Schedule, 2012-08-31
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Auditory Architecture
31.08.2012 17:00-18:30
Alex Arteaga (ES/DE)
Fr/Fri 31.8. 17:00
afo architekturforum oberösterreich
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Fifty Sisters
31.08.2012 10:00-21:00
Jon McCormack (AU)
Ars Electronica Center, Foyer
Australian media artist Jon McCormack created “Fifty Sisters” during his stint as artist-in-residence at the Ars Electronica Futurelab. It consists of 50 one-square-meter prints with plants that McCormack produced on the computer. The forms of the digitally mutated plants are the logos of the seven large oil companies that, as the “Seven S
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Hugvie
31.08.2012 10:00-21:00
Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (JP)
Ars Electronica Center
“Hugvie” turns a long-distance call with someone you’re close to into a very local call. When you’re on the phone, the cuddly, pillow-shaped robot gets across an intensely physical feeling of the immediate and, in the truest sense of the word, corporeal presence of the other person. With a gentle v
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Out of Control
31.08.2012 10:00-21:00
Ars Electronica Center
A clash over the possession and dissemination of personal data is now raging worldwide. Politicians and bureaucrats, corporate executives and civil rights activists—it seems they’re all squabbling about who may, should or must know what about us and retain it how long! And regardless of who finally prevails in this skirmish, the victory comes with a short expirati
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ABC-Werkstatt & ABC-Gallery
31.08.2012 10:00-21:00
Do/Thu, Fr/Fri, Sa/Sat, So/Sun, Mo/Mon 09:00 - 21:00
Ars Electronica Center, Foyer
This is where you can get access to six workspaces, any one of 26 (A-Z) letter kits and various other materials to use in fashioning your letters. It’s all free of charge and available any time during the Museum of the Future’s opening hours. Groups of up to 15 can preregister for their own ABC Workshop by s
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Inside Futurelab
31.08.2012 10:00-21:00
Ars Electronica Center, Infodeck
The show on the Infodeck gives visitors a glimpse at what Futurelab staffers are currently at work on or have recently completed. The individual projects being presented can be considered as proxies representative of the formal and substantive diversity of the Futurelab’s work. They make it clear that transdisciplinary collaboration is a reality lived out and
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Ars Electronica Animation Festival
31.08.2012 10:00-21:00
Do/Thu 30. 8., Fr/Fri 31. 8., Sa/Sat 1. 9., Mo/Mon 3. 9. 10:00 – 21:00
So/Sun 2. 9. 13:15 – 21:00
Ars Electronica Center, Seminarraum
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
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Highlighttour
31.08.2012 11:00-12:30
Ars Electronica Center
30.8. - 3.9. täglich/daily: 11:00 – 12:30, 15:00 – 16:30, 18:00 – 19:30
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!
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Highlighttour
31.08.2012 15:00-16:30
Ars Electronica Center
30.8. - 3.9. täglich/daily: 11:00 – 12:30, 15:00 – 16:30, 18:00 – 19:30
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!
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Highlighttour
31.08.2012 18:00-19:30
Ars Electronica Center
30.8. - 3.9. täglich/daily: 11:00 – 12:30, 15:00 – 16:30, 18:00 – 19:30
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!
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Festivalparcours
31.08.2012 15:30-18:00
Termine
Do30.8.15:30-18:00
Fr31. 8.15:30 – 18:00
Sa1. 9.10:00 – 12:30, 15:30 – 18:00
So2. 9.10:00 – 12:30, 15:30 – 18:00
Mo3. 9.15:30 – 18:00
Get your tickets here.
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Festivalrallye
31.08.2012 15:30-18:00
For kids between 8 and 14 years
Termine
Do30.8.15:30-18:00
Fr31.8.15:30-18:00
Sa1.9.10:00-12:30, 15:30-18:00
So2.9.10:00-12:30, 15:30-18:00
Mo3.9.15:30-18:00
Get your tickets here.
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Vocal-VI
31.08.2012 17:00-17:30
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 bega
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Codeform
31.08.2012 13:00-13:30
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” that’s on display in th
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Brain Sculpturing
31.08.2012 14:30-16:00
Adi Hoesle (DE), Andrea Kübler (DE), Lars Schwabe (DE)
Fr/Fri 31. 8. 14:30
Mo/Mon 3. 9. 16:00
Creating sculptures at a computer without the use of your hands, keyboard or mouse. Brain Sculpturing lets you produce sculptures via a brain-computer interface (BCI) and special software. In the Brain Sculpturing sessions in Deep Space, Adi Hoesle (DE) will demonstrate how images result from consci
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Deep Space Music
31.08.2012 18:00-19:00
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 gr
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Miss Kenón (aka Klub) (AT) / DJ Ana Threat (AT) / Nincompoop (AT)
31.08.2012 19:00-00:00
Fr/Fri 31. 8.
