Schedule, 2012-09-02
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Fifty Sisters
02.09.2012 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
02.09.2012 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
02.09.2012 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
02.09.2012 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
02.09.2012 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
02.09.2012 13:15-21:00
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
02.09.2012 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
02.09.2012 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
02.09.2012 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
02.09.2012 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
02.09.2012 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
02.09.2012 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
02.09.2012 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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Vocal-VI
02.09.2012 20:30-21:00
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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Global-Mind-Spirit
02.09.2012 19:30-20:30
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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Pixelspaces 2012 - OHMI – True Music Instruments & Disability
02.09.2012 10:00-12:00
So/Sun 2.9.
10:00 – 12:00
SKY Media Loft
[vimeo 44395359 w=600]
The first panel on Sunday will focus on the technical challenges involved in designing musical instruments for people with special needs. Innovative input and concepts make possible completely new approaches to assignments of this type.
10:00 – 10:05 Stephen Hetherington (OHMI / UK)
10:05 – 10:30 Doug Bott (Drake Mus
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Vom Sternenstaub zu neuen Sternen
02.09.2012 10:00-11:00
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.
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Prix Forum V - Computer Animation
02.09.2012 11:00-12:30
So/Sun 2. 9. 11:00 – 12:30
Ars Electronica Center, Seminarraum
The prize winners in the Computer Animation category
Jeff Desom (LU) – Rear Window Loop / Golden Nica
Weta Digital (NZ) – Rise of the Planet of the Apes / Award of Distinction
Evan Viera (US) – Caldera / Award of Distinction
Participants of the Forum
Christine Schöpf (AT)
Jeff Desom (LU)
Evan Viera (US)
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Pixelspaces 2012 - Ars Electronica Residence Network
02.09.2012 13:00-14:00
So/Sun 2. 9.
13:00 – 14:00
SKY Media Loft
Zur Ars Electronica gehören mehrere Artist-in-Residence-Programme, die zusammen mit dem Gewinnerprojekt und zwei weiteren Wettbewerbsbeiträgen des [the next idea] voestalpine Art and Technology Grant in diesem Panel vorgestellt werden. Außerdem präsentiert die Ars Electronica erstmals ein neues Residency-Konzept für WissenschaftlerInnen und Kü
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Limelight
02.09.2012 13:00-18:00
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 th
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Pixelspaces 2012 - Hertzblut II: Inside Futurelab
02.09.2012 14:00-16:00
So/Sun 2.9.
14:00 – 16:00
Infodeck, Main Gallery
Inside Futurelab gewährt Einblicke in die laufenden und bereits realisierten Projekte, die im Ars Electronica Futurelab entstehen und demonstriert die transdisziplinäre Arbeitsweise auf internationaler Ebene.
14:00 – 14:10 Imanol Gomez (ES), Ali Nikrang (IR): Music Particles
14:10 – 14:20 Michael Platz (AT),: EMG Shield – Using m
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Pixelspaces 2012 - The Making Of the voestalpine Klangwolke
02.09.2012 17:00-19:00
So/Sun 2.9.
17.00 – 19.00
SKY Media Loft
Die voestalpine Klangwolke setzt sich heuer aus einer Vielzahl an Projekten zusammen. Die Entstehung und das Zusammenwirken der einzelnen Teile sind Thema der Vorträge und Präsentationen in diesem Panel.
Gerfried Stocker (Artistic Director Ars Electronica / AT): voestalpine Klangwolke 2012
Emiko Ogawa, Hideaki Ogawa (JP): Klangwolken-ABC
Marco
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Kartografische Schätze
02.09.2012 18:30-19:30
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 vo
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Vladislav Delay (FI) / PRSZR – Pure & Hati (AT/PL) / Dj Marc
02.09.2012 22:00-00:00
So/Sun 2. 9.
Stadtwerkstatt, Saal (bei Schönwetter: Ars Eletronica Center, Maindeck)
23:00 Vladislav Delay (FI)
PRSZR – Pure & Hati (AT/PL)
Café Strom
22:00 – 4:00 Dj Marc
Stadtwerkstatt, Saal /bei Schönwetter: Ars Electronica Center, Maindeck: 21:00
23:00 Vladislav Delay (FI)
PRSZR - Pure & Hati (AT/PL)
Vladislav Delay (FI)
Finland native Sasu Ripatti is a drummer and elect
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Interface Cultures - Interface Cuisine
02.09.2012 10:00-19:00
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
02.09.2012 10:00-19:00
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
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
02.09.2012 10:00-19:00
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 - Everyday Rebellion/Prix Forum II – Digital Communities
02.09.2012 10:30-17:15
So/Sun 2. 9. 10:30 – 17:15
Brucknerhaus, Mittlerer Saal
The comprehensive cross-media project “Everyday Rebellion” by the Riahi Brothers (AT) gives the third symposium day both its theme and name. As a Web-2.0 platform as well as a documentary film currently in production, their work is a group portrait of—and homage to—courageous people putting up nonviolent political resistance wor
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Führung/Guided Tour Japan Media Arts in THE BIG PICTURE mit/by Tomoe Moriyama (JP)
02.09.2012 14:00-15:00
So/Sun 2. 9. 14:00 – 15:00
Brucknerhaus
Tomoe Moriyama (JP) leads through the THE BIG PICTURE - Exhibition.
