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In these video communiqués creative young people from all over Austria tell how they envision the world of tomorrow. The depiction of the Earth as a Rubik’s Cube is meant to symbolize the seemingly infinite possibilities of our future. Many more interviews will be conducted during the festival.

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Here’s an interesting variation of shadow theater: Print out your own shadow on an adhesive foil and stick it onto the place meant for it in a large-scale graphic on the wall.

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Bench Mark links up four park benches in downtown Linz via the internet. The benches react to their users by displaying an LED signal that indicates whether (and at which location) a potential conversational partner is presently seated on one of the benches.

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I/I/E plays with vibrations and acoustic energies that originate from the infrasonic frequency range—tones and noises that are too low to be heard by the human ear. If sonic pressure (i.e. volume) is high enough, though, infrasonic waves can be felt. The literally unheard sounds of the Interactive Infrasonic Environment are produced by a six-meter-long organ pipe and a wind machine.

IIE – INTERACTIVE INFRASONIC ENVIRONMENT
Reinhard Gupfinger (AT)
Mi/Wed 31.8. – Di/Tue 6.9., 10:00 – 19:00
Ars Electronica Quarter, Trockendock

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IMPORT/EXPORT transforms statistics into human beings. It looks into the daydreams, life dreams and nightmares of kids, young people and adults from different cultures living in Austria. The results are stories from the realm of tension and interplay of our multicultural everyday life, narratives that tell of being a stranger and thereby reflect on what it means to have a homeland.

IMPORT/EXPORT
Blinklicht Medienproduktion (AT)
Mi/Wed 31.8. – Di/Tue 6.9., 10:00 – 19:00
Ars Electronica Quarter, Trockendock

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Here, shoppers can find things that actually aren’t even available yet. Time as an objet d’art, books with clothes hooks, elegant chair socks, and lots more—from little gift items to seriously big ideas, there’s something here for everyone. Plus, a small in-house museum features prototypes and mock-ups that deliver interesting insights into the inventor’s world.

ERFINDERLADEN (DE/AT)
Mi/Wed 31.8. – Di/Tue 6.9., 10:00 – 19:00
Ars Electronica Quarter, Lowerdeck

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Small-scale conquests / Kids on the block. Viertelwelten focuses on outlying districts, the parts of town often dismissed as insignificant parts of the city but whose diversity or uniformity turns out to be a decisive determinant of a city’s character. Viertelwelten isn’t an exhibition trying to get something across to kids. Instead, it regards kids as the experts, and the messages are addressed to adults.

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Discover a truly fascinating instrument: the mirage00. This audiovisual technical marvel is not only a musical instrument that can be played intuitively; it simultaneously produces a visualization of the resulting sound.

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The Ether Inductor equipped with high-performance sensors stages a playful encounter of two persons initially separated by a dark partition. If the two protagonists successfully carry out motion assignments issued on a display, the partition gradually becomes transparent and optical contact become possible.

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