Maindeck
19:00 – 21:00 Miss Kenón (aka Klub) (AT)
21:00 – 23:00 DJ Ana Threat (AT)
Café Strom
22:00 – 4:00 Miss Kenón (aka Klub) (AT)
Stadtwerkstatt, Saal (bei Schönwetter: Ars Eletronica Center, Maindeck)
23:00 Nincompoop (AT)
DJane Ana Threat (AT)
With electronic influences, Ana Threat scrutinizes the roots of guitar music.
http://anathreatxxx.bandcamp.com/a
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Weltbilder in der Astronomie
31.08.2012 19:00-20:00
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
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Reaching Out Into The Deep Universe
31.08.2012 19:00-20:00
Warren Keller (US)
Fr/Fri 31. 8. 18:00
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 f
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Global-Mind-Spirit
31.08.2012 20:00-21:00
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
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Interface Cultures - Interface Cuisine
31.08.2012 10:00-17:30
Opening Do/Thu 15:00
Do/Thu 30. 8. 10:00 – 19:00
Fr/Fri 31. 8. 10:00 – 17:30
Sa/Sat 1. 9. 10:00 – 16:30
So/Sun 2. 9. – Mo/Mon 3. 9. 10:00 – 19:00
Brucknerhaus
Inspired by the connections between art and cooking, this year’s show presented by the Linz Art University’s Interface Cultures program is entitled “Interface Cuisine.” Both cooks and creative artists take selected
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THE BIG PICTURE - Exhibition
31.08.2012 10:00-17:30
Do/Thu 30. 8. 10:00 – 19:00
Fr/Fri 31. 8. 10:00 – 17:30
Sa/Sat 1. 9. 10:00 – 16:30
So/Sun 2. 9. – Mo/Mon 3. 9. 10:00 – 19:00
Brucknerhaus
Datenvisualisierungsworkshop/Data Visualization Workshop with/mit SEED (US)
Fr/Fri 31. 8. 14:00 – 17:00
Führung/Guided Tour Japan Media Arts in THE BIG PICTURE mit/by Tomoe Moriyama (JP)
So/Sun 2. 9. 14:00 – 15:00
All the multifario
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THE BIG PICTURE Cinema
31.08.2012 10:00-17:30
THE BIG PICTURE Cinema
Do/Thu 30. 8. 10:00 – 19:00
Fr/Fri 31. 8. 10:00 – 17:30
Sa/Sat 1. 9. 10:00 – 16:30
So/Sun 2. 9. – Mo/Mon 3. 9. 10:00 – 19:00
Brucknerhaus
Q&A mit/with Peter Sasovsky (Heaven + Earth + Joe Davis / US)
Sa/Sat 1. 9. 15:30 – 16:00
So/Sun 2. 9. 15:30 - 16:00
Q&A mit/with Sebastian Frisch (Whisper Down The Lane / DE)
Fr/Fri 31.8. 13:00 - 13:30
Sa/Sat 1.
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THE BIG PICTURE - Symposium - Overview Effect
31.08.2012 10:00-13:00
SEED has put together the opening session. The point of departure is the proverbial Overview Effect triggered by the appearance in the mass media of the first pictures of our planet taken from outer space. Thus, the subject here is the role of pictorial media in forming, imparting and propagating images of the world as well as the question of which visualization techniques we can utilize in our ef
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Data Visualization Workshop with SEED (US)
31.08.2012 14:00-17:00
Fr/Fri 31. 8. 14:00 – 17:00
Join us for a hands-on workshop on the semantics of graphical representations and the aesthetics of information design, covering both conceptual and practical dimensions of the craft.
Theoretical discussions will cover subjects such as how to use the space of the canvas, what the legend means, as well as what colors, shapes and patterns are suitable for represe
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THE BIG PICTURE - Symposium - Mapping the World
31.08.2012 15:00-17:30
The afternoon session is entitled Mapping the World. Getting things started is philosopher Thomas Macho (AT) with a fundamental cultural-historical survey of the images of the world that humankind has brought forth. Totally new pictures of the world—here meaning the whole universe—will be the topic of Lisa Kaltenegger (AT), an astronomer whose field is the discovery and measurement of planets
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THE BIG PICTURE Cinema - Q&A mit/with Sebastian Frisch
31.08.2012 17:00-17:30
Q&A mit/with Sebastian Frisch (Whisper Down The Lane / DE)
Fr/Fri 31. 8. 17:00 – 17:30
Brucknerhaus
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Ars Electronica Gala
31.08.2012 18:30-21:00
Ars Electronica Gala
Fr/Fri 31. 8. 18:30
Brucknerhaus, Großer Saal
An evening with the crème de la crème of the digital arts – a highlight of the 2012 Ars Electronica Gala will be the ceremony at which the Golden Nica statuettes are bestowed upon the Prix Ars Electronica prizewinners.
