Schedule, 2012-09-01
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Sensing Place/Placing Sense II
01.09.2012 10:00-20:00
Sa/Sat 1. 9. 10:00 – 20:00
afo architekturforum oberösterreich hosted by Austrian Institute of Technology (AT)
A growing part of the general public is concerned that cities are planned and governed in a responsible way. In the contemporary information society, however, the democratic obligation of the citizens to rigorously inform themselves so that they can participate in public affairs ha
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Fifty Sisters
01.09.2012 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
01.09.2012 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
01.09.2012 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
01.09.2012 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
01.09.2012 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
01.09.2012 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
01.09.2012 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
01.09.2012 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
01.09.2012 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
01.09.2012 10:00-12:30
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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Festivalparcours
01.09.2012 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
01.09.2012 10:00-12:30
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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Festivalrallye
01.09.2012 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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Deep Space Music
01.09.2012 18:30-19:30
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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Weltbilder in der Astronomie
01.09.2012 12:30-13:30
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
01.09.2012 14:00-15:00
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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ABC-Check-In
01.09.2012 10:00-23:00
Ars Electronica Center, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Brucknerhaus, Hauptplatz
Complete information about the 2012 voestalpine Klangwolke will be available during the days leading up to the big event at the ABC Check-in Stations. And that’s not all: Anybody who’d like to participate can buy an illuminated letter, the first one costs 8 €, every next one 5 €.
Right up to the last minute, th
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Exhibitionwalk: MediaArt vs ArtMedia
01.09.2012 10:30-15:00
Theorie und Praxis der Vermittlung medien- und wissenschaftsbasierter Kunst
Sa/Sat 1. 9. 10:30 – 15:00
Museumsakademie Joanneum Graz (AT)
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,
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Tsunagari & Authagraph
01.09.2012 11:00-12:00
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 com
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Tsunagari & Authagraph
01.09.2012 16:30-17:30
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 com
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Pixelspaces 2012 - Studiolab Public Forum: Hacks, Mutants, Synthesis, Uncertainty, Water and Networks
01.09.2012 14:00-16:00
Sa/Sat 1. 9.
14:00 – 16:00
SKY Media Loft
In diesem Forum stellen Studiolab-Mitglieder Arbeiten vor, die in diesem multinationalen Netzwerk 13 führender Wissenschafts-, Kunst- und Designzentren entstanden sind. Mit neuartigen Ansätzen zur Bewältigung technologischer, ökologischer und gesellschaftlicher Herausforderungen schafft Studiolab wegweisende Modelle für erfolgreiche Partnersch
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The Big Planet: Giant Planet Jupiter
01.09.2012 15:00-16:00
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 ma
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Klangwolken-ABC-Parade
01.09.2012 17:00-19:00
Sa/Sat 1. 9. 17:00 – 19:00
Treffpunkt: Ars Electronica Center, Maindeck
Ziel: Hauptplatz, Mobiles Ö1 Atelier
All Klangwolke letter designers who just can’t delay gratification any longer can gather on the Ars Electronica Center’s Maindeck on September 1st at 5 PM. Everyone’s invited! With voestalpine’s own marching band leading the way, a parade of people and letters will proceed a
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100YC [100 Year City] Presentation & Panel Discussion in cooperation with Maribor, European Capital of Culture 2012
01.09.2012 19:30-21:00
Sa/Sat 1.9. 19:30 - 21:00
Deep Space
Ars Electronica Center
Peter Tomaž Dobrila (SI), Tom Kovac (AU), Hernan Diaz Alonso (AR), Bruno Juricic (HR), Stojan Skalicky, (SK), Ales Steger (SK), Marcelo Stamm (DE)
The 100YC project sets out to design a vision for the 100 year development of Maribor, aiming to enrich and transform the future for the 2012 European Capital of Culture Year by envis
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DJ Franjazzco (AT) / DJ Kraft (AT) / The Future Sound feat. Herrmutt Lobby (BE) / Mike Gao (DE/JP) / DJ Abby Lee Tee (AT)
01.09.2012 23:00-00:00
Sa/Sat 1. 9.
Café Strom
23:00 – 4:00 DJ Kraft (AT)
Stadtwerkstatt, Saal (bei Schönwetter: Ars Eletronica Center, Maindeck)
23:00 The Future Sound feat.
