The Highlights Tour provides an overview of the Ars Electronica Center’s top attractions. An expert tour guide accompanies you through all exhibition areas to experience “New Views of Humankind.” The itinerary includes Deep Space, high-definition graphics like you’ve never seen before!

A guided tour through selected festival exhibitions will be the setting for a discussion of museological aspects of presenting and mediating the public’s encounters with media- & science-based art. In conversation with artists, scientists and curators, we will analyze the selected presentation & interaction strategies. We will also take a hands-on approach to experiencing how various modes of design affect the way installation visitors perceive and react to what is on display.

Meeting Point: Ars Electronica Center, Infodesk
Fee: € 50

Deep Space Music brings together sound and image, music and computer animation in a way that transforms the projection space into a setting for intimate experiences. In it, Japanese pianist Maki Namekawa will play a program of works by three visionary composers who are also regarded as great thinkers. Her piano concert musically celebrates the 60th birthday of Ryuchi Sakamoto (JP) and Philip Glass’ (US) 75th, and commemorates the 100th anniversary of the birth of John Cage (US).
Prix Ars Electronica prizewinner Candaş Şişman (TR) and a crew from NOHlab/Plato Media Lab (TR) will contribute an extraordinary live visualization. In order to provide Ms. Namekawa with latitude for spontaneous improvisation, Şişman and friends will be working live in real time, though, in doing so, they’ll have recourse to a repertoire of prepared graphic elements that are the outcome of an intensive process of encounter with the respective pieces of music.

Deniz Kader (Art Direction/Visuals, NOHlab / TR), Candaş Şişman (Art Direction/Visuals, NOHlab / TR); Bager Akbay (Team Supervisor, Plato Media Lab / TR), Mehmet Kalaman, Ismail Kasarci, Osman Koc, Zeynep Nal, Zeynep Ozkazanc, Güliz Turan, Senem Umut (Coding and Support, Plato Media Lab / TR)

The Ars Electronica Animation Festival screens a selection of outstanding films submitted to the Prix Ars Electronica. These 130 visual highlights have been divided into 11 lineups. The Ars Electronica Animation Festival has selected and grouped them into lineups that give viewers a concentrated overview of current digital filmmaking.

The Program Lineups

Artfilm

Experimental arrays and semi-abstract visual takes make up this program. Investigations with found footage, visual ramifications, works that take a “Let’s go from reality to abstract” approach (and vice-versa) make up the Artfilm program.

About Music

Music videos, discussions of music, demonstrations of how many ways music can come about—all of these approaches are found here. Keep in mind: they’re all about music, each in its own key.

Inner Spaces

Subtly told tales that urge those who confront them to reflect about their own lives: Times in which some force majeur determines the course of human events, circumstances that completely invert our so-called normal surroundings.

Visual Effects

Feature films by major Hollywood studios, computer games and commercials have long been treating viewers to a taste of the repertoire of visual effects specialists. This program is an excursion through today’s world of possibilities.

Comedy

A big party for (gay) flamingos, a farm with inflated cows, grubs that overrun gardens, a detective story with a positive conclusion—stories to which laughter is the only appropriate response.

Position & Message

Nuclear waste disposal; events in pre-World War II Austria that culminated in civil war and are generally swept under the carpet nowadays; historical footage of the Warsaw Ghetto; a horror-filled story from the Middle Ages—this program is full of films with a statement to make.

Narration

Poetically beautiful but also bizarrely told tales—each one a masterpiece in its own right. Get carried away by the fantastic world of flying books. Or marvel at the experiences of a brick.

Late Nite

This stuff is definitely not for young audiences or those who lack nerves of steel! It’s a collection of horrors that could (almost) only have been brought to the screen by computer animators.

Motion & Graphics

Each individual image a work of art in and of itself? Here, dynamic meets visual—as a teaser, a façade installation, a short narrative film or a surreal physics experiment.

Young Animations

Every year, gifted young filmmakers submit their movies to u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD (Austria), bugnplay (Switzerland), MB21 (Germany) and C3<19 (Hungary). The greatest hits will be featured in young animations.

Japan Media Arts Festival

Visual imaginativeness and unconventional narrative forms characterize animation made in Japan. This program shows various kinds of animation from the latest Japan Media Arts Festival, which is the hybrid festival that focuses on Japanese pop culture phenomena such as animation, manga, games and media arts.

Filming and photographing during the screenings is prohibited.

Schedule

Do/Thu 30. 8.

