Experience the Ars Electronica Festival in the context of dialogical tours through the various venues situated on the grounds of Tabakfabrik Linz, an impressive work of early 20th-century industrial architecture that is currently vacant. Tour participants will discover a diverse array of extraordinary visions of the future and confrontations at the nexus of art, technology and society with this year‘s festival theme “repair – ready to pull the lifeline.” Partake of this most stimulating atmosphere and join us in a discussion of pressing current issues, personal viewpoints and concrete  suggestions for ways to rescue our world.

When night falls, the face of the world is transformed.

Atmospheric tours through the festival grounds take advantage of the twilight and ensuing darkness. Flashlights’ diffusing beams blur the borders between staged performance and architecture, whereby the bizarre interplay of forms opens up unusual architectural insights and a personal form of interaction within novel settings. The Sunsetparcours will be held only by sunshine.

World-class digital art—CyberArts 2010 at Tabakfabrik Linz showcases the most excellent entries to this year‘s Prix Ars Electronica. The works on display were honored by the international computer art competition’s judges and thus represent the “Best of” digital art. Art experts on the staff of the OK Center for Contemporary Art will be on hand to present the works singled out for recognition in the Interactive Art, Hybrid Art and Digital Musics categories.

Eine Kooperation von Ars Electronica und OK Offenes Kulturhaus Oberösterreich.

The NORDICO Museum of the City of Linz and afo architekturforum oberösterreich cordially invite you to take a close-up look at the extraordinary architecture and interesting history of the Tabakfabrik. The NORDICO tour (September 5th and 6th, 2 PM each day) puts the accent on history and thus serves as a nice lead-in to its upcoming exhibition Tabakfabrik Linz. Art and Architecture for Austria Tabak. The afo (Architecture Forum Upper Austria) tour (September 3rd and 4th, 2 PM each day) focuses on the impressive architecture and its urban setting, as well as the issue of how this major piece of real estate will be developed and used in the future. All tours will give particular consideration to the Tabakfabrik’s  position within Peter Behrens’ life work as an architect.

Additional visits to and activities in Tabakfabrik are listed in the afofolder.

Accompanying events, guided tours and workshops being staged by the NORDICO are listed in the October/November/December Kunstvermittlungsfolder issued by LENTOS, NORDICO & GENESIS.

Eine Kooperation von Ars Electronica, afo architekturforum oberösterreich und NORDICO Museum der Stadt Linz.

Christina Kubisch (DE)

Christina Kubisch works with the principle of electromagnetic induction. The headphones she’s developed enable wearers to acoustically experience the electromagnetic fields that pervade our surroundings. On this tour through Tabakfabrik Linz, you’ll explore noise that’s normally inaudible—the electromagnetic sounds of the factory’s impressive architecture as well as of the electronic art on display there.

4. 9. 14:00 – 16:00, Bau 1 OG , in the exhibition area of Playful Interface Cultures

“Ludic Interfaces” is an R&D project subsidized by the European Union. Its aim is to develop a European Joint Master program at the Universities of Salford, Potsdam and the University of Arts Linz and the Politécnica de Valencia. Here, brief presentations will summarize the results of the second Full Partner Meeting.

www.ludicinterfaces.com

5. 9. 11:00 – 12:00
Bau 1 OG 3

Since 1986, Experimenta has transformed public spaces, exhibition venues and corporate environments into captivating, interactive and thought provoking destinations. From large-scale outdoor installations to intimate indoor exhibitions, the artworks shown worldwide are always evocative, intriguing and uniquely multi-sensory. Clare Needham (AUS) will present the recent activities and future projects of Experimenta Media Arts.

http://www.experimenta.org

2. 9. – 10. 9.
Black Box Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Galerie Brunnhofer, Linz, Austria

The two galleries from Linz and Copenhagen pool resources to present artists, whose works correspond with the theme REPAIR:

• “Diary” 2010by Heath Bunting (GB)
• “DamatsuMouse” 2007 by exnomo (JP)
• “Democracy Illuminator v.2” 2010 by Mogens Jacobsen (DK)
• “The volcano paintings” 2010 by Eduardo Kac (USA) (Foto für Website)
• “Sign and Co-signs”  1977 by Manfred Mohr (USA/DE)
• “Chaos Gestalt Struktur” 2005 by Frieder Nake (DE)
• “Trip”  2008 by Jakub Nepras (CZ)
• “Tomatoj” 2003 – Sicilian Cherry
• “Tomato, silicon rubber, biomorph multiple” by Pomodoro Bolzano (DE)
• “Kuben” 2010 by Jacob Sikker Remin (DK)
• “Moment” 2008 by Jukihiro Taguchi (JP)
• “Metaphor ” 2007 by Signe Vad (DK)
• “Verbraucher” Multiple 2009 by Benjamin Zuber (DE)
• “PB Ring” 1996 – Multiple by Pomodoro Bolzano (DE)

Jakub Nepras

Verbraucher

5. 9. 13:00 – 14:00

The International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) was founded in the Netherlands in 1988. It continues to be one of the most important events on the art and technology calendar with an academic symposium, exhibitions, workshops and performances. ISEA is a nomadic event and is hosted by different cities across the world. In August 2010, ISEA was staged in the RUHR region of Germany as part of European Capital of Culture. In 2011 it will be held in Istanbul and in 2012 in New Mexico. Chair of ISEA International Julianne Pierce (AU) will provide an update on current activities and future plans.

Event Space:

3.9.
23:00 Len (Backlab, AT) http://www.dancendancen.com
00:30 Rod (AT)
02:00 James Blake ( Hemlock Recordings / UK ) http://www.myspace.com/hemlocklondon
03:00 Dokta GC (AT) http://www.myspace.com/doktagc

4.9.
23:00 Martin Klein (AT) http://www.myspace.com/djmartinklein
24:00 Ogris Debris – LIVE ( Affine Records / AT ) http://www.ogrisdebris.com/
01:00 Komaton – LIVE ( Cocoon / AT ) http://www.myspace.com/komatonmusic
02:00 Ewan Pearson ( Soma / K7 / Kompakt / DE )  http://www.ewanpearson.com
Visuals by Leonardo, Noii & Orjo (Backlab, AT) www.backlab.at

5.9.
23:00 Daeque (AT) http://www.myspace.com/daeque
24:00 Innaseen – LIVE (AT) http://www.innaseen.com/
01:00 Mike Slott – LIVE (Lucky Me / US) http://www.myspace.com/mikeslottbeats
02:00 Abby Lee Tee (AT) http://www.myspace.com/djabillity
Visuals by Leonardo, Noii & Orjo (Backlab, AT) www.backlab.at

6.9.
23:00 Mehmet Acuma (AT) www.myspace.com/mehmetacuma
24:00 Lena (AT) http://www.myspace.com/lenacontrust
01:00 Roland Appel (Sonar Kollektiv/Compost / DE) http://www.myspace.com/rolandappel
03:00 Uli Mayr (AT)

Kuratoren: Uli Mayr (AT), Joachim Knoll (AT)

10. 9. 20:00

More than 12,000 visitors packed the first Elektronikka! To follow up on their successful launch, the hotspots host crew is reprising the electronic music festival.

With Moonbootica (DE), Stefan Bodzin (DE), Fritz Kalkbrenner – Live (DE), Philipp Straub (AT), Zeno (AT), Padre el Ferenco (AT), Tom Snow (AT), Observer (AT), Dennes Deen (AT), BD. Funkstar (AT) et al.

Tickets: In advance: €19; at the door: €25; VIP: € 49 (includes 3 drinks)
No free entry with festivalpass.

www.elektronikka.at

Natural reverberation space
2. 9. – 6. 9.

Reverb is one of the most used sound effects in recording. Since there is no real acoustic space in the iPod, the CD-player or radio, electronic reverberation
is to be heard in nearly all music or sound to create the impression of a real room the sound is in. The Sound Space, the high rack warehouse tobacco factory Linz, has the unique quality of a natural (architectural) long reverb of up to twelve seconds. The Ars Electronica Festival will turn the room into a Sound-Space – „Factory“, dedicated to three different acoustic activities:

GREEN: „Ars automatique“
The room is a mixing center of the sounds of the festival. Different locations of the tobacco factory are equipped with microphones and loudspeakers. Like a reverb room in the classic sound studio situation, the sounds are sent back and forth in and out the hochregallager. A sonic real time portrait of the Festival Ars Electronica 2010.

ORANGE: „Sound check“
Workshops, music sessions, guided „audio tours“ turn the Sound Space into an experimental sound laboratory. Every sound is important, the perception of sounds influenced by reverb is no longer a myth of studio technology but an experience open to every interested ear.

RED: „Concert space“
Concerts by sound artists and musicians known for their spatial sensitivity, their ability to listen and to work with the acoustic environment, the space they are in. Electronic music, acoustical music, real-time sound art, jazz, new music and architectural sound space: not a matter of genres, but of the knowledge about sound and space that is the common quality of all the artists involved. Featuring: AGF aka Antye Greie, Franz Hautzinger, Rupert Huber, Sam Auinger, Didi Bruckmayr, Marco Palewicz, Drumski4 and more.

The slamming of a door is the signal for the end of one phase and the beginning of a new one.

Concept: Rupert Huber, Marco Palewicz, Gerfried Stocker, Bianca Petscher

Michel Décosterd, André Décosterd (CH) / Cod.Act
Award of Distinction Digital Musics & Sound Art, Prix Ars Electroncia 2010
3. 9. – 6. 9.

A show object, a fascinating sound sculpture! Through its fascinating and hypnotic dance, Cycloïd-E delineates the space of sound orbits and creates a unique kinetic and polyphonic work. This installation runs during the ORANGE period of the Sound Space.

www.codact.ch

2. 9. – 11. 9.

The Japan Media Arts Festival has been held annually since 1997. It showcases and honors outstanding work in the fields of art, entertainment, animation and manga. The ROBOT-ISM exhibition held in collaboration with the Ars Electronica is an attempt to trace the history of robot animation from the 1960s to the present day, featuring its development in animation and its influence on art and technology. A selection of animations from the latest Japan Media Arts Festival is shown at the Ars Electronica Animation Festival.

