PROGRAM, 2011-09-05
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Sensing Place / Placing Sense - Exhibition
05.09.2011 10:00-17:00
The Sensing Place/Placing Sense exhibition accompanies and supplements the symposium of the same name being held by afo architekturforum oberösterreich (AT), AIT Austrian Institute of Technology (AT) and Ars Electronica (AT)
The mental image of the city has become more complex – ubiquitous technologies are changing our experience of the city and challenge traditional definitions of publ
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DOPPELLAB: EXPLORING SENSOR NETWORKS THROUGH VISUALIZATION AND ANIMATION
05.09.2011 10:00-21:00
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.
The conceptual point of departure of this
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[the next idea]
05.09.2011 10:00-19:00
[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 be
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ONDZ - HAND CLAPPING MACHINE
05.09.2011 10:00-21:00
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
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PARTICLES
05.09.2011 10:00-21:00
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
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IRON MASK - WHITE TORTURE
05.09.2011 10:00-21:00
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
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THE PARTICLE
05.09.2011 10:00-21:00
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 so
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ROBOTINITY – THE NEW ROBOLAB / WHAT MACHINES DREAM OF
05.09.2011 10:00-21:00
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 machine
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DEEP SPACE LIVE Teilchen & Kosmos
05.09.2011 13:00-14:00
The Institute of High Energy Physics (AT) offers a glimpse behind the scenes of scientific research. The Cosmic Radiation workshop gives an up-close look at the state of the universe shortly after The Big Bang. At The Secretof Particles from Outer Space, kids can enter a kind of spark chamber and experience how mysterious particles from the cosmos bombard Earth. The 3-D film Inside LHC accompanies
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DEEP SPACE LIVE DoppelLab
05.09.2011 14:00-15:00
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.
The conceptual point of departure of this
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DEEP SPACE LIVE Cosmic Origin
05.09.2011 10:00-11:00
Jerry T. Bonell (US), Dietmar Hager (AT) and ESO Scientists
Top experts will convey their astronomical knowledge to novices, intermediate students and advanced practitioners, and elaborate on what humankind now knows about the universe. Jerry T. Bonell (US) of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center will explain the “hot universe†that is brimming with high-energy insights. Scientists of the E
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ORIGIN - INVESTIGATING THE BIG BANG
05.09.2011 10:00-21:00
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
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IMPULS TOUR
05.09.2011 14:00-15:00
Insights into the Creative Industries of Tomorrow
This guided tour through the CREATE YOUR WORLD exhibits delivers lots of ideas and lets you get an idea of what an enterprise of the future might be like. Encounter the themes and issues that the generation of tomorrow is already dealing with today. Join us on this excursion to places where the future is taking shape now.
Time & Date
02.09
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DEEP SPACE LIVE Visual Sound Tour
05.09.2011 17:00-18:00
Musikschule Linz (AT)
Linz Music School is reprising last year’s very successful concert with another guest appearance at the Ars Electronica Center.
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DEEP SPACE LIVE Visual Sound Tour
05.09.2011 19:00-20:00
Musikschule Linz (AT)
Linz Music School is reprising last year’s very successful concert with another guest appearance at the Ars Electronica Center.
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DEEP SPACE LIVE Memories of Now
05.09.2011 20:00-21:00
Daniel Dorobanțu (RO), Michaela Konrad (AT) featuring Eugene Neacșu (RO)
Deep Space will be the point of departure of the maiden voyage of Memories of Now – Spirit of the Positron. Austria’s first and only multimedia, transmedial comic will beam into a interactive universe of sound and high-definition imagery.
With the support of the Rumanian Cultural Institute
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CREATE YOUR WORLD
05.09.2011 10:00-19:00
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 SpaÃ
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NIGHTLINE 05.09.2011 Mo/Mon
05.09.2011 20:30-23:30
CHANGE OF PROGRAM!
Stadtwerkstatt, Saal
20:00 Open Reel Ensemble
Cafe Strom
21:30 GelbGut
Stadtwerkstatt, Saal
23:00 mirage00 – Kouji Ohno (JP), Tesuya Yamamoto (JP), Nobu Miake (JP), Toshikazu Toyama (JP)
24:00 Cherry Sunkist (AT)
01:00 Regolith
GelbGut (AT)
The loveable, offbeat Viennese electronic performer aren’t out to make the dolls dance; they want you to get your calves and
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Symmetries
05.09.2011 10:00-19:00
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 Bodie
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Interface Cultures - Unuselessness - The Useful useless
05.09.2011 10:00-19:00
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
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ORIGIN CINEMA
05.09.2011 10:00-19:00
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 n
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Festivalrallye
05.09.2011 10:00-12:30
The tour is german only, sorry
Für Kinder von 6 bis 12 Jahren
Unser Forschungsschiff startet im Brucknerhaus und macht sich über den Linzer Hauptplatz auf in Richtung Ars Electronica Quater. Seit Menschengedenken hatte es kein Schiff mehr gewagt diese unerforschten Gewässer zu befahren. Alles kein Problem mit unserem überdrüber-super-modernen Vehikel. Alle Gefahren sind lächerlich. Bie
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Festivalrallye
05.09.2011 15:30-18:00
The tour is german only, sorry
Für Kinder von 6 bis 12 Jahren
Unser Forschungsschiff startet im Brucknerhaus und macht sich über den Linzer Hauptplatz auf in Richtung Ars Electronica Quater. Seit Menschengedenken hatte es kein Schiff mehr gewagt diese unerforschten Gewässer zu befahren. Alles kein Problem mit unserem überdrüber-super-modernen Vehikel. Alle Gefahren sind lächerlich. Bie
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Festivalparcours
05.09.2011 10:00-12:30
The tour is german only, sorry.