10:00 media literacy award [mla]
11:00 Comedy
12:00 Young Animations
12:15 Motion & Graphics
14:00 About Music
15:00 Japan Media Arts Festival Selection
16:00 Visual Effects
17:00 Narration
18:00 Inner Spaces
19:00 Position & Message
20:00 Artfilm

Fr/Fri 31. 8.

10:00 Position & Message
11:00 media literacy award [mla]
12:00 Comedy
13:00 About Music
14:00 Artfilm
15:00 Visual Effects
16:00 Japan Media Arts Festival Selection
17:00 Motion & Graphics
17:45 Young Animations
19:00 Narration
20:00 Late Nite

Sa/Sat 1. 9.

10:00 Young Animations
11:15 Motion & Graphics
12:00 Visual Effects
13:00 Japan Media Arts Festival Selection
14:00 Inner Spaces
15:00 Narration
16:00 Position & Message
17:00 media literacy award [mla]
18:00 Comedy
19:00 About Music
20:00 Late Nite

So/Sun 2. 9.

13:15 Motion & Graphics
14:00 About Music
15:00 Artfilm
16:00 Japan Media Arts Festival Selection
17:00 Position & Message
18:00 Narration
19:00 Inner Spaces
20:00 Late Nite

Mo/Mon 3. 9.

10:00 Artfilm
11:00 media literacy award [mla]
12:00 Young Animations
13:15 Motion & Graphics
14:00 Comedy
15:00 Japan Media Arts Festival Selection
16:00 Narration
17:00 Inner Spaces
18:00 About Music
19:00 Visual Effects
20:00 Late Nite

Maindeck
21:00 – 21:30 ms-20602040201020 (AT)
21:30 – 23:30 Red Bull Music Acadamy presents Ritornell (AT) featuring Mussurunga (AT), Ken Hayakawa (AT), Luma.Launisch (live visuals / AT)

Stadtwerkstatt, Saal
24:00 Houztekk Records Showcase: MKID (AT), M–fx (AT), Uciel (AT)

ms-20602040201020
uses four korg ms-20 synthesizers and a four-channel pa-system, questing the thickest analogue bass-drone on earth.
starting from a unitary patch, certain parameters are modulated in minimal steps by the protagonists in a temporally precisely defined sequence, resulting in a continuously increasing vast and massive drone. the uncertainties, that arise due to the cheap and unstable components of the machines as well as through the human operators handling, are integral parts of the composition.
ms20602040201020 is jakob dietrich, bernd oppl, christian stefaner-schmid, andre zogholy

Ritornell
Richard Eigner is a composer, sound artist, producer and drummer residing in Vienna and Linz, Austria. In his music he is crossing the borders of »experimental acoustic music«, »minimalism« and »electronica« with a focus on the symbiotic use of acoustic elements and electronically produced and processed sounds. Strenuous with numerous sonorous projects he is kept busy with his playful musical project Ritornell, the setup of Denoising installations or drumming for the likes of Patrick Wolf, Flying Lotus, Dimlite and Patrick Pulsinger. His compositions were used by Robert Seidel for his projection and paper sculpture »Chiral« at MOCA Taipei or by canadian director Bruce LaBruce for his melancholy zombie movie »Otto; Or, Up With Dead People«.
http://www.ritornell.at/

Luma.Launisch
From dark to light. The VJ duo Luma.Launisch, alias Astrid Steiner and Florian Launisch, create their surreal worlds on screens in techno-clubs and classical concert halls. With their background in filmmaking the duo aims to tell stories. Their visual journeys can pilot you into a colourful balloon, letting you float over the boats of the Bosphorus only to land in New York’s Central Park.
http://www.lumalaunisch.com/

Houztekk Records
Houztekk Records, Musik Label für elektronische Visionen, ist Kunst & Kulturverein,
Musik Label, Booking Agentur und Künstlernetzwerk. Houztekk charngiert im weiten Feld elektronischer Clubmusik zwischen Detroit Techno, eleganten elektronischen
Jazz Varianten, Midrange Bass Musik und virtuosen Klangexperimenten.
http://www.houztekk.com/