Exhibition:

• Transition of Robot Anime
• Storyboard by Mr. Kanada Yoshinori
• Full-scale Gundam
• Plastic model of Gundam

Games:

• Mobile Suit Gundam: Target in Sight
• Armored Core for Answer

Movies:

• Gundam I: The Movie
• Gundam II: Soldiers of Sorrow
• Gundam III: Encounters in Space
• Zeta Gundam A New Translation: Heirs to the Stars
• Zeta Gundam A New Translation II: Lovers
• Zeta Gundam A New Translation III: Love is the Pulse of the Stars
• Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone
• STEAMBOY
• Short movies program

Mediencampus der Hochschule Darmstadt
School of Art & Design am Cork Institute of Technology
2. 9. – 7. 9.

In conjunction with the Expanded Interfaces project, undergraduates in the Media Department at the Media Campus of the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences (h_da) in Germany and the School of Art & Design at the Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) in Ireland developed user interfaces for new media products that boldly go beyond conventional ones available now. The assignment was to reconceptualize and reinvent human-machine communication and the individual elements of interaction it entails in a large-scale scenario analogous to expanded cinema. In going about this, the innovative aspect of media environments and interfaces was made the most important design criterion. For the students, ethical, societal and social welfare issues were just as relevant as technical feasibility or imparting a sensorial-playful character to the experience.

Objects on display:

• Ambient Knowledge
  Alan Meany
• Céannacht
  Laura Kacinauskaite
• Das Virtuelle Planetarium – Weltraumschrot
  Clemens Anzmann, Daniel Dünchem, Felix Gellert, Maik Krücken, Benjamin Obländer, Maximilian Wallrabenstein, Torsten Fröhlich (Projektleitung)
• easee – Ein Navigationssystem für blinde und sehbehinderte Menschen
  Moritz Keck, Alexander Simon , Patrick Gotta, Markus Schäfer, Philipp Hormel, René Link, Frank Rickert
  www.unterbezahlt.com/easee
• GYMO – Das neuartige Therapiegerät der Balance-Therapie
  Lukas Geißler, Max Lemke, Sarah Martens, Eva Patzelt, Achim Rosenhagen, Daniel Wein
  www.gymonline.de
• Mementum
  Till Henrichs, Lemke, Max, Eva Patzelt, Achim Rosenhagen, Nathalie Sprenger, Daniel Wein
  www.mementum.info
• mju:vi – interaktive audiovisuelle Installation
  Sabine Dries, Paul Reindell, Benjamin Schiek, Julia Vogel, Melanie Wetter, Steffen Zink
  www.mjuvi.com
• oneHug
  Dennis Praschak
  www.one-hug.net
• Orbitone
  Michel Gotta, Florian Werndl, Lukas Meyer, Sergej Mut, Andreas Doms, Thomas Thome, Max Doepfmer
  www.orbitone.de
• Running Radio Expanded (RR-Ex)
  Isabell Galley, Isabell Galley, Benjamin Gürkan, Yannick Hofmann, Sascha Hormel, Stefan Kemler, Lars Krichbaum, Marco Schleicher, Timo-Marc Strehlau, Rita Vas, A lexander Winkler u.v.a. Leitung: Sabine Breitsameter
  www.runningradio.net
• SIRIUS application
  Christoph Aumann, Jan-André Huber, Philipp Pra, Christian Tamanini, Christoph Wannemacher, Stefan Zoll
  www.sirius-application.de
• Teamfunk
  Christoph Aumann, Lukas Geißler, Jan-André Huber, Philipp Pra, Christian Tamanini, Christoph Wannemacher, Stefan Zoll
  www.projekt-teamfunk.de
• Umami
  Florian Cannon, Robert Flöck, Florian Gondol, Mischa Korn , Daniel Pehnec, Sarah Martens, Tara Staton
  www.umami-project.de
• XXXX
  Florian Werndl, Lukas Meyer, Andreas Doms
• Presto
  Niamh Hutton, John Constant, Ian O’ Leary

KuratorInnen: Sabine Breitsameter (DE), Torsten Fröhlich (DE), Claudia Soeller-Eckert (DE)

Interface Cultures @ Ars Electronica Festival 2010
2. 9. – 11. 9.

This year‘s presentation by students in the Interface Cultures program showcases newly emerging artistic skill profiles at the nexus of interactive media technology and interface technology. These artists adroitly combine complex disciplines such as communications technology, biosciences, physical computing, interaction design, fashionable technology and information visualization in their test environments and experimental concepts.

Works:

• Augmented Photography
  Varvara Guljajeva
• Der Beweis für Dinge, die nicht gesagt wurden (Proof of Things Unsaid)
  Shervin Afshar, David Brunnthaler, Henning Schulze
• Endotastic Voyage A20.10
  Reinhard Gupfinger
• Human Allergy
  Hugo Martinez-Tormo
• Lovely Machine
  Anika Hirt
• MohrSMS
  Hugo Camargo, Veronika Pauser
• Newsleak—A Hybrid Media Publication
  Tim Devine, Jayme Cochrane, Shervin Afshar
• PlayfulNESs
  Mar Canet, Jayme Cochrane, Travis Kirton
• Rambler
  Ricardo Nascimento, Tiago Martins
• Shopping in 1 minute
  Varvara Guljajeva, Mar Canet Sola
• The Mexican Standoff
  Tim Devine, Onur Sönmez
• Urban Mood
  Mahir M. Yavuz

Instructors: Georg Russegger, Martin Kaltenbrunner, Varvara Guljajeva and Michaela Ortner

2. 9. – 11. 9

The building complex on the grounds of the Tabakfabrik was the workplace of 19 Linz artists in early summer 2010. The artists conducted empirical research on the current state of these structures. Their works confront a wide range of issues including the cultural connotations of tobacco and smoking, working conditions prevailing in modern society, and the phenomenon of an architectural landmark building whose identity is in transition. A select few of these works are now on display at Campus.

Participating artists:
faxen (Clemens Mairhofer/Lucas Norer/Sebastian Six), Susanna Flock, Katharina Gruzei, Sini Havukainen, Kristina Kornmüller, Evelyn Kuntscher, Pamela Litzlbauer Agnes Miesenberger, Katharina Loidl, Marie-Therese Luger, Leonhard Müllner, Sandra Li Lian Obwegeser, Magdalena Piper, Antonia Prochaska/Karoline Rudolf, rnzlw, Vildan Turalic

Eine Kooperation zwischen Kunstuniversität Linz/Experimentelle und dem afo – architekturforum Oberösterreich unter der Leitung von David Moises; Koordination: Astrid Hager & Doris Prlić

3. 9. 18:30

An evening totally dedicated to the artists themselves. The 2010 Ars Electronica gala featuring the presentation of the Golden Nicas to the Prix Ars Electronica prizewinners is one of the Festival’s highlights.

Please note, that due to the limited seats you will need a separate invitation or a seat reservation for the Gala.

The Golden Nicas and Prizes go to:

• Nuit Blanche
  Arev Manoukian (CA)
  Golden Nica Computer Animation / Film / VFX
• rheo: 5 horizons
  Ryoichi Kurokawa (JP)
  Golden Nica Digital Musics & Sound Art
• Ear on Arm
  Stelarc (AU)
  Golden Nica Hybrid Art
• The EyeWriter
  Zach Lieberman, James Powderly, Tony Quan, Evan Roth, Chris Sugrue (US) and Theo Watson (UK)
  Golden Nica Interactive Art
• Chaos Computer Club
  Golden Nica Digital Communities
• Automatisierter Drehfußballtisch
  Stefan Polic, Michael Moitzi (AT) / HTL BULME
  Golden Nica u19 – freestyle computing
• Hostage
  Frederik De Wilde (BE)
  Winner [the next idea] voestalpine Art and Technology Grant

Project Management: Bianca Petscher
Project Assistance: Lukas Dullnig
Screendesign: checksum5 (Joreg, Rainer Kohlberger)

Julius von Bismarck’s (DE) “Image Fulgurator” got a Golden Nica in the Interacitve category. credit: rubra

The 24th edition of the Prix Ars Electronica attracted 3,083 submissions from 70 countries and thus impressively reflects the entire dynamic and multifaceted spectrum of the cyberarts. Seven juries composed of internationally renowned experts convened to select the winners of six Golden Nicas, 12 Awards of Distinctions, 1 [the next idea] voestalpine Art and Technology Grant and 71 Honorary Mentions. These honors along with prize money totaling 117,500 Euros will be presented to the winners at the Ars Electroncia Gala.

Prix Forum Hybrid Art
3. 9. 13:00 – 14:30

The prize winners in the “Hybrid Art” category:

• Stelarc (AU) – Ear on Arm / Golden Nica
• Paul Vanouse (US) – Ocular Revision
• Julian Oliver (NZ/DE), Danja Vasiliev (RU/DE) – Men in Grey

Participants of the Forum:

• Jens Hauser (DE/FR) – Member of the Jury
• Stelarc (AU)
• Paul Vanouse (US)
• Julian Oliver (NZ/DE), Danja Vasiliev (RU/DE)

Prix Forum Digital Communities
4. 9. 10:30-12:15

The prize winners in the “Computer Animation / Film / VFX” category:

• Chaos Computer Club – http://www.ccc.de/ / Golden Nica
• Map Kibera – http://mapkibera.org/
• the ubiquitous #unibrennt cloud – http://unibrennt.at

Prix Formum Digital Communities is part of the Open Source Life Symposium

Prix Forum Interactive Art
5. 9. 13:30 – 15:00

The prize winners in the “Interactive Art” category:

• Zach Lieberman, James Powderly, Tony Quan, Evan Roth, Chris Sugrue (US) and Theo Watson (UK) – The EyeWriter / Golden Nica
• United Visual Artists (UK) – Chorus
• Julijonas Urbonas (LT) – Talking Doors

Participants of the Forum:

• Jussi Ängeslevä (FI) – Member of the Jury
• Zach Lieberman, James Powderly, Evan Roth, Chris Sugrue (US) and Theo Watson (UK )
• United Visual Artists (UK)
• Julijonas Urbonas (LT)

Prix Forum Computer Animation / Film / VFX
5. 9. 15:30 – 17:00

The prize winners in the “Computer Animation / Film / VFX” category:

• Arev Manoukian, Stephanie Swedlove (Producer) and Marc-Andre (visual effects) (CN) – Nuit Blanche / Golden Nica.
• Sam O’Hare (UK/US) / OOVFX – The Sandpit
• Jean-Christophe Lie (FR) / Prima Linea Productions – The Man in the Blue Gordini [L‘Homme à la Gordini]

Participants of the Forum:

• Jürgen Hagler (AT) – Member of the Jury
• Arev Manoukian (CA)
• Sam O’Hare (UK/US) / OOVFX
• Jean-Christophe Lie (FR) / Prima Linea Productions

Prix Forum Digital Musics & Sound Art
6. 9. 13:30 – 15:00

The prize winners in the “Digital Musics & Sound Art” category:

• Ryoichi Kurokawa (JP) – rheo: 5 horizons / Golden Nica
• Michel Décosterd, André Décosterd (CH) / Cod.Act – Cycloïd-E
• Martin Bédard (CA) – Champs de fouilles (Excavations)

Participants of the Forum:

• Christina Kubisch (DE) – Member of the Jury
• Ryoichi Kurokawa (JP)
• Michel Décosterd, André Décosterd (CH) / Cod.Act
• Martin Bédard (CA)

2. 9. 10:00 – 19:00
3. 9. – 6. 9. 10:00 – 21:00
7. 9. – 10.9. 16:00 – 22:00
11. 9. 10:00 – 18:00

A selection of the works of the Prix Ars Electronica. Click here to see details about the exhibited works.