Herrmutt Lobby (BE)
Mike Gao (DE/JP)
DJ Franjazzco (AT)
DJ Abby Lee Tee (AT)
Franjazzco (AT)
Franjazzco as been making the scene since 1995—for instance, as a DJ and promoter, director of the online music station Play FM, and
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Interface Cultures - Interface Cuisine
01.09.2012 10:00-16:30
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
01.09.2012 10:00-16:30
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
01.09.2012 10:00-16:30
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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ABC-Check-In
01.09.2012 10:00-23:00
Ars Electronica Center, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Brucknerhaus, Hauptplatz
Complete information about the 2012 voestalpine Klangwolke will be available during the days leading up to the big event at the ABC Check-in Stations. And that’s not all: Anybody who’d like to participate can buy an illuminated letter, the first one costs 8 €, every next one 5 €.
Right up to the last minute, th
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voestalpine Klangwolke - The Cloud in the Web
01.09.2012 20:30-21:30
Ars Electronica
Sa/Sat 1. 9. 20:30
Donaupark
The Cloud in the Web tells the story of our increasingly networked world from the first telephone to Facebook & Co. Hundreds of firefighters, industrial robots, water cannons, oarsmen and illuminated carrier pigeons are only a few of this play’s protagonists. Making their international debut will be a swarm of Klangwolke quadrocopters, four-rotor
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Das Mobile Ö1 Atelier
01.09.2012 10:00-00:00
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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Listening Walks
01.09.2012 11:00-12:30
Do 30. 8. 17:00, Sa/Sat 1. 9. 11:00, So/Sun 2. 9. 14:00
Treffpunkt/Meeting Place: Hauptplatz, Mobiles Ö1 Atelier
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Campus Exhibition 2012 - Audiowalks
01.09.2012 11:00-12:00
Universität der Künste Berlin/Sound Studies (DE): Lebensräume - Audiowalks
Do/Thu 30. 8. 17:00 – 18:00
Sa/Sat 1. 9. 11:00 – 12:00
So/Sun 14:00 – 15:00
Treffpunkt/Meeting Place: Hauptplatz, Mobiles Ö1 Atelier
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ABC-Check-In
01.09.2012 10:00-23:00
Ars Electronica Center, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Brucknerhaus, Hauptplatz
Complete information about the 2012 voestalpine Klangwolke will be available during the days leading up to the big event at the ABC Check-in Stations. And that’s not all: Anybody who’d like to participate can buy an illuminated letter, the first one costs 8 €, every next one 5 €.
Right up to the last minute, th
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Klangwolken-ABC-Parade
01.09.2012 17:00-19:00
Sa/Sat 1. 9. 17:00 – 19:00
Treffpunkt: Ars Electronica Center, Maindeck
Ziel: Hauptplatz, Mobiles Ö1 Atelier
All Klangwolke letter designers who just can’t delay gratification any longer can gather on the Ars Electronica Center’s Maindeck on September 1st at 5 PM. Everyone’s invited! With voestalpine’s own marching band leading the way, a parade of people and letters will proceed a
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OK Night & Electronic Theater
01.09.2012 22:00-00:00
Electronic Theater
Sa/Sat 1. 9. 22:00
Hauptplatz
The Electronic Theater is a fascinating presentation of all 15 prizewinning works in the 2012 Prix Ars Electronica’s Computer Animation/Film/VFX category.
Filming and photographing during the Electronic Theater screenings is prohibited.
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Campus Exhibition 2012 Universität der Künste Berlin / Sound Studies (DE): Lebensräume
01.09.2012 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
01.09.2012 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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ABC-Check-In
01.09.2012 10:00-23:00
Ars Electronica Center, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Brucknerhaus, Hauptplatz
Complete information about the 2012 voestalpine Klangwolke will be available during the days leading up to the big event at the ABC Check-in Stations. And that’s not all: Anybody who’d like to participate can buy an illuminated letter, the first one costs 8 €, every next one 5 €.