Für Erwachsene
Machen Sie sich mit uns auf die Suche nach dem Ursprung
In CERN suchen mehrere tausend WissenschaftlerInnen nach dem sogenannten Hicks-Teilchen, einer großen Unbekannten, deren Entdecken auf sehr lange Sicht keinen spürbaren industriellen Nutzung haben wird, sondern â€nur“ unser Wissen über die Grundlagen der Materie ein kleines Stück e
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Festivalparcours
05.09.2011 15:30-18:00
The tour is german only, sorry.
Für Erwachsene
Machen Sie sich mit uns auf die Suche nach dem Ursprung
In CERN suchen mehrere tausend WissenschaftlerInnen nach dem sogenannten Hicks-Teilchen, einer großen Unbekannten, deren Entdecken auf sehr lange Sicht keinen spürbaren industriellen Nutzung haben wird, sondern â€nur“ unser Wissen über die Grundlagen der Materie ein kleines Stück e
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Prix Forum III - Digital Musics & Sound Art
05.09.2011 10:00-11:30
The prize winners in the Digital Musics & Sound Art category
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Jana Winderen (NO) – Energy Field / Golden Nica
Apostolos Loufopoulos (GR) – Bee / Award of Distinction
Philip Jeck (UK) – Suite / Award of Di
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Prix Forum IV - Computer Animation / Film / VFX
05.09.2011 12:30-14:00
The prize winners in the Computer Animation category
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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 EXTERN
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Prix Forum V - Interactive Art
05.09.2011 14:30-16:00
The prize winners in the Interactive Art category
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Julian Oliver (NZ), Danja Vasiliev (RU) – Newstweek / Golden Nica
Paolo Cirio (IT), Alessandro Ludovico (IT) – Face to Facebook – Hacking Monopolism Trilo
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Digital Musics & Sound Art In Concert
05.09.2011 20:00-22:15
This extended audiovisual live performance will showcase the three prizewinners in the 2011 Prix Ars Electronica’s Digital Musics & Sound Art category.
Jana Winderen (NO), honored with the Golden Nica for Energy Field, obtains her sound material in the wild. She recorded all of it in the depths of the Barents Sea and amidst the fjords and glacial landscapes of northern Norway and Russia.
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Das Mobile Ö1 Atelier
05.09.2011 10:00-19:00
The Mobile Ö1 Atelier will be set up on Linz’s Main Square (Hauptplatz) to mediate the encounter with science and the men and women behind the discoveries. Experts explain why basic research is so important and what sort of creative scope and developmental possibilities result from it. As a special treat for young people attending u19 CREATE YOUR WORLD, the Mobile Ö1 Atelier will host a simulc
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CAMPUS EXHIBITION 2011 - UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA (JP) - SERIOUSLY PLAYFUL / PLAYFULLY SERIOUS
05.09.2011 10:00-19:00
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 m
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Robot Mask Demo - Tsukuba
05.09.2011 11:00-12:00
Robot Mask Demo
Kenji Suzuki (JP), Dushyantha Jayatilake (LK), Anna Gruebler (VE)
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Campus Tsukuba Students‘ Talk
05.09.2011 14:00-16:00
The students of the Tsukuba-University are presenting their work.
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Ralo Mayer - Obviously a major malfunction
05.09.2011 10:00-18:00
During the Ars Electronica Festival, Ralo Meyer is going to present a history from 1986 to 2003, from the crash of the Challenger to the crash of the Columbia, raising questions on how we perceive our world. This installation will be in the Lentos’ 1st Underground Level.
4.56-billion-year-old meteorites, a painting from the collection of the LENTOS, a closed eco system and a checklist tha
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Linz R2
05.09.2011 10:00-19:00
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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Android-Human Theater “Sayonaraâ€(Good-bye)
05.09.2011 13:00-13:30
Hiroshi Ishiguro (JP), one of the crowdpleasers as Featured Artist of last year's Ars Electronica, has been working on of the oldest dreams of humanity for quite a long time, namely the dream of recreating yourself as a machine. By now he has managed to built an android which is next to indistinguishable from himself. With his creation he has come close to his goal of human and android interacting
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CYBERARTS 2011
05.09.2011 10:00-22:00
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)
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Ars Electronica Animation Festival 2011
05.09.2011 10:00-22:00
The Ars Electronica Animation Festival screens a selection of outstanding films submitted to the Prix Ars Electronica. These 120 visual highlights have been divided into 13 lineups.
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ARS Electronica Animation Festival 2011 - Trailer
Timetable
02.09.2011 Fr/Fr 10:00-22:00
03.09.2011 Sa/Sat
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Cyberartsparcours
05.09.2011 11:00-12:30
The tour is german only, sorry!
Digitale Kunst auf höchstem Niveau – die CyberArts 2011 im OK vereint auch heuer wieder die besten Einreichungen des Prix Ars Electronica.
Die gezeigten Werke gehen aus einem internationalen Wettbewerb für Computerkunst hervor und sind somit Gradmesser und Leistungsschau der digitalen Kunst weltweit. Die KunstvermittlerInnen des OK stellen Ihnen die ausgezei
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Cyberartsparcours
05.09.2011 15:00-16:30
The tour is german only, sorry!
Digitale Kunst auf höchstem Niveau – die CyberArts 2011 im OK vereint auch heuer wieder die besten Einreichungen des Prix Ars Electronica.
Die gezeigten Werke gehen aus einem internationalen Wettbewerb für Computerkunst hervor und sind somit Gradmesser und Leistungsschau der digitalen Kunst weltweit. Die KunstvermittlerInnen des OK stellen Ihnen die ausgezei
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