3. 9. 11:00 – 12:30

Award ceremony and presentation of the winning projects as well as the recipients of the Award of Distinction and Honorary Mentions in the u19 –freestyle computing category.

We’re very thankful for our excellent working relationship with our partner KulturKontakt Austria and with ORF Upper Austria

3. 9. 15:00 – 16:15

MediaDropBox
Honorary Mention “u19 – freestyle computing”
Romana Dorfer

Alles ist Noppe
Winners MB21 2010
Kilian und Lukas Helmbrecht

Automatisierter Drehfußballtisch
Golden Nica „u19- freestyle computing“
Stefan Polic, Michael Moitzi

LuZAeterna
Winners Bugnplay – Schweiz
Yasmin König, Frank Ruben

Brain Computer Interface
Honorary Mention „ u19 – freestyle computing”
Alexander Berth, Armin Schnürer / HTL Leonding, g.tec – guger Technologies

3. 9. 16:30 – 17:30

eEx Network Applications
Distinction “u19 – freestyle computing”
Emanuel Jöbstl

Autumn / Ösz
Winners C3 <19 a verseny – Hungary
Vanessa Cseh

HomeMadiLex . workshop sounds
Honorary Mention “u19 – freestyle
computing” / Matthias Bergsmann

Is this Healthy? – vom Barcode zu gesundheitsrelevanten Daten am Handy
Honorary Mention „u19 – freestyle computing“
Johannes Schrefl

Selection of the best works of the Prix 2010

2.9 – 7. 9.

Films that challenge our spatial perceptions, “Dark Stories” that transport us into an absurd world in which the customary criteria of perception have gone completely haywire; cinematographic narratives from different ethnic groups and expressed correspondingly in a variety of substantive formats ranging from the comic-grotesque to the serious-traditional; statements containing political, social, ecological and cultural messages; transformations of states of existence; and films that merge the coordinates at the nexus of music, sound and imagery. The description of our endeavors to create an ordering system is itself an expression of the tremendous diversity of digital design variants in their multifarious areas of application in advertising, film industry special effects, TV, science and art. The Ars Electronica Animation Festival 2010 is meant to provide insights that demonstrate the current state of the art of digital visual design.

Dark Stories
The dark and shadowy sides of life emerge—abysses, threatening worlds of imagery, black fantasies. We become observers of the realization of death’s approach, of transgressing boundaries, of the discourse on biotech development, of battle scenes and criminal cases. Definitely not a program for the faint of heart!

Experimentation & Abstraction
In this program, viewers are confronted by digitally painted visions. Shifting, interwoven worlds of imagery captivate our perceptions. 2D overlays, motion patterns, fluid simulation, abstraction—the entire spectrum of generated images accompany us through the domain of 21st-century experimental animation.

Inner & Outer Spaces
The inner world interacting with the outer world—this is a theme that has long occupied philosophers, poets and thinkers as well as marketing strategists and ecologists. So it’s logical that the latest possibilities of image design and the storytelling that results from it magically attract the graphic artists of our century. They employ the means made available by their times to take a position on a timeless theme and consistently formulate it anew.

Late Night Stories
When the day makes the transition from grey to black and the shadows grow longer, it’s time for stories that are nothing less than abstruse. This is a world populated by baby skaters, surreal fish, robots, and people who mutate into animals. In short: just the stuff for late-evening entertainment!

Narration as it is
Not all the narratives in this program can necessarily be recommended as bedtime stories, but each demonstrates in its own way its filmmaker’s skill in dramaturgy, design and storytelling. They most certainly are not stories taken from real life—or are they? It depends on how much the audience gets into them.

Positions & Messages
Securities speculation, environmental pollution, conflicts in the family, making a political statement—these are the themes about which this lineup of films has something to say. Emotion, satire, pathos, grotesqueness are the devices the filmmakers use to formulate their messages.

Short Cuts
A real entertainment program—short films that head for their objectives without detours or pussyfooting. Stories from a variety of genres, full of surprises. No subplots or shades of nuance; just the straightforward plot. This program includes ads as well as storytelling from artists’ studios. Comedy is the primary common denominator.

Visual Sounds & Music
The interplay of music and sounds probably has the longest tradition in what used to be called electronic art. In today’s live music scene, this form is being reinterpreted. Nevertheless, since the 1980s, such productions have been far outnumbered by music videos, a format perfectly suited to mass media and TV. This program brings together highly diverse forms with the common denominator of music, sound and visuals. Poetic, witty, sensual.

Transformations from Real to Abstract
The 1980s was the era of morphing—image sequences that evoke the impression of constant transformation. It almost seemed as if no commercial could be made without using it. Today, morphing is nothing special, and has long since ceased to be the only technique that artists use to describe transformations. To accomplish this, filmmakers utilize visual effects, traditional animation or even hypnotic experiments.

Japan Media Arts Festival Selection
Visual imaginativeness and unconventional narrative forms characterize animation made in Japan. This program shows various kinds of Japanese animation from the latest Japan Media Arts Festival, which is the hybrid festival that focuses on Japanese pop culture phenomena such as animation, manga, games and media arts.

young animations
Witty, off-beat, subtle, tragic and serious animated work produced by young filmmakers will be screened during the Festival Ars Electronica. Every year,
gifted young filmmakers submit their movies to u19 – freestyle computing (Austria), bugnplay (Switzerland), MB21 (Germany) and C3<19 (Hungary).
The greatest hits will be featured in young animations.

Curated by: Christine Schöpf (AT) / Jürgen Hagler (AT)
Trailerconcept, Production & Audio: Matthias Isele (DE)
Project Management: Bianca Petscher (AT)
Project Assistance: Lukas Dullnig (AT)

Filming and photographing during the screenings is prohibited.

6. 9. 21:00 – 22:45

Live audiovisual performances of two prizewinners in the 2010 Prix Ars Electronica’s Digital Musics & Sound Art category.

21:00 INJECT by Herman Kolgen (CA), awarded with a Honorary Mention
22:00 rheo: 5 horizons by Golden Nica winner Ryoichi Kurokawa (JP)

http://www.kolgen.net/
http://www.ryoichikurokawa.com/

Filming during the concert is prohibited.

3. 9. – 5. 9.
Start: Info Lounge

Christina Kubisch works with the principle of electromagnetic induction. The headphones she’s developed enable wearers to acoustically experience the electromagnetic fields that pervade our surroundings. On this tour through Tabakfabrik Linz, you’ll explore noise that’s normally inaudible—the  electromagnetic sounds of the factory’s impressive architecture as well as of the electronic art on display there.

2. 9. – 7. 9.

To make “Wave Catcher,” the film crew traveled through the northern Ruhr District from November 2009 to March 2010. The selection of shooting locations was made primarily on the basis of acoustic rather than visual criteria. Various situations that come up in everyday life were filmed with both the real ambient sounds audible on site and the electromagnetic sounds received at the same location. The countless traffic arteries and train stations alternate with hidden corners of the inner city, public buildings, construction sites, power plants, high-tension lines, security systems, shopping malls, collections in museums, industrial wastelands, waiting rooms and the occasionally idyllic surrounding countryside. The various sound strata give rise to a discrepancy of perception that calls into question what is familiar and well-known.

Konzept, Regie und elektromagnetische Tonaufnahmen: Christina Kubisch (DE)
Kamera und Schnitt: Peter Simon (DE)
Sound: Eckehard Güther (DE)

This work was commissioned in the context of the project mapping the region for RUHR2010/European cultural capital 2010 by the sculpture museum of Marl and was presented there first in spring 2010.

2. 9. – 7. 9.

With her special headphones, Christina Kubisch can detect electromagnetic fields that are normally hidden, amplify them and make them audible. The “Movements to Distant Places” installation consists of electromagnetic field recordings of transportation systems made during a trip through the northern Ruhr istrict in Germany. The Ruhrgebiet is a densely populated area of about 54 cities so close to each other that they almost seem to be one big megalopolis. Public transportation lines are essential to move between the cities: regional and high-speed trains, subways, busses and a complex network of highways. They emit a dense net of different sound layers. Kubisch acoustically reproduces this huge spider’s web in her multichannel installation.

Audiotechnik und Mastering: Eckehard Güther

This work was commissioned in the context of the project mapping the region for RUHR2010/European cultural capital 2010 by the sculpture museum of Marl and was presented there first in spring 2010.

2. 9. – 7. 9. REPAIR Lounge

A selection of 40 photographs Christina Kubisch took during her travels through the Ruhrgebiet are mounted—arranged in no particular order—on a wall. Just like a visitor to a museum, everyone partaking of these works is issued an audio guide; entering the ID number of a particular image launches the playback of the soundscape that belongs to the image. However, this is not the acoustic sound of the location but rather its magnetic sound. The locations are likewise marked in the form of numbers on a map of the northern Ruhr District. Like participants in a treasure hunt, installation visitors seek, localize and pair the images and the sounds. The sounds are softly transported around the installation space and continually remixed by the open loudspeaker system of the audio guides.