Mussurunga – Präsentation & Release Showcase El Bromista von Mussurunga & Ritornell
Houztekk Rec. Nr. 10
Mussurunga, unter diesem Namen fuhrwerken die Ganzkörper tätowierten Cousins Sigi Aigner und Didi Bruckmayr seit mehr als zwei Jahren auf Club Tanzveranstaltungen, Festivals, Free Parties, sowie Hochzeiten im In- und Ausland mit tiefen Bässen, strengen Beats, zarten Hooklines und rasenden 3D Objekten herum. Bekannt sind der grosswüchsige Herr Staatsopern Chorist Aigner und der zwergenhafte Universaldilletant Dr. Bruckmayr auch durch ihre segensreiche Arbeit bei der wüsten Performancegruppe Fuckhead. Auch dort gelten sie nicht als Feingeister. Mussurunga ist ein fi nsterer Vorort der brasilianischen Provinzhauptstadt Salvador da Bahia, wohin es die beiden einst berufl ich verschlug. Während der eine dann umsonst in Mussurunga auf seine Verabredung wartete und Taxikohle verplemperte, arbeitete der andere hart in lokalen Strandbars an „künstlerischen Konzepten“. Ergebnis dieser Arbeitsteilung ist unter anderem vorliegende EP. El Bromista wird im Zuge des ARS Electronica Festival 2012 weltweit, digital und auf 12”. Vinyl veröffentlicht und ist am Festival sowie im gut sortierten Tonträger Handel erhältlich.
http://soundcloud.com/mussurunga/

MKID feat. Didi Bruckmayr, Popsoap
Schon seit jeher Fan von Oldschool-Electro-Beats und beeinflusst von frühen Warp- und Rephlex-Platten setzt MKID (früher microchipkids) bei seinen Produktionen vor allem auf den herben Charme alter Drum-Maschinen und ebensolcher Synthesizer, die den Tracks einen ganz eigenen Charakter verleihen
http://www.houztekk.com/projects/mkid/

M-Fx, Maximilian Meindl
Houztekk Records
M-Fx erzählt eine Geschichte aus Sound. Reist durch musikalische Welten und erzeugt große Gefühle. Er ist passionierter Dj, Produzent und der Gründervater von Houztekk Records; eine der renommiertesten österreichischen Künstlerplattformen. Netzwerk, Vinyl Label, Booking Agentur und Drehscheibe für immer mehr Österreichische Künstler und Künstlerinnen. Als Kurator ist er verantwortlich für zahlreiche nationale & internationale Projekte im Bereich der Elektronischen Musik. M-Fx Passion ist die Musik. Und dasist nicht zu überhören.
http://www.houztekk.com/tag/m-fx/

Uciel, Jürgen Höglinger
Houztekk Records
Egal zu welcher Stunde man Uciel aka Jürgen Höglingeran den Turntables fi ndet, er versteht es sein Publikum zu verzaubern. Der gebürtige Oberösterreicher zelebriert den Dancefl oorzauber mit dem gehörigen Flow und dass seit mehr als 15 Jahren. Uciel ist Mitbegründer von Houztekk Records und betreibt gemeinsam mit Maximilian M das Österreichische Vorzeige Label seit der ersten Stunde.
http://www.houztekk.com/projects/uciel/

Let’s go! u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD is on the move. You’re cordially invited to stroll around the festival grounds, drop in on an open lab or two, and check out the exhibitions.

From 1 to 5 PM on the Maindeck, actor/entertainer Tom Pohl (AT) will present the various projects, as well as insights, prospects and overviews about all that’s in store over the next few days. Where can I print in 3D or test drive a vehicle powered by the rechargeable battery of a power drill? Where can I co-design games and videos, or work on illuminated letters and soundcloudminiatures for the voestalpine Klangwolke? Cool chill-out music provides just the right soundscape for enjoying the scene on the Maindeck and the festival grounds.

Have fun being part of the action. There’s a lot going on over the next few days.

Schedule

Do/Thu 30. 8.

12:00 Best of Deep Space
14:00 Best of Deep Space
15:30 Best of Deep Space
17:00 Best of Deep Space (in English)
18:00 Vocal-VI
18:30 Codeform
19:00 Best of Deep Space
20:00 Best of Deep Space

Fr/Fri 31. 8.

10:30 u19 Ceremony
12:00 Best of Deep Space
13:00 Codeform
13:30 Best of Deep Space
14:30 Brain Sculpturing
16:00 Codeform
17:00 Vocal-VI
18:00 Deep Space Music
19:00 Weltbilder in der Astronomie / Reaching Out Into The Deep Universe
20:00 Global-Mind-Spirit
20:30 Best of Deep Space

Sa/Sat 1. 9.

