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Lina ben Mhenni is joining the Ars Electronica 2011 and will tell their story of the Tunisian revolution on September 4th during the conferences “public square squared – how social fabric is weaving a new era.

Her book “Tunisian Girl” has just been released, you can follow her blog here.

The Ars Electronica Center, heart of the Ars Electronica, center of the Ars Electronica Quarter, the centerstage of this year’s premier youthfestival CREATE YOUR WORLD. On the 31st of August, there’s going to be presentations and workshops during the day, and in the evening, the Gameboy Music Club and the Tesla Orchestra are going to pump up the mood for the big opening.

We liked Berlin. On thursday, the Ars Electronica Exhibition “What Machines Dream Of” has opened its doors at the Automobil Forum Unter den Linden, and http://export.aec.at/berlin2011/en”>here you can find more infos on that matter. Oh, and here’s a best-of in pictures.

ORF Oberösterreich on the exhibition (german only):

The gatehouses guarding the fortresses of science have fallen, the bars on the windows are gone, and the secrets revealed. There are no more hiding places, no top-secret R&D projects; transparent humans do research in transparent cubes and share their findings with each other worldwide. Breakthrough discoveries are no longer dependent on funding that exceeds the annual budget of a small country; the necessary equipment is strictly home-brew; when know-how is needed, those who can supply it are quickly recruited; and the researchers learn from the users (and vice versa).

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As we human beings go about our everyday lives, most of us aren’t aware of the enormous quantities of data that we produce along the way. Changes in air pressure, odors, temperature shifts, sounds, our pulse and even our dandruff are some of the unimaginably large amount of things we leave behind us as we go along through life, and that, to an increasing extent, can—and are—being registered by all sorts of tiny high-tech contrivances. Without even going into the many surveillance cameras that undoubtedly shoot our personal sense of security into stratospheric heights, consider, for example, the highly complex smoke detectors, smart thermostats, infrared sensors & Co. There’s hardly anything that can’t be quantified. But we humans have a problem nevertheless: That which explains to us what our world consists of and how it works purportedly cannot be measured, but we won’t be concerned with this too long and get back to what we can have.

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Since 2004, Linz Art University has offered an “Interface Cultures” master’s degree program in which students learn scientific and, above all, artistic ways of working with all possible—and impossible—forms of communication with machines and devices. From the very outset, this program founded by Christa Sommer and Laurent Mignonneau has offered students the opportunity to showcase their work in conjunction with Ars Electronica and thereby to reach very large audiences.

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The summer is coming back, in Linz too, he’ll be here in time for the Ars Electronica, for sure. Here at the Maindeck, you’ll find the opening of the festival, as well as partys and concerts. And during the day you can enjoy an ice, and look around.

You can now order your tickets for the Ars Electronica 2011 and browse through the offers of our partnerhotels on our visitor info – page.