This work was commissioned in the context of the project mapping the region for RUHR2010/European cultural capital 2010 by the sculpture museum of Marl and was presented there first in spring 2010.

Hubert Lepka (AT)
5. 9. 18:00 – 18:30

Hubert Lepka speaks about the performance he’s staging for the 2010 Klangwolke and his artistic concept.

4. 9. 10:00 – 10:30

Horst Hörtner (AT)
Laboratory Director, Ars Electronica Futurelab

4. 9. 10:30 – 15:45

Ars Electronica Futurelab and Honda R&D are currently conducting collaborative research into the next generation-relationship between humans and robots. From industrial robots supporting the production process to humanoid robots, many researchers have explored the range of possibilities for robots. Recently, these robot technologies are integrated mostly with information technology, and we see the robotization of physical space emerging. Therefore the applied research contains important questions, such as how will we integrate technologies like the “Humanoid Robot ASIMO” into our daily life, and how we can influence human acceptance and coexistence.

Panel 1: Human Robot Interaction Design
4. 9 10:30 – 12:30

In the Human-Robot Interaction Design session, we will discuss how we can apply methodologies from the fields of art, motion, communication, and interaction to the problem of finding ways in which human robot interactions become natural and intuitive.

Schedule

• 10:30 Introduction by Christopher Lindinger (AT)
  Director of Research and Innovation Ars Electronica Futurelab
• 10:40 Matthew Gardiner (AU)
  Artist in Residence at the Ars Electronica Futurelab
• 11:05 Anthony Dunne (UK)
  Professor and Head of the Design Interactions Department at the Royal College of Art
• 11:30 Golan Levin (US)
  Director Studio for Creative Inquiry and Professor of Electronic Art, Design and Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
• 11:55 Satoshi Shigemi (JP)
  Project Leader of the ASIMO Development
• 12:15 Roundup and Discussion

Moderation: Christopher Lindinger (AT), Director of Research and Innovation Ars Electronica Futurelab

Panel 2: Human-Robot Harmony
4.9. 13:30 – 15:45

What is essential in creating harmony in a society living together with robots? We will take a close look at the key elements in considering the balance – not the border – between humans and robots.

Schedule

• 13:30 Introduction by Christopher Lindinger (AT)
  Christopher Lindinger (AT), Director of Research and Innovation Ars Electronica Futurelab
• 13:40 Noel Sharkey (UK)
  Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics and Professor of Public Engagement at the University of Sheffield
• 14:00 Alan Shapiro (US/DE)
  Technologist and Futurist
• 14:20 Bernad Batinic (DE/AT)
  Professor and Head of the Psychology and Pedagogic Department at the University Linz
• 14:40 Hideaki Ogawa (JP/AT)
  Artist & Creator in the Research and Innovation Group of the Ars Electronica Futurelab
• 15:00 Satoshi Shigemi (JP)
  Project Leader of the ASIMO Development
• 15:20 Roundup and Discussion

Moderation: Christopher Lindinger (AT) Director of Research and Innovation Ars Electronica Futurelab

4. 9 16:00 – 17:45

Real experiences and emotions play an important role for the immersive embedding of users in interactive entertainment & media formats that display great future promise. Here, the boundary between reality and virtuality becomes increasingly blurred. Interaction is considered the crux of modern digital media; it enables a global and mobile society to engage in new forms of exchange and encounter. Within the scope of this research, we are endeavoring to identify possibilities of how to playfully combine technology and entertainment, and what could serve as the basis of this fusion.

Schedule

• 16:00 Introduction by Roland Haring (AT)
  Senior Research Lead, Research and Innovation Group, Ars Electronica Futurelab
• 16:20 Robert Praxmarer (AT)
  Researcher, multimedia artist and developer. Head of Department at the Augmented Reality & Games at the University of Applied Sciences Salzburg.
• 16:40 Gordon Calleja, (MT)
  Head of the Center for Computer Games Research at the IT University of Copenhagen.
• 17:00 Frank Rose (US)
  Contributing editor Wired magazine, writes about media, advertising and entertainment. His next book will be The Art of Immersion: How the Digital Generation Is Remaking Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the Way We Tell Stories, forthcoming in 2011 from W.W. Norton.
• 17:20 Roundup and Discussion

Moderation: Roland Haring (AT), Senior Research Lead, Research and Innovation Group, Ars Electronica Futurelab

05.09. 10:00 – 12:45

The possibilities of integrating media design in architecture are vast and we have just begun to explore what we can do beyond putting big screens on façades. By converting the walls into a membrane for the dialog between the city and the citizens, we can construct attractive experiences that communicate the story of a building – be it commercial, as in retail environments, or educational, as in museums. We can respond to the need to find our way through endless corridors with the opportunity to create challenging artistic works.

Schedule

• 10:00 Introduction by Stefan Mittlböck-Jungwirth-Fohringer (AT)
  Director Media and Architecture, Ars Electronica Futurelab
• 10:15 Eckehart Loidolt (AT)
  Architect and Director, Schneider+Schumacher/Wien
• 10:45 Tim Edler (DE),
  Managing Director, Realitis: United
• 11:15 Break
• 11:30 Chriss Bosse (DE)
  Architect, L.A.V.A (Skype conference)
• 12:00 Roundup and Discussion

Moderation: Stefan Mittlböck-Jungwirth-Fohringer (AT), Director Media and Architecture, Ars Electronica Futurelab

5. 9. 14:00 – 17:00

If labs want to continue to lodge a claim to design excellence that they have rightfully earned, we’ll have to deal with the world around us. Incessantly progressing global warming, he widening of the so-called digital gap between urban areas and regions with lower-grade infrastructure and between industrialized and developing countries are just a few of the scenarios on which labs are expected to take a stand. The labs of the future will (have to) deploy their entire creative potential in order to utilize technology as a means of bringing about advances in other sectors (like social welfare and education) that have a major impact on culture.

Schedule

• 14:00 Introduction by Horst Hörtner (AT)
  Laboratory Director, Ars Electronica Futurelab, AT
• 14:30 Angela Plohman (CA)
  Director of BALTAN Laboratories in Eindhoven (NL). Has worked for the last twelve years in the field of art and technology.
• 15:00 Masa Inakage (JP)
  Dean and professor at Graduate School of Media Design, Keio University. Internationally-reknowned digital artist, director, and producer, one of Japan‘s leading authorities on emerging technologies and digital entertainment content production.
• 15:30 Zachary Lieberman (US)
  Artist and co-creator of openFrameworks, an open source C++ toolkit for creative coding. He teaches at Parsons School of Design.
• 16:00 Gary McDarby (UK)
  Expert in Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience, based in the Complex Adaptive Systems Laboratory in University College Dublin.
• 16:30 Roundup and Discussion

Moderation: Horst Hörtner (AT), Laboratory Director, Ars Electronica Futurelab, AT

3.9 10:00 – 12:00

The Future Factory is a heterogeneous, dynamic configuration populated by representative of a wide variety of approaches and diverse disciplines. The participants elaborate on their motivations and what results from them on the basis of works on display in conjunction with the Future Factory.

• 10:00 Introduction by Pascal Maresch (AT)
  Director Media Performance, Ars Electronica Futurelab
• 10:05 Knowledge from Outer Space – A.R.T.
  Michael Badics (AT), Geschäftsführer Memetics GmbH
  Attempt. Risk. Trouble. Artistic creation, new modes of cooperations, Green Economy strategies, lateral thinking of technologies as important inputs for approaches and solutions to the necessary change process taking part in society as a whole: experiences with the concept „Energy Gazer“.
• 10:30 Sense the invisible
  Hide Ogawa (JP), Artist
  Hide Ogawa talks about the h.o solo exhibition 2010 – Sense the invisible, which is currently displayed in the Ars Electronica Center
• 11:00 Oribotics: The Future Unfolds
  Matthew Gardiner (AUS), Artist/Oriboticist
  Oribotics is a field of research that thrives on the aesthetic, biomechanic, and morphological connections between nature, origami and robotics.
• 11:30 Embodiment
  Horoshi Ishiguro (JP), Professor of Osaka University
  Mr. Ishiguro will talk about the concept of the Embodiment exhibition and his new work on “minimal design of human.”
• 12:00 AmbiKraf
  Mili John Tharakan (IN), Research Associate Keio-NUS CUTE Center
  Textile Artist-Researcher. Her work explores ways to democratize technology and find a new language for the textile craft communities of Asia to engage with digital technology and smart materials.

Moderation: Pascal Maresch (AT), Director Media Performance, Ars Electronica Futurelab

6. 9. 10:00 – 17:00

The Ars Electronica Futurelab invited media façades pioneers, who provide sustainable infrastructures and new communication platforms for modern active citizens. The main topic will be the possibilities that emerge between the virtual and real public space based on new cooperation models between socio-political, cultural, architecturally aesthetic and economic interests.

Schedule Part I: Reality and Vision

• 10:00 Welcome Address by Stefan Mittlböck-Jungwirth-Fohringer (AT)
  Director Media and Architecture, Ars Electronica Futurelab and Susa Pop, Managing Director, Public Art Lab
• 10:15 Introduction by Miram Strupek (DE)
  Urban Media Researcher
• 10:45 Oliver Ebert (DE)
  Architect, MA, ag4
• 11:15 Gernot Tscherteu (AT)
  Media and Interaction Designer
• 12:00 Panel Discussion: Media Facades and Urban Screens
  Nerea Calvillo (SP) (Media Lab Prado Madrid), Heather Corcoran (UK) (Fact Liverpool), Jan Edler (DE) (Realitis:United) Minna Tarkka (FI) (m-cult Helsinki), Marie-Laure Delaby (BE) (iMA L)
• 12:45 Roundup and Discussion

Moderation: Susa Pop (DE), Managing Director Public Art Lab

Schedule Part II: The aesthetic of light / Light Pollution

• 14:00 Dietmar Hager (AT)
  Astrophotograph and Medical Doktor AKH Linz
• 14:20 Thomas Posch (AT)
  Astronomer and Philosopher, University Vienna
  
• 14:40 Othmar Cosar (AT)
  Environmental criminologist, Kripo Linz
  
• 15:00 Andreas Böhlke (DE)
  Lighting desinger, Festival of Lights Berlin
• 15:20 Norbert Chmel (AT)
  LDE, Wien
• 16:00 Panel Discussion: The aesthetics of light
  Dietmar Hager (AT), Thomas Posch (AT), Othmar Cosar (AT), Oliver Ebert (DE), Norbert Chmel (AT)
• 16:45 Roundup and Discussion

Moderation: Eckehart Loidolt, schneider+schumacher/Wien

Also see: Facade Festival

2. 9. – 11. 9.