10:30 Best of Deep Space
11:00 Tsunagari & Authagraph
12:00 Best of Deep Space
12:30 Weltbilder in der Astronomie
13:30 Best of Deep Space
14:00 Reaching Out Into The Deep Universe
15:00 The Big Planet: Giant Planet Jupiter
16:00 Best of Deep Space
16:30 Tsunagari & Authagraph
17:30 Best of Deep Space (in English)
18:30 Deep Space Music
19:30 100YC

So/Sun 2. 9.

10:00 Vom Sternenstaub zu neuen Sternen
11:00 Best of Deep Space
13:00 – 18:00 Limelight
18:30 Kartografische Schätze
19:30 Global-Mind-Spirit
20:30 Vocal-VI

Mo/Mon 3. 9.

11:00 Best of Deep Space
12:00 Best of Deep Space
12:30 Codeform
13:00 Reaching Out Into The Deep Universe
14:00 Weltbilder in der Astronomie
15:00 Best of Deep Space
16:00 Brain Sculpturing
17:30 Best of Deep Space (in English)
18:30 Deep Space Music
19:30 Best of Deep Space
20:00 Global-Mind-Spirit

Best of Deep Space

Highlights from the Deep Space Program.

Vocal-VI

Rúrí (IS)
Do/Thu 30. 8. 18:00 – 18:30
Fr/Fri 31. 8. 17:00 – 17:30
So/Sun 2. 9. 20:30 – 21:00

Iceland is rich in spectacular rainbows and waterfalls, which are often and willingly used to underscore the island’s “mythic” character. But it’s precisely this image that Icelandic artist Rúrí strives to relativize in “Archive – Endangered Waters,” a series of works she began in 2000. With it, she seeks to call to the international public’s attention the destruction of these very waterfalls by massive hydroelectric projects. “Archive” consists of multimedia installations that display acoustic and visual portraits of Iceland’s endangered waterfalls. These threatened waters are also the subject of “Vocal-VI,” a video performance created especially for Deep Space. In her inimitable style, the artist juxtaposes the water’s violent force to a formal fragility in order to bring out the vulnerability of the environment’s hydrologic balance.

Codeform

Jon McCormack (AU)
Do/Thu 30. 8. 18:30 – 19:00
Fr/Fri 31. 8. 13:00 – 13:30
Mo/Mon 3. 9. 12:30 – 13:00

You don’t have to be God to create life. In Deep Space, all it takes is a regular admission ticket. “Codeform” is a work by Jon McCormack (AU) who, during his stint as artist-in-residence at the Ars Electronica Futurelab, also created “Fifty Sisters” (see page XX) that’s on display in the Lobby. “Codeform” transforms any QR code into an artificial life form. A ticket code is scanned in on site and serves as a digital gene. Deep Space becomes an ecosystem in which the code morphs into an egg and then an embryo. It grows, matures, and begins to move.

Soon, it ventures forth into the 3D world of Deep Space, which it explores together with other Codeform creatures. Their lifespan varies—some creatures die after a short time; others undergo steady development and survive to be part of the next performance. Visitors can return to Deep Space repeatedly and use their ticket to check out what’s become of “their” creature.
After the festival, “Codeform” will be an ongoing feature at the Ars Electronica Center.

Brain Sculpturing

Fr/Fri 31. 8. 14:30
Mo/Mon 3. 9. 16:00
Am Computer Bilder zu malen, ohne dabei die Hände, Tastatur oder Maus einzusetzen: Brain Painting macht es durch ein Brain-Computer-Interface (BCI) und spezielle Software möglich (siehe Seite XX). Adi Hoesle (DE) demonstriert in den Brain-Painting-Sessions im Deep Space, wie durch bewusste Gehirnaktivität Bilder entstehen.

Reaching Out Into The Deep Universe

Warren Keller (US)
Fr/Fri 31. 8. 19:00
Sa/Sat 1. 9. 14:00
Mo/Mon 3. 9. 13:00

Warren Keller is one of the USA’s top astrophotographers, and his skill in using filters in Adobe’s Photoshop graphics editing program is unsurpassed—after all, he developed some of them himself! Keller also possesses comprehensive knowledge about the history of deep-sky astrophotography that captures images from distant realms of the cosmos. In his Deep Space session, the successful former musician and songwriter will demonstrate how deep-sky photographers work and how even amateurs can take pictures that can hold their own against those shot by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Weltbilder in der Astronomie

Dietmar Hager (AT)
Fr/Fri 31. 8. 19:00
Sa/Sat 1. 9. 12:30
Mo/Mon 3. 9. 14:00

Deep Space curator Dietmar Hager (AT), astronomer, astrophotographer and Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, invites you on an astronomical excursion through human cultural history. He’ll explain why humankind has been oriented on the stars since time immemorial, and how the starry night sky has always been a prime determinant in how human beings picture the world. A fascinating look back in history enables us to comprehend which impediments had to be surmounted on our path from archaic views to the way we see things now—and what sacrifices had to be made to achieve this.

