EXHIBITIONS – ORIGIN https://ars.electronica.art/origin/en ORIGIN - ARS ELECTRONICA 2011 Mon, 27 Jun 2022 14:49:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.6 CAMPUS EXHIBITION 2011 – UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA (JP) – SERIOUSLY PLAYFUL / PLAYFULLY SERIOUS https://ars.electronica.art/origin/en/2011/08/12/campus-exhibition-2011-university-of-tsukuba-jp-seriously-playful-playfully-serious/ Fri, 12 Aug 2011 10:35:20 +0000 https://ars.electronica.art/origin/?p=2007 Tsukuba-University, mother of this year’s CAMPUS-exhibition, has just launched their exhibition-website, enjoy!

You can find more info on the exhibition here.

Also check out our blog on this website to set the mood, here and here.

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CYBERARTS 2011 https://ars.electronica.art/origin/en/2011/08/08/cyberarts-ausstellung-im-ok-offenes-kulturhaus/ Mon, 08 Aug 2011 09:00:12 +0000 https://ars.electronica.art/origin/?p=287 The Prix Ars Electronica is the world’s highest endowed prize for digital arts. It’s awarded in seven categories. The CyberArts 2011 exhibition showcases prizewinning works in Hybrid Art, Interactive Art and Digital Musics & Sound Art. The opening takes place at September 1st 5:30 pm. You can join a guided tour every day at 1:30 pm.

May the Horse Live in Me – Art Orienté Objet (FR)

Golden Nica – Hybrid Art


May the Horse Live in Me, Art Orienté Objet, click for Flickr-Gallery

This performance spans a bridge between animal and human being as well as between the discipline of bioart and extreme body art. May the Horse Live in Me performs the ritual of blood brotherhood between horse and performer. Immunologically prepared horse blood is injected into a human’s body and initiates a potentially therapeutic process.

Newstweek – Julian Oliver (NZ/DE), Danja Vasiliev (RU/DE)

Golden Nica – Interactive Art


Newstweek, click for CyberArts-Flickr-Gallerie

Newstweek is a high-tech device—small and unobtrusive, but nevertheless well suited for an attack on the nervous system of democracy. As something that appears to be a normal part of the technical infrastructure of an internet hotspot, Newstweek makes it possible to manipulate what’s received by those accessing the internet via W-LAN without them knowing about it. This is done by secretly modifying the news they read on their laptops, smartphones and tablets.

Bee – Apostolos Loufopoulos (GR)


Bee, Apostolos Loufopoulos, click for CyberArts-Flickr-Gallery

A work of sound art, bee conveys listeners into the acoustic cosmos of insects. Intensive movement and occasionally rapid rhythms with fast transitions are characteristic of this work. Moments of tranquility, of quiet and minimal motion alternate with sudden spurts of activity, and thus shed light on the antithetical motion patterns of flies, bees and other insects.

MACHT GESCHENKE: DAS KAPITAL* – Christin Lahr (DE)

A Critique of Political Economy Donation, Transfers of Capital to the Federal Ministry of Finance, 2009 – ca. 2052

Since May 31, 2009, Lahr has transferred 1 cent daily to the German Federal Ministry of Finance, thus helping to counter the growing mountain of debt. In the field »reason for payment«, she always writes 108 characters from “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy” by Karl Marx. In this way the entire book will be transferred into the state’s central account via online banking in the next 43 years. The value increase of the capital investment is not included, nor are the required labor and lifetime or the added value through cultural and symbolic capital calculated into this.