Ars Electronica is collaborating with the Media Facades Festival Europe 2010 to present a fascinating array of art projects on the façade of the Ars Electronica Center and on the Tabakfabrik grounds during this year’s festival. The accent is on fostering a process of exchange among a diversified group of cities and countries and initiating an intercultural dialog about the medium of urban screens and media façades as well as the utilization of new communications technologies. Connected Cities infrastructure enables participating artists to propagate their projects in public spaces and to present them to large European audiences in Joint Broadcasting Events. The media facades will be transformed into local stages and open a global window for cultural and societal processes to create a dialogue and connect the local public virtually with the other places throughout Europe.

Ars Electronica Center, Facade

• Fassaden Terminal
  Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT), daily 20:00-22:00
• Monster
  h.o (JP), daily 23:00-24:00
• The Colors of the Times: Linz Bunt Blitz
  Shervin Afshar (IR), daily 22:00-22:10
• City Sleep Light
  Antoine Schmitt (FR), daily 00:00-01:00
• Cerebra Electronica
  Onur Sönmez (TR), 4.9. 22:10, 7.9. 22:10
• iRiS – the immediate remote interaction system. Interact directly and in real time with the facade of the Ars Electronica Center.
  Magdalena Blöckner, Sebastian Boring, Sven Gehring, Johannes Schöning, Alexander Wiethoff (DE), 5.9. 22:10, 6.9. 22:10

Tabakfabrik, Facades of the inner courtyard

Though they’re separated by thousands of kilometers, they can collaboratively create with light and shadow, color and contrast as if they shared an atelier. They—four of Europe’s most interesting visual arts projects—will be working together with the Ars Electronica Futurelab in conjunction with the Media Facades Festival Europe 2010 to immerse the Tabakfabrik’s inner courtyard in a new light.

• HELLO EUROPE: Live Coding Performance
  Gábor Papp, Ágoston Nagy (Kitchen Budapest, HU), David Stolarsky (US) (Ars Electronica Futurelab), Stefan Tiedje (Public Art Lab Berlin – Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, DE), Slub (FACT, Liverpool, GB), presented by Orange. 3.9. 21:00-22:00.
• HELLO EUROPE: VJ Joint Broadcasting Event,
  agf (DE) und Sebastian Neitsch, Woeishi Lean (AT) (Visuals), 3.9. 22:00-23:00, presented by Orange
• LummoBlocks
  Carles Gutiérrez, Javier Lloret, Mar Canet und Jordi Puig (ES), 4.9. 23:00-24:00
• Action Flocking
  OiOi (FI), 5.9. 21:00-22:00
• Air Hunger
  Hanna Haaslathi (FI), 6.9. 23:00

www.mediafacades.eu

Also see: Media Facades Symposium

Tom Hanslmaier (AT)
5. 9. 23:30 – 24:00
6. 9. 21:45 – 22:15

“Rear Impact” is a performance that deals with human latitude for action when the machine isn’t the tool of the human being but rather the human being the instrument of the machine. What influence do new technologies have on the body and its faculties of perception, and what aesthetics are the results? Audience members see a fluid situation cut up by the stroboscope into individual stopaction images. The flowing movement of a head-on collision between a car and a motorcycle driven the performer comes across as a series of snapshots. A minimalist stage set and a stark lighting concept underscore the character of an extreme situation that audience members experience live. One of the areas of emphasis of Tom Hanslmaier’s creative activities as an artist is the confrontation with the biomechanical processes that go on in the human body, the incredible power and intensity that the body generates, and the forces that act upon the body when it’s in motion.

www.tomhanslmaier.at

Performance&Concept: Tom Hanslmaier
Techniker: Martin Urstöger, Philipp Tengler, Thomas Rinner, Thomas Seiberl, Thomas Doppler
Sounddesign: Axel Wolph, Tom Kaser
Musik: Alex Joechtl, Flaer, Alexander Balanescu
Lichtdesign: Gerald Pappenberger
Stimme: Julia Noa Fischer
Regieassistenz: Christina Raab

Tom Hanslmaier (AT)
6. 9. 13:00

As a dancer and stuntman, Tom Hanslmaier and Tarek Rasouli (Wings for Life ambassador) deal intensively with the limits of the stress to which the human body can be subjected. The non-profit researchfoundation  Wings for Life wants to heal paraplegia and supports spinal marrow research.

The subsequent workshop shows how to train to take a fall.

Sonia Cillari (IT)
Generative / Interactive performance
2. 9. Part of Frozen Music
3. 9. – 7. 9. 18:30 – 20:00

While lying still on the floor, the artist is exhaling through a cable connecting her left nostril and the center of a big screen. A digital creature called “feather” is entirely generated by the artist’s exhalation. Around 14,000 digital elements are created during the performance, and the digital feather can be brought into more than 6 different states of being, from addition to resistance patterns of life. Furthermore, the carbon dioxide level in the exhibition space is indicated by the feather, which might lose its initial range of colors heading towards black in case of higher concentrations in the surrounding air. One can hear the fatigued sound of the artist’s respiration over time.

www.soniacillari.net

Supported by [ars]numerica (Montbeliard, France), Optofonica Laboratory for Immersive ArtScience and Mondriaan Foundation (Amsterdam, the Netherlands)

The aim of the Soft Bodies Performance Art Festival is to bring together at a single location the tremendous diversity of approaches to and takes on performance art. The participating artists put their ideas into practice upon themselves and together with their audience at the same time. Thus, they work on and with the living subject, which creates space for many different points of view amidst this encounter.

Performance art is processual and ephemeral; moments of transcendence, experimentation, insight and spectacularly going down in flames are possible and desirable. The performances will be staged at different locations throughout the Tabakfabrik grounds. bb15 is the festival headquarters, and will also serve as a setting for discussion and presentation of previously staged performances.

Schedule:

Festival headquarters: bb15, Baumbachstraße 15, 4020 Linz. Dates & hours: September 3-6, 2010, 2-6 PM each day

http://www.medea.or.at/bb15/

Curators: Elisa Andessner (AT), Didi Bruckmayer (AT)
Produced jointly by the Ars Electronica Festival and bb15, the Linz offspace

Nico Ferrando (AR) / presented by Edition Lammerhuber (AT)
2. 9. – 7. 9.

“My husband and me, me and my wife” is a series of photographs of twenty-five couples from different ages and ethnic groups. Some have been together their whole life, others just for a few months. Life-sized, in color and taken in a realistic fashion, the images will give you the impression that the models are standing in front of you. Naked and relaxed, they seem to be floating on the white background, almost levitating. Some of their body parts are interchanged, particularly those related to what is socially taken to define gender. “My husband and me, me and my wife” can be about identity, about marriage, about relationships, about genetics, about gender, about commitment, about the past, the present, maybe the future and definitely about love.

Revital Cohen (IL)
2. 9. – 7. 9.

Phantom pain is a phenomenon in which pain is projected onto and perceived in a part of the body that does not exist (e.g. has been amputated). Now, an innovative new interface can convey these sensations or record phantom movements a person feels. The *Phantom Recorder* system projects a cold, damp sensation onto the skin surface, triggering the brain to hallucinate a phantom. As the phantom movement stimulates the peripheral nerves, its activity is captured and recorded by a neural implant and external wireless equipment. When a prosthesis has been fitted to a subject, digital data of the recorded phantom sensation can be transmitted to the implant, allowing the nerves to recreate the sensation of the telescoped phantom hand, the severed foot or the severed arm.

www.revitalcohen.com

Daito Manabe (JP) & Motoi Ishibashi (JP)
2. 9. – 7. 9.

Portraits of individuals are taken by an infrared camera and then displayed by a laser projector on a phosphorescent screen. The laser constructs the image pixel by pixel, layer by layer, and thereby produces glowing areas on the phosphorescent screen that slowly fade.

Tove Kjellmark (SE)
2. 9. – 7. 9.

The Destruction of the Ego is a one-foot tall toy robot enlarged to a more than three meter tall giant, which still has the same features as the small original. It laughs hysterically, like a child that is tickled out of its mind, it falls on the floor in convulsions, and rises up on its feet again. Tove Kjellmark uses the machine to reveal our fears of losing control and human weaknesses. A machine is designed to function perfectly, it is materialized control. In this way The Destruction of the Ego also reflects on the relation between man and machine.

www.tovekjellmark.com

Thanks to Bengt Sjölén, Jens Lind, Daniel Eng, Johannes Gross, A ndrea Hvistendahl, Lars Hässler

Experiments in Crowd Gaming
2.9.-6.9.

Keep your eyes on the ball! This year, the balls will keep their eyes on you too. They know who touches them, they track social dynamics, and soon they will connect a local crowd to virtual crowds, via the cloud. crowd-2cloud is the next generation of large-scale physical crowd games. From one gigantic pleasure orb inspired by Woody Allen’s “Sleeper”, to hundreds of balls motion-captured with the latest technology, you will have the chance to play, experiment, and design your own games. Participants can experiment with the system, just bring your own laptop! We know how it will start, but it’s unpredictable how it will end.

Open Lab
2.9.-6.9.
Participants can experiment with our API to our motion capture balls in the dev space, and can sign up for slots in the event space to run their code in real-time on the big screen with the big balloons.

Open Demos
2. 9. – 6. 9. 13:00 – 15:00
Everybody is invited to try out the newest daily developments.

The Big Bounce
3. 9., 5.9., 6. 9. 21:30 – 22:00
ATTENTION: Performance at 4.9., 21:30-22:00 canceled!
Play the crowd2cloud team’s own games and the best of the new daily developments in this big show event.