Global-Mind-Spirit

Manfred Litzlbauer (AT)
Fr/Fri 31. 8. 20:00
So/Sun 2. 9. 19:30
Mo/Mon 3. 9. 20:00

A work at the nexus of theology, computer science and marketing, the graphical browser Global-Mind-Spirit searches the internet worldwide for evidence of higher consciousness and spirituality. Spirituality may indeed be difficult to fathom, but—from a scholarly perspective—it requires real acts as well as locations such as the internet. Like a radar installation, the browser works according to preset concepts, and specifies a point in graphic form for each link found.

The result is a big picture of spiritual propagation. The fields that have already been investigated include global problem areas, powerful persons, strong brand names and cinematic films distributed worldwide. The highest spiritual density is concentrated around the Dalai Lama; among the brands, young technology companies are the strongest. This can be seen in the form of high-definition 2D diagrams.

Tsunagari & Authagraph

Maholo Uchida (JP), Hajime Narukawa(JP)
Sa/Sat 1. 9. 11:00, 16:30

Tsunagari (Japanese: relationship), a complex project by the Miraikan National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (JP), paves the way towards a totally new understanding of relationships within the Earth’s gigantic ecosystems, and thus a new understanding of ourselves. In Deep Space, Maholo Uchida (JP) presents the components of this amazing installation. Miraikan’s Geo-Cosmos is the world’s first globe consisting of LEDs. And a giant globe it is! Geo-Scope is its control tool, which enables the globe to depict all sorts of geo-data—for example, earthquake activity anywhere on the Blue Planet. The Geo-Pallet Web interface lets users configure world maps custom-tailored to the breadth and depth of their interests.

That’s exactly what the Authagraph software conceived by Hajime Narukawa (JP) does too. It generates magnificent, decentralized (as it were) world maps and makes hundreds of parameters available to the user configuring it. And as if that weren’t enough, thanks to a special method, the images applied to two-dimensional surfaces are free of distortion.

Vom Sternenstaub zu neuen Sternen

Yuri Beletsky (UA)
So/Sun 2. 9. 10:00

In a live remote hookup via Skype with Las Campanas, Chile (where it’s still dark long after sunrise in Europe), European Southern Observatory photo-ambassador Yuri Beletsky (UA) of the Carnegie Science Institute will show how he takes spectacular images of the heavens using the world’s best terrestrial telescope.

The Big Planet: Giant Planet Jupiter

Damian Peach (UK)
Sa/Sat 1. 9. 15:00

Though occupationally speaking “only” an amateur, Damian Peach (UK) is one of the world’s top astrophotographers. He specializes in high-definition images of planets, shots that have garnered him tremendous esteem within the international astronomical community. In Deep Space, Peach will display images of Jupiter to illustrate how proper processing makes it possible to produce breathtaking pictures even with a conventional telescope, and how dedicated amateur photographers provide indispensible aid to professional astronomers in the ongoing development of astrophotography.

Deep Space Music

Maki Namekawa (JP), NOHlab/Plato Media Lab (TR)
Fr/Fri 31.8. 18:00
Sa/Sat 1. 9. 18:30
Mo/Mon 3. 9. 18:30

Deep Space Music brings together sound and image, music and computer animation in a way that transforms the projection space into a setting for intimate experiences. In it, Japanese pianist Maki Namekawa will play a program of works by three visionary composers who are also regarded as great thinkers. Her piano concert musically celebrates the 60th birthday of Ryuchi Sakamoto (JP) and Philip Glass’ (US) 75th, and commemorates the 100th anniversary of the birth of John Cage (US).