During the festival, the artist will temporarily install her work station in the OK, exposing bureaucratic structures and delivering an illustrative insight into the “cultivation” of
capital:

*The German title MACHT GESCHENKE is a play on words implying “CREATE GIFTS”, or “GIFTS OF POWER” as well as “POWERFUL GIFTS”

THE MAKING OF CAPITAL, WORK IN PROGRESS

01.09.2011: 12:00 – 20:00 Uhr
02.09.2011: 12:00 – 16:00 Uhr
03.09.2011: 12:00 – 14:00 Uhr
04.09.2011: 12:00 – 17:00 Uhr
05.09.2011: 12:00 – 17:00 Uhr
06.09.2011: 12:00 – 17:00 Uhr

*The German title “MACHT GESCHENKE” implies “MAKE A GIFT”, “GIFTS OF POWER” as well as “POWERFUL GIFTS”

Pigeon d’Or – Tuur van Balen (BE)


Pigeon d’Or, click for CyberArts-Flickr-Gallerie

This proposed solution to the pigeon problem consists of two elegantly designed birdhouses—one for the home; one for a parked car. In it, you can catch pigeons, feed them with a special bacteria culture that converts the birds’ highly infectious excrement into a disinfectant cleanser that works on such things as window panes and car windshields.

Face to Facebook – Hacking Monopoly Trilogy – Paolo Cirio (IT), Alessandro Ludovico (IT)


Face To Facebook – Hacking Monopoly Trilogy, click for CyberArts-Flickr-Gallerie

In the wake of their critical-subversive confrontations with Google and Amazon, Cirio and Ludovico set their sights on internet behemoth Facebook. They deployed some home-brew software to circumvent the social network’s well-oiled gears. It computes its way through the inconceivably vast number of faces depicted on that site and groups them into various categories that correspond to the ordering patterns people use in everyday life in dealing with others.

A Balloon for … – Davide Tidoni (IT)

is an itinerant project that brings to life the sound responses of specific spaces. By bursting balloons, the project discovers unique acoustic sites and invites people to explore space through listening.
In conjunction with the CyberArts exhibition, Davide Tidoni is offering nightly popping-balloon-walks in the city centre. By popping balloons, participants will be encouraged to test selected acoustic locations and become aware of how space speaks.

02.09.2011 Fr/Fr 01:00 (Thursday Night!)
03.09.2011 Sa/Sat 05:00
05.09.2011 Mo/Mon 01:00 (Sunday Night!)

A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter – Larsen Caleb (US)

This is a two-part work of art: it’s a small piece of sculpture with a controller and active internet connection; it’s also a script by means of which the sculpture is offered for sale on eBay. With each sale, the script launches a new auction on the popular online sales site.

algorithmic search for love – Julian Palacz (AT)

Songs as well as videos you’ve downloaded or shot yourself—nowadays, there’s hardly a home PC hard drive on which the quantities of data haven’t gotten completely out of hand. Julian Palacz (AT) has developed a cleaver search tool. It finds spoken or sung words and word combinations and then indicates precisely where they occur in a particular song or video sequence.

Be Your Own Souvenir – blablabLAB (ES)

Having your portrait sketched by a quickie downtown sidewalk artist was yesterday. The latest rage is an instant bust generated by a 3D printer! Be Your Own Souvenir invites you to pose and then take your likeness home with you in the form of a three-dimensional statuette.

Cinema for Primates – Rachel Mayeri (US)

It has long been known that our closest relatives in the animal kingdom, the chimpanzees, follow with interest what happens on a TV monitor. But until now, nobody has taken the trouble to develop programming that appeals to primates. And then along came Rachel Mayeri (US). Cinema for Primates is a series of videos produced especially for chimps living in the Edinburgh Zoo.

Continuization Loop – Wim Janssen (BE)

A 35mm film that consists solely of black and transparent surfaces runs over 150 guide rollers and thus produces a “wall of film” completely without projection. Wim Janssen’s (BE) work thus evokes elements from three generations of visual media: the materiality of film, the emptiness of the video signal and the binary logic of the digital.

empathetic heartbeat – Hideyuki Ando (JP), Junji Watanabe (JP), Masahiko Sato (JP)

In this installation, the visitor’s own heartbeat becomes a medium of empathy. Subjects use a stethoscope and headphones to listen to the beating of their heart. At the same time, they watch film clips and acoustically bond so intensively with the on-screen protagonists that the sound of their heart dissolves in total empathy with acoustic existence.