NEWS: Sample code and API is already available online with simulator. Start coding in your bedroom already: http://crowd2cloud.org/code

www.squidball.net

Chris Bregler (US / DE), Sally Rosenthal (US), Kirill Smolskiy (US), Ian Spiro (US), Graham Taylor (CA), George Williams (US)

More and more people are becoming aware of and interested in a holistic approach to health to supplement the classic means of repair used in Western medicine. How do we repair ourselves? How do we maintain our wholeness and health in a comprehensive way? The Body & Soul Factory seeks to blend spirituality and science, medicine and alternative approaches to healing, and offers visitors a personalized REPAIR program during the Ars Electronica Festival.

Detailed Program as download.

Repair yourself
2. 9. – 7. 9
Shiatsu, coaching, shamanic counseling, physiotherapy, cranio-sacral integration, massage, energy treatments, kinesiology, lomilomi, sound massages and much more.
You can make reservations for individual “repair yourself” sessions beginning September 1, 2010 by calling 0699-177 81 560 on the day before the session or on site in the Infolounge.

Group repair
2. 9. – 7. 9
Yoga, energy balance, sound journeys, shamanic journeys, systemic configurations, mini-workshops… see detailed program.

Rescue repair
2. 9. – 7. 9 16:00 – 18:00
15-minute program for stressed-out Ars visitors—all Ars Electronica Pass holders are entitled to one treatment free of charge.

Eva Gütlinger (AT) und Birgit Kaps (AT)

4.9.

Life and work according to ideas from the development of open source software: Vision of a sustainable future, nightmare scenario of total transparency or something that’s long been common practice? At the Open Source Life symposium experiences with projects and initiatives, activism on behalf of freedom online and critical analysis of concepts around “openness” meet. Can Open-Source-Mindsets of the individual and Open-Source-Structures in societies and economies act as agents of positive change?

10:30 – 12:15 Open Source Life I: Prix Forum Digital Communities

• Welcome
  Gerfried Stocker (AT), Andreas Hirsch (AT)
• Digital Communities 2010
  Aram Bartholl (DE)
• Chaos Computer Club
  Tim Pritlove (DE), Discordian Evangelist, CCC
• Map Kibera
  Mikel Maron, co-founder of Map Kibera, and board member of the OpenStreetMap Foundation.
• the ubiquitous #unibrennt cloud
  Georg Schütz (AT) und andere
• Discussion with participants

Moderation: Aram Bartholl (DE)

13:30 – 15:10 Open Source Life II: Open Source Life & Repair

• Why should we live an Open Source Life?
  Andreas Hirsch (AT), curator at KUNST HAUS WIEN, consultant and cultural manager. „Cultural Memory and Diversity“ at WSIS II in Tunis 2005.
• Trash | Track | Trash
  Carlo Ratti (IT/US), civil engineer and architect, teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, director of the SENSEable City Laboratory. Founder and former president of the Comitato Valdo Fusi for promoting architectural change in Turin, Italy. A documentation of the project Trash Track can be seen in Bau 2 EG.
• How to biomanufacture Bricks
  Ginger Krieg Dosier (US), architect and designer, specialist for new performance materials for architecture and construction.
  Teaches architecture at American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Partner at Vergelabs, creator of Biomanufactured Bricks.
• Design as Conversation
  John Thackara (UK), director and founder of the festival series „Doors of Perception“, where communities imagine sustainable futures. Author of numerous books including „In The Bubble: Designing In A Complex World“
• Discussion with participants

Moderation: Andreas Hirsch (AT)

15:25 – 16:45 Open Source Life III: Repair Society

• „Repair“ Democracy
  Amelia Andersdotter (SE), elected member of the European Parliament on behalf of Piratpartiet and former international coordinator of Piratpartiet‘s youth organisation Ung Pirat.
• Creating Diaspora
  Maxwell Salzberg (US), programmer, started building a distributed social network dubbed „Diaspora.“
• The Meaning of Open is Obfuscated
• Geert Lovink (NL), Dutch-Australian media theorist and critic, founding director of the Institute of Network Cultures and founder of Internet projects such as nettime and fibreculture. His recent book titles are Dark Fiber (2002), Uncanny Networks (2002) and My First Recession (2003).
• Discussion with participants

Moderation: Andreas Hirsch (AT

17:00 – 18:30 Open Source Life IV: Repair Society (and yourself)

• Digital Formations of the Powerless
  Saskia Sassen (US) saskiasassen.com, Columbia University. Recent books: Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages,  and “A Sociology of Globalization”. Writes for OpenDemocracy.net and HuffingtonPost.com
• Floating in a Rich Network of Highly Charged People and Serendipitous Events
  Joichi Ito (JP), activist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist and angel investor. CEO of Creative Commons, early stage investor in Twitter, Technorati, Flickr, Last.fm and other Internet companies, board member of Mozilla Foundation, previously also of Open Source Initiative (OSI) and ICANN. – http://joi.ito.com/
• Reflections of an Open Source Life
  Derrick de Kerckhove (CA), professor at the University of Toronto and the Università Federico II in Naples, Italy, directs research on digital culture(s) at Open University of Barcelona.
• Discussion & Wrapup

Moderation: Andreas Hirsch (AT)

About the curator:
Andreas Hirsch (AT)
Curator, consultant and cultural manager. Projects include development of the „Digital Communities“-category for Prix Ars Electronica (2003), „Cultural Memory and Diversity“ at WSIS II in Tunis (2005). Since 2009 curator of KUNST HAUS WIEN.

www.andreas-hirsch.net

Digital Communities 2010, curated by Aram Bartholl

The Digital Communities area TELE-INTERNET is an organically growing structure, a hacker space, a conference, a stage, an exhibition, a BarCamp, Commune 0/1, and a site for anyone who’s interested in discussing the development of the internet, exchanging ideas, and presenting their own projects. The Ars Electronica audience is invited to take the plunge and join the fun, to contribute to the discussion of the social web, or to chill out on the couch with a clubmate and a notebook.
The program includes talks, presentations, discussions, panels, work in progress, meetings, workshops, screenings and much more. Get additional information about the dynamically changing program in the web or follow them on twitter!

Detailed Program:
http://bit.ly/aecdc
http://twitter.com/aecdc (hashtag #aecdc)

The participants:

Plus BOSCO-Uganda, ceibalJAM!, CulturaDigital.Br, FixMyStreet, Kloop, Puncar Action!, Sourcemap, TEDtoChina and many many more!

Curator: Aram Bartholl. Assistance: Inga Seidler, Jügen Höbarth

The featured artist at Ars Electronica 2010 discusses “blood and tears” and offers insights into the artistic intention behind his work.

Challenges of European Media Policy in the Fields of Migration and Diversity
04.09.                   10:00-18:00

Radio FRO will scrutinize how current media policy discourses on the subject of migration take place on a European level and which role media play in this connection. “RENAMING Media” offers a setting for reflection in which to shed light on constructions and processes in the field of media production on national and European levels, and focuses on media initiatives that are confronting this constellation of facts and circumstances.

Panel 1: Renaming European Media:  Challenges of European Media Policy in the Fields of Migration and Diversity

10:00 Introduction (Alexander Vojvoda/Andi Wahl)
10:15 Objectives (Dr. Daniela Kraus)
10:30 Statements of the Participants (à 5′ – 7′)
11:00 Discussion
12:00 Final Statements and Questions of the Audience

Participants:

• Reynald Blion (FR), Media & Diversity Manager at the Council of Europe
• Rui Monteiro (DK), CMFE – Community Media Forum Europe
• Tom Moring (FIN), Helsinki University
• Hella Ranner (AT), Member of European Parliament
• Vina Yun (AT), IG Kultur/Migrazine

Moderation: Dr. Daniela Kraus (AT), Medienhaus Wien

Language: Englisch

13.00     Lunchbreak

Panel 2: Lectures and Presentations: Public Value and Migrant Media Production

15.00     Keynote: Public Value and Migrant Media Production in Community Media
Helmut Peissl (AT), Obmann VFRÖ – Verband Freier Radios Österreich
15:45     Olivera Stajić (AT), dastandard.at
16:00     Cristiane Tasinato (BRA) & Vina Yun (AT), Migrazine
16:15     Dejan Sudar (AT), KOSMO, tbc
16:30     Coffeebreak
16:45     Klaus Unterberger (AT), ORF
17:00     Erich Kocina (AT), diePresse/Integration, tbc
17:15     Michael Gams (AT) & Alexander Vojvoda (AT), Radio FRO 105.0 MHz
17:30     Final Statements, Discussion and Questions of the Audience
18:00     End

Moderation: Dr. Daniela Kraus (AT, Medienhaus Wien)

Language: English, German

http://www.fro.at/ars10

Mogens Jacobsen (DK)
2. 9. – 7. 9.

Mogens Jacobsens installation is a biological, galvanic battery consisting of several hundred potatoes. When the exhibition starts, the electrical power of the potatoes drives a text censoring software system. As target, Jacobsen chose the last chapter of a highly critical report relating to immigration issues, that was discredited by the Danish government immediately after its publication. As the potatoes begin to dry out, the suppressed words and censored sentences will gradually reappear in the text. This process is not visible in the gallery space, but can only be seen by accessing the system on the internet: http://pom.aec.at

Jon Rafman (CA)
2. 9. – 7. 9.

Jon Rafman’s exhibit Nine Eyes of Google Street View celebrates Google’s technologies and critiques the consciousness it reflects at the same time. In the film, one man searches for his lost love through Google Street View and Google Earth. In a series of photographs based on pictures of Google Street View, Rafman reintroduces the human gaze and reasserts the uniqueness and importance of the individual.

jonrafman.com
googlestreetviews.com

2. 9. – 7. 9. REPAIR Lounge
Screenings:
2. 9. 14:30 Bau 2 EG
4. 9. 20:30 OK Parkdeck (In case of adverse weather, movie will be shown at 23:00 o’clock at the cinema Moviemento)
6. 9. 16:00 Bau 2 EG

112 persons from 56 countries convened at the Table of Free Voices in Berlin in 2006 to provide answers to global questions about such things as the economy, ethics, war and nation-states. Now, director Ralf Schmerberg has made a film out of the resulting 11,200 statements interwoven with footage of some of the defining images of our time. The result is major intellectual marathon.

www.droppingknowledge.org

Regie: Ralf Schmerberg (DE) (Mindpirates e.v.)