Prix Ars Electronica prizewinner Candaş Şişman (TR) and a crew from NOHlab/Plato Media Lab (TR) will contribute an extraordinary live visualization. In order to provide Ms. Namekawa with latitude for spontaneous improvisation, Şişman and friends will be working live in real time, though, in doing so, they’ll have recourse to a repertoire of prepared graphic elements that are the outcome of an intensive process of encounter with the respective pieces of music.
Deniz Kader (Art Direction/Visuals, NOHlab / TR), Candaş Şişman (Art Direction/Visuals, NOHlab / TR); Bager Akbay (Team Supervisor, Plato Media Lab / TR), Mehmet Kalaman, Ismail Kasarci, Osman Koc, Zeynep Nal, Zeynep Ozkazanc, Güliz Turan, Senem Umut (Coding and Support, Plato Media Lab / TR)

100YC [100 Year City]

Peter Tomaž Dobrila (SI), Tom Kovac (AU), Patrick Schumacher (DE)
Sa/Sat 1. 9. 19:30

Mit Ausstellungen, Symposien und verschiedenen Onlineprojekten blickt 100YC weit in die Zukunft der Europäischen Kulturhauptstadt Maribor 2012 voraus – nämlich bis zum Jahr 2112. Alles in allem beteiligen sich über 30 Universitäten sowie rund 100 Studios und Büros an dem aus 100 Teilprojekten zusammengesetzten Zukunftsentwurf. Peter Tomaž Dobrila (SI), Tom Kovac (AU) und Patrick Schumacher (DE) geben im Deep Space einen Einblick in den momentanen Stand des visionären Vorhabens.

Limelight

Fachhochschule Hagenberg (AT)
So/Sun 2. 9. 13:00 – 18:00
Ars Electronica Center, Deep Space

Limelight is a three-dimensional public interaction game that undergrads in Hagenberg’s Interactive Media and Digital Arts program invite visitors to u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD to play. The chief protagonist of this game set in a magical world is a little wizard attempting to make his way through the darkness to his destination. Eerily glowing goblins are his allies—but behind them are none other than the players, whom a tracking system depicts as balls of light. On the other hand, a cell phone is all anyone needs to put obstacles in the wizard’s way—a simple SMS suffices to bring monsters into play.

Jeremiah Diephuis (US), Gerald Hauzenberger (AT), Wolfgang Hochleitner (AT), Rene Ksuz (AT), Michael Lankes (AT), Thomas Peintner (AT), Madgalena Soukup (AT)

Kartografische Schätze

Günter Kalliauer (AT)
So/Sun 2. 9. 18:30

Günter Kalliauer, Leiter des Welser Stadtarchivs, präsentiert kartografische Schätze, erzählt von ihrem Wert als unersetzbare Quellen für die Geschichtsforschung, ihrem hohen künstlerischen Wert und ihrer Funktion als Zeugnis der herausragenden intellektuellen Leistungen ihrer Urheber. Im Laufe seines Vortrags spannt der Historiker einen Bogen von einer mesopotamischen Tontafelkarte über die Mercatorkarten bis zu den Satellitenbildern der Gegenwart.

Günter Kalliauer, Leiter des Welser Stadtarchivs, präsentiert kartografische Schätze, erzählt von ihrem Wert als unersetzbare Quellen für die Geschichtsforschung, ihrem hohen künstlerischen Wert und ihrer Funktion als Zeugnis der herausragenden intellektuellen Leistungen ihrer Urheber. Im Laufe seines Vortrags spannt der Historiker einen Bogen von einer mesopotamischen Tontafelkarte über die Mercatorkarten bis zu den Satellitenbildern der Gegenwart.

Limelight is a three-dimensional public interaction game that undergrads in Hagenberg’s Interactive Media and Digital Arts program invite visitors to u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD to play. The chief protagonist of this game set in a magical world is a little wizard attempting to make his way through the darkness to his destination. Eerily glowing goblins are his allies—but behind them are none other than the players, whom a tracking system depicts as balls of light. On the other hand, a cell phone is all anyone needs to put obstacles in the wizard’s way—a simple SMS suffices to bring monsters into play.

Jeremiah Diephuis (US), Gerald Hauzenberger (AT), Wolfgang Hochleitner (AT), Rene Ksuz (AT), Michael Lankes (AT), Thomas Peintner (AT), Madgalena Soukup (AT)

Though occupationally speaking “only” an amateur, Damian Peach (UK) is one of the world’s top astrophotographers. He specializes in high-definition images of planets, shots that have garnered him tremendous esteem within the international astronomical community. In Deep Space, Peach will display images of Jupiter to illustrate how proper processing makes it possible to produce breathtaking pictures even with a conventional telescope, and how dedicated amateur photographers provide indispensible aid to professional astronomers in the ongoing development of astrophotography.