Inside the Tropospheric Laboratory – Agnes Meyer-Brandis (DE)

As a gigantic and rather confusing data & image generator, Tropospheric Laboratory enables us to see such things as aerosols that, as floating gas particles, make up the core of the clouds in the atmosphere. Meyer-Brandis’ (DE) installation thereby artfully veils the boundary between the visible and the invisible. The cloud cores are simultaneously omnipresent and, due to their nano-size, invisible.

Is there a horizon in the deepwater? – HeHe (FR): Helen Evans (UK), Heiko Hansen (DE)

In 2010, the Deep Horizon oil platform exploded, unleashing the worst-ever marine oil catastrophe. With her performance Is there a horizon in the deepwater? HeHe works through the ecological tragedy by minutely reconstructing the event.

Safe Cuddling – Helge Fischer (DE)

Originally conceived as an ironic statement about Western societies’ deepseated fears that are being assiduously stirred up by the media, this Safe Cuddling suit designed for children became the center of a dead-serious discussion about dealing with parental fear of child abuse. Helge Fischer’s (DE) construction offers protection by sounding an alarm when a child is cuddled too long or in an inappropriate place.

Sentient City Survival Kit – Mark Shepard (US)

The Sentient City Survival Kit is a bitingly ironic comment on the rapidly materializing vision of ubiquitous computing that’s being accompanied by the total surveillance of our behavior as consumers, our habits and our
movements. It consists of, among other things, an umbrella that generates crazy light effects to disrupt any video surveillance system, a not-your-everyday navigation app for cell phones, communication-enabled coffee cups and underwear that can easily outfox the RFID chip sensors at the mall. Mark Shepard‘s Ser endipitor is an alternative navigation app for the iPhone that helps you find something by looking for something else . Participate in a 45 minute serendipitous cit y walk! Bring an iPhone 3G (iOS 3.2 or newer ), comfortable walking shoes, and ample curiosity. Download Serendipitor for free from the App Store. Follow the link for more info on the tour.

Six-Forty by Fourty-Eighty – Jamie Zigelbaum, Marcelo Coelho (US)

This interpretation of the touchscreen principle consists of handy magnetic pixels that can be arrayed however the user wishes. One touch is all it takes to change a pixel’s color or to copy onto another.

TUNNEL – Rejane Cantoni (BR), Leonardo Crescenti (BR)

Tunnel is a finely designed, moveable passageway, living architecture that several persons can walk through simultaneously. Depending of the pedestrians’ weight, size and movement, it changes its design and dimension to fit the circumstances.

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CAMPUS EXHIBITION 2011 – UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA (JP) – SERIOUSLY PLAYFUL / PLAYFULLY SERIOUS https://ars.electronica.art/origin/en/2011/08/08/tsukuba-universitat-campusausstellung/ Mon, 08 Aug 2011 08:55:32 +0000 https://ars.electronica.art/origin/?p=644 The University of Tsukuba, Japan is the star of the 2011 Campus Exhibition. This institution of higher education has long been associated with the festival, and numerous works developed there or created by its alumni have been showcased at Ars Electronica.

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This school of art and design infused by the pioneering spirit has produced such illustrious media artists as Toshio Iwai (JP) and Maywa Denki (JP). Its history goes back over 30 years, and closely parallels Japan’s rise to preeminence as a technological nation. Plastic arts and mixed media, areas of artistic work and research taken completely for granted today, were opened up at Tsukuba through the establishment of corresponding courses of study. By combining competence in design and engineering, the University of Tsukuba has made a major contribution to the development and propagation of interactive technologies. Since 1996, Hiroo Iwata (JP) has been working in Tsukuba on using digital interface devices as means of artistic expression.