2.9. 19:00-20:00 Main Square
2. 9. Frozen Music, Tabakfabrik Linz

Inspired by more than 70 Complaints Choirs all over the world, the ORF (Austrian Broadcasting Company) and Ars Electronica invited locals to get whatever has been bothering them of their chest. Regardless of whether it has to do with the environment, politics or social injustice, the complaints and repair suggestions will be put together to create the “Upper Austrian Repair Song”. An amateur choral group under direction of Wolfgang Mayer (AT) will then perform it on Linz’s Main Square.

A ccoperation of Ars Electronica and the ORF OÖ. The Repair Choir is a part of the international project „Complaint Choirs“ by Tellervo Kalleinen (FI) and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen (DE).

Neue Arbeit Neue Kultur (new work new culture) is a hybrid format—part trade fair, part performance. How can people use a broad spectrum of technologies to manufacture  products themselves? This experiment’s aim is to completely rethink work and, with a liberated attitude, to experience it anew. To do this job, NANK utilizes two elements:  Community Production demonstrates technologies having to do with energy, production, housing, mobility, work, food and health; in Presence, an open deliberation space, participants will elaborate on new work, presence and belonging.

Download the full program here as PDF.

A detailed and comprehensive rundown of each day’s program will be available on site.

www.neuearbeit-neuekultur.de

VHS Linz und AK OÖ präsentieren
The Craftsman – Abgespaltenheit und Entfremdungsprozesse in der modernen Arbeitswelt
Richard Sennett (US)
2. 9. 18:00 – 20:00

The Linz Lectures series sponsored by the city’s Volkshochschule adult continuing education facility and the province’s Chamber of Labor is designed as a forum for the critical discussion of important current issues. This year, American sociologist Richard Sennett has been invited to Linz to discuss work (the reality of work; work as a commodity) amidst capitalism’s time of crisis. Sennett’s bestsellers—for example, “The Corrosion of Character” and “The Culture of the New Capitalism”—elaborate on the effects of flexwork on labor and life in general. Sennett’s latest book, “The Craftsman,” investigates a basic human  impulse: the desire to do a job well for its own sake.

Admission is free, but please RSVP to reserve a seat by calling +43.732.6906.2413 or sending an e-mail to wipol@akooe.at.

2.9.-7.9.

Linz’s Wissensturm—the “tower of knowledge” that houses an adult continuing education facility (VHS), public library, media workshop (MWL)
and a self-learning center (LeWis)—has made a name for itself worldwide as a promising approach to providing knowledge-based services. During the
Ars Electronica Festival, Wissensturm will set up shop on the Tabakfabrik grounds.

Offerings include:

• Use of LeWis workstations
• Reading nook stocked by the library with eBook readers, info about the digital library, and Book Crossing books
• Speaker’s Corner hosted by the MWL
• Info about the Linz Public Space Server and on-site registration
• Speeches and workshops having to do with economic activity for the common good

Plus, visitors have the opportunity to register for VHS courses and sign up for a library card.

www.wissensturm.at

Christian Felber (AT)
3.9. 18:00

Christian Felber (AT) is an author, freelance journalist and speaker on social and economic issues. He deals with how we organize our economy and which
economic goals we pursue thereby. Should everything be oriented on the best interests of small groups or should the economy enable all people to live and thrive? This speech will be followed by an open World Cafe Workshop on the same subject conducted by Knut Berndorfer and Johannes Heiml.

A cooperation of VHS Linz and Südwind OÖ.

An exhibition about the Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations
3. 9. – 5. 9.

In September 2000, 189 heads of state and government convened at United Nations Headquarters in New York and adopted the so-called Millennium Declaration. In it, the signatories affirmed their commitment to assuming shared responsibility for the world’s poorest inhabitants and to fostering the development of the global community. The declaration states that the supreme goals of the international community of nations in the new century should be liberty, equality, solidarity, respect for nature, and shared responsibility.

A cooperation of VHS Linz and Südwind OÖ.

4. 9. 14:00

This workshop takes you on a trip back to your PC’s place of origin. Via film, speech and discussion, you’ll learn just how far all these components have traveled and see that a bit more commitment on your part is called for to bring about better working conditions for the people who assembled it and to assure proper disposal when its useful life is over.
Please preregister by September 2, 2010 by calling Südwind OÖ at +43.732.795664 or VHS Linz at 43.732.7070.0, or via e-mail to johannes.heiml@suedwind.at

A cooperation of VHS Linz and Südwind OÖ.

2. 9. – 7. 9.

OTELO, the open technology laboratory in Gmunden and Vöcklabruck, BFI production workshops in Wels and Steyr, and Specialbikes, the professional tinkerer’s shop for bicycle electrification run by Hermann Kranawetter in Gmunden, have banded together for this cycling workshop. They show how to use intact components from old bikes to build new ones. They can install electric drive equipment, or they’ll pimp your ride by setting you up with POV (persistence of vision) blinking LED spokes that turn your wheels into displays. Frivolous plaything? Perhaps, but above all it’s a high-visibility signal for a new culture of repair. OTELO will also be showcasing another gadget for climate repair: the Solar Cooker developed in cooperation with EG Solar in Altötting, Germany.

A ccoperation by: BFI Produktionsschule Wels and Steyr, OTELO-Verein „Offenes Technologie Labor“, specialbikes.at, IEW-Initiative Eine Welt and EG-SOLAR e.V.

www.otelo.or.at
www.specialbikes.at

Margit Lüftenegger (AT), FAB
2. 9. – 7. 9.

Recycling, handicraft art and integration are the key components of Scrap Design, a very promising socioeconomic model developed by goldsmith Margit Lüftenegger. In her Scrap Design workshop, she shows participants how to dismantle obsolete devices and handcraft creative jewelry design ideas. Thus, the goldsmith’s traditional skills and artistic creativity dovetail to transform electronic junk into new job market prospects for disadvantaged individuals.

Kontakt: margit.lueftenegger@fab.at

www.fab.at

The Chronograph (2010)
Leo Peschta (AT)
2.9.-7.9.

“The Chronograph” engraves the “acoustic moment” onto the object on which it’s mounted. The way it functions resembles the workings of a clock. Every minute, the “hand” advances a couple of degrees, whereby a bur attached to the hand cuts a groove into the object. The depth of the groove depends on the current noise level in the installation space. On busy days, the object’s surface is completely milled away; when things are quiet, it retains its original form

Windrecorder SR-1 (2009)
Leo Peschta (AT)
2.9.-7.9.

Leo Peschta’s “SR-1” is a wind recording & playback device. It registers the wind blowing about its wearer’s head for a few minutes. Later, at any given location, it can play back the “wind atmospheres” that it has committed to memory. SR-1 consists of an aluminum body on which 16 fans, electronic control components and a battery are mounted.

WERP_BOT (2006)
Gordan Savicic (AT/NL), Leo Peschta (AT)
2.9.-7.9.

If WERB_BOT hears the word “Tschik” (an Austrian slang expression for cigarette), the robot shoots a cigarette directly into the smoker’s mouth with its specially designed “catapult-like-apparatus”. No matter what happens, the overwhelming excitement of the moment leaves the smoker relieved and satisfied, his/her coolness factor visibly augmented.

Der Zermesser (2007–2010)
Leo Peschta (AT)
2.9.-7.9.

By changing the length of its sides, this object breaks his own perfect symmetry and can feel the surrounding room. Each of his sides is equipped with a microcontroller, power supply and motors and is capable of determining its own length autonomously. The knowledge of the position and the extension of the individual modules and of the interrelationship among their respective positions enables the entire object to move freely within the space by shifting its center of gravity.

B.R.E.T.T (2008)
Leo Peschta (AT)
2.9.-7.9.

During the opening hours of the exhibition, the artist Leo Peschta walks through the city with a GPS- device, that constantly sends the position of the artist to the robot, which maps this data to the walls of the room. It follows this route by alternately seizing one of its parts against the walls with one of its parts and folding the other one over. Thereby the architecture of the exhibition space gets is thus altered according to the way how the artist uses the city, forcing the visitors to react on to each move the artist makes.

Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg
Lutz Pankow (DE), Alexander Holtkamp (DE), Leonhard Angerer (DE)
2. 9. – 7. 9.

The PROBEN (Trials) exhibition features objects designed and produced between 1981 and 2009 by design students at the HFBK-University of Fine Arts Hamburg. All are fully functional, full scale model vehicles—for example, sleds, concept cars, mopeds and scooters, a bicycle powered by a cordless screwdriver and an ultra-light long-distance cruiser propelled by rubber bands. Here, the accent is on bringing forth an actual object, the direct implementation of an idea in the form of a prototype.

Lutz Pankow (DE), www.lutzpankow.de
Alexander Holtkamp (DE), www.novaberater.de
Leonhard Angerer (DE), www.racing-atelier.com

Works on display:

• Fahrrad: Erich Münkel
• Roller: Sebastian Mends-Cole, Büro für Gestaltungsfragen, Karsten Kulke, Jens Bode
• Wanderer: Oliver Fellinghauer
• WYSIWYS – What You See Is What You Surf: Michael Dachselt
• Hydro: Leonhard Angerer, Alexander Holtkamp, Lucas Wallusch
• Falterle: René Sieber
• Biegeschlitten: Jonas von Ostrowski
• Steckschlitten: Martin Schmitz
• Hydrofoil: Leonhard Angerer
• 24 Hours Are Not Enough: Aaron Rauh, Nicolas Schrader
• Motoscooter: Lucas Wallusch
• Smovee: Norbert Staffend
• All our dreams are made of chrome: Leonhard Angerer
• EX: Sebastian Auray, Ruben Faber, Nils Ferber, Lodolf von Oldershausen

2.9.-7.9.

The task: creating exhibition architecture to be used only for a nine-day festival. The big question: Doesn’t repairing the world call for an aesthetic paradigm shift too? The simple answer: the papplab principle. To make exhibition architecture, fold cardboard (Papp in German) cartons and add adhesive tape. A product that, in the world of commerce, is merely packaging and thus of secondary importance becomes a key material serving countless functions: walls, tables, benches and chill-out zones. Folks, we’re not just talking about paper cups and plates here; the whole damn hospitality establishment is being constructed of these materials—over 2½ acres of cardboard and miles of adhesive tape. The aim: building in a way that is inexpensive, environmentally friendly, experimental and light. And in the spirit of audience participation, installation visitors are invited to build their own repair tools either in a workshop or simply as an act of ad lib creativity.