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THE BIG PICTURE Cinema - Q&A mit/with Joe Davis (US) and Peter Sasowsky (US)
02.09.2012 15:30-16:00
Q&A mit/with Joe Davis (US) und/and Peter Sasowsky (Heaven + Earth + Joe Davis / US)
Sa/Sat 1. 9. 15:30 – 16:00
Brucknerhaus
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Big Concertnight
02.09.2012 19:30-00:00
Resonant Bridges
So/Sun 2. 9. 19:30
Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Freiraum
Klangpark
Brucknerhaus, Großer Saal, Mittlerer Saal
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Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Freiraum
19:30 HEAVYLISTENING (DE): Tiefdruckgebiet
Brucknerhaus, Großer Saal
20:30 Bruckner Orchester Linz (AT), Dennis Russell Davies (Dirigent / US/AT), Martin Achrainer (Bassbariton / AT)
Philip Glass (US): Songs of Milarepa
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Open Cloud: Picknick in der Wolke
02.09.2012 10:00-21:00
So/Sun 2. 9. 10:00 – 21:00
Donaupark
10:00 – 11:00 Klangwolkenminiaturen Original I: Frühschoppen
11:00 – 11:30 Klangwolkenminiaturen: Jingles & Dance Flashmob
11:30 – 12:00 OÖ Nachrichten Klangwolkenminiaturen Original II: So klingt Oberösterreich
12:30 – 13.30 Klangwolkenminiaturen Original III: Mittagshitze
13:30 – 14:00 Remix 1: Matthias Bergsmann (AT)
14:00 – 15:00 K
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Big Concertnight
02.09.2012 19:30-00:00
Resonant Bridges
So/Sun 2. 9. 19:30
Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Freiraum
Klangpark
Brucknerhaus, Großer Saal, Mittlerer Saal
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Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Freiraum
19:30 HEAVYLISTENING (DE): Tiefdruckgebiet
Brucknerhaus, Großer Saal
20:30 Bruckner Orchester Linz (AT), Dennis Russell Davies (Dirigent / US/AT), Martin Achrainer (Bassbariton / AT)
Philip Glass (US): Songs of Milarepa
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Das Mobile Ö1 Atelier
02.09.2012 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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Listening Walks
02.09.2012 14:00-15:30
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
02.09.2012 14:00-15:00
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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Die Geschichte der auditiven Kultur
02.09.2012 10:30-12:00
Sabine Sanio (DE)
So/Sun 2. 9. 10:30
Kepler Salon
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Campus Exhibition 2012 Universität der Künste Berlin / Sound Studies (DE): Lebensräume
02.09.2012 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
02.09.2012 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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Tiefdruckgebiet. A Heavylistening Experience
02.09.2012 19:30-20:00
HEAVYLISTENING (DE)
So/Sun 2. 9. 19:30
Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Freifläche
https://vimeo.com/25299973
Heavylistening duo Carl Schilde and Anselm Venezian Nehls (DE) use high-output subwoofers to morph cars into mobile musical instruments. They’ll be played by motorheads from the Upper Austrian auto powersound scene, who’ll be piloting their pimped-out rides to Ars Electronica. They em
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Big Concertnight
02.09.2012 19:30-00:00
Resonant Bridges
So/Sun 2. 9. 19:30
Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Freiraum
Klangpark
Brucknerhaus, Großer Saal, Mittlerer Saal
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Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Freiraum
19:30 HEAVYLISTENING (DE): Tiefdruckgebiet
Brucknerhaus, Großer Saal
20:30 Bruckner Orchester Linz (AT), Dennis Russell Davies (Dirigent / US/AT), Martin Achrainer (Bassbariton / AT)
Philip Glass (US): Songs of Milarepa
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Cyberarts 2012
02.09.2012 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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Vladislav Delay (FI) / PRSZR – Pure & Hati (AT/PL) / Dj Marc
02.09.2012 22:00-00:00
So/Sun 2. 9.
Stadtwerkstatt, Saal (bei Schönwetter: Ars Eletronica Center, Maindeck)
23:00 Vladislav Delay (FI)
PRSZR – Pure & Hati (AT/PL)
Café Strom
22:00 – 4:00 Dj Marc
Stadtwerkstatt, Saal /bei Schönwetter: Ars Electronica Center, Maindeck: 21:00
23:00 Vladislav Delay (FI)
PRSZR - Pure & Hati (AT/PL)
Vladislav Delay (FI)
Finland native Sasu Ripatti is a drummer and elect
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Voice Box (that thing in your throat)
02.09.2012 16:00-17:00
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 4
02.09.2012 10:00-22:00
Jetzt schwappt u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD auch auf die andere Seite der Donau. Das urban game Missing Charakter startet im Donaupark um 13:00 Uhr und macht ganz Linz zu einer analogen und digitalen Spielwiese und auf die Suche nach dem Missing Charakter.
Es gibt zudem einen Tanz-Flashmob zu einer Klangwolkenminiatur vom ehemaligen u19 Gewinner Matthias Bergsmann, der auch live einen Remix sein
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