The title of the Linz exhibition refers to a mental attitude that is at the basis of the research work and teaching done at this academic institution, activities that oscillate between playfulness on one hand, and serious consistency on the other. Inherent in many of the works that have come out of this university is a deep-seated confrontation with playfulness. Conversely, engineering work, a pursuit purported to be highly technical and dry as dust, often results in things that are fun to use.

In contrast to Campus exhibitions in previous years, Seriously Playful / Playfully Serious features not only works by undergrads but by faculty members and alumni as well. A chronicle composed of images and videos documents the special approaches and practices that characterize work done at the University of Tsukuba and its contributions to Ars Electronica.

First of all, the numerous works presented in Linz offer an incisive look at what’s currently going on at the institute of art and design; they also insightfully consider the results of an artistic approach to the development of technology and the collaboration among engineers and designers.

Talks / Presentations / Performances

Campus Tsukuba Forum

So/Su 4. 9. 15:00 – 17:00
Ars Electronica Center, Seminar Room
Participants: Hiroo Iwata (JP), Takuro Osaka (JP), Novmichi Tosa
(Maywa Denki) (JP), Tomoe Moriyama (JP)

Campus Tsukuba Students‘ Talk

Mo/Mon 5. 9. 14:00 – 16:00
Kunstuniversität Linz

Spherical Origami Performance

Fr/Fri 2. 9. 15:00 – 15:30
Kunstuniversität Linz
Jun Mitani (JP)

Otamatone Performance

Fr/Fri 2. 9. 17:00 – 17:20
Sa/Sat 3. 9. 17:00 – 17:20
Kunstuniversität Linz
Novmichi Tosa (Maywa Denki) (JP)

PLX Performance

Sa/Sat 3. 9. 15:00 – 15:30
Kunstuniversität Linz
Ryota Kuwakubo (JP)

Robot Mask Demo

Fr/Fri 2. 9. – Di/Tue 6. 9. täglich/daily 11:00 – 12:00
Kunstuniversität Linz
Kenji Suzuki (JP), Dushyantha Jayatilake (LK), Anna Gruebler (VE)

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Air Tiles

Kazuki Iida (JP), Junki Ikeuchi (JP), Toshiaki Uchiyama (JP), Kenji Suzuki (JP)

Arabesque

Marin Takahama (JP)

beacon

Takahiro Kamatani (JP), Miho Kyoya (JP), Toshiaki Uchiyama (JP), Kenji
Suzuki (JP)

Carnival

Masashige Iida (JP))

COLOLO

Makiko Hoshikawa (JP), Fumitoshi Ogaki (JP), Toshiaki Uchiyama (JP),
Kenji Suzuki (JP)

Connect

Nao Kozono (JP)

daruman

Mari Matsumoto (JP), Fumitoshi Ogaki (JP), Kouki Hayafuchi (JP),
Shinya Shimizu (JP), Kenji Suzuki (JP), Toshiaki Uchiyama (JP)

Feel Through

Hiroaki Yano (JP), Hiroo Iwata (JP)

make-up

Yuko Asai (JP)

Marbling Painting on a Sphere of Water – Space Art Experiment at ISSInternational Space Station

Takuro Osaka (JP)

Minstrel

Hiroko Haraguchi (JP)

Otamatone

Maywa Denki (JP)

PLX – parallax of the game

Ryota Kuwakubo (JP)

Robot Mask

Dushyantha Jayatilake(LK), Anna Gruebler(VE), Kenji Suzuki(JP)

Secrets

Sakamoto Nodoka (JP)

Shadows

Junya Kataoka (JP)

Spherical Origami

Jun Mitani (JP)

Spiral Top – Space Art Experiment at ISS-International Space Station

Takuro Osaka (JP)

Talk Torque-2

Hideaki Kuzuoka (JP), Hiroshi Kasai (JP), Ikkaku Kawaguchi (JP),
Toshimasa Yamanaka (JP)

