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Art Orienté Objet (FR) – May the Horse Live in Me, 2011 / Golden Nica
Tuur van Balen (BE) – Pigeon d’Or / Award of Distinction
Christin Lahr (DE) – MACHT GESCHENKE: DAS KAPITAL / Award of Distinction

Participants of the Forum

Oron Catts (AU) – Member of the Jury
Marion Laval-Jeantet (FR), Benoît Mangin (FR) (Art Orienté Objet)
Tuur van Balen (BE)
Christin Lahr (DE)
Dmitry Gelfand (NL)

Prix Forum – Hybrid Art is part of the ORIGIN Symposium IV

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Fundación Ciudadano Inteligente – www.ciudadanointeligente.org / Golden Nica

Bentham Papers Transcription Initiative – www.transcribe-bentham.da.ulcc.ac.uk / Award of Distinction

X_MSG – xmsg.org.uk / Award of Distinction

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Jana Winderen (NO) – Energy Field / Golden Nica
Apostolos Loufopoulos (GR) – Bee / Award of Distinction
Philip Jeck (UK) – Suite / Award of Distinction

Participants of the Forum

Susanna Niedermayr (AT) – Member of the Jury
Jana Winderen (NO)
Apostolos Loufopoulos (GR)
Philip Jeck (UK)

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Alessandro Bavari (IT) – Metachaos / Golden Nica
Alex Roman (ES) – The Third & The Seventh / Award of Distinction
David O’Reilly (IE) – THE EXTERNAL WORLD / Award of Distinction

Participants of the Forum

Alessandro Bavari (IT)
David O’Reilly (IE)
Christine Schöpf (AT)

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Julian Oliver (NZ), Danja Vasiliev (RU) – Newstweek / Golden Nica
Paolo Cirio (IT), Alessandro Ludovico (IT) – Face to Facebook – Hacking Monopolism Trilogy / Award of Distinction
Daito Manabe (JP), Motoi Ishibashi (JP) – Rhizomatiks and 4nchor5 La6 – particles / Award of Distinction

Participants of the Forum

Tomoe Moriyama (JP) – Member of the Jury
Julian Oliver (NZ)
Danja Vasiliev (RU)
Paolo Cirio (IT)
Alessandro Ludovico (IT)
Daito Manabe (JP)
Motoi Ishibashi (JP)

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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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)

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:

Metachaos

Alessandro Bavari (IT)
Golden Nica Computer Animation / Film /VFX

Energy Field

Jana Winderen (NO)
Golden Nica Digital Musics & Sound Art

May the Horse Live in me

Art Orienté Objet: Marion Laval-Jeantet (FR), Benoît Mangin (FR)
Golden Nica Hybrid Art

Newstweek

Julian Oliver (NZ), Danja Vasiliev (RU)
Golden Nica Interactive Art

Fundación Ciudadano Inteligente

Golden Nica Digital Communities

Weltherberge Schulhaus

HBLA für Künstlerische Gestaltung Linz / HTL Leonding
Golden Nica u19 Create Your World

Choke Point Project

P2P Foundation (NL)
Winner [the next idea] voestalpine Art and Technology Grant

Schedule

Lentos, Auditorium
19:30: Winfried Ritsch (AT): Heptaklavier
Peter Ablinger (AT): Portrait meiner Eltern

Brucknerhaus, Großer Saal
20:30: Bruckner Orchester Linz (AT), Dante Anzolini (Dirigent / AR)
Edgar Varèse: Arcana für großes Orchester
Alessandro Bavari (IT): Metachaos
Bruckner Orchester Linz (AT), Dante Anzolini (Dirigent / AR)
Friedrich Cerha: Monumentum für Karl Prantl für großes Orchester

Donaupark
21:15 Edgar Varèse: Diverse elektroakustische Arbeiten

Brucknerhaus, Großer Saal
21:40: Open Reel Ensemble (JP)
22:40: Bruckner Orchester Linz (AT), Dante Anzolini (Dirigent / AR)
Dante Anzolini: Principio Passionis

Brucknerhaus, Mittlerer Saal
22:50: Martin Messier (CA), Nicolas Bernier (CA): La chambre des machines

Brucknerhaus, Großer Saal
23:20: Bruckner Orchester Linz (AT), Dante Anzolini (Dirigent / AR)
Alan Hovhaness: Mysterious Mountain op. 132

The ninth edition of the big concert evening will be a return to the origins – those of electronic music – and a look ahead to the new musical spaces being carved out by the pioneers of the present. Heptapiano is an installation and composition by Winfried Ritsch (AT) for seven robotically played pianos centrally controlled via ethernet. Peter Ablinger (AT) will then also make use of two of Ritsch’s self-playing pianos in his very personal work entitled Portrait meiner Eltern. The sound material transferred to the twin concert grands is based on a recording of the voices of Ablinger’s parents as they prayed their daily rosary. Under the direction of Argentine conductor and composer Dante Anzolini – whose tribute to his musical roots entitled Principio Passionis is on the program – the Bruckner Orchestra Linz will play works by such great musical innovators as Edgar Varèse (1883–1965), Friedrich Cerha (born 1926) and Armenian-American composer Alan Hovhaness (1911–2000). Alessandro Bavari (IT), a 2011 Prix Ars Electronica 2011 prizewinner, will present his work Metachaos. For this performance well worth seeing and hearing, Japan’s Open Reel Ensemble has converted an analog recording device into a sound-producing instrument, and plays on (or with) magnetic tape machines salvaged from technological retirement. Nicolas Bernier (CA) and Martin Messier (CA) have created a machine house: La chambre des machines (Prix Ars Electronica 2011, Honorary Mention, Digital Musics & Sound Art). It mechanically-electronically interprets the intonarumoris noise machine thought up by Italian futurist Luigi Russolo. The music performed in this big concert evening will once again be accompanied by extraordinary visualizations: Rainer Kohlberger (AT) will visualize Arcana by Edgar Varèse; Sebastian Neitsch (DE), Refik Anadol (TR), Woeishi Lean (AT) and Efe Mert Kaya (TR) the music of Friedrich Cerha; LIA (AT) optically interprets Dante Anzolini; and Daito Manabe (JP) will collaborate with Motoi Ishibashi (JP) and Satoru Higa (JP) on visualizing Alan Hovhaness’ composition.

The work of Peter Ablinger and Winfried Ritsch is being supported by Klavierhaus Fiedler & Sohn, Am Eisernen Tor 2, 8010 Graz

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)

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