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Panel 5: OHMI – The One-Handed Musical Instrument Project

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This walk-through installation by Manabe (JP) and Ishibashi (JP) is an exquisitely beautiful work of light art. On a construction that resembles a rollercoaster, light balls can be orchestrated via control screen to whiz about in all directions and grouped into brilliant moving patterns.

Prix Ars Electronica 2011, Award of Distinction, Interactive Art

DoppelLab software was developed at the MIT Media Lab in Boston (US). It can work dynamically with real-time data delivered by sensors such as those installed in a private home. DoppelLab uses these data to create virtual worlds that enable users not only to get an overview of what’s happing in the house but also to directly intervene in those events.

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In the beginning of life on Earth, there was a long interplay of chaos and (brief instances of) order, of stability and disintegration. Fascinated by the origination and break-down of forms and order, Alex Posada (ES) developed The Particle, his massive sculpture positively brimming with energy. Its central elements are rings studded with multicolored LED lights. They rapidly rotate and produce sounds as they do. In and as a result of this movement, there emerge forms that are as beautiful as they are transient.

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Human beings have been developing machines for thousands of years. But what drives us on to do so? Is it the urge to understand and recreate nature and its processes? Is it perhaps our audacious pretensions to be capable of improving on the world as it is? Or are we just curious? What Machines Dream Of is an exhibition that nicely complements the festival theme. It brings together artistic machines that, in contrast to their counterparts in industry and commerce, have absolutely nothing to do with rationality and perfection. These machines of breathtaking beauty are simply enchanting.

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Ondz is an interactive machine capable of producing human hand clapping artificially. The physical clapping sound is generated by patting on a pair of artificial palms. Visitors can control Ondz at www.byebyeworld.com/ondz_mobile

Iron Mask – White Torture focuses on the subject of female migration before the background of Europe’s postcolonial history. The chief protagonist of this installation is a figure with a big following throughout Latin America—the slave girl named Anastácia. Legend has it that her owner sentenced her to lifelong silence constrained in an iron gag. She is venerated as a rebel, as a fighter in the abolition movement, as a woman who resisted the sexual violence of her colonial master, and as an innocent martyred servant of God.

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The artists and scientists participating in Ars Electronica aren’t the only ones working on fascinating projects; many festivalgoers are too. Scenes & Structures provides a setting at Ars Electronica 2011 for them to show what they’re committed to, their ideas and initiatives. The venue is the Ars Electronica Center’s Seminarraum, a space equipped with state-of-the-art presentation technology. One highlight: Christine Sauter (DE) will spotlight her Media Art Documentation project on Sunday, September 4 from 6 to 8 PM. There’s lots to see here—check out the schedule! Details will be available at the Infodesks in the Ars Electronica Center and the Brucknerhaus and on all program monitors.

Pics of Seminarroom

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