Please note that due to the limited seats you will need a separate invitation or a seat reservation
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Das Mobile Ö1 Atelier
31.08.2012 10:00-21:00
Sa/Sat 25. 8 – Mo/Mon 3. 9.
Hauptplatz
The Mobile Ö1 Atelier being staged by the ORF – Austrian Broadcasting Company’s radio station Ö1 is one of the epicenters of the Open Cloud Project in conjunction with the 2012 voestalpine Klangwolke. On Saturday, September 1st, this will be the final destination of the Klangwolke ABC Parade and the site of a dance presentation ranging from hip-ho
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Campus Exhibition 2012 Universität der Künste Berlin / Sound Studies (DE): Lebensräume
31.08.2012 10:00-19:00
Opening: Do/Thu 30. 8. 15:30
Do/Thu 30. 8. – Mo/Mon 3. 9. 10:00 – 19:00
Kunstuniversität Linz
Click the banner above to download a PDF of the Leporello
Sound Studies, the new masters program at the UdK–Berlin University of the Arts, focuses on the great variety of spaces and situations we encounter in everyday life that we experience aurally —i.e. via our auditory faculties. Thi
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Desire of Codes
31.08.2012 10:00-19:00
Opening: Do/Thu 30. 8. 14:30
Führung mit Seiko Mikami: Sa/Sat 1. 9. 16:00
Do/Thu 30. 8. – So/Sun 30. 9.
Do/Thu 30. 8. 10:00 – 21:00, Fr/Fri 31. 8. – Mo/Mon 3. 9. 10:00 – 19:00
LENTOS Kunstmuseum Linz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PKT44tU658
Seiko Mikami’s large installation “Desire of Codes” demonstrates how the boundaries between the body of data in the virtual world a
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Cyberarts 2012
31.08.2012 10:00-21:00
Do/Thu 30. 8. 19:00 Opening
Do/Thu 30. 8. – Fr/Fri 31. 8. 10:00 – 21:00
Sa/Sat 1. 9. 10:00 – 23:00
So/Sun 2. 9. – Sa/Sat 6. 10. 10:00 – 21:00
OK im OÖ Kulturquartier
The Prix Ars Electronica is the world’s highest endowed competition in the digital arts. Prizes are awarded in seven categories. The CyberArts 2012 exhibition features works honored in Hybrid Art, Interactive Art,
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Miss Kenón (aka Klub) (AT) / DJ Ana Threat (AT) / Nincompoop (AT)
31.08.2012 19:00-00:00
Fr/Fri 31. 8.
Maindeck
19:00 – 21:00 Miss Kenón (aka Klub) (AT)
21:00 – 23:00 DJ Ana Threat (AT)
Café Strom
22:00 – 4:00 Miss Kenón (aka Klub) (AT)
Stadtwerkstatt, Saal (bei Schönwetter: Ars Eletronica Center, Maindeck)
23:00 Nincompoop (AT)
DJane Ana Threat (AT)
With electronic influences, Ana Threat scrutinizes the roots of guitar music.
http://anathreatxxx.bandcamp.com/a
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Voice Box (that thing in your throat)
31.08.2012 19:00-20:00
Damian Rebgetz (AU)
Fr/Fri 31. 8. 19:00
Sa/Sat 1. 9. 19:00
So/Su 2. 9. 16:00
Tabakfabrik Linz, Ostblock, Entrance Untere Donaulände 74
To gather material for his one-man-show “Voice Box,” Damian Rebgetz (AU), an undergrad in the UdK’s Sound Studies program, went on an acoustic excursion in the world of comics. This is the turf of heroes and heroines with the power to deploy superhuma
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u19 - CREATE YOUR WORLD - Day 2
31.08.2012 10:00-22:00
Das ist der Tag der Gewinnerinnen und Gewinner von u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD, der um 10:30 mit der Preisverleihung, der u19 Ceremony, beginnt. Am Nachmittag präsentiert eine Auswahl der PreisträgerInnen von u19 und anderen europäischen Jugendwettbewerbe ihre Arbeiten beim Prix Forum u19. Allerdings sind die Zuseher dabei für den Strom auf der Bühne verantwortlich, denn die MOHUPS Bühne (Mo
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Archivia
31.08.2012 11:30-18:00
ARCHIVIA. Offene Archive als integraler Bestandteil der Wissensgesellschaft
Verband Freier Radios Österreich VFRÖ (AT), Radio FRO (AT)
Fr/Fri 31. 8 11:30 – 18:00, Sa/Sat 1. 9. 10:00 – 17:30
Wissensturm
Archive sind wie andere Bereiche der medialen Infrastruktur massiv von den Auswirkungen der Digitalisierung betroffen. Bisher waren Archive nur einer eingeschränkten Öffentlichkeit zug
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