The Forest

Ikumi Aihara (JP)

Tsukuba Scope

Fumiaki Murakami (JP)

Twilight

Junya Kataoka (JP)

The Crocodilian Moves Occasionally Before We Know

Yuki Tabuchi (JP)

Torus Treadmill

Hiroo Iwata (JP)

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Symmetries https://ars.electronica.art/origin/en/2011/08/08/origin-ausstellung/ Mon, 08 Aug 2011 08:50:07 +0000 https://ars.electronica.art/origin/?p=642 Symmetries is—in addition to ORIGIN – Doing Research on the Big Bang,a presentation of the work being done at CERN—the second exhibition having to do with this year’s festival theme. A heterogeneous array of experimental assemblies, images and exhibits invites visitors to confront highly diverse manifestations of the human spirit of inquiry and the joy of discovery.


Astronomical Bodies, Michael Burton (UK), credit: Theo Cook

When life began, all the chemical elements necessary for this to happen were already present on Earth (with the exception of phosphorous, which was presumably delivered later via meteorite). Astronomical Bodies by Michael Burton (UK) considers reversing this development—phosphorous derived from human liver and kidney stones is to be launched into space as a means of nurturing the evolution of life on other planets.

Sound artist Kalle Laar (DE) will treat festivalgoers to an elementary auditory experience. Come with me is an up-close-and-personal acoustic encounter with fire.

Carsten Nicolai’s (DE) modell zur visualisierung achieves the visual depiction of a precisely processed soundtrack that makes the effects of magnetic fields on a beam of electrons audible.

To find out whether or not a scientific experiment can also be a work of art, artists/scientists Adam Brown (US) and Bob Root-Bernstein (US) conducted the Origins of Life: Experiment 1.6. It explores imaginary worlds of gas under glass.

How will we live, think, believe and act in 40 years? overtures ZeitRäume by Serafine Lindemann (DE) und Christian Schoen (DE) suggests answers in the form of speculative scenarios put forth by artists in public and
private urban settings.

In a physical action highly charged with metaphor, artists Thomas Huber (DE) and Wolfgang Aichner (DE) used only their own hands to drag their self-constructed boat over the Alps to Venice. The logfiles of passage2011
presented here — reminiscent of Werner Herzog’s classic film Fitzcarraldo — tell a tale of human striving to surpass ones limits.

For years now, Linz native Norbert Artner (AT), a visual artist and designer, has been systematically visiting artists’ ateliers and thus places at which new things come into being. Symmetries will feature several photographic works from his series entitled Studios.

What, exactly, does quantum physics actually deal with, and just how do its practitioners arrive at their astounding insights? Quantum physicists from the University of Vienna (AT) will answer these questions with
demonstration experiments staged in conjunction with Symmetries.

Works
Astronomical Bodies (Michael Burton / UK)
Come with me. Firewalk (Kalle Laar / DE)
Demonstrationsexperimente Quantenphysik (CoQuS – Vienna Doctoral Program on Complex Quantum Systems / AT)
LHC – Large Hadron Collider (Peter Ginter / DE)
modell zur visualisierung (Carsten Nicolai / DE)
Origins of Life: Experiment #1.6 (Adam Brown / US, Bob Root-Bernstein / US)
overtures ZeitRäume. Transformation Zukunft – transdisziplinäre Interventionen im urbanen Raum (Serafine Lindemann / DE), Christian Schoen / DE)
passage2011 – logfiles (GÆG: Thomas Huber / DE, Wolfgang Aichner / DE)
Studios (Norbert Artner /AT)

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ORIGIN CINEMA https://ars.electronica.art/origin/en/2011/08/08/origin-cinema/ https://ars.electronica.art/origin/en/2011/08/08/origin-cinema/#comments Mon, 08 Aug 2011 08:49:33 +0000 https://ars.electronica.art/origin/?p=1167 The film program put together for ORIGIN Cinema includes works using a wide array of styles, formats and narrative techniques. What they have in common are plots that move in the direction of the origins of developments and stories.