Right up to the last minute, th
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THE BIG PICTURE - Symposium - Science & Art I / Prix Forum I – Hybrid Art
01.09.2012 10:30-13:00
On Saturday, the symposium scene shifts from the Brucknerhaus to the Lentos, an ideal venue for a discussion of the respective roles allocated to art and science, and the real-world possibilities of and limits to collaboration between them. Scientist George Church (US) and artist Joe Davis (US), brilliant transgressors of the borders of their respective disciplines, will present their positions an
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THE BIG PICTURE - Symposium - Science & Art II / Prix Forum II – Interactive Art
01.09.2012 15:00-17:30
In the afternoon session, the art-science discussion goes a bit deeper, scrutinizing in particular whether art is in a position to go beyond interpreting scientifically induced pictures of the world and can itself, in a comparable way, engender and propagate new concepts about our world and the interrelationships and interactions in it. Julius von Bismarck (DE), the first artist-in-residence in th
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Desire of Codes - Guided Tour with Andreas Broeckmann (DE)
01.09.2012 16:00-17:30
Opening: Do/Thu 30. 8. 14:30
Guided Tour with Andreas Broeckmann (DE): 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
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teardrops - Soundinstallation
01.09.2012 14:00-17:00
Sa 1. 9.
Klanginstallation: 14:00 - 17:00; 20:00 – 24:00
Mariendom
Another bright light in the 2012 Klangwolke cosmos is “teardrops,” a sound installation and concert for piano, noise gates, sonic feeds and church organ by Rupert Huber (AT).
Huber creates a causal relationship between the piano, its electronic extension and the church organ. Imitation and counter-movement are two pa
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teardrops - Soundinstallation
01.09.2012 20:00-00:00
Sa 1. 9.
Klanginstallation: 14:00 - 17:00; 20:00 – 24:00
Mariendom
Another bright light in the 2012 Klangwolke cosmos is “teardrops,” a sound installation and concert for piano, noise gates, sonic feeds and church organ by Rupert Huber (AT).
Huber creates a causal relationship between the piano, its electronic extension and the church organ. Imitation and counter-movement are two pa
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teardrops - Concerts
01.09.2012 23:00-00:00
Sa 1. 9.
Klanginstallation: 14:00 - 17:00; 20:00 – 24:00
Konzert: 23:00 – 24:00
Mariendom
Another bright light in the 2012 Klangwolke cosmos is “teardrops,” a sound installation and concert for piano, noise gates, sonic feeds and church organ by Rupert Huber (AT).
Huber creates a causal relationship between the piano, its electronic extension and the church organ. Imitation and c
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Cyberarts 2012
01.09.2012 10:00-23:00
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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OK Night & Electronic Theater
01.09.2012 22:00-00:00
Electronic Theater
Sa/Sat 1. 9. 22:00
OK im OÖ Kulturquartier
The Electronic Theater is a fascinating presentation of all 15 prizewinning works in the 2012 Prix Ars Electronica’s Computer Animation/Film/VFX category.
Filming and photographing during the Electronic Theater screenings is prohibited.
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DJ Franjazzco (AT) / DJ Kraft (AT) / The Future Sound feat. Herrmutt Lobby (BE) / Mike Gao (DE/JP) / DJ Abby Lee Tee (AT)
01.09.2012 23:00-00:00
Sa/Sat 1. 9.
Café Strom
23:00 – 4:00 DJ Kraft (AT)
Stadtwerkstatt, Saal (bei Schönwetter: Ars Eletronica Center, Maindeck)
23:00 The Future Sound feat.
Herrmutt Lobby (BE)
Mike Gao (DE/JP)
DJ Franjazzco (AT)
DJ Abby Lee Tee (AT)
Franjazzco (AT)
Franjazzco as been making the scene since 1995—for instance, as a DJ and promoter, director of the online music station Play FM, and
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Voice Box (that thing in your throat)
01.09.2012 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 3
01.09.2012 10:00-22:00
Der Tag beginnt mit dem zweiten Teil der dreiteiligen Veranstaltung Wendepunkt. Ändere deine Richtung, dem Expertenfrühstück. Bei Kaffee, Tee und frischem Gebäck kann jeder und jede den Experten Fragen stellen und diskutieren. Oder sich inspirieren lassen und beim anschließendem und letzten Teil von Wendepunkt, dem THINKING PICASSO Kunstworkshop seine und ihre Eindrücke und Gedanken dazu kü
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