A cooperation of o-werk und mia.
o-werk: Stefan Hofer (AT), Kai M aier-Rothe (AT), Peter Luger (AT), Gigi Gratt (AT), Mods Flotzinger (AT), Tom Latzel (AT) & Wodo Gratt (AT)
mia: Sandra Gnigler (AT), Tobias Hagleitner (AT) & Gunar Wilhelm (AT)

Stop Recycling. Start Repairing.

2.9.-7.9.

Platform21 was a design platform based in Amsterdam (NL), aiming to positively influence the relationship between user and product. Through their projects they question today’s society, reveal the making process, and stimulate dialogue and the sharing of creative knowledge. During the Ars Electronica 2010 they will show examples of their past work and offer you the chance to learn about some of their creative repair methods.

Informations about the daily program are available on site.

www.platform21.nl
Coordination: Moetoesingi Schmidt (NL), Arne Hendriks (NL)

Chair Repair
Chairs are the icons of the design world. No wonder that the repair of chairs, in all its manifestations became a central aspect of the presentation of Platform21 = Repairing. For Ars Electronica we make a selection of the best repaired chairs we could find and invite designers and artists in Austria, as well as the public, to add their own.
Exhibited chairs by (among others) Barbara Alves, Rachel Griffith, Harco Rutgers, 5.5 Designers, Guy Keulemans,…

Woolfiller
Helen Klopper (NL)
Woolfiller is an invention of Heleen Klopper, an Amsterdam-based designer. It repairs holes and hides stains in woolen jumpers, cardigans, jackets and more by using the specific characters of wool. The fibres of wool contain minuscule scales which open up when they are pricked with a felt needle. The open scales bind with each other and will not be separated, not even in the laundry. It is simple, sustainable and satisfying, a new solution for an old problem.

Smash Repair
Guy Keulemans (AU) & Martijn Dijkhuizen (NL)
“Smash Repair” is a generative repair system for creating form. Using a basic construction template, structures are smashed and repaired repeatedly, building up material in places that require it for strength. The process, analogous to the growth of bones and tree branches when self-repairing, is a method for exploring the function and aesthetics of materials used for repair.

Bison Kintsugi
Lotte Dekker (NL)
Designer Lotte Dekker developed a new way of gluing porcelain based on kintsugi, an old Japanese technique from the 15th century in which porcelain is repaired with gold leaf. It is an extremely time-consuming, expensive method. Dekker found Bison glue to be the perfect Western variant for making beautiful yet simple repairs.

Dispatchwork
Jan Vormann (DE)
“I want to repair every broken wall in the whole world with Dispatchwork. Why not? I think it is a fun approach towards conceiving the decay that time brings along.” Jan Vormann uses Lego for fixing cracks, holes and crumbling corners. He fills them with the plastic bricks, calling the practice Dispatchwork. He already left a colorful trail of repairs in Berlin, Tel Aviv, Amsterdam, New York and many other cities around the world.

Shoe Goo repair station
Arne Hendriks (NL)
Shoe Goo is a waterproof adhesive which is perfect to mend the soles of worn out shoes. The product is well known among skaters to repair their destroyed skate shoes.

5.9.
15:30 – 17:30 Tape the Chair
17:30 – 18:00 Jury Selection
18:15 Award Ceremony

Jury: Arne Hendriks (Platform 21), Horst Hörtner (Ars Electronica), Nicoletta Blacher (Ars Electronica)

Hey, nobody likes people who are stuck up! Except when they’re creative spirits who can take old chairs, add duct tape, and transform them into pieces of designer furniture. Platform21 will be demonstrating how that works at this year‘s Ars Electronica. And you’re cordially invited to get into the adhesive act too at a Tape the Chair workshop. At its conclusion, participants’ works will be evaluated and—who knows?—your sticky fingers might be the ones clutching the grand prize! So: Stop Recycling, Start Repairing!

2. 9. – 7. 9.
Akira Nakayasu (JP)

After his first work, a sunflower-shaped robot called „Himawari“ (2008), artist and visual designer Akira Nakayasu continued his research in the field of robotic plants. His latest worked, simply called „plant“, is an interactive installation inspired by the vision of grass blowing in the wind. The robotic plant has 169 artificial leaves, which are controlled by using shape memory alloy actuators. Each leaf reacts independently to movement like an approaching hand by moving slowly in the virtual wind.

2. 9. – 7. 9.

After the cost of energy had made global shipping of raw materials and packaged goods unimaginable, only the rich could afford traditional, massproduced commodities. Synthetic biology enabled us to harness our natural environment for the production of things. Coded into the DNA of a plant, product parts grow within the supporting system of the plant‘s structure. When fully developed, they are stripped like a walnut from its shell or corn from its husk, ready for assembly. Shops have evolved into factory farms as licensed products are grown where sold. Large items take time to grow and are more expensive while small ones are more affordable. The postal service delivers lightweight seed-packets for domestic manufacturers. The product shown here is the Herbicide Sprayer, an essential commodity used to protect delicate engineered horticultural machines from older nature.

Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg (UK) and Sascha Pohflepp (DE)

www.daisyginsberg.com
www.pohflepp.com

2.9.-7.9.

The Ocean of Light project explores the creative and immersive possibilities of light-based visualization in physical space. It uses hardware to create dynamic, interactive and three-dimensional sculptures from light. Surface, the first artwork to be exhibited using the Ocean of Light hardware, is a responsive virtual eco-system that occupies physical space. This space is dominated by a virtual surface, the boundary between two fluid virtual materials. These are affected by sound, nearby noise creates waves that ripple across the surface, but can also trigger luminous blasts. The result is an interconnected environment, overlapping physical and virtual spaces that coexist and are aware of each other.

www.oceanoflight.net

www.squidsoup.org

Ocean of Light: Surface is a Squidsoup project, created by Anthony Rowe (UK), Gareth Bushell, Chris Bennewith (NZ), Liam Birtles (UK) and Ollie Bown (AU), supported by the Technology Strategy Board (UK)

2.9.-6.9.

Future hopes on a number of different levels are pinned on so-called green technologies: on one hand, they could help reduce the rapidly increasing global demand for energy, or even offer alternatives to finite resources like oil and coal; on the other hand, as highly committed politicians and young start-up entrepreneurs have long insisted, they could be a driving force behind the revival of our sputtering economy. In this spirit, Ars Electronica is staging a Clean Tech Showcase to spotlight a small selection of outstanding ideas, concepts and best-practice models that point the way to a brighter future. Visitors can take an up-close-and-personal look at green transportation when they take one of a whole fleet of electrical vehicles out for a spin on the E-Mobility Parcours.

Additional informational material will be available on site and in the Infolounge.

Partner:
Linz AG, Kaloveo Electric Move Adventures, KEBA AG, KTM Power Sports AG, Meco World GmbH, Medizinische Gesellschaft Projekt MedUni Linz OÖ, MS Design GmbH, ÖAMTC Oberösterreich, Österreichisches Rotes Kreuz OÖ, Siemens, Xolar GmbH…

Christoph Weidinger (AT), Clemens Bauder (AT), Gregor Graf (AT), Aron Rynda (AT)
2. 9. – 7. 9.

A 1978 Steyr Daimler City Bus just short of its last tow to the junkyard is transformed in five acts into a “kiosque,” a vehicle specially equipped for deployment tracking down matters of interest to advanced cosmopolitans. To enable it to respond to diverse situations, the vehicle will get a daily “tune up” customizing it for a particular mission. The newly-implemented tools will be put into action immediately and taken out for a spin together with installation visitors.

3. 9. 10:30 – 12:30

repair: it‘s all about attitude, about taking up the responsibility and starting to change the things.

• 10:30 Welcome
  Gerfried Stocker (AT), Derrick de Kerckhove (CA)
• 10:45 Repair Manifesto
  Arne Hendriks (NL), Platform21
• 11:10 Can China repair the world?
  David Nieh (CN), Architect, General Manager for Shui On Land.
  Board Member for the Joint US-China Collaboration on Clean Energy (JUCCCE), Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SPRIE) and Cogswell College in Silicon Valley. He advises the One-North Development in Singapore, the US-China Clean Energy Forum, the China Greentech Initiative and the Cleantech Group.
• 11:35 Vertical farming, towards a high tech ecology
  Dickson Despommier (US), microbiologist, ecologist and Professorof Public Health in Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia University. He conducts research on intracellular parasitism and teachescourses on Parasitic Diseases, Medical Ecology and Ecology.
• 12:00 Q&A

Moderation: Derrick de Kerckhove (CA)

3.9.  15:00 – 18:30

Mobility is the essence of a globalized society—its basic requirement, the key to competitiveness, and a cause of environmental pollution. This symposium will shed light on numerous aspects of mobility including sociopolitical issues and the challenges posed by design and technology.Produced jointly by Ars Electronica and the ÖBB–Austrian Federal Railways

• 15:00 Welcome
  Christian Kern, Vorstandsprecher der ÖBB-Holding
• 15:15 Do you remember the future?
  Ein multimedialer Streifzug durch Utopien zu Mobilität und Verkehr der letzten hundert Jahre von Sini Zein und Gerfried Stocker (Ars Electronica)
• 15:30 How do design for a sustainable mobility?
  Konzepte und Projekte von Stadtplanern, Industriedesignern und Künstlern für Fahrzeuge und Verkehrssysteme von morgen. Alejandro Gutierrez (Arup), Alexander Neumeister (N+P Industrial Design), Daniel Huber (Spirit Design), Lutz Pankow (HFBK Hamburg)
• 17:00 Break
• 17:10 Regarding the Future
  Welche Innovationen und Ideen zu Mobilität und Bewegungsfreiheit haben Zukunft? Christian Kern (AT, ÖBB), Saskia Sassen (US, Columbia University), Oliviero Toscani (IT, Fotograf), moderiert von Derrick de Kerckhove (CA, Marshall McLuhan Institute)
• 18:00 Break
• 18:10 Mobility goes abstract
  Performance von Mia Zabelka (AT), Alex Micheuz (AT) and Paul Plut (AT).

Moderation: Derrick de Kerckhove (CA)