Ton Band Maschine – Elektronische Musik in Deutschland, credit: Ton Band Maschine

Into Eternity is an epic thriller about the world’s first attempt to hide nuclear waste for all eternity. A brand new MacBook Pro is the protagonist of Dear Steve. In it, the fashionable tool is deconstructed in the literal sense of the word—and the triumphal rhetoric of what is purportedly immaterial “new” work along with it.

The animated film Oh by Anouk de Clercq traces the utopian spirit of Étienne-Louis Boullée (FR), an 18th-century architect whose best-known work is a gigantic shrine to Isaac Newton.

In Saurüssel, Chris Müller (AT) focuses on the dark side of Zipf, a village in the Province of Upper Austria that was the site of a concentration camp during the Nazi era. An attempt to attain clarity about a nebulous story.

The Third & The Seventh attempts to create architecture with the lens of a camera and thereby unite the third and seventh arts.
And finally, Ton Band Maschine is an account of the history of electronic music in Germany told as the history of the sound studios in which that music was produced.

AUN – The Beginning And The End of All Things by Edgar Honetschläger (AT) tells a story crossing Japan and Brasil about the human urge to design the future and the primal fear of the Apocalypse.

Works

AUN. The Beginning And The End of All Things (Edgar Honetschläger / AT)
Dear Steve (Herman Asselberghs / BE)
Into Eternity (Michael Madsen / DK)
Oh (Anouk de Clercq / BE)
Saurüssel – Labyrinth der Erinnerung (Chris Müller / AT)
The Third & The Seventh (Alex Roman / ES)
Ton Band Maschine – Elektronische Musik in Deutschland (Studio für Elektronische Musik der HfMT Köln / DE, Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln / DE)

with kind support of PORR

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ORIGIN – INVESTIGATING THE BIG BANG https://ars.electronica.art/origin/en/2011/08/08/origin-erforschung-des-urknalls/ Mon, 08 Aug 2011 08:48:09 +0000 https://ars.electronica.art/origin/?p=1186 What we can see, perceive and measure is, indeed, quite a bit. Nevertheless, what we have been able to register (thus far) amounts to a mere 4.6% of the universe. The rest is darkness: dark energy and dark matter.

Origin – Investigating the Big Bang is an introduction to the spectacular and fascinating world of science and research—specifically, pure basic research in the field of particle physics being conducted at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) in conjunction with the first global scientific project, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Staffed by 10,000 scientists and support personnel from 80 countries, CERN is the equivalent of a small city.

Its annual budget of 1 billion Swiss Francs makes it one of the world’s largest research facilities. But CERN represents much more than just the search for the hypothetical Higgs particle; this research facility is the site of new paradigms and new ideas.

The exhibition in the Ars Electronica Center investigates these ideas. Visually, the exhibition is oriented on CERN’s 27-kilometer-long LHC ring, displaying circularly arranged information tools like animated sequences, screens, boards and a proton fountain.

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[the next idea] https://ars.electronica.art/origin/en/2011/08/08/the-next-idea/ https://ars.electronica.art/origin/en/2011/08/08/the-next-idea/#comments Mon, 08 Aug 2011 08:45:59 +0000 https://ars.electronica.art/origin/?p=1241 [the next idea] is an art & technology grant awarded annually by voestalpine and Ars Electronica. It honors inspiring, new and unusual ideas with great future promise and supports their further development. The judges seek innovations of an artistic and social as well as a technological, scientific nature.

In conjunction with CREATE YOUR WORLD, we will be showcasing some of this year’s best projects that have to do with issues that are key to humankind’s future: energy, mobility and access. The Choke Point Project inquires into who actually exerts control over the internet. The Kibilight Project makes solar energy—and thus the first form of electrical energy of any kind—available to broad segments of the Kenyan population.

Haberlandt is a sort of food processor that turns algae into edible dumplings.

Team Mitoh / roomoot made up of students of Hiroshi Ishiguro (JP) is represented by an elaborate installation. 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.

Discover a truly fascinating instrument: the Mirage00. This audiovisual technical marvel by Kouji Ohno (JP), Tetsuya Yamamoto (JP), Toshikazu Toyama (JP) and Nobu Miake (JP) is not only a musical instrument that can be played intuitively; it simultaneously produces a visualization of the resulting sound in a 360° Panopticon. Thanks to its state-of-the-art sensors, it takes audience reactions into account and revises its audiovision accordingly.

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CREATE YOUR WORLD https://ars.electronica.art/origin/en/2011/08/08/create-your-world-2/ Mon, 08 Aug 2011 08:35:03 +0000 https://ars.electronica.art/origin/?p=648 Some exhibitions from CREATE YOUR WORLD are taking place in the Ars Electronica Quarter. You’ll find more details soon at this place, or you can check out the official website.

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Hier geht es bunt zu! u19 Exhibit zeigt die 15 GewinnerInnen des diesjährigen Prix Ars Electronica in der Kategorie u19 freestyle computing. Kreativität, Nachhaltigkeit und der Spaß daran, etwas Neues zu schaffen, stehen an oberster Stelle. Coole Animationen, stylische Webblogs und spannende Games, die von Kindern und Jugendlichen kreiert wurden, laden zum Ansehen wie auch zum Mitmachen ein – und regen die Inspiration für eigene Beiträge zum Prix Ars Electronica 2012 an.

Ein ganz besonderes Projekt ist die in Zusammenarbeit der HBLA für künstlerische Gestaltung Linz (AT) mit der HTL Leonding (AT) entstandene mehrteilige Installation Weltherberge Schulhaus. Teil dieses intelligenten Möbelensembles ist ein Bett mit einem sensorenbestückten Polster, der einem Buch ähnelt und durchgeblättert werden kann. Dieses wundersame Kissen kann Geschichten und Schlafgeräusche aufnehmen und abspielen. Dazu kommt ein Raumteiler, der mit den BesucherInnen zu kommunizieren beginnt sowie ein Tisch mit den Abdrücken verschiedener Alltagsgegenständen. Werden sie berührt, erklingen Geräusche, die sich immer zu immer wieder neuen Kompositionen kombinieren lassen.

Das von der HTL Ottakring (AT) konstruierte 3-D.Modell MicrosizeMe bietet allen, die es betreten, allerhand Abenteuer. RabbitRun, ein Flashgame von Stephan Schwarz (AT) und Karl Schauer (AT), verlangt Ausdauer und Kondition, will mensch nicht von einem riesigen Homer Simpson gefressen werden. Bei Lyzander von Paul Plessing (AT) sind hingegen aufgrund des guten Leveldesigns und der innovativen Spielmechanik Geschicklichkeit und Konzentration gefragt.

Die Animationen der diesjährigen u19 GewinnerInnen runden die Ausstellung ab. Von grafisch ausgefeilten Bildern wie sie Nikolai Maderthoner (AT) in FlugUndFall zeigt, reicht die Palette über ein zeitgenössisch-böses Rotkäppchen in der Interpretation des BG/BRG Judenburg (AT) bis zu ambitionierten Musikvideos ganz auf Höhe der Zeit.
Wunderschön auch Bernhard Riedls (AT) utopische und nachdenkliche Geschichte Die gut gemeinten Fesseln, die nicht zuletzt ob ihrer stilsicheren Zeichnungen mit dem u14-Preis bedacht wurde.

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Goldene Nica u19 freestyle computing Prix Ars Electronica

Weltherberge Schulhaus

HBLA für künstlerische Gestaltung Linz (AT), HTBLA Leonding (AT)

Auszeichnungen

MicrosizeMe

Andreas Daniliuc, Sasan Haji Hashemi, Simon Prochazk, Jürgen Spandl, Patrik Susko (HTL Ottakring / AT)

FlugUndFall

Nikolai Maderthoner (AT)

Sachpreis u14

Die gut gemeinten Fesseln

Bernhard Riedl (AT)

Sachpreis u10

Disco Dance

Alexander Doubrava (AT)

Anerkennungen

Klimakids
VS Oberlaa (AT)

WiSoMe – Wind and Solar Power Measurements

Florian Pfeffer, Michael Schmidt, Lukas Kirchner (HTBLuVA-Salzburg / AT)

Pikunikku

Selina Fanninger (AT)

BikemapApp

Felix Krause (AT)

RabbitRun

Stephan Schwarz (AT), Karl Schauer (AT)

apaçi styler

Tugay Sevim, Furkan Hatip, Murat Gürcü (HS Stadl-Paura / AT)

Lyzander

Paul Plessing (AT)

Madly in Love

Tarek Khalifa (AT)

Digitale Schriften

HBLA für grafische Gestaltung Wien (AT)

Rotkäppchen

4a Klasse des BG/BRG Judenburg (AT)

u19 EXHIBIT
GewinnerInnen des u19 freestyle computing Prix Ars Electronica
31.08.2011 Mi/Wed – 06.09.2011 Di/Tue 10:00-19:00, LOWERDECK

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Interface Cultures – Unuselessness – The Useful useless https://ars.electronica.art/origin/en/2011/08/08/interface-cultures-unuselessness-the-useful-useless-2/ Mon, 08 Aug 2011 07:37:30 +0000 https://ars.electronica.art/origin/?p=858 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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Art and utility—not necessarily a harmonious pairing. An essential element of artistic freedom is the right to think up and make things that are at first glance totally useless. Designers and technologists are the ones who helpfully intervene in human-machine coexistence. But only artistic confrontations that break out of the confines of practical considerations produce what is truly unexpected and really new. The eminently useful useless is thus the driving force behind the development of the works featured in this exhibition by Linz Art University’s Interface Cultures program.

Instructors: Christa Sommerer (AT), Laurent Mignonneau (FR), Martin Kaltenbrunner (AT), Marlene Hochrieser (AT), Michaela Ortner (AT)

Works

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Error Messages

Vesela Mihaylova (BL)

FMR1

Fabrizio Lamoncha (ES), Ioan Ovidiu Cernei (RO), Maša Jazbec (SLO)

GearBox

Ulrich Brandstätter (AT), Oliver Buchtala (DE)

Huis Clos

Fabrizio Lamoncha (ES), Ioan Ovidiu Cernei (RO), Maša Jazbec (SI)

iWilson

Veronika Pauser (AT)

Lichtspeicher

Henning Schulze (DE)

Oma, erzähl mal!

David Brunnthaler (AT)

QmusiQ

Irmgard Falkinger-Reiter (AT)

Sight Clearing

Andrea Suter (CH)

Squeezer

Fabrizio Lamoncha (E), Ioan Ovidiu Cernei (RO), Maša Jazbec (SLO)

The Will

Lenka Klimešová (CZ), Arwa Ahmed Ramadan (EG)

Weltschmerz

Maša Jazbec (SI), Tiago Martins (PO)

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Linz R2 https://ars.electronica.art/origin/en/2011/08/01/opening-linz-r2-2/ Mon, 01 Aug 2011 11:11:56 +0000 https://ars.electronica.art/origin/?p=1716 Linz R2 is a real-time resonance work, a sound installation in a public space—the long, open courtyard area adjacent to the Lentos Art Museum’s entrance. Auinger and Odland’s work is an acoustic transformation experience: two resonance pipes perform a real-time transformation of the surrounding urban soundscape

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